
Your Favorite Wwii Movies
#21
Posted 20 February 2004 - 02:30 PM
and that one was good,and the one with the naked lady and the 21ac................
and the one that ended with the 1921ac in his mouth............{don't pull the trigger don!!!}
but this one was the best.......................ron
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Posted 20 February 2004 - 02:31 PM

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#25
Posted 20 February 2004 - 04:05 PM
Here's a few that were left out that I thought were good :
"Hell is for Heroes" / Steve McQueen with that M3
"None But the Brave" / Steve McQueen with the stockless 28A1
"Darby's Rangers" / James Garner
"Merrills' Marauders" / Jeff Chandler
"Tora Tora Tora" / The more I watch this the more I dislike "Pearl Harbour"
Has to laugh at the "Battle of the Bulge" being listed.. damn thing started ok in the snowy woods then it freakin' ended in the desert.. *LOL*
#26
Posted 20 February 2004 - 04:08 PM
That Nazi bastard Albert Speer was at the Wansee Conference , but in traditional Speer style, said he left before Heydrich discussed the extermination plan. He conned the Nuremburg authorities to 20 years in Spandau instead of a date with the rope.
As for the WWII films, I think the ones that depict the clandestine activities are some of the best.
"Five Fingers" (1952) is the factual story of Turk Alysa Bazera (James Mason) who used his position as valet to the British embassador to photograph secret documents for German embassador Von Pappen. He handed the Krauts the Normandy Invasion plan "Overlord", but the Krauts thought it wasn't legitimate.......Bazera was paid 100,00 pounds by the Germans, which he later discovered were counterfeit.
"The Train" (1965) with Burt Lancaster is about saving French works of art from Nazi looting during the summer of 1944 and whether it is worth the lives of resistance fighters.
"Crash Dive" (1943) about submariners Tyrone Power and Dana Andrews vying for Anne Baxter's affections and blowing up a Nazi oil depot along the war. Just watching Power persue Baxter is a lesson on how to pick up girls 40's style.
"Ice Cold In Alex" (1958) British Army Captain John Mills and South African Anthony Quayle as the German spy with Sylvia Simms trying to make it through enemy lines in an ambulance after Tobruk fell. The scene where they have to get the truck over a steep sand dune is one of the best filmed and truly inspiriing. (
#27
Posted 20 February 2004 - 04:19 PM



P.S. I, too, have heard the only reason old Albert Speer didn't meet up with the rope was that he, was a 'gentleman' (read patrician)! Gentlemen don't use slave labor to make war armaments! Disgusting reason!!

#28
Posted 20 February 2004 - 04:36 PM
Saving Pri. Ryan
Wind Talkers
and about all the others everyone has listed already
#29
Posted 20 February 2004 - 05:05 PM
Sgt. Kinney (the squad leader) has a 1928 Thompson, so there is some good Tommy-gun action in it.
It's the best, in my opinion.
*******
If you've seen it, or are familiar with the "Nuts!" episode in real life, this may be of some significance:
The German emissaries asking for the US surrender were escorted by Col. Harper of the 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment. By chance I happened to be at the 101st Airborne Museum when Col. Harper's WWII personal effects came in to the museum.
It was very remarkable to look through that material - especially his map of the Bastogne perimeter.
#30
Posted 20 February 2004 - 07:11 PM
i saw an interesting documentary on the history channel - hitlers henchmen...i think, all about speer. quite interesting, not sure wether or not i beleive the whole story of him leaving before the 'final solution' discussion. who knows...is it proven?
rjb1, the nuts comment is a classic quote from history, i laughed everytime i read it in ambroses - citizen soldiers, burgetts - currahee and also on band of brothers

#31
Posted 20 February 2004 - 07:15 PM



P.S. I'm not sure if that is an acurate quote in the movie, using his (Gen. Patton's) memoirs, diaries, Gen. Omar Bradley's memoirs, etc. Maybe? I do know that Bradley's memoirs were used as a source for that movie.
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Posted 20 February 2004 - 07:32 PM
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Posted 20 February 2004 - 08:17 PM
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#37
Posted 20 February 2004 - 11:25 PM
"Kelly's Heroes" is a great one. I really appreciate the honest comparison of armor, and the attempt at making a Tiger really look like a Tiger (not just an M47). To me, it somehow conveys the sensibilities of guys caught up in something bigger than themselves, without hokey patriotism or simplistic anti-war messages.
All the comments I've read about "Saving Private Ryan" ring true for me. Really good, though flawed. My dad was a WWII vet. He'd never talk about it, which would frustrate me as a teenager in the late '60s (wanting to hear how cool it all was!). I saw SPR, and afterward, didn't want to talk about the movie. It was like a light bulb clicked on in my head. This was only a MOVIE, a fabrication, and I didn't want to talk about it afterward. I got just a glimpse of what Dad must have felt. I'll never be able to say I'll be able understand my dad's feelings, but SPR did allow a greater respect for his hesitantcy.
At the bottom of the list is "Battle of the Bulge" -- pure crap because it was so technically unauthentic! Just above it at the bottom of the heap is "Windtalkers". For me, the ONLY thing that saved that movie was the Thompsons! It was so predictable that it was downright boring (c'mon, who couldn't guess the demise of the flame-thrower guy, or that the other interpreter team wasn't going to get whacked?). After the second battle scene, I recognized there would be a total of four battle scenes: first, Nicholas Cage gets his ass kicked. Then the Navajo does poorly in his baptism of fire. Then there's a traumatic loss scene, and it ends with the blaze of glory scene.
After the third battle scene, I decided to count how many Japs Cage kills. In the last battle, I counted 27 (as I remember). With guys like that, WHY did it take us 4 years to beat the Japs??? Hollywood wants us to think that they were as easy to kill as crumpling origami swans. That kind of exaggeration does an incredible disservice to those guys who gave so much to fight a determined enemy. That POS movie totally failed so many opportunities. It's just a damn good thing that they had Tommies instead of Reisings, or I'd never have wasted my money.
It seems WWII movies fall into four categories: WWII-dated propaganda (which still made some great and hard-hitting examples), anti-war flicks, money-seeking "action" flicks, and true appreciation-of-sacrifice pieces. The last category seems to be the rarest, and it is the one I enjoy most.
I'll close with best wishes for those who wish to disagree with my opinion. Afterall, failing to respect a different opinion does a disservice to why the war was fought in the first place.
Regards,
DC
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Posted 21 February 2004 - 12:17 AM
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Posted 21 February 2004 - 01:06 AM