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Please recommend a war movie. I'm bored shitless over here.
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Please recommend a war movie. I'm bored shitless over here.
I'm on vacation and the monsoon season is here, which means that I'm just about ready to see something else besides rain falling. Please help...
I know I can count on you guys for some good bloodshed...
I know I can count on you guys for some good bloodshed...
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Re: Please recommend a war movie. I'm bored shitless over here.
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
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Re: Please recommend a war movie. I'm bored shitless over here.
'bridge over the river kwai' is a good one so is 'full metal jacket'
'the great dictator' is a good chaplin film
'platoon' is a horrific and cool film
'the great dictator' is a good chaplin film
'platoon' is a horrific and cool film
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Seen all of those (several times each) except the Chaplin one. Can't be much bloodshed in that one, could it?Achtland wrote:'bridge over the river kwai' is a good one so is 'full metal jacket'
'the great dictator' is a good chaplin film
'platoon' is a horrific and cool film
Anyway, I've got Das Boot and Dead Presidents coming down the pipes. Am I wasting my time on those?
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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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You can't go wrong with The Great Escape. 
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"Hamburger Hill". 
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True that. And I've only seen it once...Pappa wrote:You can't go wrong with The Great Escape.
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I keep getting Hamburger Hill, Heartbreak Ridge and Porkchop Hill mixed up. One of those is a really crappy Clint Eastwood effort...
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Hamburger Hill was made about the same time as Platoon. I've forgotten the whole plot though.Abu Sa'd b. Mufaddal Ibn Abu Sa'd wrote:True that. And I've only seen it once...Pappa wrote:You can't go wrong with The Great Escape.
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I keep getting Hamburger Hill, Heartbreak Ridge and Porkchop Hill mixed up. One of those is a really crappy Clint Eastwood effort...
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have you seen 'band of brothers'?
the chaplin film is not gore-y but is still a good film
the chaplin film is not gore-y but is still a good film
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Hamburger Hill = good. (Vietnam)Abu Sa'd b. Mufaddal Ibn Abu Sa'd wrote:True that. And I've only seen it once...Pappa wrote:You can't go wrong with The Great Escape.
@ Gawd:
I keep getting Hamburger Hill, Heartbreak Ridge and Porkchop Hill mixed up. One of those is a really crappy Clint Eastwood effort...
Heartbreak Ridge = Eastwood. (Grenada)
Porkchop Hill = Gregory Peck. (Korea)
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Also, Stalingrad.
A Beautiful Life is pretty amazing.
Enemy at the Gates.
A Beautiful Life is pretty amazing.
Enemy at the Gates.
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Kelly's Heroes.
Circle of Iron.
The Longest Day.
Cockleshell Heroes.
Tora, Tora, Tora.
Sink the Bismarck.
Circle of Iron.
The Longest Day.
Cockleshell Heroes.
Tora, Tora, Tora.
Sink the Bismarck.
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I need blood and gore and veins mah teeth...(obscure ref)...Ah! Band of Brothers...watched many times over...Achtland wrote:have you seen 'band of brothers'?
the chaplin film is not gore-y but is still a good film
I'm thinking that was the good one, and maybe it's time to see it again...Pappa wrote:Hamburger Hill was made about the same time as Platoon. I've forgotten the whole plot though.
Well, there ya go. It's early and I've got soju, so it's looking good for Hamburger Hill and Porkchop Hill...Gawdzilla wrote: Hamburger Hill = good. (Vietnam)
Heartbreak Ridge = Eastwood. (Grenada)
Porkchop Hill = Gregory Peck. (Korea)
Still, anybody seen Dead Presidents or Das Boot? Reviews warmly welcomed...
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Pearl Harbour.....only joking.
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