June 6th

[Tex -USMC- 0]

The Thin Red Line is an excellent movie. It drags a bit at times, but it isn't meant to be an action movie. Although the assault on the hill is beautifully shot- watching the waves in the grass as the soldiers move up is spine-tingling.

[-TU--33ker 0]

@ June 08 2003,11:04)]The Thin Red Line is an excellent movie. It drags a bit at times, but it isn't meant to be an action movie. Although the assault on the hill is beautifully shot- watching the waves in the grass as the soldiers move up is spine-tingling.

hmm...

[redliner47 0]

Don't watch the thin red line as well. boooooooriiiiing

I liked The thin red line. It`s very good regarding the philosophy and minds of the soldiers. It shows both sides without black/white, good/evil thinking. It`s a very good movie in my opinion but indeed nothing for action-warmovie

i thought the thin red line was one of the best movies that i have ever seen. You shouldnt go into watching this movie believing you will see a pacific Saving private ryan, because you will be immensely dissapointed. This isnt a movie for fans of heavy actions movies but if you enjoy a side of philosophy with your action, this is for you

[USSoldier11B 0]

Quote[/b] ]Just goes to show how much warfare depends on luck (Or bad luck in the other guys case - ie Rommel was at home visiting his wife and son on the 6th, and many commanders were attending wargames that night)

Indeed indeed indeed. We see all of the fancy documentaries made about the brilliant strategy of WWII, while in retrospect commanders of that era humbly admit that they really had no idea what the enemy was really planning or even what the hell was really going on.

[Winters 1]

Don't watch the thin red line as well. boooooooriiiiing

I liked The thin red line. It`s very good regarding the philosophy and minds of the soldiers. It shows both sides without black/white, good/evil thinking. It`s a very good movie in my opinion but indeed nothing for action-warmovie

i thought the thin red line was one of the best movies that i have ever seen. You shouldnt go into watching this movie believing you will see a pacific Saving private ryan, because you will be immensely dissapointed. This isnt a movie for fans of heavy actions movies but if you enjoy a side of philosophy with your action, this is for you

I think thats what happened to me when i went to the movies. I should give it another watch and maybe i will feel different about it.

Another good but not overly popular movie is called "Screaming Eagles" its in black and white and was one of the few older WW2 movies that was not blatant pro-US propoganda.

[FSPilot 0]

I SWEAR I head a jetliner in the background while watching windtalkers.

I can hear those things a mile away.

[SpeedyDonkey 0]

I think WindTalkers was a pretty good movie.

Edit: Typo

[FallenPaladin 0]

I think WindTalkers was a pretty good movie.

Edit: Typo

When I left the cinema after Windtalkers I was angry, because I expected something serious and not such a bad action-trip. Also I don`t like Nicolas Cage`s performance in this movie, he can do better. Windtalkers is like one of the warmovies they made in the USA in the 50s. You could call Windtalkers a heroic-bloodshed-melodramatic-popcorn-movie.

I better stick to The thin red line, Band of Brothers, Platoon, We were soldiers and Black Hawk Down.

[Major Gripe 0]

If you want a really good ww2 movie, not glorified hollywood pap, try 'Das Boot' particularly the tv mini series of 3x 90 minutes. It is a brilliant movie, depicting the claustrophobic and petrifying work of the German U-Boat crews in the Battle of the Atlantic. What makes it particularly unique is its German cast and crew and its anti war bias.  

[DracoPaladore 0]

Tonight, about 9pm EST, Desert Rats is on. Its about the Australians in North Africa.

[FSPilot 0]

do NOT watch "U-271" or 251, whatever it was called

30 minutes of a sweaty man saying "splashes..." followed by headache-giving explosions and shaky flashy shots of people falling around ruined this movie for me.

[FallenPaladin 0]

What makes it particularly unique is its German cast and crew and its anti war bias.  

Hmmm? I guess all the german war movies after the propaganda stuff of the third reich are anti war. Watch Die Brücke or Stalingrad for example. I can`t remember a movie that gloryfies the war from Germany.

[FallenPaladin 0]

do NOT watch "U-271" or 251, whatever it was called

30 minutes of a sweaty man saying "splashes..." followed by headache-giving explosions and shaky flashy shots of people falling around ruined this movie for me.

If you don`t take this movie serious, it`s not that bad.

What I liked the most about it is that the brave british soldiers who stole the Enigma in reality are replaced with US soldiers for marketing reasons I guess. Gotta like Hollywood.

[-TU--33ker 0]

do NOT watch "U-271" or 251, whatever it was called

30 minutes of a sweaty man saying "splashes..." followed by headache-giving explosions and shaky flashy shots of people falling around ruined this movie for me.

If you don`t take this movie serious, it`s not that bad.  

What I liked the most about it is that the brave british soldiers who stole the Enigma in reality are replaced with US soldiers for marketing reasons I guess. Gotta like Hollywood.  

the americans also managed to steal the Enigma once. but the British already had it.

[USSoldier11B 0]

If you watched the credits at the end of the movie you would have seen that due credit was given to the units that actually participated in intercepting Engima code machines. Of course the British were replaced by Americans.....how are a bunch of limey sailors going to appeal to 260 million consumer media whores?

I thought U-571 was a decent flick, but not nearly as intriguing as Hunt for Red October.

[Vognsen 0]

What makes it particularly unique is its German cast and crew and its anti war bias.  

Hmmm? I guess all the german war movies after the propaganda stuff of the third reich are anti war. Watch Die Brücke or Stalingrad for example. I can`t remember a movie that gloryfies the war from Germany.  

No soldier gloryfies war.

[Die Alive 0]

Last night there was a thing on the Bismarck by James "I Am The King of the World" Cameron.

James Cameron Expedition: Bismarck

-=Die Alive=-

[Major Fubar 0]

Hmm, June 6th is my grandmothers birthday...

[FallenPaladin 0]

6th June was your grandmother`s birthday! I hope you remembered her!

[-TU--33ker 0]

If you watched the credits at the end of the movie you would have seen that due credit was given to the units that actually participated in intercepting Engima code machines. Of course the British were replaced by Americans.....how are a bunch of limey sailors going to appeal to 260 million consumer media whores?

I thought U-571 was a decent flick, but not nearly as intriguing as Hunt for Red October.

It's quite interresting, I think most europeans wouldn't care about the nationality of the men, if the movie is good. But Americans need American heros in the movie or they don't even notice it. Is it relly like this? Would you as an average American go to see a movie like "Das Boot" when you hear that it's a great movie, although you know there isn't one single American in it?

BTW "Hunt for Red October" was a good movie, but the "Russian" of the whole crew sucks! It's ridiculous I've spent half of my life in Kazakhstan, but couldn't understand a single word of what they were talking. my whole family laughed their asses off!

[PitViper 0]

On this day...

1523 Gustavus I becomes king of Sweden (Swedish National Day)

How primitive.  still celebrating outdated aristocratic systems...

[Guest]

Outdated? Not at all, we still have a king you know

Actually 6th june is a sort of a tripple celebration. One is of the day that the current Swedish flag was first used (1550), the coronation of Gustav Vasa and the 1809 constitution which formalized the basic liberties (freedom of press, speech etc etc that had actually been in practice for over 80 years then but were not formal).