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Video: The greatest war movie ever? Act of Valor
Hot Air ^ | October 14,2011 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 10/14/2011 6:09:29 PM PDT by Hojczyk

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To: Hojczyk
A Bridge Too Far.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

21 posted on 10/14/2011 7:01:58 PM PDT by wku man (Who says conservatives don't rock? http://www.bigdawgmusicmafia.com)
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To: Inyo-Mono

BEST War of Northern Agession movie hands down is GODS & Generals, BY FAR-!!!


22 posted on 10/14/2011 7:02:57 PM PDT by imjimbo (The constitution SHOULD be our "gun permit")
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To: yarddog

The combat medic and the corpsman get my vote. However it takes every swinging Richard plus the gals to support one infantryman or marine. How many tell you -”I was a clerk in combat or a supply type?” Not many, but; we damn sure need them.


23 posted on 10/14/2011 7:06:25 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: BenLurkin

“All Quiet” was a very anti war movie. It was not preachy nor did it try to show the soldiers as evil killers.

Anti war in the right way in that we need to know what we are sending those young men into before we do it.


24 posted on 10/14/2011 7:07:26 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: OA5599

I agree, Das Boot was the greatest war movie ever made. It must have been tough in the late years of the war for U-boat sailors. Das Boot made you feel it.


25 posted on 10/14/2011 7:17:42 PM PDT by lmsii (No hope, and now no change in my pocket.)
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To: yarddog

A war movie once considered the greatest movie ever made is now considered racist and the D W Griffith award has even been retired.

While doing research on my family from SE Georgia I began reading contemporary accounts, small town newspapers, letters etc. of the period right after the Civil War.

I concluded that not only was “Birth of a Nation” accurate in it’s portrayals of the Black Union troops and the Klan, he probably even pulled a few punches. It was actually worse than the movie. Now the world has changed so much that no historian would admit it even if he knew what happened. Finally after so many women and children had begged the Union General in charge to remove the Black troops, he finally decided to risk the ire of the radical republicans in congress and pulled them out.


26 posted on 10/14/2011 7:23:22 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Hojczyk

To Hell and Back

True story

Main actor Audie Murphy played himself

Can’t get any more real than that PERIOD


27 posted on 10/14/2011 7:29:21 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: BenLurkin
Yep.

The zip sound of those shells coming in has never been matched.

28 posted on 10/14/2011 7:29:36 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: central_va

Kelly’s Heroes is my fav WW2 film. Downfall is also very good.


29 posted on 10/14/2011 7:40:16 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: Hojczyk

definitely looks kick ass


30 posted on 10/14/2011 7:50:00 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: stanne
Band of Brothers

+1

31 posted on 10/14/2011 7:50:25 PM PDT by Traveler59 ( Truth is a journey, not a destination.)
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To: Hojczyk

my bro was a seal and recognizes some of these guys from training, looks amazing!


32 posted on 10/14/2011 7:59:11 PM PDT by bd59903
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To: Hojczyk

33 posted on 10/14/2011 8:06:37 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Never get out of the boat.)
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To: stanne

Jawohl, and ‘Saving Private Ryan’ was pretty moving.


34 posted on 10/14/2011 8:11:37 PM PDT by 353FMG (Liberalism is Satan's handiwork.)
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To: Hojczyk

Another vote for Kelly’s Heroes. When I worked at a video store, it was one of the first movies I purchased. I’d love a “director’s cut” but I know it’s probably impossible.

Not surprisingly, I know a 90-something, WWII tank-driving vet who simply hates war movies. He loves vintage comedies and animated stuff: Miyazaki and Pixar movies. Boggled.


35 posted on 10/14/2011 8:14:25 PM PDT by Southern Magnolia
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To: yarddog

Exactly.


36 posted on 10/14/2011 8:17:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Hojczyk

The Best Years of Our Lives

The Heroes of Telemark


37 posted on 10/14/2011 8:22:59 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: Travis McGee
Bravo Zulu ping...
38 posted on 10/14/2011 8:27:42 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: BenLurkin

I agree. I liked ‘’Kat’’.


39 posted on 10/14/2011 8:28:38 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: imjimbo

“Northern Aggression’’? You mean “Southern Sedition’’, don’t you?


40 posted on 10/14/2011 8:30:35 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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