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06-14-13, 05:26 AM | #136 | |
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And yes, I saw the film once, very good and like it. I also like Serpico, but I saw that after seeing a documentary about the person and the history and felt that the movie lack something. Well, will try go to (re) see the Prince Of The City! |
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06-14-13, 06:52 AM | #137 |
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06-14-13, 10:01 AM | #138 |
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I ended up only watching Saints and Soldiers and Crash Dive yesterday.
I really enjoyed Crash Dive. For all of it's inaccuracies, it was a great movie. It was made during the war so the inaccuracies are forgivable. Saints and Soldiers was decent. I liked it. It's not on par with Band of Brothers, Enemy At The Gates, etc...but it's a good war movie. The rest I'll watch this week.
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06-14-13, 11:30 AM | #139 |
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Watched Star Wars I-III last weekend, this weekend IV-VI tweaked by George.
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06-14-13, 12:00 PM | #140 |
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Saints And Soldiers is actually based on a true story. How accurate? I don't know. I do know it was an Independent Film on a limited budget and won just about every award (16 in total, I think) the Independent Film Organization has, including their equivalent of the Oscar. Most of their limited budget went to the same film company (if I remember correctly) that was used in Saving Private Ryan in order to get that same, washed-out, color, effect.
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06-14-13, 12:15 PM | #141 | |
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They're both good films. Not the best....but I couldn't pick a best war film if I tried.
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06-16-13, 05:41 PM | #142 |
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Watched Ghost busters on TV...Man those special effects were bad back then.
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06-16-13, 06:01 PM | #143 |
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Try watching Poltergeist.
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06-16-13, 06:53 PM | #144 | |
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Back then, it was pretty hot stuff, but I guess you actually had to see it on B&W TV to appreciate it.
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06-16-13, 09:33 PM | #145 | |
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06-16-13, 09:53 PM | #146 | |
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*whispers* and a lot of other movies...
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06-17-13, 07:01 AM | #147 |
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The worst fx was those demon hounds in Ghostbusters one minute they were big and the next small. It was bad back then as I recall, apart from that true to say a better film than the rubbish they pump out now.
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06-17-13, 11:34 AM | #148 |
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I think the ease of CGI actually hinders creativity and causes films to loose depth.Now a movie like the up coming "Pacific Rim" will likely have a lot of CGI but it is a throw back to Godzilla movies which are about some monsters fighting each other.The problem is that many movies use all CGI but have no "soul" when they need soul for example "Avatar" that movie was just a bunch of CGI.
"Enemy at the Gates" is one of my least favorite war films because it is loaded with inaccuracies for starters Vasily Zatsev did not have a pampered pretty boy face like Jude Law he had a very square jaw and was not a particularity handsome man in any way.He never had a sniper girlfriend there was a female sniper mentioned in the book "Enemy at the Gates" but it has be so long since I read that book I do not recall her name but I do recall that she had nothing to do with Zatsev.The female sniper played by Rachael Wiess is most likely loosely based on Roza Shanina(54 kills a believable number given her time in combat 44-45) and Lyudmila Pavlichenko (who had 309 confirmed kills most likely exaggerated by Soviet propaganda as where Zatsev's). There also was no "Major Konig". Sorry it just irritates me when movies make the based on true story or that claim to be historically accurate when they are far from it.Only "Band of Brothers" can make such a claim and be honest and they did add some things here and there to that for dramatic effect."The Pacific" was probably around 70% accurate with a bit more story added to it."Enemy at the Gates" is about 15% accurate being generous. Based on a true story is a gimmick to get people interested in certain types of films.Not to say that some films using this claim are all poor films but many are using a truck load of creative license and not telling you so unless you know the actual facts you do not know that you are being lied to and walk away believing something that is not in fact true.That for me is a problem because most people do not take the time to actually learn the true story and walk away believing a lie. Last edited by Stealhead; 06-17-13 at 12:10 PM. |
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We've also got another miniseries coming about the ETO Air War....so we'll see how that one goes.
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06-17-13, 04:09 PM | #150 | |
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I am keeping my original Starwars recordings in a safe place. I want to be able to show the grand kids the way it was supposed to be.
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