Homegrown Video, war is hell... but war movies are... entertainment (awww, hell)
Fuck that... Bridge over River Kwai is ok only in that sanitized blockbuster sort of way, but having known someone that actually was interned there, it is grossly innacurate and disgraceful to the people that actually survived the experience. Much closer to the truth and the grisliness of that episode in history is "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"
My recommendations are:
"Iron Cross" - Sam Peckinpah's film based on the real life exploits of a highly decorated, anti-nazi german commando during WW2
"Seven Samurai" - Classic and still holds up to this day
"Empire of the Sun" - I think this is one of Speilberg's best war films... resonates for me more than Ryan or even Schindler in retrospect
"The Thin Red Line" - elegaic, tragic, and unlike 99% of the uber-patriotic-quasi-fascist fair that is typical of so many war movies
"Breaker Morant" - How many other films do you know about the Boer War?
Fuck that... Bridge over River Kwai is ok only in that sanitized blockbuster sort of way, but having known someone that actually was interned there, it is grossly innacurate and disgraceful to the people that actually survived the experience. Much closer to the truth and the grisliness of that episode in history is "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"
My recommendations are:
"Iron Cross" - Sam Peckinpah's film based on the real life exploits of a highly decorated, anti-nazi german commando during WW2
"Seven Samurai" - Classic and still holds up to this day
"Empire of the Sun" - I think this is one of Speilberg's best war films... resonates for me more than Ryan or even Schindler in retrospect
"The Thin Red Line" - elegaic, tragic, and unlike 99% of the uber-patriotic-quasi-fascist fair that is typical of so many war movies
"Breaker Morant" - How many other films do you know about the Boer War?
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