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Originally Posted by ned kelly
not sure if anyone has mentioned "Gallipolli" with a young Mel Gibson. It really shows the futility of war and highlights how those dastardly English sent all those poor aussies to their deaths whilst they sat and drank tea on their beach.
NB I am not at all serious here except for the futility part highlighted in the movie. And we all know the English, French and Indian troops lost many more in that failed landing. Its a very Australian jingoistic look at that conflict but is still a good movie despite some serious errors in presentation
Top 5 for me
Apocalypse Now Redux
Das Boot
Saving Private Ryan
Joyeux Noel
M.A.S.H
dastardly english!
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Ah yes, I remember the movie Gallipolli, wasn't that the story of a stuff up by those pomy bastards when they landed the ANZACS on the wrong beach? That's right, they even made the ANZACS do bayonet charges against machine gun pits. We all know that a bayonet will always win against a machine gun. Even Tommy Atkins would agree, don't you think Glyn?
But then again, us Australians were used as cannon fodder for years until Blamey told the Poms and the yanks that we were sick of being the forward scout for their wars.
Churchill was the person who sent us into Gallipolli. The Poms have a lot to answer for here.
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