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Originally Posted by 101st Airborne
Ah yes. Enemy at the Gates. I forgot it. In fact I shouldn't have. I liked it very much and I guess you might have some reason of your own Xerxes to say that. It was in fact a marvelous movie and showed it like it was.
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I dont like "Enemy at the Gates", because it represents a hollywoodish way of making a war movie. Whereas the
SavingPrivateRyan/BandsofBrothers/FlagsofOurFather/LettersFromIwoJima are movies that have meaning and that represent evil to be the demon inside onself, rather than typical random Nazi as presented in "Enemy at the Gates". If you notice Enemy at the Gates had a main villian character, the Nazi colonel sniper. That is also a concept that I hate in war movie, and it turns it into a James Bondish type of flick. Preal Harbour, I despised because it made the Japanese look really bad, and I hate movies that represent one group of people as bad. Just for your information, I would have the same opinion should the Japanese make a movie about the fire-bombing of Tokyo in 1945, where close to 250,000 died, and show graphically how the flesh truned into flame and smoke. These kind of movies are unnessacery. I consider, Preal Harbour to be an unworthy propoganda movie.
I think Platoon should be added, another great movie, is Mel Gibson's "
When we were soldeires and Young". I loved it. Another one is Apocalypse Now, Full Medal Jacket.
Ofcourse, there are those classic encyclopedic war movies like: The Longest Day, Tora tora tora, Battle of Britian, patton, macarthur, a bridge too far ... and many others.