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[August]

Originally Posted by stabiz

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.

Yeah the battle and the training period that led up to it took a heckuva lot longer that just 138 minutes too. At some point every film maker is forced to summarize events in order to tell the story. That doesn't make it propaganda though or you might as well add Das Boot and every other movie to that list too.

[stabiz]

Originally Posted by August

Yeah the battle and the training period that led up to it took a heckuva lot longer that just 138 minutes too. At some point every film maker is forced to summarize events in order to tell the story. That doesn't make it propaganda though or you might as well add Das Boot and every other movie to that list too.

Its not about summarizing, to be anal its about making something last longer than it actually did. But most of all its about going over the top and making scenes that make people look away. I never said WWS is propaganda, I said its bad, its almost a caricature of war. It fails in some of the same areas as The Patriot. (Although it does not suck as wildly as that movie does)

My likes:

Das Boot
Stalingrad
Band of Brothers (really looking forward to the next one)
All the shooting in Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Black Hawk Down (it has its moments)
Master and Commander

I think its time for a huge and expensive war drama from WW2 Africa. Imagine what they could do with the budget of those Transformers movies.