Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Yeah, that line of thinking surprised me.
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After he wrecked I figured they’d just bayonet him. I get it. It certainly didn’t take me out of it but it did surprise me. But yeah. As soon as he went for the water I thought yep, somebody is dying.
And yeah, milk.
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Yes, that was a pretty dicky move after the boys saved his life. The first thing he does is gut one of them. Should have let the fucker burn.
I actually kind of get it. I think in that sort of situation, the pilot would have gone from panic of the fire and not caring who was helping him, to an oh shit moment where he sees that the people with him now are enemies. Even if he grasped that they were helping him, he would surely have doubted their motives and likely would have lashed out as soon as he could to try to avoid whatever they would do next. It sucked for the people that were trying to help him, but...ultimately the pilot was right, and he likely would have been bayonetted soon after once the truck troops rolled up to check out the smoke. I saw that one as another example of what would very likely have happened in real life in the situation.
Yes, that was a pretty dicky move after the boys saved his life. The first thing he does is gut one of them. Should have let the fucker burn.
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I’d have bayoneted him. Just on the outside chance he could aim and fire the front gun. But yeah. Roll on there man.
But things were different then. If you haven’t listened to the Hardcore History podcast.
In that Podcast Carlin talks about their state of mind a good bit. There wasn’t massive hateful wars for a few generations until this one happened. I mean these are monarchs fighting over resources. When Franz Ferdinand got capped the dudes in the trenches probably felt more in common with the dudes they were shooting at than their monarch leaders. Hell Germany hadn’t been unified but for like 30 years or something. A lot of Germans weren’t even born Germans.
The story of the first Christmas cease fire business is truly fascinating. I mean really fucking fascinating.
That Hardcore History podcast is for real man. [Reply]
Tank movies, about five years ago I saw Fury with Brad Pitt in the theater, it's really good. I thought even better was the 1988 movie The Beast of War about a Russian tank fighting in Afghanistan. It was filmed in Israel, I think they backed the film. It has a good cast, George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer and Stephen Baldwin. Seems like most of the film is inside the tank or very near the tank, which they call The Beast. It doesn't have any CGI, the only effect would be when they run over an enemy soldier and they do it fairly graphically. It's a gritty film of war in the desert. I rented 20 years ago and then recently saw it again on MGM or Sony channel on Directv. If you can watch this entire clip and not want to see more, then there is something wrong with you.
I just got back from seeing 1971. I totally forgot about the continuous scene shooting until he was going down the river, then I was thinking, how are they going to show him getting out. They did it pretty well and from that point on I make note and I really liked having just that pov angle. When you finally saw him talking to Benefict Cumberbatch and was standing at attention. I realized I hadn't really seen him in a while and how different he looked.
Overall, I gave it 10 stars, I really liked the film. Honestly, I don't know how anyone wouldn't enjoy the film, especially any guy, especially any former military guy. Maybe enjoy is the wrong word, it should be appreciate. Like when the Titantic was sinking, you didn't enjoy it, but you really appreciated all the work it took to make and put together those scenes.
Finally saw it today. Outstanding. The constant long shots were overdone a bit (I found myself at times looking for the cheats) but technically and visually it was well done, and it had more emotional punch than I was expecting. [Reply]
Originally Posted by siberian khatru:
Finally saw it today. Outstanding. The constant long shots were overdone a bit (I found myself at times looking for the cheats) but technically and visually it was well done, and it had more emotional punch than I was expecting.
Yeah I watched it before the hype. If you take out the expectations and hype it is really goddamned engaging. When they went into the barracks I actually had anxiety.
It was really effective at what it tried to do. It got hyped (because it was well done) and it got out of hand. But in a vacuum it worked really well at what it tried to do. [Reply]
This is an outstanding movie, it’s been quite awhile that I’ve appreciated a movie for how it was directed as well as the story and the two central characters that were fantastic and had me hooked from the beginning.
Originally Posted by Archie F. Swin:
1917 is the most edge-of-my-seat film I've seen since The Hurt Locker. The suspense was at times agonizing (in a good way).
Not sure I'd want to see it again but it's one of the best movies I've seen in the past few years.
Not me - I can't wait to see it again. Vast parts of the movie are absolutely mesmerizing. Particularly the flare scene. [Reply]