What have you been watching?

The Battle of Midway over the weekend just got in for my salad lunch and sat down to watch this classic film. I haven’t seen it for many years what a breath of fresh air.

 

just watched The Dirty Dozen ...
will be watching Flag of our Fathers real soon...

 

The cartoon movie "Valiant" was rather amusing actually...

 

I saw Kokoda last night. Very nice film.

 

yes i watched dirty dozen not too long ago for about the 50th time, lol and did any of you know that they made a second one? i havent seen it

 

It was called 'The Dirty Dozen : The Next Mission' and it was made for TV in 1985.

It's very poor and rather sad to watch ; Lee Marvin doesn't look well ( he only made one more movie before he passed away ).

 

" The Dirty Dozen " ha now there is an entertaining movie to watch, silly but entertaining.

 

I watched "El Alamain" an Italian made film about a student volunteer in the Italian army assigned to the African front right before the great battle.

It reminded me alot like the German film, "Stalingrad". I did like it tough. The British tanks used were not authentic at all but more difficult nowadays to come up with originals. Good film nonetheless

 

I just started to watch Shtrafbat again, good series, this time I'm actially able to keep tabs on the characters.

 

the battle of britain on channel 4

entertaining!

 

I watched some parts of the "Sands of Iwo Jima" yesterday. It was Good.

 

Just watched Discovery Channel´s ( 2005 ) " The secret plot to kill Hitler" which was a movie-like report with a time-table of what happened ( a bit like 24 ). Just interested to see if it had anything new on the subject and actually, it did.

I did not know that after the attempt FDR ( and Winston?) had suggested to Stalin a conference but as Stalin feared that the Western Allies had planned the coup as well as the summer 1944 Bagration offensive was going well Stalin refused to meet FDR or Churchill for the time being....

 

Just finished Tom and Jerry!!!

 

I've been watching the Victory at Sea series on DVD and last weekend I watched Run Silent, Run Deep.

 

"The True Glory"
Oscar winning documentary from Carol Reed with an introduction by Eisenhower himself (who is also credited as a production adviser). Made immediately postwar from film collected in '44 & '45.
Imperial War Museum DVD also has four more feature length contemporary documentaries in a similar vein, 'From Italy to D-Day', 'From D-Day to Paris', 'From Paris to the Rhine' & 'From the Rhine to victory'.
I'd never heard of them before, wonderful glimpse (If more than four hours in total can be a glimpse) at contemporary (Western) perceptions of the war and it's conclusion.
Film was compiled from 700 frontline cameramen, moving and intense.
If you've never seen it, or like me never heard of it, Check it out. A gem.

Cheers,
Adam.

 

Just finished watching a series of John Wayne movies as well as the first 4 episodes of The Lone Ranger, first 4 episodes of My Favorite Martian and five of the Horatio Hornblower movies.

As this is Freitag, I will complete tonights viewing with a re-playing (for probably the 30th time since I bought the dvd) of: Black Hawk Down. I was amazed to see that Ioan Gruffud (Horatio Hornblower in the C.S. Forrester series) was also in the movie. I never noticed before so, guess i'll look out for his familiar mug.

 

Have you ever read the book? I'm reading it right now and so far it's excellent. I'd recommend it if you haven't already read it.

 

Hi Col, I don't have the book but had always thought of buying a copy.

Is the movie anything like the book? If so, I know I will like reading it.

 

I think the book is better than the movie--as is the case most of the time. The book goes into a lot more detail about the men involved which I believe is something the movie lacked. You wouldn't regret it if you bought a copy.