Posted on 07/03/2015 6:16:56 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
We Were Soldiers
The BEST Vietnam war movie.
How about Gods and Generals. Panned by every critic in Hollywood because it showed Confederate victories. I thought it was every bit as good as Gettysburg. And Robert Duvall made a hell a lot better Robert E. Lee than Martin Sheen.
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For me, Lone Survivor was like The Passion of Christ.
I wanted to see them, and when I saw them, I didn’t want to see them.
I haven’t seen it. I’ll have to give it a look.
Unless ... I am a squishy female and don’t like to put too much war stuff in my brain. There’s enough of that in the real world. I want escapism in my entertainment!
They were both very tough to watch.
I don’t care who you are, you can’t watch “The Passion of the Christ”, and not be changed by it. Especially if your a Christian to begin with.
I am so proud that I got to shake Gen. Hal Moore’s hand at a Veteran’s Day ceremony a few years ago. I’m even prouder now since my son is Special Forces.
I didn’t see The Passion of Christ. I’m too squeamish.
Every lash, I winced and jumped in my seat. I’m not necessarily squeamish, but this on hurt my heart and my stomach.
The film is about three United States servicemen readjusting to civilian life after coming home from World War II.
Released in 1946, won seven Academy Awards.
Best war movie ever.
Red Dawn always gets the libs frothing at the mouth.
Best Years, outstanding.
The TV serie “Combat” was good too.
I want that in a T shirt!
I thought it was cool when I was a kid but some of the characters seemed so disgruntled which is fine but it causes me to not put it on the patriotic list.
The Longest Day
There are many.
Good movie. Thanks.
Look at “LONE SURVIVOR” “ZERO DARK THIRTY” and “AMERICAN SNIPER” vs the leftist dreck put out against Iraq War
I like the “Combat” series quite a lot, but indeed, it oftentimes maintained a certain downbeat and world-weary mindset that was actually more emblematic of the time it was made in the 1960s (akin to many other 1960s-era semi-anthology series like Route 66, Gunsmoke, Naked City, etc.), as opposed to the wartime 1940s. All great tv-shows, but that whole “psychological character study” approach to scripts at that time was very postwar and modernist, and ultimately rather discordant to the social-cultural vibe of the 1940s.
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