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Posted on 02/27/2014 6:38:27 AM PST by C19fan
A handful of soldiers, beleaguered by a Nazi host in a wrecked city apartment building, prepare to sell their lives dearly on celluloid. Does the scenario sound familiar? It should. For 70 years, the British and Americans have been making heroic movies about World War II, some of which are etched in our culture. But now for something different: Russian film-makers have got in on the act. They have created a 3D epic set for the film Stalingrad, about the most famous battle in their history, and the movie has become one of the biggest domestic box office hits of all time. Now, British audiences can see for themselves this amazingly noisy, bloody, cliche-laden, rubble-making version of the war.
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Enemy at the Gates was a good movie about the snipers in Stalingrad.
Emergency Emergency everyone to get from street.
The More I watched Saving Private Ryan, the more it sucks. The first part was awesome....the rest of the movie is awful.
“In the Russian Army, it take more courage to retreat than to advance.”
—Uncle Joe
It was great up until they let the nazi go instead of wasting him.
Who is going to see a movie about Nazis versus Communists?
There’s no rooting interest.
Opening scene on the beach and a guy in silhouette returns to pick up his arm, turn around and continue towards the fight.
THAT bit has more humanity in it than I can explain.
It lost me when I saw Ted Danson the paratrooper.
Stalingrad: An IMAX 3D Experience
Enemy at the Gates was an awful movie, speaking historically.
It could have been excellent if they’d concentrated on the man-vrs.-man duel in the midst of a great battle.
/Not that I wouldn’t eagerly watch Rachel Weisz load a dryer on a Saturday morning.
All the vets I’ve spoken to who were present at D-Day (a dozen or so) all complained that the movie never showed everyone throwing up once the firing died down and the panic receded.
There are some good movies from Europe and Asia. I have the 7 hour version of War and Peace, both the cut for TV KULTUR version and the better Russian Cinema Council widescreen version. I first saw it on TV back in 1971. Great movie that makes the Henry Fonda version look like Cliff’s Notes.
Also have WATERLOO Rod Stieger and Christopher Plummer) with battle scenes directed by Bondarchuk.
9TH Company directed by son of Bondarchuk.
Also COME AND SEE, a very brutal film (Just ignore the comment section by Sean Penn).
Also have a German version of STALINGRAD.
And ATTACK ON LENINGRAD.
A few others I have recently acquired are..
Stosstrupp 1917
Westfront 1918
Mountain in Flames.
And many more.
Goof: If you have the Russian version of War and Peace, look close at the battle of Bordino. You will see a few troops in the background with bolt action rifles.
When the movie was over, I asked him what he thought. He said "It was a fine movie" (it wasn't, but grandpa would never speak ill of anything) "But no one in it looked cold enough."
Now, I judge war movies by how cold (or hot), wet, hungry, dirty, and in overall general misery the actors look. "Band of Brothers" did the best that I've seen. "Ryan" was close, but it also was done by a lot of the same people.
My daddy (a three-war Marine) always said:
“Let’s YOU spend three weeks in the boonies with no toilet paper!”
/the actors in “Platoon” went through a three-week boot camp in the Phillipine jungles to get that look juuuuust right
Grandpa used to run the fireplace, full bore. Many was the time I'd go to visit him, and he'd be sitting next to a roaring fire, and the Air Conditioning in the house would be running, too, so that the rest of the family wouldn't get driven out of the house from the heat.
I asked him "Why", once. "Because I can, now." Enough said. :-)
"Platoon" was OK. Would have been better if it hadn't been done by Oliver Stone.
The 1959 version of “The Bridge” is very good if you can find it.
In Private Ryan I thought the German guy getting let go and then coming back to haunt them was a great lesson on appeasement. Maybe it wasn’t intended that way in the movie but it was a good lesson.
That's the one with the platoon of German kids guarding the bridge, right? I watched that on Youtube.
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