okay, here we go; game on: Ryan vs BoB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZgKo...eature=related

beach part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKpn0...eature=related

Spielberg hollywood part: (look at all those tigers:haha:) all of these parts remind me more of a video game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSno...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Seb...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B4NX...eature=related


BoB:
(the luger part really happened: you stoopid mick:har:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FLpL2FBGTw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y5_O...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncC0l...eature=related

Why I like BoB more and it wins hands down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0HTl...eature=related

Game over before it even started. As a former Paratrooper I am biased to BoB over those leg Rangers in SPR.

Jar my memory: 82nd or 101st?

10th SFG(A)

Somebody here really likes We Were Soldiers?:huh:

"I will be ... the first ... man ... on ... the ... ground ... and ... the ... last ... man ... off!"

*cue cringe worthy slow motion when he steps off the helicopter, and later back on*

Also, the scene where he talks to the recruits about the new helicopters, turns around and whooosh! it screams by.:rotfl2:

I like war movies but that one was a stinker.

The very final scene of We Were Soldiers is of the Vietnamese general or something who walks through the battle field and says something like "The Americans think they won but they've just prolonged the war" which I thought was a pretty good way to end an otherwise pretty stereotypical war movie.

And from what I've read there was a lot of picking and choosing and artistic licence when it comes to the subject matter of the movie. In reality there was no heroic final charge by the Americans but infact a really deadly ambush that the Vietnamese pulled off.

Are you claiming that those two incidents never occurred?

So you like propaganda movies?

Yes, I claim that the commander did not step off and on the helicopter in slow motion to pompous music. I also find it hard to believe they timed that flyby in real life.:salute:

Right. Why would there be an American flag flying over a cemetery maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission containing almost entirely American servicemen? At the beginning and end of a war movie following American soldiers, showing them being killed and horribly maimed. Really, it makes MUCH more sense to show, say, the flag of Bhutan.

Of course it's ok to have a US flag at the beginning of SPR. And it was equally ok for the Germans to make movies about Jewish people before and during WW 2. They made perfect sense also.

Most popular war movies I do not like. Those that I liked, are:

A thin red Line (strange that nobody mentioned it so far)
Das Boot
Die Brücke
Band of Brothers (much better than Private Ryan)
Apocalypse Now

Two popular but very overestimated movies, imo, are Kubrick'S Full Metal Jacket (although I like three of his movies very much, this is none of them), and Platoon.

Many war movies suffer from one of two things, or both: they are entertaining for the sake of being entertaining, and/or they are ridiculously pathetic.

Both makes mockery of the dead.

:hmmm:

Hal Moore stuff:
http://www.lzxray.com/

The book:
http://www.amazon.com/Were-Soldiers-.../dp/0060975768

:salute:

Hmmm...I'm looking forward to the Pacific version of BoB. I thought it had already aired in Australia? That would mean it would be available on the interwebs via...alternative means.

Good choices. One war movie that had the greatest impact on me was Schindler's List. I've seen so much battle footage, both real and Hollywood style, that's not interesting. I really enjoy the ones that tell us about the people and what they went through, like SL, BoB, and Das Boot.

Looking forward to Pacific. I just hope it's done with the same quality as Brothers. My father served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. All of his WWII time was in the Pacific so I'm really looking forward to this one.