Really Bad Milsurp Movie - Windtalkers

eos said:
I loved the "tactical nuke" hand grenades.
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Wait, didn't I just see a movie where there was a tactical-nuke claymore? Okay, a Tallboy bomb may have been involved, but still...;)

Vimy Ridge said:
Those two guys must have defeated the Japanese by themselves, they at least killed a couple thousand guys each. :rolleyes:
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Sounds more and more like that movie I just saw...except mine had a fellow single-handedly wiping out hordes of bad Burmese....:rolleyes:

sf said:
Quit complaining. It's not supposed to be viewed like a WW2 war documentary.
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Well, it's got Adam Beach...ahem. Anyhow, the movie I saw was no great shakes as far as current events go.:p

Shrek said:
It was no Saving Private Ryan. It wasn't enemy at the gates either. It wasn't a Thin Red Line..
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It wasn't even Rambo...oh, wait, THAT was what I just saw...:D

Shrek said:
It was more like a two hour episode of the A-Team. Except the A-Team was funnier.
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I personally LOVE the A-Team. Even that over-the-top two-parter called "The Bend in The River". In fact, one of my fave "milsurp" movies was "The Wild Geese" (try catching that on cable these days), which has often been described as The A-team, but with killing. :dancingbanana:

BTW, there were at least 4 killings on the A-Team that I can recall (Fulbright, Fulbright's killer [M-203!], the African game warden and the Vegas dude who took a leap. Um, sorry for the rambling post....:redface:

Edit: Just had to add this:

Vimy Ridge said:
Yeah, Breaker Morant. Oldy but a goodie. :)

Classic line: "There's only one rule on the velt, rule 303!" - Breaker Morant
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Awesome movie: "Rule .303. We caught 'em and we shot 'em under rule 303!"

I also loved Woodward as The Equalizer (I'm way too infatuated with the 1980's:redface:).
 
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375rum said:
Jarhead was close though.
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One non-fitting social misfits dissatisfaction with the military turned to a book and movie to make people think the military is his own twisted view on things.

ONLY war movie I didn't watch it all cause it was just stupid.

Dimitri
 
oldbadger said:
The Light Horsemen has been my number 2 always! (Can there be any first place choice other than Zulu...?)
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Was the movie called " The Light Horsemen " or was it called " The Charge of the Light Horsemen " i remember seeing a movie years ago about that topic and it was a good movie if my memory is correct but i thought it was called the latter. Maybe there's both!
 
kevwat, I think you are thing of two separate movies:

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Tony Richardson's film about the colossal Crimean War blunder combines his sociopolitical anger with the splendors of a David Lean epic for a fascinating artifact of that boiling-point protest year, 1968. Like America's contemporaneous Vietnam War, Britain's mid-19th-century conflict with Russia in defense of Turkey made less sense the deeper they sank into it; John Gielgud's Lord Raglan keeps referring absentmindedly to the enemy as "the French"! Aside from a peripheral romantic triangle involving apparently the single sane officer in Her Majesty's army (David Hemmings), his friend (Mark Burns), and the friend's wife (Vanessa Redgrave--Mrs. Richardson), the film is really about the profoundly jingoistic Victorian imagination; transitional animation sequences by Richard Williams seem to plunge us directly into the British national psyche. Somewhat muddled as drama, but irresistibly persuasive in its historical detail and stunning camerawork (David Watkin, Chariots of Fire), The Charge of the Light Brigade is a prime candidate for rediscovery.

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Palestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to Beersheba. The latest attack on Gaza has failed. The attacking forces included a regiment of Australian mounted infantry, the Light Horse... Lighthorseman Frank is wounded in a skirmish with Bedouin. He is replaced by a young soldier, Dave, who proves to be a crack shot, but reluctant to fire at the enemy. Dave proves himself during a German biplane attack. Recuperating in hospital, he meets a sympathetic nurse, Anne... The regiment is called upon for a bold flanking attack on Beersheba. But how do you convince the Turks the main attack will come at Gaza? And how do you attack across a desert without water?


May I also suggest:

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There's no getting around a simple, basic truth: watching Lawrence of Arabia in any home-video format represents a compromise. There's no better way to appreciate this epic biographical adventure than to see it projected in 70 millimeter onto a huge theater screen. That caveat aside, David Lean's masterful "desert classic" is still enjoyable on the small screen, especially if viewed in widescreen format. (If your only option is to view a "pan & scan" version, it's best not to bother; this is a film for which the widescreen format is utterly mandatory.) Peter O'Toole gives a star-making performance as T.E. Lawrence, the eccentric British officer who united the desert tribes of Arabia against the Turks during World War I. Lean orchestrates sweeping battle sequences and breathtaking action, but the film is really about the adventures and trials that transform Lawrence into a legendary man of the desert. Lean traces this transformation on a vast canvas of awesome physicality; no other movie has captured the expanse of the desert with such scope and grandeur. Equally important is the psychology of Lawrence, who remains an enigma even as we grasp his identification with the desert. Perhaps the greatest triumph of this landmark film is that Lean has conveyed the romance, danger, and allure of the desert with such physical and emotional power. It's a film about a man who leads one life but is irresistibly drawn to another, where his greatness and mystery are allowed to flourish in equal measure.

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An outstanding drama, Gallipoli resonates with sadness long after you have seen it. Set during World War I, this brutally honest antiwar movie was cowritten by director Peter Weir. Mark Lee and Mel Gibson are young, idealistic best friends who put aside their hopes and dreams when they join the war effort. This character study follows them as they enlist and are sent to Gallipoli to fight the Turks. The first half of the film is devoted to their lives and their strong friendship. The second half details the doomed war efforts of the Aussies, who are no match for the powerful and aggressive Turkish army. Because the script pulls us into their lives and forces us to care for these young men, we are devastated by their fate. Paramount offers another nice retrospective of a Peter Weir film. This excellent film is about a war that was very important to Australians (the country had just formed a decade before), and the documentary sets up the context of the battle including historical pictures and footage of the current battleground. Stars Mel Gibson and Mark Lee offer their impressions of the filmmaking experience (inexperienced Lee thought he was in over his head). The most interesting aspect not pursued is the odd pairing of producers Rupert Murdoch and Robert Stigwood. But anyone who is seeing this expertly transferred film for the first time will get most of their questions answered from these extra features.
 
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Has anyone seen these? Any good?

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A classic Australian World War I saga, 1915 captures the hopes and heartaches of innocent country boys as they embark on the greatest and worst adventure of their lives, when they face the filthy deprivations and shocking savagery of trench warfare. Best mates Billy and Walter have forged their friendship fighting over girls, racing each other on horseback and dreaming of excitement - but their biggest challenge awaits them in a war unfolding on the other side of a changing world. Caught up in the glamour of soldiering and the naïve enthusiasm to defend God, King and Country, the young men enlist in the army to prove themselves glorious heroes in the "war to end all wars." Instead, the grotesque, bloody horror will scar them for the rest of their lives, haunting them to ponder, "What did we achieve?"

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Its 1915 and World War I has been declared. Aged only 17 Kiplings son like most of his generation is swept up in the enthusiasm to fight the Germans a mood stoked vigorously by his father. Jack is cripplingly short sighted and the army has rejected him twice rendering him too myopic even for an army suffering thousands of casualties a week and desperate for recruits. Yet Rudyard is undeterred determined that his son should go to the front like countless other sons and fight for the values that he Kipling espouses so publicly. Using his fame and influence Kipling persuades Lord Roberts on his death bed to get Jack a commission in the Irish guards. This intervention is barely tolerated by Carrie and daughter Elise (Carey Mulligan) as they disagree that Jack is fit to fight and fear for his safety on the front line. Jack is instantly popular with his troop he is a great leader and trains tirelessly to overcome the disability that is his eyesight. Six months later Jack sails to France as a lieutenant. Jack went missing in action during the Battle of Loos and his mother and father carried out an increasingly desperate search for him spanning many years and many miles.

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A grandly entertaining, old-fashioned adventure based on the Rudyard Kipling short story, The Man Who Would Be King is the kind of rousing epic about which people said, even in 1975, "Wow! They don't make 'em like that anymore!" When director John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen) first started trying to make the film, with Gable and Bogart, the project was derailed by the latter's death. It was a few decades before Huston was able to finally realize his dream movie--and with an unimprovable cast. Sean Connery and Michael Caine are, respectively, Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, a pair of lovably roguish British soldiers who set out to make their fortunes by conning the priests of remote Kafiristan into making them kings. It's a rollicking tale, an epic satire of imperialism, and the good-natured repartee shared by Caine and Connery is pure gold. In today's screen adventures, humor is usually imposed on the material by a writer or director trying to make some kind of cleverly self-aware comment ("Hey, we know it's a movie!"), but that sort of jokiness can create so much ironic distance that it pushes the audience right out of the picture. Huston lets the humor emerge naturally from the characters, for whom we wind up caring more deeply than we ever expected. The digital video disc includes a wonderful documentary on the making of the film.
 
Here's another recent one I enjoyed a good bit. Be forewarned, it's in French (english subtitles) but a VERY good film, with some great ww1 French trench stuff from the Somme. FANTASTIC performance by Jodi Foster.
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A Very Long Engagement (French: Un long dimanche de fiançailles) is a 2004 romance, war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and staring Audrey Tatou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on a World War I battlefield (the Somme). It was based on a novel of the same name, written by Sebastien Japrisot, first published in 1993.
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Claven2 said:
Here's another recent one I enjoyed a good bit. Be forewarned, it's in French (english subtitles) but a VERY good film, with some great ww1 French trench stuff from the Somme. FANTASTIC performance by Jodi Foster.
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Claven2 i have heard about that movie and to be honest i have found that some of the best movies are subtitled so reading while watching has become the norm for me lately.
 
The Man Who Would Be King was excellent; there was a good WWI movie about an American contingent cut-off during a retreat that I believe was called "The Lost Brigade".
 
Tyler said:
That was an A&E movie, wasn't it? I remember them advertising it way back when, it was a pretty solid movie.
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I remember that one, it had that kid from the sitcom "Silver Spoons" in it but all grown up. What's his name? Ricky scrotum......Good movie though.
 
Claven2 said:
Here's another recent one I enjoyed a good bit. Be forewarned, it's in French (english subtitles) but a VERY good film, with some great ww1 French trench stuff from the Somme. FANTASTIC performance by Jodi Foster.
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Anotherone you should have a look at is "Second Hand Lions" an "Paths of Glory".

Ok, thats two!!:redface:
 
Claven2 said:
I've seen 'em both, though Paths of Glory had a little too much anti-war sentiment for me.
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Heck I'm not sure there's much positive to say about World War I. So many dead for a couple miles of mud. Sometimes the movies do over-do it, over-dramatize it etc.

Windtalkers is a good example of that!
 
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