Feldmeijer
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I think that 'Der Untergang' is one of the best anti-war movies that have been made in human history.
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What's the best World War II movie you've ever seen?
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Oprah
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+1 for Der Untergang. Amazing film.
Feldmeijer
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Agreed. Apart from the fact that the movie itself is great, I love all the Hitler rant and Fegelein parodies.
I had to re-read the title for a moment before realising this was a different thread.
A Bridge Too Far has to be my favourite WW2 film but I also quite liked El Alamein - La linea del fuoco for the perspective it gave. Really there are too many good films to mention; Battle of Britain, The Great Escape, Bridge over the River Kwai.. the list goes on. Band of Brothers has to be on the list somewhere even if it isn't technically a film
A Bridge Too Far has to be my favourite WW2 film but I also quite liked El Alamein - La linea del fuoco for the perspective it gave. Really there are too many good films to mention; Battle of Britain, The Great Escape, Bridge over the River Kwai.. the list goes on. Band of Brothers has to be on the list somewhere even if it isn't technically a film
Feldmeijer
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Das Boot is also a great movie in my opinion.
*EDIT, replaced 'Was' with 'is'.
*EDIT, replaced 'Was' with 'is'.
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Alex
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I really liked that movie. A lot of suspense, a great plot and overall, Clint Eastwood!
Sir Apple
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I like a lot of stuff - Objective Burma, Combat! Series, The Longest Day - I like a lot more, in fact I have a large collection of WW2 movies and such.
Also regardless of the issues, I still like The Pacific and Band of Brothers. In my opinion, a show like The Pacific does something better then any movie or show has ever done, and that is capture a true sense of brutality, hatred and an empty void of humanity through war. At least for me, most movies have failed to capture that.
Also regardless of the issues, I still like The Pacific and Band of Brothers. In my opinion, a show like The Pacific does something better then any movie or show has ever done, and that is capture a true sense of brutality, hatred and an empty void of humanity through war. At least for me, most movies have failed to capture that.
Feldmeijer
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Indeed, welcome!
Oprah
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Also, I'd recommend a Korean film called "My Way." It's about 2 Koreans who serve in the Japanese army, then get captured by the Soviets, run away and then get captured by Nazis.
The story is based on an actual soldier that served on 3 sides in WW2 (Japanese, Soviets, Germans) and then got captured by American paratroopers in '44
It's one of those movies that tries to display the horrors of war, without going absolutely over the top with gore.
I'm not really a movie person, but that's one of the few movies I love.
The story is based on an actual soldier that served on 3 sides in WW2 (Japanese, Soviets, Germans) and then got captured by American paratroopers in '44
It's one of those movies that tries to display the horrors of war, without going absolutely over the top with gore.
I'm not really a movie person, but that's one of the few movies I love.
I can't say, but my favourite scene is from the Pacific series, when Sledge calls in the mortar strike on the hut, when he goes to examine the target zone he finds an Okinawa woman bleeding out with her child, she is begging him to save her child, shoot her.
before that he was taught that they wer all Japanese and wer all were savages, so it desensitizes the soldiers to shoot without thinking they are killing another person. until he see this woman bleeding out, crying for her child in the agony she is in, you can see that Sledge suddenly realises that these are also human beings, and he just doesn't have it in him to put her out her misery.
It showed me even though the enemy may be the target there is always room for compassion.
A whole lot of people were mislead during WW2 because of mass media.
We watch these films and we should always remember not to glorify the killing of innocent people, yet the killing goes on today.
before that he was taught that they wer all Japanese and wer all were savages, so it desensitizes the soldiers to shoot without thinking they are killing another person. until he see this woman bleeding out, crying for her child in the agony she is in, you can see that Sledge suddenly realises that these are also human beings, and he just doesn't have it in him to put her out her misery.
It showed me even though the enemy may be the target there is always room for compassion.
A whole lot of people were mislead during WW2 because of mass media.
We watch these films and we should always remember not to glorify the killing of innocent people, yet the killing goes on today.
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