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Black Hawk Down...um, what?
AtomSmasher:
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--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on March 03, 2009, 01:21:42 pm ---Not the best war movie ever . . .
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Hah! That's one way to put it.
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I was referring to the earlier quote
--- Quote from: SNAAKE on March 01, 2009, 07:54:46 pm ---best war movie ever??
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SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 03, 2009, 01:47:23 pm ---Off the top of my head . . . Das Boot, Full Metal Jacket, Schindler's List, Slaughter House 5, Life Is Beautiful, Platoon, Braveheart, The Pianist, Apocalypse Now, Catch-22, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, Saving Private Ryan, Forest Gump (in a manner of speaking), Lawrence of Arabia, The Great Escape, Ran, Hotel Rwanda, Letters from Iwo Jima . . .
So, another way to put it is that it's not even remotely close to being in a list of best war movies ever. Still another way to put it is that it sucks. :cheers:
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I haven't seen all of those movies (The Pianist?), but of the ones I've seen or know about, most of those take place before most of us were even born. There's this sort of disjoint, I guess, from most of those eras. Ask an average kid under the age of 18 about the Holocaust or Vietnam, you might get some interesting answers. I think most people like BHD because it's something that's, "so close to home." It happened within most peoples lives and it's something a lot of people can relate to.
Of course, I'm of the opinion that most people today are utter ---smurfing--- morons. I remember hearing about a woman who was so traumatized by the collapse of the Twin Towers that she tried to convince anyone who would listen that the event never happened... after watching the movie, Planet of the Apes.
Is it something I like? Meh. I saw the film on DVD. It's an OK flick, but not one I would purchase or watch again.
knave:
I liked the film...It gives an entertaining recount of a crappy situation...
Dartful Dodger:
The problem is it's not an action/war movie.
It's like saying Hotel Rwanda isn't even remotely close to being the best drama or as a thriller United 93 sux.
The less you care about what really happened the less you’ll like the movie.
shmokes:
The Pianist is a film from 2002 that was nominated for best picture and won best actor, best director and best screenplay. It won best picture and best actor at the golden globes. You may remember one of the all-time classic Oscar moments when Adrian Brody went up to the stage to accept his award for best actor from Halle Berry and he just grabbed her and started making out with her right there on stage. Hilarious. Anyway that was for The Pianist and it is a fantastic film. See it. BTW, Roman Polanski couldn't accept his Oscar for the film cos he had a little trouble with allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old like 30-years ago. He fled the country and has never been back. If he'd come to America to pick up his awards he would be taken into custody the moment he stepped off the plane. He also doesn't visit countries that are likely to extradite him to the U.S.
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