What have you been watching?

Watched "Apocalypse Now" and "Rio Bravo" this weekend.

"Apocalypse Now" was a bit too tiring and heavy for me: Martin Sheen and of course Marlon Brando were very good. Loved surfer Robert Duvall and his Valyries too.

"Rio Bravo" was fantastic! I just love John Wayne. But Ricky Nelson got my attention and I drooled about him during the entire film… but that's just Friedrich's queerdo stuff…

 

Watched this today and next week I´ll get these:

 

Turner Classic Movies has an Clint Eastwood marathon this afternoon; Where Eagles Dare followed by Kelly's Heroes then a couple westerns. Oh my!

 

Just watched Hellboy for the 2nd time...

 

Just watched the bridge at remagen for the first time. not a bad film.

 

I've got it on tape...true story too.

Good flick!

 

Lost Battalion? Was that about a battlion in No mans land or something? Were they Canadian or US?

 

Yes, it was about a battalion of US infantry that was ordered to advance forward during an offensive. They were at the center of the allied advance and the only unit to take it's objective. Then they held out, outnumbered, for 3-5 days (can't remember).

The commanding officer and about three others all received the Medal of Honor and at least one of the soldiers received the DSC.

Incidently, the commanding officer was so traumatized it is said to have contributed to his suicide several years after the war.

 

Interesting, was this a recent movie? Was it made for TV?

 

It was made for A&E but it is available for purchase from the internet. I bought it at Suncoast video store.

It was made a couple of years ago and has Ricky Schroeder and the actor that played the Lt Col. in Band of Brothers.

 

Cool I will have to check it out!

 

The Lost Battalion is an excellent film.

I recently saw A&E's Ike: Countdown to D-Day. It's an interesting film in terms of its depiction of the interaction between Ike, Patton, Monty, DeGaulle, Bradley, Churchill, etc.

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Lost battalion...Thought that might be the Vosges, october 1944, but this is WWI!?

 

Going way O/T here but the original 'Lost Battalion' was from the 77th 'Liberty' Divn who went into the Argonne Forest during October 1918, almost at the end of WW1. Totally surrounded for six days, 200 men came out ( of the 600 who went in ).3 Congressional Medals of Honour were awarded ( the Commander, I beleive, committed suicide in the early 1920's ). Quite a story.

OK, back to WW2 !

 

Correct Martin, the siege was the basis for the film and Colonel Charles Whittlesey, the Lost Battalion's commander, committed suicide in 1921.

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I've been watching "The Eagle has Landed".

 

Sat through the epic drama "Objective Burma". Also watched "We were Soldiers"[vietnam movie], this will be on my Do Not Buy list.

 

I recently saw Legionnaire, a film which cast Jean-Claude Van Damme as a French Foreign Legionnaire in 1920s Morocco.

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watched stalingrad for the first time on tuesday,makes a change to see the war from the germans point of view,i also watched the program about p 47 thunderbolts in the last few months of the war,it showed them strafing german airfields at heights of about 25 ft off the ground, awesome colour footage,they said that allied aircraft destroyed 475[appx}german aircraft in one day!

 

Themightyjug I also recommend Cross of Iron and Enemy at the Gates if you want to see the war from a different point of view. Both movies are also form the Eastern Front.