Guilty Pleasures

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by Platapus

(don't tell Steve, but when I am alone, I like to watch Crash Dive with the lights off while I am laying on a beach towel with can of WD-40 and a bag of kitty litter with me. Does that count as a guilty pleasure?)

No but it counts as a grade 5 perversion and is an indictable offense in 17 countries.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by TarJak

No but it counts as a grade 5 perversion and is an indictable offense in 17 countries.

Is there a grade 6 I could be shooting toward?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

It's interesting seeing a movie shot entirely from the German perspective. There are only two other movies I know of that do this: The Blue Max and Das Boot.

Cross Of Iron

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

This is the thread where you post your guilty pleasures

Here's my guilty pleasure:









This movie's inaccuracy is appalling. There are S.E.5as and Albatros D.IIIs in 1916, all the people's personalities are different from reality, Richthofen has a girlfriend who he probably didn't have a relationship with in real life, the plane's move way too well, and Richthofen has a fictional Jewish friend.

...but I kinda like it

It's interesting seeing a movie shot entirely from the German perspective. There are only two other movies I know of that do this: The Blue Max and Das Boot.

And plus, it's purty.

THE POSTER is the guilty pleasure: It appears to be Sopwith tripe (even wings) in flames behind the red Albatross in the poster as a Sopwith Camel (dihedral wings) above and to his right is blazing away from his (6 o'clock)direction. Further back is a Fokker DR-1. I think if there were DR-1 the Baron would be the one flying it, as Tony Fokker and Von Richthofen collaborated on its development...but it could be Werner Voss... or Lothar Later in WWII, there is an actual photo of cousin, Wolfram von Richthofen, with Jewish Luftwaffe Field Marshall Milch... so maybe it's possible with the imaginary friend. It's called poetic license. Good to find all of the usual suspects of on one thread. Makes for perfect Saurday night!and Platybby, I got lots 'o cat litter! MODERATOR!!!

[August]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

It's interesting seeing a movie shot entirely from the German perspective. There are only two other movies I know of that do this: The Blue Max and Das Boot.

A few more of those you might be interested in:

The Cross of Iron (1977)
Stalingrad (1993)
All Quiet on the Western Front (either the 1930 or 1979 versions)

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by August

A few more of those you might be interested in:


All Quiet on the Western Front (either the 1930 or 1979 versions)

Numero uno I think! I still prefer the original 1930 but there was no lack in the 1979 version in keeping up the production values. Ernest Borgnine nailed his part!