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| Thread ID: 125606 | 2012-07-08 10:02:00 | Best war movie of all time? | Metla (12) | PC World Chat |
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| 1287061 | 2012-07-08 10:02:00 | Ive just sat through The Thin Red Line. When I originally watched this movies back when it was in theatres it seems it went right over my head, I left thinking it was a pretentious load of crap, and I have avoided watching it again for that fact. Now, after seeing it again, Im stunned, hell, I was holding my breath during parts of this movie, If you haven't seen it then its well worth the effort. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1287062 | 2012-07-08 10:17:00 | I have Saving Private Ryan on DVD. You can now get the blue ray version. I have watched it a few times. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1287063 | 2012-07-08 11:41:00 | I believe in times of great stress, ie war, people can rise to the occasion with exhibitions of magnanimity and nobleness, however lots of so-called good war movies, Saving Private Ryan for instance, are relentlessly sordid and downgrading in the way they picture humans. In the end it may be true that there really is no hope and in the end all we are is an evolutionary creature that will always fall back on basic and animistic instincts but I believe at least some are better than that even in the most trying of circumstances. I am not interested in seeing only downgraded behaviour from humans on-masse or individually as a lot of these movies seem to show only brutality. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1287064 | 2012-07-08 11:57:00 | I think that perhaps Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line put a deliberate focus on illustrating the brutality and horror of war because it was something that is glossed over by just about every war movie up to that point. Not having ever been in a war personally of course, But I can well believe the human psyche is taken into some horrible places by participating and bearing witness to these events. Everyone I do know that went to war has been deeply affected by what they went through. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1287065 | 2012-07-08 12:05:00 | Full Metal Jacket for me, as a movie the entertainment factor is up there, the story lines, it is almost 2 movies in one. I also really liked Platoon, the soundtrack is one of my all time favorite pieces of music. |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 1287066 | 2012-07-08 12:41:00 | Liked Full Metal Jacket very much but I voted for Beast of War as this movie really caught me by surprise, went to town saw it by accident, fantastic movie. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1287067 | 2012-07-08 22:50:00 | Can't say I've seen/remember many of them. I appreciated Saving for showing (initially) in a bit more honest fashion how brutal war can be. But I won't vote for it without knowing the other films. It really disturbs me that kids these days enlist with a totally unrealistic image of what they're getting into. The movies lead them to believe you go running through a war zone in a camo singlet and never suffer more than a graze, but rack up a couple dozen kills on the way. The harsh reality is that modern warfare can mean you die before ever setting sight on the enemy, and it's likely to be either a quick death from a brain injury, or a slower more grizly death bleeding out from an injury elsewhere... assuming they don't get you with gas, or from a grenade dropped by one of your own team. There's a clip shown in some of the old ANZAC day footage of a group charging out from a foxhole. One of the group collapses and slides back into the hole before even making it up to the edge of the hole (bullet to the brain the moment his head popped up). That is the filthy reality of war. The 'adventure' may be over before it even begins. You may simply be used as 'bullet fodder' to distract the enemy from an attack from a different angle. Your life is treated as entirely disposable. War is not a dream. It's a nightmare. And you can expect your last emotion to be pant-soiling fear accompanied by searing pain. War is always filthy and brutal. Sorry - ran off topic a bit. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1287068 | 2012-07-08 23:06:00 | The ending to Black Adder Goes Forth sums it all up when they finally go over the top. Yes it was a comedy series but that final scene shows the sheer folly and futility of war. I'm sure others will disagree but hollywood war movies are to syrupy to be watched with any thoughts of reality | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1287069 | 2012-07-08 23:35:00 | Platoon for me | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1287070 | 2012-07-08 23:44:00 | I actually enjoyed those two Clint Eastwood directed ones he did recently, the one from the American side, and the Japanese one, I actually found myself rooting for the japanese if you know what i mean? | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
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