Stalingrad.
Also enjoyed Band of Brothers though it's more a serie then a movie.
Stalingrad.
Also enjoyed Band of Brothers though it's more a serie then a movie.
"He who shoots and runs away, will live to shoot another day."
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True, each chapter feel like a movie itself. The extra DVD with the members of Easy company re-telling the stories and the 10 chapter are well worth the money.
Like most of you.
Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now..
Also Hamburger Hill.
A new one thats quite good
LORD OF WAR (Nicholas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Ian Holm)
The film's opening sequence tracks the path of a bullet, from its manufacture in Russia; sales and distribution to armed militants; to its final resting place: the skull of a young African child. Also possibly a metaphor for out lead protagonist's character - Purveyor of wanton death and destruction, or salesman without conscience??
Cage plays bored Ukrainian (parading as a Jew..) Yuri Orlov in New York’s Little Odessa, with his quirky hard-working parents, and subtly more disillusioned sibling Vitaly [Leto]. He realises there must be more to life, and he knows he’s destined for greater things.. On encountering a murder, he realises it’s the instrument of all things morbid - guns, and ammunition that are his calling. He begins to trade AK-47’s and Kalashnikoff’s as if he were swapping Pokemon cards in a school playground. Soon enough he reaches unfathomable heights (a-la-Scarface) and has links with practically every despot, tyrant, dictator and head of defence in the known, and yet to be discovered world.
As Orlov matures he slowly comes to terms with the lunacy, and insane state of affairs regards arms trading, its repercussions, and the torrid characters he has to deal with. Yet after a point it seems to have got the better of him. Added to this he has Interpol agent Jack Valentine [Hawke] and sinister arms extraordinaire Simeon Weisz [Holm] trying to light a fire up his... Though trading on the lives of others in the deadliest of war zones, his conscience finds a balance.. of sorts.. and works with it. But when it begins to impact on wife [Moynahan] and brother, his inner crisis manifests itself with harrowing results.
Coming from the writer of the measured and utterly brilliant Gattaca, and clever (and a tad melodramatic) Truman Show, Lord of War is a well structured fable, given the Niccol treatment. He’s previously ripped apart celebrity, vanity and bureaucracy, and here again he seems to be highlighting a pessimism for the future, with grey-tinted view on society as we know it. This being a true story, he is simply stating facts. A blitzkrieg of them, as Cage in charismatic voiceover tells us anything and everything there is to know about Uzi’s and MI-16’s... It’s fully-loaded with an encyclopaedic fact file on ammunition utilised on everything from the Crimean War to present day African dictators. If only Mastermind was still running.
Performance-wise Cage is superlative as dis-affected salesman Orlov. His myriad personality (those insane nervous twitches, and his impervious rancid gaze) make us believe in his character. It isn’t thankfully another Nick Cage painting by the numbers action humdinger. On the contrary it does have ‘added intelligence’, and we do feel an empathy for our morally ambiguous warlord. Hawke is wasted, Holm is scary, and Leto is getting increasingly typecast as a wayward junkie. Time to change agent methinks.
Lord of War is an intelligent slice of history on little know post cold-war dealings. It asks a lot of questions, points even more fingers, and gives a small insight into how $32 Billion disappeared - seemingly without trace. It’s far from predictable in its approach, and the end result is satisfying yet quite frankly.. ambiguous on a number of levels. A dark satire on the world of warfare, it's thought-provoking without actually taking sides. It quite simply states: Ammunition, Defence, Guns - You decide.
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The Pianist
Adrien Brody
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
It is the soldier, not the priest, who protects freedom of religion; the soldier, not the journalist, who protects freedom of speech. History teaches that a society that does not value its warriors will be destroyed by a society that does
Didn't wanna make a too long list, but forgot this one and have to be mentioned.... Apocalypse Now!
"He who shoots and runs away, will live to shoot another day."
WE WERE SOLDIERS-it seems hollywood got in RIGHT-2d favorite HAMBURGER HILL
the best war seris was tour of duty cool tunes to
yae though i walk in the shadow of the valley of death i will fear no evil for am the hardest bast..d in the valley
Das Boot
Apocalypse Now
The Thin Red Line
Where Eagles Dare
The Eagle has Landed
Lord of War - the only unsatisfying bit in the film is where his totally superficial model/whore trophy wife suddenly develops a sense of morality and rats on him to the authorities. I think not.
The last two in my list just for rollocking boys own commando action adventure and bravado performances by Burton & Caine. Nothing much to do with reality, but fine steely soldier character portrayals.
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I have become Best. Destroyer of Livers.
breave hart ya sasanchs, and the one with john wayn as a german skipper on a stem boat getting chased by the royal navy, allso the graff spey was a good one,and up periscope god there are ton,s of good ones
yae though i walk in the shadow of the valley of death i will fear no evil for am the hardest bast..d in the valley
I remember at least one tv series made on the Siege of Quebec, obviously in French, and since I am over the hill and senile I can't remember what it was called, or when I saw it. I think I was still living in France so around 93-94 maybe?Originally Posted by hannibal
I remember really liking that series... it's annoying me now that I can't seem to remember more about it.
I'm sure in Quebec they will have made loads of films and tv series about their history, but it would of course not make it out to the wider public in the rest of the world, possibly to France though. Sorry I can't help more.
DOOMSDAYDEXTER: I think she took the clothes and jewelry when she left him. But I know what you mean. Fake morality.Lord of War - the only unsatisfying bit in the film is where his totally superficial model/whore trophy wife suddenly develops a sense of morality and rats on him to the authorities. I think not.
Some good picks you ahve here. I especially like Das Boot with Jürgen Prochnow. Also liked very much Paul Higgin's "The Eagle Has Landed" with Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Larry Hagman and Donald Sutherland. It was very original ide to drop them disguised as Free Polish paratroopers.Das Boot
Apocalypse Now
The Thin Red Line
Where Eagles Dare
The Eagle has Landed
Never fully understood Apocalypse Now. The movie made sense to me until the point when good Robert Duvall stormed that Vietcong village with his air cavalry. Then it got blurted... I don't know...
Good pick. Like it very much. Mel Gibson at his best.WE WERE SOLDIERS-it seems hollywood got in RIGHT
Let me know if you remember. Sounds like a good TV serie. I have also heard about The Conquest of America (four parts) . Anyone seen this TV serie on any of the American channels?I remember at least one tv series made on the Siege of Quebec, obviously in French, and since I am over the hill and senile I can't remember what it was called, or when I saw it. I think I was still living in France so around 93-94 maybe?
I remember really liking that series... it's annoying me now that I can't seem to remember more about it.
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Haha over the hill and senile..hell you dont know over the hill yet dear..wait till ya get my age..hehe
It is the soldier, not the priest, who protects freedom of religion; the soldier, not the journalist, who protects freedom of speech. History teaches that a society that does not value its warriors will be destroyed by a society that does
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