Parihaka

Gallipoli was a buggers muddle but then what in WWI wasn't. The ANZAC's weren't singled out for special treatment, everyone got more than their fair share of chances to die.
Infantry charges against machine guns in entrenched positions, need I say more.

(mind you, her indoors great uncle was Birdwood, so you could say I am biased)

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wajahat

i like the movie twist of fate.

The screenplay is based on the book "Pursuit" by Robert L. Fish, in which the physical descriptions of both von Schraeder and Daniel Grossman show how perfectly Greenwood captured them:

watch it if u wish. u will not be dissapointed by BEN CROSS

The Chap

I'm sure we did this a few years ago. Nomatter.

Two that have not been mentioned will follow. I hope this may prove of interest to Glyn as they are both as uncompromising as Das Boot, Apoc. Now; as brutal as Stalingrad and Cross of Iron with the studied cynicism of all the above.

The Beast.
Soviet tank crew in Afganistan.

Permission to kill.
A cold war none the less ... Smileys People never had it so good

Ashamed to see no mention of Dambusters or Battle of Britain or In Which we Serve etc ...

How about M*A*S*H for the more lefty mob? A mention for The Dear Hunter?

Kagemushe? Hotel Rwanda? March or Die. I'll stop after this:

Saving Private Ryan has a bunch of guys with a top notch sniper run up a hill in broad daylight -frontally, mind - to assault an entrenched position. AND at the end they don't simply blow the bloody bridge. I have many Yank friends. Some from L.A. . None are that f***ing stupid. Blondes included.

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glyn

[quote=The Chap;424606]I I hope this may prove of interest to Glyn as they are both as uncompromising as Das Boot, Apoc. Now; as brutal as Stalingrad and Cross of Iron with the studied cynicism of all the above.

Can you mean me? Moi? I am the Wimp of the West these days! 'Onest, guv!

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furkensturker

[quote=furkensturker;424149]Obviously there were no British casualties at all, were there? Oh, hang on a minute - I seem to remember a certain Tommy Atkins scratching his hand on some barbed wire.


So now you're wanting to be a Pom? Last week there was no way you were going to be called a Pom, By the way, how was the trip to Denial? I hear the weather was good, Please share the pics.

Freddie

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glyn

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So now you're wanting to be a Pom? Last week there was no way you were going to be called a Pom,

The truest thing you have ever written.

By the way, how was the trip to Denial?

I only had the briefest of visits, just to see the place. The people there know you well, and wished to be remembered to you.

I hear the weather was good, Please share the pics.

You're the one living in Australia. You take the bloody things!

furkensturker

You're the one living in Australia. You take the bloody things! [/quote]

When they come back from the Chemist, I'll put the one with you and Tankie trying to Pick up that trani by the pool up on the net for all to see.

At least you realised before it was too late, poor Tankie, looked a mess next morning.

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!

glyn

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dastardly english

Perfidious Albion!

furkensturker

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. Rabbits, Foxes, blackberrys and lawn bowls

And they wonder why we love to flog them in cricket.

Hurumph, Hurumph.

Freddie

glyn

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Zulkarneyn

You didnt mention Brotherhood of war which is my favourit, im strongly suggesting it. It is about the Korean war

Stitch

I voted "other" - "Apocalypse Now"; I've seen both the original and redux. IMHO, the original is better; the "added" scenes in redux seem rather extraneous (except for the scene where Willard stole Colonel Kilgore's surfboard; that was hilarious!).

Second place goes to "Blackhawk Down", if for no other reason than they portray Delta in a favorable light, especially towards the end.

wally83

Mine, in no particular order:

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Stalag 17
5. The Bridge on the River Kwai
6. The Great Escape
7. The Longest Day
8. The Big Red One
9. Kelly's Heroes
10. Schindler's List

Elbmek

Why are they all "american" ? I voted other - and my choice is a blend of british war movies - they tend to be more realistic and depend on a story not a directors "cut".

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