Top ten war films
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neillfrbs
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funny did not think much of both of them ,thought war horse was better than 1917
Haha was watching it too!! Awesome filmYus and the DVD Is in my TV draw
Cootmeurer
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Coming at this from an Air Force view point - these are the ones that I thought were good enough (at least in sections) and authentic enough to use for teaching. All had useless “Hollywood-isms” added but still were solid
The Lost Battalion
Flyboys
Battle of Britain
Tuskegee Airmen
Memphis Belle
Twelve OClock High
The Right Stuff
We Were Soldiers
Air America
The Lost Battalion
Flyboys
Battle of Britain
Tuskegee Airmen
Memphis Belle
Twelve OClock High
The Right Stuff
We Were Soldiers
Air America
A great film, but shocking that 200 horses were killed during filming, resulting in the US Congress passing new laws to protect animals used in motion pictures.
Bavarianbrit
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My sister worked with a woman who lived just up the road in Tile Hill Coventry who told her that her husband was one of the Hoods survivors how true? there were only three of them. I just checked on wiki - Midshipman William Dundas, Able Seaman Bob Tilburn and Ordinary Signalman Ted Briggs. There were absolutely no other survivors ever picked up. I do not remember her married surname though.
Well. It's a recounting of an actual event. What would you have them do to make it more interesting? ~Muir
No idea, I'm not a script writer. I just think the subject was more documentary than film material. They'd have been damned if they changed the story for dramatic effect because it was based on real events, and they'd have been accused of falsifying the facts. That denied the film makers a wealth of dramatic possibilities that could have been tapped with the dilemma of whether to spare the goat herders. They could have cut their throats and opened up a dozen different sub-plots as a result. But that's the problem. They couldn't do that because it's a film that trades on its depiction of real events, and that isn't what happened.
Consequently the only drama in it is the cat and mouse variety you get with a chase movie, which is pretty formulaic and makes for a predictable story and doesn't give the actors any depth of characterisation to get to grips with.
Maybe it might have been more compelling if it had been presented as a drama documentary like Touching the Void, where the physical story is played out by actors but made real by cutting the action with to-camera narration from the survivors who were there.
Consequently the only drama in it is the cat and mouse variety you get with a chase movie, which is pretty formulaic and makes for a predictable story and doesn't give the actors any depth of characterisation to get to grips with.
Maybe it might have been more compelling if it had been presented as a drama documentary like Touching the Void, where the physical story is played out by actors but made real by cutting the action with to-camera narration from the survivors who were there.
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enfieldspares
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wasn't that War Horse, or something like thatThe one with Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds, set in Texas,,
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oh wait, ,, sorry misread the thread title.
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