Is that the movie where they take some German POW's and put them back into Germany to gather information ? I think the end of the story the gestapo agent gets shot by German soldiers and the good guy gets captured ? Filmed in B&W. Or am I thinking of anouther movie ?

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Hi Ta, your partly correct. The guy executed was one of the German soldiers who spied for the allies. Nobody else was captured. Yep is in glorious B&W.

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Nominations are CLOSED.

I will open a thread with a poll with these Eleven (11) films. There was a tie for number 10.

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I have gathered your nominations and have selected the 11 most nominated films.
Poll closes in 7 days, Dec 7, 2007

The nominated films in alphabetical order are:

Band of Brothers
The Battle of Britain
Cross of Iron
Dambusters
Das Boot
Downfall (Der Untergang)
The Great Escape
Kelly's Heroes
The Longest Day
The Pianist
Saving Private Ryan

They are NOT my choices, they are yours.

The reason 11 were chosen, there was a tie in the nomination voting for number 10.

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Das boot is my absolute number one.

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With my avatar, what else was I going to vote for ?

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Jeff, this isn't a perfect poll, without having the movies: Decision Before Dawn and Dunkirk. ;-))

Anyway, of the choices listed, I had to cast my vote for the movie that John Wayne was in. :-D

I noticed you listed: The Pianist. C'mon man, that movie sucked Prune Pits. :-D

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Hi Jeff, I did not see this posting before I posted a comment in the Poll thread - sorry.

Anyway, I knew Martin voted for Dambusters and you probably know I voted for: The Longest Day partly because it had Duke in it. :-D

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Private Ryan for me for the Omaha beach part.

Close second der Untergang.

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Of this list, I have to choose

Band of Brothers
Das Boot
Der Untergang
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan

But I'd choose Band of Brothers. These 5 are all good, I won't make a chose, but I'd had for the poll so I choosed BoB.

But since when is BoB a movie? Band of Brothers is a serie. Don't know how you call it in English, but it does excist out 10-parts (11 if you count in the bonus).

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These are the top vote getters from the movies that were nominated in the other thread. I did not choose them, all who voted did. The Pianist got nomination votes.

It was a TV movie (a mini-series) and it got votes in the nomination thread, so I included it.

So much for this request, I guess I go move the other threads I had already moved back to here.

EDIT---I was being snotty with the last line, apologies to all, please.

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Only 10 voters so far? Wake up, people, so we find out the ultimate truth...

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Hey im in!

Lets get the poll and vote!

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it's already done, Slava. It's here at this link.

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-whatever

-Lou

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Of the list provide, I chose 'Das Boot'. Can't beat it for accuracy. Cross of Iron came really close. Band of Brothers was good but still had the 'hollywoodish' feeling about it plus I really don't like anything linked with Ambrose. Stalingrad would have been another one I would have liked to have seen in the poll as well as 'El Alamein'.

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When I watch a movie it is primarily for entainment, not accuracy. While I applaud Hollywood's efforts in this area, and believe me in some cases they did astoundingly well...the first 20 minutes of Private Ryan on Ohama Beach were rending, and Das Boot was very accurate this alone is no reason for rating the movie successful.
The story, its meaning, and the way it is told are all critical to the success of a movie.
Accuracy also has its limits. Hollywood still has to film the movie and there is a need for dialogue.
I would also say you should really watch some of the stuff made back in the 50's. There is a whole different mindset in those movies.

Since I did not see STALINGRAD ( the German version ) I voted for Saving Ryans Privates

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What was so bad about The Pianist ? It had some good combat in it and was historical.

I think you are a person of little culture and dequorum. If Larry the Cable Guy did a WWII film then you say it was a masterpiece.

I vote for Das Boot but all the others were good movies also.

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Haha, das Boot is second now! Come on guys let's send a few extra torpedos!

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Hi TA, I thought it was as boring as watching paint dry and or, as boring as Shindler's List, was - whichever is the more boring of the two?

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You found the Pionist and Shindler's list boring?

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Yessir I sure did. Both were a struggle to watch what I did without fast-forwarding through some of the scenes. These movies I place on the same level as The Red Line. Pearl Harbor at least had some great action scenes-otherwise it too would be on the same level as the previous mentioned movies.

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It's a shame y'all can't all be perfect like me.

It was hard for me, also. I just made myself think that they were drawing most of it from Parachute Infantry, by David Kenyon Webster, which essentially it was, considering that Ambrose "borrowed" heavily from that book when writing his

Most of my favorites were made then. Mister Roberts, Battleground, The Caine Mutiny and From Here To Eternity.

I really enjoyed Schindler's List. I approached it from the story they were trying to tell not the action and doing my miniscule part to honor the sacrifice that the people portrayed in the movie endured. I've not seen The Piano, I guess I need to.

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Day of Days, for Band of Brothers won by a nose over Das Boot, and Saving Private Ryan, in that order.

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