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LOG! - 9/9/2011 5:24:13 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 5:28:50 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 5:34:34 PM   
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log! - 9/9/2011 5:55:09 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 6:00:47 PM   
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Sounds like sour grapes to me. Why don't you have a mega-big budget BoB remake. Heck, you can even have Cuba Gooding Junior in it! On second thought...


We've already got a big-budget version of The Dambusters being made. I suspect it'll be rubbish as well Modern film-makers are usually trying to tell a story, not recreate an event. A remake of BoB would likely be even worse.

Maybe I am biased, but I don't care. The following are (IMO) good war films.

Battle of Britain
The Dambusters
A Bridge Too Far
Das Boot
Letters From Iwo Jima
Ice Cold in Alex

That is all.
I'll include Band of Brothers as an honourable mention as it's not a film.


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 6:28:23 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 6:32:55 PM   
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The following are (IMO) good war films.

Battle of Britain
The Dambusters
A Bridge Too Far
Das Boot
Letters From Iwo Jima
Ice Cold in Alex

That is all.
I'll include Band of Brothers as an honourable mention as it's not a film.



My list:

#1
Aces High

#2
Das Boot

#3
Thin Red Line

#4
Letters From Iwo Jima

#5
Saving Private Ryan



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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 6:36:15 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 8:41:03 PM   
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No Tora,Tora,Tora? No Midway?


Nope. British war films were what we got on a Sunday afternoon or bank holiday, so I never really saw that many American war films so they don't really feature in my top list. I also grew up in the middle of RAF country and just a few miles from Scampton, so The Dambusters was a definite must see, it's the only film about Bomber Command that ever really got a showing. The only US film about the aerial war that got a regular screening was Memphis Belle, which was OK but not great.

Ze Germans were the main focus of our war films, the Far East wasn't widely known to us as kids. Again, that's probably due to where I grew up and meeting several ex-aircew who were war vets.


I forgot about Aces High though, and Full Metal Jacket (although I was 16 before I actually saw that all the way through). Perhaps Biggles should get a special mention, if only for the extra-special plot they managed to put together (probably at 4.30 on a Friday afternoon...)

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 9:06:56 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 9:19:58 PM   
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Battle of Britain
The Dambusters
A Bridge Too Far
Das Boot
Letters From Iwo Jima
Ice Cold in Alex


You need to add:

The Cruel Sea
Zulu
In Which We Serve
Above us the Waves
Bataan
Cockleshell Heroes
The Battle of the River Plate
The Great Escape
The Hill
The Goose Steps Out
Went the Day Well
A Matter of Life and Death

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 9:23:31 PM   
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..."12 O'clock high"


WE were shown that on Petty Officers' Leadership Course as examples of good and bad leadership. It made a nice change from assault courses, runs, swims, parades and teaching drill.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 9:50:16 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 9:52:35 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 9:55:06 PM   
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I watched a couple of recorded episodes of The Mentalist with my lovely bride and went to bed early.


I watched a couple of recorded episodes of The Mentalist and went to bed early with my lovely bride - there, fixed it for you.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 10:06:48 PM   
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I hereby officially declare that I have done enough work for this week!

Let the weekend commence! 



Then I hereby officially declare that that you can have the weekend off Mike.







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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 10:09:18 PM   
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Is that any good? Couldn't get into it much... maybe because I couldn't turn on the subtitles... a must course'


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 10:12:00 PM   
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Is that any good? Couldn't get into it much... maybe because I couldn't turn on the subtitles... a must course'



I watched it once and that was enough.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 10:25:40 PM   
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Is that any good? Couldn't get into it much... maybe because I couldn't turn on the subtitles... a must course'



i kinda enjoyed it...i thought clooney and pitt were entertaining...i cringe everytime i think of that damn combat knife cutting swastika's in foreheads and taking scalps...typical terantino...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 10:48:00 PM   
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The Hill



I saw this on TCM last year for the first time and loved it.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/9/2011 11:07:58 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/10/2011 12:52:08 AM   
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..."12 O'clock high"


WE were shown that on Petty Officers' Leadership Course as examples of good and bad leadership. It made a nice change from assault courses, runs, swims, parades and teaching drill.


We were also. But we didn't do the other stuff. We were sailors. We don't do assault courses. Swims or runs we did twice a year (badly). Parades? Sailors? Next you'll be talking Gobs with guns!!!! Drills? Ok, we did do drills. But not at school.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/10/2011 12:52:08 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/10/2011 12:52:49 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/10/2011 1:11:42 AM   
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'Pork Chop Hill'

Yes, a good film. I had been in bed for a few weeks with paratyphoid and the local Air Force group had the movie from the States and held a screening for me when I was well enough to watch it.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/10/2011 1:13:13 AM   
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Is that any good? Couldn't get into it much... maybe because I couldn't turn on the subtitles... a must course'



i kinda enjoyed it...i thought clooney and pitt were entertaining...i cringe everytime i think of that damn combat knife cutting swastika's in foreheads and taking scalps...typical terantino...

I really enjoyed Ingloreous Basterds, FWIW. I saw it twice. Nice piece of acting by the guy that played Col. Hans Landa particularly. Chilling. He won best supporting actor for it, if I recall correctly.

Much of the rest was typical Tarantino-obtuse and tangential dialogue, blood, plot twists, blood and shooting. Oh, right-there was blood too.

I don't recall Clooney in it, but Mike Myers ("Oh, behave!") had a bit role. Pitt was OK, but his "Tennessee" accent was laughably misplaced.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/10/2011 1:14:08 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/10/2011 1:14:27 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/10/2011 1:14:39 AM   
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