Saving Private Ryan?

[Howard Mitchell]

ORIGINAL: Anthropoid

What's wrong with Thin Red Line? I kinda liked it; so much so I own it on DVD

+1

[jwilkerson]

Yeah I like TRL also - but I've realized over the years that I pretty much like everything Hans Zimmer does - me being a music guy at heart. But I accept that 99% of folks hate TRL. I'll allow them to hate it - if they will allow me to like it!
[:D]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

Yeah I like TRL also - but I've realized over the years that I pretty much like everything Hans Zimmer does - me being a music guy at heart. But I accept that 99% of folks hate TRL. I'll allow them to hate it - if they will allow me to like it!
[:D]

Well... OK fine go ahead.

[:D]

[Misconduct]

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

Yeah I like TRL also - but I've realized over the years that I pretty much like everything Hans Zimmer does - me being a music guy at heart. But I accept that 99% of folks hate TRL. I'll allow them to hate it - if they will allow me to like it!
[:D]

If your allowed to like Thin Red Line then I will say Pearl Harbor is a wonderful made historical movie.

/April Fools.

[Terminus]

ARGH!!! HE NAMED THE MOVIE THAT MUST NOT BE NAMED!!! BURN THE WITCH!!!

[Nikademus]

Pearl Harbor was a classic.

Who can forget the "run down the trench" tactic documented in the movie. I'm shocked that Kaigun, Sunburst or Shattered Sword didn't cover that technique.

It also demonstrated how much quickly we would have won the war had Ben Afleck been alive back then. We don't need no stinkin Corsairs......we got Afleck.

[Vladd]

"If all Americans are like you...God help anyone who declares war on America."
 
Possible the worst line ever in the entire history of film.

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Terminus

I didn't specify that, Leo. I hated the whole film, from start to finish; every single aspect of it was repugnant.

I don't know... the "Thin Red Line" was very fascinating movie... it had something different and special about itself...

#1
The cinematography is superb

#2
The actions scenes are top notch

#3
There is aspect that all other war (action) movies miss - inner thoughts / feelings of a character...


IMHO the "Thin Red Line" movie by Mallick is, for me, closer to what I felt when I read the book (and other similar books made after WWII - for example "Naked and the Dead") !


Leo "Apollo11"

I don't think of TRL as a war movie. It was an ART movie. Only way I could watch it...

HATED it otherwise...

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Vladd

"If all Americans are like you...God help anyone who declares war on America."

Possible the worst line ever in the entire history of film.

Help me out please - what film, character, and situation was that from?

[Vladd]

Going from memory (obviously I could only watch it once), but it's a remark to Affleck's character by an RAF Squadron Leader or Wing Commander.
 
 

[witpqs]

[:D] See! I blocked it out of my memory to protect my sanity!

[John 3rd]

Me too....

Thank Goodness...

[Vladd]

TRL is great, incidentally.
 
That is all. [:'(]

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: Vladd

"If all Americans are like you...God help anyone who declares war on America."

Possible the worst line ever in the entire history of film.

Even worse than John Wayne's quote in "The Green Berets"?

"That man needs attention...."

[tocaff]

Careful, show some respect for The Duke.  Remember that John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Errol Flynn, Tyronne Power, Clark Gable amongst others really won the war according to Hollywood.  Oh yeah and an actor later on named Audie Murphy, a little guy who didn't look the part of a hero.  [;)]

[Nikademus]

[;)]

The Duke rocks!

but even I had to cringe at that scene. [:D]

[Ian R]

Anyone else here seen 'Cross of Iron' ? Peckinpah on the eastern front (the Kuban to be precise)... marvelllous stuff.

[Nikademus]

yes. If it's the movie I recall, it was very good.

"I'll show you the land of the Iron Crosses" or maybe "I'll show you the land where the Iron Crosses are...."

(been a long time since i saw it)

[stuman]

ORIGINAL: Ian R

Anyone else here seen 'Cross of Iron' ? Peckinpah on the eastern front (the Kuban to be precise)... marvelllous stuff.

Yep, I really like it. Sort of gritty. I hardly ever see it on.

[Ian R]

ORIGINAL: stuman

ORIGINAL: Ian R

Anyone else here seen 'Cross of Iron' ? Peckinpah on the eastern front (the Kuban to be precise)... marvelllous stuff.

Yep, I really like it. Sort of gritty. I hardly ever see it on.

James Coburn's portrayal of Sgt Steiner, the grizzled cynical veteran was memorably good. As was James Mason's of the CO.