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#4116073 - 05/04/15 09:45 PM
Re: War films that should have been good but sucked...
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Thin Red Line.
What a pretentious, boring steaming pile of crap.
And that is the most exciting thing about it. +1. A load of crap.
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#4116093 - 05/04/15 10:44 PM
Re: War films that should have been good but sucked...
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Thin Red Line is a great movie - this is a matter of fact, not one of opinion.
Uh...no. That statement is 100% incorrect. The Jedi Master True  I'd typed a much longer and considered defence of TRL, but it didn't post and I got narky and put down the gist instead. On a phone, and not going into a definition of art vs a product here, but my opinion is that more people should at least acknowledge the difference when slagging off something.
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#4116102 - 05/04/15 10:59 PM
Re: War films that should have been good but sucked...
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Pearl Harbour
U-571
Both abysmal.
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#4116224 - 05/05/15 06:18 AM
Re: War films that should have been good but sucked...
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Pearl Harbour
U-571
Both abysmal. +1
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#4116339 - 05/05/15 01:19 PM
Re: War films that should have been good but sucked...
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I've never watched TRL and considering how divided opinions are on it, I feel I'm better off not bothering. I don't need to watch another film that I know I have a good chance of not liking!
The Jedi Master
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#4116340 - 05/05/15 01:20 PM
Re: War films that should have been good but sucked...
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I've never watched TRL and considering how divided opinions are on it, I feel I'm better off not bothering. I don't need to watch another film that I know I have a good chance of not liking!
The Jedi Master Knowing your tastes in film I can say with 99% certainty that you would not like TRL.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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#4119301 - 05/12/15 11:14 AM
Re: War films that should have been good but sucked...
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Is Adam Beach the only American Indian actor in Hollywood?
Wes Studi. You may have seen him in films like Heat, Last of the Mohicans and A million ways to die in the West. He's an excellent actor. Oh and PV1 is correct.
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#4119335 - 05/12/15 12:07 PM
Re: War films that should have been good but sucked...
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Pearl Harbor was the only disappointment. What should've been a War movie was turned into a chick flick. Ridiculous.
The best film ever on the bombing of Pearl Harbor is still "Tora, Tora, Tora!" Excellent movie, even by today's standards.
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#4119381 - 05/12/15 01:32 PM
Re: War films that should have been good but sucked...
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Tora cubed is still the only "war movie" as I consider it that I own on DVD. Well, I have FMJ of Vietnam, but I don't think of it in the same way for whatever reason. Must be the Kubrickianness of it.  The Jedi Master
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#4119400 - 05/12/15 01:55 PM
Re: War films that should have been good but sucked...
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It was also a source of quotes for decades to come.
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#4120094 - 05/13/15 09:31 PM
Re: War films that should have been good but sucked...
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I like this movie but it seems it received bad reviews from both critics and audiences especially on IMDB. I don't understand why people think there is something wrong with it.  I think some people are making fun of it because it's a French movie. Forces Spciales aka Special Forces (2011) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1656192/
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#4120162 - 05/14/15 01:59 AM
Re: War films that should have been good but sucked...
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Pearl Harbor was the only disappointment. What should've been a War movie was turned into a chick flick. Dark blue World has basically the same plot as Poo Harbour, but it managed to be a fine film. Along with u-571 vs Das Boot, I consider theses examples of how Hollywood can't do a war film right.
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#4120267 - 05/14/15 12:02 PM
Re: War films that should have been good but sucked...
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Pearl Harbor, Flyboys, Act of Valor, Fury. All have been said, and I agree with all of them.
Red Tails was always going to be doomed, just because of the political agenda that always gets pushed with the Tuskegee Airmen.
I refuse to buy a flight sim that I have no interest in playing, on the off chance that MAYBE someday they'll make the one I really want to play.
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Exodus
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