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Onime No Kyo -> RE: Has Anyone Seen Flyboys Yet? (10/1/2006 3:27:44 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Ramjet
Guys, there have been great war movies, just not recently. Cross of Iron, A Bridge Too Far, Battle of Britian, Midway, Tora Tora Tora, Zulu, Das Boot, We Were Soldiers; all titles I can think of right now. I highly recommend all these.
Bridge too Far, BoB, Midway and to a greater or lesser extent Tora...present a rather glorified and propagandized version of war, IMHO. You can add the "Big Red One" to that list.
Zulu is a great movie although I've heard that in many respects its is grossely inacurate and unfair to some of the battles most important participants.
Das Boot...a classic, of course.
We Were Soldiers was a good movie right up until the very end. And very faithful to the book, again right up to the very end. But the very last scene just ruined the whole movie for me. What the hell was it with the Ramboesque chopper anyway? Besides that, they missed the bus big time by not portraying the march out as IMO it was the most tragic part of the battle and must be told if you plan to be honest.
To those I would also like to add The Longest Day (the best of the "old" war movies, I think) and Blackhawk Down (there is not another movie that I know of that is that faithfully recreated on film).
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