Posted on 10/29/2022 9:22:24 AM PDT by sphinx
No it isn't. It's entirely TOO easy, which is why there have been so many CRAP remakes.
To wit:
Ocean's Eleven
Psycho
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Ben Hur
True Grit
The Mummy
The Thing
Let Me In
The Wolfman
Point Break
Rollerball
Conan the Barbarian
The Stepford Wives
Moby Dick
Red Dawn
The Evil Dead
The Shining
And that's just the ones that come to mind in 30 seconds.
The sequels were all horrific and never should have been made, yet they were, because they were looking to cash in on the fame of the original, and the American movie-goer has rotten taste.
Ford might come to regret that decision if Russia becomes the last place on earth where it’s legal to build dinosaur-powered cars. Because the battery-only thing is a disaster in the making.
No. It’s not woke.
This Netflix version has great cinematography. But the 1979 version with Richard Thomas (as Paul) and Ernest Borgnine (as the sergeant) was better if you are into combat realism. Borgnine was "mother" to the new recruits and did his best to show them how to survive. Very well acted.
The US Army pressed an attack the morning of November 11th and lost thousands. The inquiry into that fiasco was squelched.
I take your point and generally agree about remakes of classics. Although — with due respect to John Wayne — I do prefer the Coen brothers’ remake of True Grit to the original. The remake walks the drama/comedy tightrope as well as it’s ever been done. YMMV
It always was told from the German POV. If the earlier versions weren’t and this one was cowritten by Englishmen, them maybe this one isn’t either. I want to see the movie but I wonder about the use of POV.
"Historian Joseph Persico estimated the total dead, wounded and missing on all sides on the final day was 10,900."
Marching on for?????????? Will world peace ensue, will their country be safer or better? Will their lives or their families be better?
There is such a thing as NOT MY BUSINESS, let the aristocrats and grandchildren of our aristocrats fight. Let My people go, to quote Moses.
TRUTH dfwgator....
Some thoughts on the blockade:
1: There is the issue the United States would have to go to war to break the Royal Navy blockade. That was a nonstandard.
2: There was no continuous time when Germany used unrestricted submarine warfare. Had periods American shipping went to the Allied ports unmolested.
3: The United States was making a ton of money selling war material to the Western Allies. Any risk of some sinking was worth it
4: I wonder what role the United Kingdim not trying to break the Union blockade, despite some intense domestic pressure, of the Confederacy. The United States like Britain was a naval power so having the legal option of blockade as a legitimate strategy was important.
Re 1883, the women were badazz, but come on man. Those mostly peaceful but murderous Natives, that was tilted quite a bit to the modern interpretation away from first person reality. My grandma travelled that path to the West. The Natives were riled up like a nest of yellowjackets/hornets. They didn’t seek to face a fight against mens, but waged fighting to the death against babies in cribs, and the Pioneers responded in kind. It was kill or be killed, until the Army began full scale war women and children were in the front lines. My grandpa was a teamster during the days of Captain Jack in the Klamath area. He actually supplied for the forces during the Modoc war. I have her journal. It is boring but very inciteful. Far from being dramatizations, it is a day by day account.
Yeah, those were badazz wimmens, especially those randy 18 year old sluts bedding every guy on the trail and marrying a lot of them. But they were great learners and could become fluent in Comanche in a couple weeks. And TOUGH! I tell you, can you walk a mile with an arrow through your guts?
Those were the days.
You must have posted to the wrong person because that gibberish made no sense to me.
That’s IT !
THANKS.
Fast forward a few years to when she was a freshman in college: a benefactor paid for students in her particular class to go to the WW1 battlefields in France. She took haunting pictures of the mounds of grown-over trenches. She still remembers the eerie feeling at the German memorials at the Western Front site. Very different feeling from other memorials.
I’ll have to ask her if she has seen this NF version.
Just watched it, highly recommend it. Very well done.
There is a family story my Mom used to tell that could’ve been right from the book. My mother’s uncle was captured by the French in 1914 and spent5 the rest of the war building railroads in Morocco. He wrote home and told his son (Moms cousin) not to join the army. At the end of the school year in 1915 the teacher gave a rah rah patriotic speech and the whole class enlisted. Cousin was marching to the front on the first day and was killed by a sniper.
“He fell on a day so still the General Staff noted in it’s diary “All quiet on The Western Front’’.
Update it to Today’s war in Ukraine and call it ‘All Quiet on the Eastern Front’.....................
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