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They Shall Not Grow Old a box office blowout – for good reason
americanthinker.com ^ | 12/28/2018 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 12/28/2018 8:47:44 AM PST by rktman

Was there ever a more consequential war than World War I? As a result of the bickering petty politics of Europe's inbred monarchs, we got communism and the Soviet empire from it, for one. We got 37 million deaths, millions and millions of bright people, a death toll so high that it skewed the demographics of nations such as France. We got grotesque forms of warfare – trench warfare, chemical warfare, and Howitzers, shell shock, tanks, and huge civilian death tolls. We also got the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian empire – Europe's first truly internationalist empire of tolerance and melting pots – to be replaced by the crummy and oppressive European Union. We got the creation of the morally relativistic cultural Eurotrashiness of Europe in that war's wake, too – dada art, stupid other kinds of modern art, and a Europe that refuses to fight or stand up for itself, no matter what may come down the pike. The death toll allows us to recognize the rationale with sympathy. And as an awful coda, the war was so badly resolved that it led to a second and even bigger world war. So this is a war that's still very much with us in effects, one hundred years after the armistice was signed.

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Saw a preview the other day when we went to see The Mule with Eastwood. As if the films were not revealing enough in the brutality in B&W, the colorization takes it up a notch. But the bottom line still remains that when something needed done, some people stepped up and did it. Heck, I got kinda tight throat just watching the preview.
1 posted on 12/28/2018 8:47:44 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

Is Monica Showalter a made up name or what? Seems like a nom de plume and he she what have you writes half of American Thinker.


2 posted on 12/28/2018 8:50:53 AM PST by dennisw
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To: rktman; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

I’m in! ping


3 posted on 12/28/2018 8:50:58 AM PST by bitt
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The whole war machine makes me both proud and angry. Some men did everything asked of them. And more. They deserve respect and are honorable.

What makes me angry is the morons deciding what they should ask. Few of them are honorable.


4 posted on 12/28/2018 8:51:07 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: dennisw

Is Monica Showalter a made up name or what? Seems like a nom de plume and he she what have you writes half of American Thinker.


Please help me understand what in the wide world of sports that has to do with this excellent article and topic?

Geez.

BTW....we know several families with that surname. Are you saying it is fake? Or, is it the Monica moniker you are having a difficult time believing?

Just curious.


5 posted on 12/28/2018 8:53:37 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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Saw it yesterday. Packed house. It looked like those reels could have been made yesterday. They worked with the film speed so that the pictures moved like normal instead of really fast like they looked in the films in those days. The colorization seemed to increase the resolution too. Could see more details. It was worth the $14.


6 posted on 12/28/2018 8:53:53 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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Saw it last night. It was good, the theater was full. Remarkable restoration of the old grainy film.


7 posted on 12/28/2018 8:54:43 AM PST by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: Vermont Lt

and that goes on to this day all over the world.

Will Trump be given the Nobel Peace Prize? No. Should he? Yes.


8 posted on 12/28/2018 8:56:27 AM PST by Aria
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To: rktman

I tried to go but the theater was sold out. I should have bought ahead of time. I’ll have to wait for DVD or hopefully they’ll have more showings now.


9 posted on 12/28/2018 8:56:39 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: Jane Long

Jeeeeze ...it’s a pen name!


10 posted on 12/28/2018 8:57:01 AM PST by dennisw
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To: Vermont Lt

“Just like witches at black masses”


11 posted on 12/28/2018 8:57:21 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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“We also got the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian empire – Europe’s first truly internationalist empire of tolerance and melting pots – to be replaced by the crummy and oppressive European Union.”

If the A-H empire was so great, why did hundreds of thousand emigrate to other countries? The fact is, it was neither tolerant or a melting pot.


12 posted on 12/28/2018 8:58:57 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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A Cautionary Tale that is repeatedly ignored.

There’s Gold in them thar hills!


13 posted on 12/28/2018 8:59:49 AM PST by TADSLOS (My favorite essential oil is bacon grease.)
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> But the bottom line still remains that when something needed done, some people stepped up and did it. <

The problem being that in WW I, nothing really needed to be done. No great nation was out to destroy any other great nation. But no matter. The meat grinder had to be fed.

In this case anyway, Marine Corps General Smedley Butler was right. War is a racket.


14 posted on 12/28/2018 8:59:50 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Ozzy appearance? LOL!


15 posted on 12/28/2018 8:59:59 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Quite an eerie film-— the reminiscences of the old at the time, and now surely dead Brit (and one or two US) WWI veterans were digitally cleaned up and audio enhanced.

The addition of “sound effects” digitally entered into the silent films, the colourization, and the amazing use of professional Lip Readers to tease out what the officers and men were saying on the film..... these all lend a “this is NOW and you are THERE” feeling to this testimonial documentary.

It is a work of art and well worth the viewing, and re-viewing for content. It beats ANY dramatic film presentation, because these are/were real people in a really horrific war, which settled NOTHING, except the destruction of the all the monarchies, including most especially- Tsarist Russia, with blowback of communists onto post war Germany, and the leftist reactionary socialists, the Nazis, and the rise of dictatorships leading to.. WWII. Versailles treaty has a lot to answer for, inasmuch as the response of France to the Nazis was .... Vichy. What cheese eating surrender prancing monkeys. And look at them, now, and Germany for that matter.

Take the time to view this film— there is a lot to re-learn.


16 posted on 12/28/2018 9:03:46 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: KarlInOhio

I bought a pre order on iTunes. Couldn’t see it in the theater because of work schedule


17 posted on 12/28/2018 9:04:33 AM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Vermont Lt

Like Civil War era tactics.... down to trench warfare to save lives, and then in 1914, charging entrenchments against German Maxim machine guns-— utter futility. And mining under the trenches, both sides. Just like the Union tried at the Battle of the Crater in Petersburg, VA.


18 posted on 12/28/2018 9:07:02 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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I wanted to see this but it was only screened on two days, both sold out at every showing, in every theater nearby. Hardest ticket to get!

I hope it makes it to netflix or something, I really want to see it.

19 posted on 12/28/2018 9:07:31 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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Was there ever a more consequential war than World War I?

The Greek-Persian War, the Peloponnesian War, the Second Punic War, the Roman conquest of Gaul and the Arab-Roman war of 629-644 and the War of the American Revolution might have been more consequential.

20 posted on 12/28/2018 9:10:05 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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