What have you been watching?

"Conspiracy" is definately the most scary film about the Holocaust. You never see a single dead body, but how these men talk about the whole 'Final solution' is really horrible.

A must see for everybody.

 

Held my bladder for over an hour this morning watching Gary Cooper in Sgt. York (original b/w) on AMC this morning. I've probably seen this one over a hundred times- the patriotic and god fearing in this still make me warm all over!

 

Sahara, the classic black and white version starring Humphrey Bogart, was on AMC over the weekend.

 

Just watched ZULU, the limited edition DVD, my it looks good... you can see the whites of their eyes!!! Fire at will!!!

Can anyone tell me which Zulu is will?

Also watched Kelly's Heroes for the millionth time, dunno why but I just love it... Its a mother beautiful film... Esp. the ending with added spurs!!!

Also got a vid on the FAllschirmjager that has some cool footage, particuarly of troops dropping with their weapons. You should see the guy jumping with an MG34 hit the ground, he lands HARD!

 

Just watched "The Bridge over the River Kwai", it is definately one of the best films I've ever watched, ever! Bloody amazing!

And "Troy"... don't know whether to be excited and happy or cry...

 

what about Arthur KIng of the Britons???

Looks mighty interesting...

 

By all account Troy is based more on the literary version than the historical version. and obviously it has been americanised. For example Achilles love interest is a woman instead of a boy.

I've been re-watching the BBC Dunkirk that was recently on TV.

 

Do you know it is a Jerry Bruckheimer film? "Pearl Harbour"? But at least it will be a lot of well-made action. And I really don't care about King Arthur, it is mithology based in mediocre Literary work, so they can do with it whatever they want.

There is no historical version of Troy... there's a city in Hissarlik, Turkey that at the end of the Bronze Age was a huge, fortified port that was destroyed by a war and fire. Some Hitite texts now tells us that it might have been called Ilium or Ilión. Now we know: Troy did exist. But there's no way to know who was king or who fought in that war...

It has been ruined. Maybe not historically speaking. But Homer's "Iliad" was desicrated horribly in some aspects, most importantly the one you mention. Patroclus was not Achilles' cousin and was not an unexperienced warrior. Come on! This is 2004! No one would be bothered if the film mentions what everybody has known since 3.000 years ago: Achilles was gay and even if he had a wife and many concubines, the love of his life was Patroclus. It actually makes more sense. Otherwise, who loves his cousin that much?

Besides, in "Troy", the moron that wrote the script kills who shouldn't be killed, doesn't kill who should be killed and kills who should be killed when they shouldn't be killed! And worst of all, the Trojan war that lasted 10 years, it seems like two weeks in the film...

But it was quite good for a Hollywood film.

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By the way, saw "Gone with the Wind" yesternight. Incredibly, I hadn't watched it since many years ago when I was a kid and didn't like it, of course.

Wow! It is simply a masterpiece and an inmortal work of art! Astonishing!

Loved Clark Gable too. He was not a handsome man, but he had the personality and virility of 300 Mel Gibsons, Tom Cruises and Brad Pitts!

 

Watched Fiddler on the Roof which is just a fun and classic movie to watch.

It's an amazing depiction of cultures in the same country clashing yet trying to live together peacefully.

 

Watched a good scandinavian war movie recently: The Heroes of Tellemark. It is great because i personally didnt know anything happened in scandinavia in WW2 but now i do!

 

I just watched Saving Private Ryan once again and have to say you can never see that movie enough times where it isn't just as impactful as the first!!

 

Saw the "Lost Battalion" again. It's WWI but still pretty good.

 

The A&E and History Channel networks both aired a number of D-Day documentaries this past weekend. One of the most interesting of these was A&E's Biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

It was quite interesting to see John Eisenhower and Manfred Rommel discussing their respective fathers and Normandy. It was also interesting to learn about the long pre-war friendship between Eisenhower and George Patton.

R. Lee Ermey's D-Day episode of his TV show Mail Call included a touching tribute to the heroes of Normandy. During the epsiode, Ermey discussed the technology of D-Day and answered viewers questions about the battle.

At the close of the episode, Ermey, while walking through the Normandy American Cemetery, noted that all of the technology would have accomplished nothing without the men who had charged ashore and descended from the sky to fight and win the battle. Ermey then knelt beside the grave of an unknown soldier, placed his hand on the tombstone, and said: "We don't know who you are, but you will never be forgotten."

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Justc got me a collection named WW2-road to victory with some 440 minutes of footage...

That should keep me busy for a while!

 

Bought "Saving Private Ryan" on DVD on Saturday so I could watch it and "The longest day" on the anniversary.

The wide-screen and DD version of it was amazing! The neighbours actually complained that there seemed to be a war going at my flat: I just responded: 'It's D-day, guys'.

 

Fried...

I purchased the 60th anniversary edition of SPR (even though I already had it on DVD) in the World War II Boxed set with "Price of Peace: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki" and "Shooting War: WW2 Combat Photographers." Both of these are very good documentaries IMHO.

I was going to bypass the latest SPR until I read that the SPR packaged in this set has DTS 5.1. After factoring in the cost of the two documentaries on amazon.com, I realized that I would be getting SPR for practically nothing.

Talk about some awesome sound!! Home theater system was rumbling!

As for what I am watching now, I am about a third of the way through the DVDs of the British series "Piece of Cake."

Kai...be sure to post a review of your latest purchase please! Looks interesting!

 

The History Channel has been running The Great Escape, one of the very best POW films, this weekend.

Interesting Great Escape trivia from IMDB: four cast members were actually POWs during WW II (Donald Pleasence, Hannes Messemer, Til Kiwe and Hans Reiser).

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There's a series coming out called century of warfare by TimeLife and I'm thinking of getting it. Does anyone know if it's any good?

From what I saw it looked amazing!!

 

Just checked a one hour document on Mosquito! According to it only 11 losses out of the first 1,000 sorties!!!

Must be some kinda world record in war time ever, and the plane was unarmed, right Martin?!