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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/2/2019 4:34:03 PM   
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My favourite worst movie is "Battle of the Bulge", 1965.


What, are you kidding?!? Best one liner, ever!

"It can be done!"




Oh, that movie was a stinker. But Lecivius is wrong. The best line from that movie, when "Pieper" is rolling into the untouched American fuel depot:

"No shooting please".

Robert Shaw makes a great bad guy. In any movie.

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/2/2019 4:46:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wasn't Shaw one of the good guys in The Deep (along with Nick Nolte)? That means he got to see Jaqueline Bissett in her prime in a bathing suit in an ocean movie. Goodness. Gracious. Me. My.

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/2/2019 4:51:24 PM   
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I won't post images of her in The Deep, choosing instead the high road.




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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/2/2019 4:57:15 PM   
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Here's another Jaclyn you might like ...






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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/2/2019 5:03:30 PM   
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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/2/2019 5:07:38 PM   
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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/2/2019 5:20:46 PM   
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Wasn't Shaw one of the good guys in The Deep (along with Nick Nolte)? That means he got to see Jaqueline Bissett in her prime in a bathing suit in an ocean movie. Goodness. Gracious. Me. My.


You mean this Jaqueline Bissett?






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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/2/2019 5:21:02 PM   
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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/2/2019 5:22:04 PM   
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Now we're cookin'! Using the usual tried-and-true method, we've gone off on the tangent we all agree on.


With all due respect, if there's anyone capable of taking a conversation off the rail, it's me. Please see post 126 for further proof.

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/2/2019 5:52:49 PM   
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Now we're cookin'! Using the usual tried-and-true method, we've gone off on the tangent we all agree on.


With all due respect, if there's anyone capable of taking a conversation off the rail, it's me. Please see post 126 for further proof.

I resent that! I'm much, much better at derailing threads than you.




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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/2/2019 8:21:51 PM   
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Wasn't Shaw one of the good guys in The Deep (along with Nick Nolte)? That means he got to see Jaqueline Bissett in her prime in a bathing suit in an ocean movie. Goodness. Gracious. Me. My.


You mean this Jaqueline Bissett?







This must be publicity photo for the rumored sequel to GoT (yet untitled) - Sandor (the Hound) Clegane undergoes reconstructive surgery on his face and retires to Qarth, living out the rest of his days as a private eye.

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/2/2019 10:31:13 PM   
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Now we're cookin'! Using the usual tried-and-true method, we've gone off on the tangent we all agree on.


With all due respect, if there's anyone capable of taking a conversation off the rail, it's me. Please see post 126 for further proof.

Jokes on you - post #126 is Lecivius's. Post numbers are at the bottom of the post. Just look at the last post in any thread.



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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/2/2019 10:49:59 PM   
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Now we're cookin'! Using the usual tried-and-true method, we've gone off on the tangent we all agree on.


With all due respect, if there's anyone capable of taking a conversation off the rail, it's me. Please see post 126 for further proof.

Jokes on you - post #126 is Lecivius's. Post numbers are at the bottom of the post. Just look at the last post in any thread.




Well, I was right and wrong both.

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/4/2019 8:04:47 PM   
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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/4/2019 10:21:34 PM   
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No, I think you were wrong.

By providing the wrong post number, I further helped take this thread off the rails. I was both right-in that I could do that-and wrong-about the post number.

Honestly, Ormster, try to keep up will 'ya?

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/4/2019 10:34:29 PM   
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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/5/2019 7:47:39 AM   
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Anyway I did like The Thin Red Line and the old Battle of the Bulge with Henry Fonda and Robert Shaw, that it was great movie.

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/5/2019 10:25:53 AM   
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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/5/2019 5:26:04 PM   
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Anarcho - do you mean Starship troopers? It was hokey but I enjoyed watching it - sort of in the Kelley's Heroes bucket.

That one only had social redeeming value because of Denise Richards and the other lovely blonde who did the naked shower scene.

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/5/2019 10:10:21 PM   
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Anarcho - do you mean Starship troopers? It was hokey but I enjoyed watching it - sort of in the Kelley's Heroes bucket.

That one only had social redeeming value because of Denise Richards and the other lovely blonde who did the naked shower scene.

I liked it!

I agree about it's lack of redeeming social value, but I liked it.

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/6/2019 8:40:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		The film was strongly anti-fascist in its satire. It also portrayed an army where women were as equally capable as men in front-line combat and were able to feel as equally at ease in close company with them back in the barracks. That's multiple modern social value redemption boxes for a film ticked right there.

Boobies were nice too.

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/8/2019 12:08:26 AM   
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The film was strongly anti-fascist in its satire. It also portrayed an army where women were as equally capable as men in front-line combat and were able to feel as equally at ease in close company with them back in the barracks. That's multiple modern social value redemption boxes for a film ticked right there.

Boobies were nice too.


Hear hear!

I thought the spattering giant bugs with 20mm caseless ammo and thermite grenades was pretty cool too. Not a serious war movie, by any standards, but fun shoot-em-up.

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/8/2019 2:03:00 AM   
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Which means, pretty much every war movie with airplanes.

It's not that dang hard to get a barrel roll correct... but I've never seen it done from CGI aircraft.


Ok you want a bad war movie? Independence Day 2.

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/8/2019 11:25:01 AM   
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The film was strongly anti-fascist in its satire. It also portrayed an army where women were as equally capable as men in front-line combat and were able to feel as equally at ease in close company with them back in the barracks. That's multiple modern social value redemption boxes for a film ticked right there.

Boobies were nice too.


Hear hear!

I thought the spattering giant bugs with 20mm caseless ammo and thermite grenades was pretty cool too. Not a serious war movie, by any standards, but fun shoot-em-up.



The wargame and original novel were both far better than the movie.

I own a copy of both.






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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/8/2019 1:43:15 PM   
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The film was strongly anti-fascist in its satire. It also portrayed an army where women were as equally capable as men in front-line combat and were able to feel as equally at ease in close company with them back in the barracks. That's multiple modern social value redemption boxes for a film ticked right there.

Boobies were nice too.


Hear hear!

I thought the spattering giant bugs with 20mm caseless ammo and thermite grenades was pretty cool too. Not a serious war movie, by any standards, but fun shoot-em-up.



The wargame and original novel were both far better than the movie.

I own a copy of both.






I worked in a gamestore back in the day and sold that game.....or tried to. I don't think we sold any of them.

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/8/2019 2:47:30 PM   
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The film was strongly anti-fascist in its satire. It also portrayed an army where women were as equally capable as men in front-line combat and were able to feel as equally at ease in close company with them back in the barracks. That's multiple modern social value redemption boxes for a film ticked right there.

Boobies were nice too.


Hear hear!

I thought the spattering giant bugs with 20mm caseless ammo and thermite grenades was pretty cool too. Not a serious war movie, by any standards, but fun shoot-em-up.



The wargame and original novel were both far better than the movie.

I own a copy of both.






I worked in a gamestore back in the day and sold that game.....or tried to. I don't think we sold any of them.

Any wargame targeted at pubescent boys must have a shapely girl/woman in the picture on the box.

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/8/2019 4:02:08 PM   
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Ha! Made y'all puke!


Fixed your quote.....

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/8/2019 4:10:54 PM   
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I've stated my views on TTRL before and Jorge's view is probably most apt in my opinion. It isn't a war movie, but unlike Jorge I did not like the film on my initial viewing; like him, I won't be seeing it again.

I'm going to drift from war movies to historical TV shows and state that the HBO Rome series is awesome and I will forever be incredibly sad it was cut after 2 seasons (too costly, a GoT budget ahead of its time, not enough viewers to justify); and the second featured an incredibly reduced and quickened sequential state of events because they had to rush so much to get to a conclusion. Initially, the plan was many seasons telling a story from Caesar's civil war to the second triumvirate and that eventual civil war. Too bad.

Recently, I read Robert Harris' Cicero trilogy, a very good historical series tracing the downfall of the republic through Cicero's (or more accurately his slave and freedman Tiro's) eyes. I've also read many of Cicero's works, speeches, and his collected letters. An excellent man, a defender of liberty, and an amazing personality - I'd much like to see a new Roman movie or series on his life. Unfortunately, ancient history stuff (Rome, etc.) doesn't seem to be much in vogue in Hollywood at the moment.


In that case you should check out the multi award winning TV series "Spartacus" - the script is wonderful, and could have come from the pen of Cicero himself. Some complain that it is just too historically accurate for casual viewers. You shall need to judge for yourself.

Enjoy!

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/8/2019 4:14:45 PM   
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The wargame and original novel were both far better than the movie.


Unfamiliar with the wargame of this title. But, yes, the Heinlein book (really a novelette) was better than the movie, and entirely unrelated to the 'interstellar bug war' overarching themes of the latter.

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RE: Worst modern war film of all time - 5/8/2019 4:18:05 PM   
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Any movie that has bad flight dynamics of cgi generated aircraft sucks donkey.

Which means, pretty much every war movie with airplanes.

It's not that dang hard to get a barrel roll correct... but I've never seen it done from CGI aircraft.


Ok you want a bad war movie? Independence Day 2.

:)


So you must have lost it with "Red Tails" or "Tuskegee Airmen"?

What did you think of the flight scenes in "Dunkirk"? I mean apart from the unlimited ammo and inexplicable out-of-fuel Spitfire glide path at the end?

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