What have you been watching?

Fatherland (1994), starring Rutger Hauer on HBO1.

 

Tonight, I watched Journey Into Fear, a 1942 Orson Wells/Joseph Cotton/Delores Del Rio film. Although WWII provides the backdrop for this film, it's influence is very subtle. Cotten is an American arms dealer in Turkey. The Nazis want him dead because he will sell arms to the Turkish navy. Cotten spends the rest of the film eluding a couple of Nazi agents while he is on a freighter.

Good acting but a spotty script and very short running time. Not nearly as good as The Third Man, at least as far as Wells/Cotten movies are concerned.

 

Tonight for krieg one called .. The 5th day of peace .. best krieg

 

Sunday: National Geographic's Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack and Unsolved History: Death of the Arizona.

Monday: Tora! Tora! Tora!

Today: Pearl Harbor (History Channel documentary).

 

A bit of the . Duke . tonight .. In Harms Way .. Krieg

 

The last 3 WW2 movies I saw were Kelly's Heroes, Letters From Iwo Jima and They Were Expendable. I've seen Kelly's Heroes and They Were Expendable many many times in the past (thanks for netflix!), but this was the first time for Letters From Iwo Jima. It will go into the rotation for sure.

 

What did you think of . Letters From Iwo Jima . as a film ?? Krieg

 

I thought that it was a very well made movie in every aspect, thanks for asking. Not that I am a trained film critic, but I do recognize charactor and story developement when I see it. And attention to detail, to me that's a sign of a well researched and made movie (period uniforms, weapons, slang, style, etc). And I, probably like most others have no education on the Japanese view of the battle. Well, like most battles in the Pacific Theater of Operations, there were so few Japanese survivors to tell about what went on, or like most soldiers, only knew what went on in their limited area of operations. Clint Eastwood did a great job, even w/o Spike Lee's input (LOL). From what I read in imdb, the movie was not well received here in the US, but was a blockbuster in Japan.

 

Is that the one that is of an alternative history storyline? The one that I am thinking of has Germany winning WW2, and Joe Kennedy was the president of the US in the early 60s instead of JFK.

 

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Not WW2 but you still get to see some Nazis get there faces melted off.

 

I just got a pile of video's. About 14 episodes of Victory at Sea, a double video of WWII in colour and a video about D-Day introduced by The Queen. Should all be good watching when I get round to them.

 

For krieg tonight is .. Great Raids Of WW2 ..

 

Yesterday I finally got around to watching Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, and When Trumpets Fade.

I liked them all - but the first two - especially FoOF - were just exceptional.

 

I might watch the documentary series 'Trains of ww2' later

 

Last night "Guns of Navarone". Always as good.....

And Scorched earth series "Africa Korps" DVD.

 

Preferred the book to the "Guns of Navarone"

 

Wife is surprising me with some DVD movies this year... all WW2 flicks of course. I did ask for Stalag 17 though.

 

Yep, thats the one. Rutger Hauer plays a SS police detective who stumbles on a conspiracy. The influential Nazis involved in the Wannsee Conference are being killed off in order for the Nazis to cover up the evidence of the Final Solution so the Détente between the US and "Germania" can proceed successfully. He's assisted by an American journalist (Played by Miranda Richardson) who has arrived in Berlin to cover Hitler's 75th Birthday.

 

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Please, no spoilers! I am looking for a copy of it since I haven't seen it all the way through yet.