just a little grave digger.
Watched Fury on the plane the other week. Ill be honest i cant remember it ... couldnt really hear the dialogue with me being deaf and all the ambient noise ... but i remember the scene with the tiger which i thought was pretty cool. Specifically the holes left by the shells in the armour.
Might need to watch it again to follow it better
Also watched the remake and original of Red Dawn recently ... good story let down by the acting
Apocalypse Now is on TV.
I'm part of the way through Heart of Darkness - where Apocalypse came from.
None of it WW2 but, well...., yup.
Fury was f***ing awful. I hated it so much.
WW2 Tanks shooting lazers? WTF? Brad Pitt's hipster haircut? They might as well have just given it a dubstep soundtrack and had Baz Luhrmann direct.
(Would probably have been a better movie actually. Less cliches at least...)
After this and World War Z, Brad Pitt has officially taken Tom Cruise's place on the c*nt list.
Apocalypse Now is on TV.
I'm part of the way through Heart of Darkness - where Apocalypse came from.
None of it WW2 but, well...., yup.
I'll scoot off down the video shop over here and see if I can find a couple of Japanese classics for you guys to hunt down. You might find it interesting to see the other sides efforts.
Haven't watched it in a long time but I remember Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence being not too bad. It was the 80s and it did star David Bowie but I seem to remember it being watchable.
Can't say I recall the laser scene......you sure that wasn't a TC flick?
Odd Ball from Kelly's Heroes did.*snip ... they sure as shit don't use a colour palette.
Odd Ball from Kelly's Heroes did.
Edit ... I like world war z ... Great ideas mixed in with some fanciful stuff, but it got some good responses from me which is all you can ask for really.
SBS went through a stage of playing films from German/Japanese perspective. I read a Japanese book about the Hiroshima bombing written by a civilian survivor a few years back. It was pretty interesting...the whole "we were just normal people going about our daily lives" kind of vibe. Can't recall the name of the book or author.
Quite possibly Black Rain by Masaji Ibuse.
The best scene in the entire film was the lunch with the german ladies, had kind of weird vibe which showed how damaged and (socially) dysfunctional the crew really was.
I was think when I grave dug this puppy, that a realistic, a la SPR or similar, blood fest WWI movie would be great.I've just introduced the kids to a couple of classic ww1 movies I loved as a kid
All good ones those ... I hate but like the holocaust stories ... Always brings out some kind of emotion.Had a quick skim through the thread, noticed a couple of films not listed and worthy of a mention.
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