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Dark Knight Bob
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Posted on: Jul. 21 2001,19:46 |
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...ok so i was 60 odd years late but hey seing as i went to the normandie/normandy area i think i should share a simple fact with you. saving private ryan sucks big monkey bollox when compared to one ofthe greatest war films ever made... the longest day. its more realistic historically explains it better has so many hollywood stars that a couple dont even have any lines! in the film you can see where our car was parked when we went to saint-mere-eglise. And its not a case of hey lets get loads of people blown to peices in the most graphic way to make money cos of its controversy and then put a thinly disguised veil over it by claiming it was to show the horrors of war. the longest day does this 100 times better and you dont even see any blood ffs! i think this was one of the first films to be 3 hours long and it fucking worth it. cos it shows the germans to be human like us and it bloody well states quite clearly that the americans didnt win the fucking war by themselves! and its got one of the funniest moments i ever seen im a war film. just wait for the bit where the general on the beach tries to convince HQ that there are some 15,000 ships heading his way!oh btw if you ever want a chance to know how d-day really happened i suggest going to normandy to find out cos saving private ryan knows fuck all about it! and there i rest my case... ah thats better my case has had a nice rest so now i'm going to put some paper in it and slide it under my desk. old classic wwII films own!!! oh and the ww1 films "gunbus" and "aces high" own also ------------------ Dammit Mc-Bain around here we do things by the book! BOOM!!! Bye book
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LiNeY
Lady of DetNet
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Posted on: Jul. 22 2001,09:40 |
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Thanks to God, finally someone says it... DKB, you are perfectly right about "Saving Private Ryan". That movie was as far from reality as can be, apart from being not-too-well made (the parts in German were not even real German, you'd think with a budget of some million bucks they'd at least be able to synchronize correctly). I will get flamed for this, I know... /me ducks and hides If you want to see a really good and disturbing movie about the reality and cruelty of war, go watch "All Quiet on the Western Front". It is about WW1, and though it was made in 1929/30, it is still really touching, and it shows war as it is, focusing on people as humans and not as nationalities.
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CatKnight
Jedi Republican
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Posted on: Jul. 22 2001,15:58 |
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how was the movie's depiction of war not close to reality?
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