Military Films

[harry hackedoff]

Watch it, my girl.
You are very close to becoming an "Ungentlemanly Act" anorak.
As I said elsewhere(on one of your many, previous mentions of this film on the box), I once comitted "an ungentlemanly act " on the box, which caused the first Mrs Hackedoff to file for divorce. Lucky for me, the set wasn`t switched on at the time

[woodbury rash]

Not bad Peds!! Ashow,I am impressed.

Dont miss the place though,the northern scenery is much better.

[Peds]

how dare you sir, I will not have it said that warwickshire has the best scenery in the whole of england!

wales, scotland and oireland however... much nicer.

used to swim under the bridge at ashow. that is, before I realised it was filled with sewage. put the hairs on your chest though, and the diseases in your blood.

and i forget the name of the film, but its a small platoon of soldiers guarding a whole section of the front in WW2. memorable bit: yank is sitting at a machine gun post, hears a snap and shouts "apple!" expecting the code word "cobbler" in return, but the german scout instead shouts "pie!" and gets a face full of lead. what film, please?

[Topper]

Prehaps the Battle of The Bulge, the Yanks posted a small amount of men to cover the large Ardennes forest because they felt a German attack was extremely unlikely.

[Statistic]

1) Black hawk down - Yea, stories a bit thin and it is hard to keep watching as the action is constant and can loss its entertainmnet value but it is still one of my faveret movies.
2) Saving Privet Ryne - Proberbly top of the pile, the thing is they missed out the brits here aswell, they played a large part in the invasions.
3) Band of Bros (Yes its not a film)
4) Tiger land - obviously farly amiture but a brilliant film
5) Zulu - now you can't question that
6) Full Metel J - just for the comedy value.

Aye,
JZ

[martin walkinshaw]

thers a few strong feelings about this one, are the americans either 1. kickin the bottom out of horrywud, or 2 recognising the sacrifice that their young men and women have made for their country????

had a look at most of the films in this disc. and seen most in my time like platoon, and other little gems that have been made to celebrate events, however two films i have not heard mentioned which dont hide the truth, are, born on the 4th of jully (classic) and one ive rcently watched is we were once soldiers, take away the glam and check the message.

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dulce et decorum est pro patria mori!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MORTARDUDE]

"Tigerland" .... I was at Ft. Polk in 1969 for 8 weeks AIT ( Advanced Infantry Training )... this movie is a total CROCK of S*IT....if the NCOs acted anywhere near the way they did in the movie, they would have been court martialed.... trust me....also it is nothing like Ft. Polk anyway...

"Platoon".... another crock !! Oliver Stone was totally discredited for this by the troops he served with...my Division.. the 25th...nothing at all positive in this...what was the 2nd worst atrocity by Americans in Vietnam next to MyLai ???? The VC / NVA commited atrocities as part of their war plan on a daily basis, a la Saddam, but this is rarely mentioned...

"Apocalypse Now"...has a lot of good points regarding the surreal atmosphere..but still way out there..got to love Robert Duvall...

"Hamburger Hill"... one of the best Vietnam films...totally realistic right down the line...

"We Were Soldiers"...right on the mark ...historically accurate..shows all the seeds of mis-management and garbage that produced the next horrible 7 years..directed by an Army Ranger...

>>> By the way .....

We didn't lose nothing...we all left in 1973 and everything was fine...the US Congress cut the aid to South East Asia in 1975 and quickly produced 3,000,000+ dead Asians...the US military is blame-free..The B-52s should have been sent to Hanoi in 1965. The Reserves and National Guard should have been sent in 1965 also. It would have all been over in 2 months. However LBJ ran it as a cash-cow for his buddies.

RE : LBJ and Vietnam...Read the book "Kill Zone" by Craig Roberts...a truly disgusting situation...

My favorite war movies :

"All Quiet on the Western Front" 1930..great battle footage..timeless message

"Stalingrad" ...German perspective...very depressing.. but good

"Das Boot"... nitty gritty navy film...best of all sub flicks

"Enemy at the Gates" ..great battle scenes..half of the story is fiction though

"The Patriot" ...Mel Gibson...sorry guys...the fellow that plays the British Calvary officer ( Tavington (sp) )..is one of the meanest sum bitches I have ever seen in a war movie..

"Memphis Belle"... my hometown ..great Air Force flick

"Tora Tora Tora" ..... historically accurate almost to a fault

"Gallipoli".... tells it like it was...folly

"Paths of Glory" ...more folly from WWI...but fantastic footage

"Gunga Din"...I don't know why ...I just love this movie...

"Braveheart"... I like it because the relatives on my fathers side are Scottish and on my mothers side are English, so I envision them fighting each other...

"The Messenger"...Joan of Arc.. some of the most accurate footage of war in the Middle Ages

"Glory" ... one of the best about the American Civil War...touches all of the issues...

"The Alamo... John Wayne...have found out that just about everything in this movie is fiction ... still have to love it...it was the first Marx playset I got for Christmas, and still have most of it...the theme song as they are waiting to die the night before the battle always puts a lump in my throat...also Davy Crockett is a home-boy ( TN ).

"The Killing Fields".... shows the true face of Asian Communism and what the USA's legacy was when it left..

"Aleksandr Nevsky" ... I know it is riddled with propoganda..but you have to admit the scenery, costumes and battle scenes are worth watching...

"When Trumpets Fade"...another depressing but right-on-the-mark..War-is-Hell-movie..was an HBO movie about the Hurtgen Forest and pulls no punches....brutal

There was a WWI flick on A&E recently ... I believe it was called "The Lost Battalion" with Ricky Schroeder... fantastic movie...best hand-to-hand combat footage for some time....flame throwers and all..watch it if you can.

FYI ..my father fought with the 43rd Infantry Division in the Pacific from 1942 - 1944 ( Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Rendova )...my grandfather fought in WWI with the 33rd Infantry Division in France. My great-grandfather was on the Confederate side and rode with Nathan Bedford Forrest. My mother's side of the family say we are related to the Sheriff of Nottingham and since the name is Willoughby that side was Tories etc....


enough for now...your view ?

Larry

DEO VINDICE

[AndyT]

Band of Brothers
Heartbreak Ridge
Saving Private Ryan

The only 3 worth anything.

[exvmremf]

The Odd Angry Shot about the Australian SAS in Vietnam. Just the sort of humour that a bootneck can relate to.
Das Boot was also impressive, life on a U-boat looked a right piece of piss!!!!!

[soldierblue]

anyone remember the american film Soldierblue it was great

[BenChug]

d0g soldiers
f@#k rocks my trousers
brit troops verus werewolves.

hey in australia do they call them weredingos?

[bean]

Here is my two penny worth.

1. Cross of Iron . Willi Heinrich

2. A Fridge to far.

3 Zulu.

4. The cruel sea.

5.We were Soilders then.

The Thin red line was a pile off poo. The one with George Clooney

[rabby]

The Thin Blue line, now that was a piece of British excellence.

[The JaCkAl]

It's got to be the Great Escape. Dog soldiers was fairly humourous in certain parts but generally I thought it was crap in the effects department. What about Black Adder set in the 1st world war?