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8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I would toss in Greyhound with Tom Hanks.  As I said in the Apple thread, it’s tightly edited, well-cast, well-written, and well-directed, and moves along extremely well.

YES!

 

Watched it twice already.

 

Trying to think of any other movies that have come out since 2019

Posted
2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

And we need more naval movies, tbh.

We spent a week watching "navy" movies

Started with:

Master and Commander

Then went with

U-571

Hunt for Red October

Crimson Tide

Greyhound

Seems like there were a couple others

Finished with

Down Periscope

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Jameslaw121 said:

We spent a week watching "navy" movies

Started with:

Master and Commander

Then went with

U-571

Hunt for Red October

Crimson Tide

Greyhound

Seems like there were a couple others

Finished with

Down Periscope

Perhaps I should amend to say surface warfare naval movies.

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Posted
26 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Perhaps I should amend to say surface warfare naval movies.

I’ve probably watched 30-40 hours of YouTube videos about WWII naval actions.  Some were older documentaries (PBS, BBC, History Channel, etc.)somebody took of their VCRs and uploaded, but a lot were done by historian YouTubers (I hesitate to say “amateur historian” given that they are doing this as a profession) who put in a lot of time and effort with background material and spiffy animations.

There is some stuff on YouTube that is extremely well done and can scratch that itch.

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Posted
41 minutes ago, Jameslaw121 said:

We spent a week watching "navy" movies

Started with:

Master and Commander

Then went with

U-571

Hunt for Red October

Crimson Tide

Greyhound

Seems like there were a couple others

Finished with

Down Periscope

No love for 

midway. Pearl Harbor. Annapolis. Battleship ? 

Posted
12 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said:

No love for 

midway. Pearl Harbor. Annapolis. Battleship ? 

your right. We watched Pearl Harbor, the new Midway Movie and, Men of Honor, and The Guardian. 

Pretty sure there were more

Posted
1 hour ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

Master and Commander vastly under rated by the industry.  I can watch anytime.

In what world is Master and Commander underrated? It's an epic.

Posted
14 minutes ago, RPM said:

In what world is Master and Commander underrated? It's an epic.

He said by the industry.  The fact that 20th Century Fox didn't adapt all of the Aubrey/Maturin novels after absolutely nailing the casting and terrific work by Weir is unfortunate. 

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Posted (edited)
19 hours ago, RPM said:

In what world is Master and Commander underrated? It's an epic.

IIRC, the prerelease reviews were less than stellar.  RC had won the big O for Gladiator, then followed up win a better than average "Beautiful Mind".  During which time the industry started moving to the superhero genre and CGI was getting better.  If you were going to produce a movie today based on the past it had better be epic.  Somehow, IMO, I think X-men 10, Spiderman 7, or whichever would draw people simply because it is a superhero movie.   I consider M&C to be epic, along with Cleopatra, Ben Hur and Lawerence of Arabia.  But what do I know, dare I say it?  I come from O&G. 

How does Surlyworld feel about Braveheart?  I'd give it a pass.

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Posted
2 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

How does Surlyworld feel about Braveheart?  I'd give it a pass.

Seen it close to 50 times

But not for that reason - back in the 90's it was my main "want to go back to my place and watch a movie" go-to with the ladies.  Love story.  Good action.  Decent story.  Best of all, it took two VCR tapes.  If she's feeling it after the first tape.  Game on.  Some took a little more time, so we had the second tape just in case.

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Posted
7 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

 

How does Surlyworld feel about Braveheart?  I'd give it a pass.

I think it is (maybe was) a fun movie to watch. I think it now falls into the category (like Pearl Harbor, Last Samurai, ect), that people on this site just dismiss it since so historically inaccurate.

That's probably why movies and tv shows like Band of Brothers and We Were Soldiers are popular on this thread because they are as close as possible to historically correct while being entertaining.

 

In other words, we're history snobs

Posted
21 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

How does Surlyworld feel about Braveheart?  I'd give it a pass.

 

13 hours ago, Jameslaw121 said:

In other words, we're history snobs

Braveheart is my favorite movie and I watch it the night before our tilt with Southern Cal.  But I would hesitate to call it a war movie.  It's a hero story that has a war.  

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I’m getting my fill of war movies right now with this class I am taking in the fall semester called World War II in film. The first one was They Were Expendable which is pretty good and it was cool seeing Robert Montgomery alongside John Wayne. Having an actual person who fought in the war was really cool.
 

This week is an Italian neo-realism film called Roma Città Aperta which is one of the best films about the horrors that f fascism that I have ever watched. That the movie was even made is fairly extraordinary if you read the story about getting film from the US Army because there was nothing left after the Nazi’s left. This week has two films and the other is Das Boot. It’s cool because there is a lecture about it from one of the German professors that helps teach this master’s program. Dr. Benkert gives great analysis of stuff like this. 

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Posted
11 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

The first one was They Were Expendable which is pretty good and it was cool seeing Robert Montgomery alongside John Wayne. Having an actual person who fought in the war was really cool.

It's one of my favorite movies. Montgomery directed a lot of it uncredited.

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Posted
On 9/20/2024 at 7:21 PM, kingkoopa6 said:

No love for 

midway. Pearl Harbor. Annapolis. Battleship ? 

Battleship?  

One thing is not like the other two.

Posted
7 hours ago, UpperWestside said:


 

This week is an Italian neo-realism film called Roma Città Aperta which is one of the best films about the horrors that f fascism that I have ever watched. That the movie was even made is fairly extraordinary if you read the story about getting film from the US Army because there was nothing left after the Nazi’s left. This week has two films and the other is Das Boot. It’s cool because there is a lecture about it from one of the German professors that helps teach this master’s program. Dr. Benkert gives great analysis of stuff like this. 

Incredible flick. Its on HBOmax. Just finished part 1.

Posted (edited)

I will continue to stand by my idea that a mini series about the Pacific naval battles would be kick ass.  

Episode 1 - The Japanese planning and rationalization for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and other IJN attacks in December 1941.   

Episode 2 - The days before Pearl as the IJN left Japan and got into position

Epsiode 3 - The attack on Pearl plus Clark/Subic, Malaya, Guam, etc.    

Episode 4  - The aftereffects of Pearl, HMS Prince of Wales and Renown, Wake Island and then the lead up to Coral Sea.

Epsidoe 5 - Coral Sea and losing the Lexington, getting Yorktown back to Pearl and patched up in time to head out for Midway and giving the codebreakers at Pearl more credit for breaking the IJN code

Epsidoe 6 - Midway

Episode 7 - Guadalcanal sea battles and coastwatchers

Episode 8 - Philipine Sea.  Mitscher's wreckless but ballsy "turn on the lights".  

Episode 9 - Leyte Gulf.  Taffy 3 is the star here with the Battle off Samar getting the attention it deserves.  Emergence of kamikaze attacks.

Episode 10 - Okinawa, the ramp up of kamikaze attacks, sinking of the Yamato and then just this footage of the Missouri pulling into Tokyo Harbor and flag officers arriving on board

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/battleship-uss-missouri-pulling-into-tokyo-bay-fleet-news-footage/169568035

Roll credits on the number of men, ships and planes involved on all sides of the conflict.   Losses, etc.  

I could justify this being 12-16 episodes because some of those could be split into multi-parts and I didn't throw in stuff like the Java Sea battles, Santa Cruz, a bunch of other smller engagements, sub warfare and the Indianapolis delivering the bomb to Tinian and the aftermath of that.  

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