 | Your best war movie/tv series| Modern Discuss Your best war movie/tv series in the Other Eras forums; Band of Brothers, like others have said, is awesome! If you havent seen it Emac, trust me mate, go borrow ... |
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02-04-2007, 02:37 AM
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Country:  | Band of Brothers, like others have said, is awesome! If you havent seen it Emac, trust me mate, go borrow it from the video shop. Tora Tora Tora is a great movie, as is Patton. Also Kakoda, a great war film which is actualy kinda scary at the same time! | 
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Country: | I saw Tora Tora Tora the other day, it is a very good movie. It gives a bit of insight into the politics of the day
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Country:  | A few oldies I can recommend, "Hell is for heroes", a bit corny at times, but some great battle scenes. "Paths of glory" Kubricks first studio film, "Sahara"
classic Bogart.
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02-06-2007, 07:45 AM
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02-06-2007, 09:48 AM
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Country: | I see lots of votes for "Das Boot", though technically superb most of its dramatic
devices are lifted directly from "The Enemy below",(Also a fine flick.). Like playing a phonograph, a rabid(nazi) party fanatic, and a crewman succombing to
the pressure of depth charge attack.
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02-06-2007, 09:39 PM
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Country: | Also don't forget U-571 and Enigma which are both great war films. War Of the Worlds, the Steven Speilburg remake may be Sci-Fi but it does have some great combat scenes. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is an interesting movie that focuses on the French vs the English Battles. Horatio Hornblower is also interesting in this respect. Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped focuses on the time of the American Civil War.
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02-07-2007, 12:30 AM
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Originally Posted by HealzDevo  Also don't forget U-571 and Enigma which are both great war films. | U-571 has to rank up there as being one of the worst war movies ever made. If they had to make a movie about the capture of an enigma machine they at least should have made it historically acurate. Lanc will back me up on this one. 
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Country: | Have to agree with Wildcat on the U-571 call. Its crap. Good point on Master & Commander. A truley excellent movie and my personal favourite movie of the last 10 years. | |
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02-07-2007, 05:34 AM
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Originally Posted by HealzDevo Also don't forget U-571 and Enigma which are both great war films. War Of the Worlds, the Steven Speilburg remake may be Sci-Fi but it does have some great combat scenes. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is an interesting movie that focuses on the French vs the English Battles. Horatio Hornblower is also interesting in this respect. Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped focuses on the time of the American Civil War. | Sorry Devo but Kidnapped was set around 1745- 1746 after the 2nd Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland the American Civil war began in 1861 with the firing on Fort Sumter until Lee surrended at Appomattax ( not sure if that is correct spelling )Court House in 1865
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Country: | I agree with Wild and Steve U-571 left a lot to be desired but if it wasn't for the reality of the original Enigma machine patterns and codes being smuggled out of Poland in 1939 to England and later the English capturing German Naval incoding machines as well and the work at Bechly Park by code breakers and scienctists which some of this work was handed straight to the Americans. One wonders if the US could have broken the Japanese encrypted codes prior to the US joining in WW2. By the way some of the encrypted Japanese Codes were being broken by Australian Code Breakers here in Australia as well. Something MacArthur decided to down play as he wanted to be Prima Donna in the South Pacific | |
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02-08-2007, 01:18 AM
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Originally Posted by syscom3 We are talking about TV shows, not movies. | were talking about both sys.
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Country: | Okay, wrong war. Also Lord of the Rings trilogy has some excellent scenes of Medieval Combat... The Battle of Helms Deep and a few other battles... There is also some good combat scenes in BraveHeart... | |
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02-12-2007, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by joebong I see lots of votes for "Das Boot", though technically superb most of its dramatic
devices are lifted directly from "The Enemy below",(Also a fine flick.). Like playing a phonograph, a rabid(nazi) party fanatic, and a crewman succombing to
the pressure of depth charge attack. | The great thing about Das Boot is that it was written by a U-Boot crew member from WW2. It is not a true story but based off of real life events that he had witnessed.
It is the closest you can get to the real deal. To make the film they built a U-Boot exact to scale. The actors were actually locked inside the submarine and some of them were clostrophobic which made the acting so much more realistic. It is the best sub movie ever made.
As for U-571 which someone mentioned above. It is plain crap! Completely unrealistic and "hollywoodifeid" and unfortunaly 100,000 thousands of people now think that is how the enigma was captured.
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