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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
This guy was an adult with at least a high school edumacation and HE DID NOT KNOW THAT WORLD WAR II WAS A REAL THING.
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Yep, there are people like that.
I'm not a fan of
Saving Private Ryan, but a good friend of my likes it for a personal reason. Two, in fact.
1. While
Ryan is fictional, the rescue teams represented were very real indeed. My friend says his father was given that assignment on several occasions.
2. My friend says his youngest uncle lied about his age, joined up at 14 and made it through boot camp and to the front lines. It was just such a team that brought him back home.
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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005
Yeah I know its the wrong movie but thats the movie I like when it comes to any WW2 Remembrance. I never get sick of watching it, just like you probably never get sick of watching Das boot  Anyway my dvd collection also has that over the top Pearl Harbour movie with Ben Affleck in it, i'll stick to Private Ryan.  |
Have you ever seen
Tora! Tora! Tora!? It's every bit as good as
Pearl Harbor is bad. It tells the story as it happened, all the actors play real people, no crap at all and it's very well done, especially for a pre-CGI movie. It's one of a handful of WW2 movies I actively praise, the others being
The Longest Day and
Battle Of Britain. Oh, and
A Bridge Too Far, of course.
Das Boot for me occupies that second tier of truly great movies set during the war, but not actually being about the war itself.