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Post by Earl of Rochester on Dec 12, 2020 11:02:39 GMT -5
Das Boot the original 1980s movie  = Great! / Highly recommend it's probably the best WW2 movie ever made. U571 =  = Rather painful to watch basically re-writing of what the Royal Navy did but replacing everything with the USN. Hollywood propaganda. Modern Das Boot 2019 =  = Watching will fill you with rage a revisionist bs series with lesbian resistance fighters and a mixed race u-boat sailor, basically a politically correct version of Nazi Germany. It's like watching a satire and shows how far German historical movies have fallen when compared to the original. Lawrence of Arabia - pretty good, not entirely historically accurate but it is a cinematic masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made purely from that perspective. |
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Post by andrew on Dec 16, 2020 15:24:02 GMT -5
Das Boot the original 1980s movie = Great! / Highly recommend it's probably the best WW2 movie ever made. U571 = = Rather painful to watch basically re-writing of what the Royal Navy did but replacing everything with the USN. Hollywood propaganda. Modern Das Boot 2019 = = Watching will fill you with rage a revisionist bs series with lesbian resistance fighters and a mixed race u-boat sailor, basically a politically correct version of Nazi Germany. It's like watching a satire and shows how far German historical movies have fallen when compared to the original. Lawrence of Arabia - pretty good, not entirely historically accurate but it is a cinematic masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made purely from that perspective. I had the very good fortune to see Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen. It is quite simply a visual masterpiece. |
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Post by Aurelia on Dec 23, 2020 13:36:23 GMT -5
Das Boot the original 1980s movie = Great! / Highly recommend it's probably the best WW2 movie ever made. U571 = = Rather painful to watch basically re-writing of what the Royal Navy did but replacing everything with the USN. Hollywood propaganda. Modern Das Boot 2019 = = Watching will fill you with rage a revisionist bs series with lesbian resistance fighters and a mixed race u-boat sailor, basically a politically correct version of Nazi Germany. It's like watching a satire and shows how far German historical movies have fallen when compared to the original. Lawrence of Arabia - pretty good, not entirely historically accurate but it is a cinematic masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made purely from that perspective. I had the very good fortune to see Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen. It is quite simply a visual masterpiece. Lawrence of Arabia is one of my favorite movies... Peter O'Toole is so perfectly intense! The scene in the desert with the Bedouin clothing was all ad-lib'ed... Peter O'Toole tried to imagine what a young man in the desert wearing this new ensemble would do... and of course, he would want to look in a mirror! So he pulled out the danger and used it as a sort of mirror. A really brilliant moment - included in the story based on the imagination of O'Toole, but a powerful "human" sort of moment. |
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Post by Woland on Dec 26, 2020 9:16:39 GMT -5
The Leopard (1963)
Nobody was more qualified to turn Tommasi di Lampedusa's bestselling novel into a film than Luchino Visconti. Set during the Risorgimento, a Sicilian aristocrat tries to preserve his family's future as the middle class look to replace his own class and their way of life. Visconti came from an aristocratic background, he understood the routines, the customs, the mannerisms, his attention to detail was so strong he insisted on period props which weren't even shown onscreen. The best part about the film isn't the excellent lead performance from Burt Lancaster, it's not the glorious Sicilian countryside or even the Nino Rota soundtrack: it's the costumes. Piero Tosi's legendary work eventually earned him a lifetime achievement Oscar, no small feat indeed. As a movie the 3 hour running time can drag in places, transitions between scenes aren't the smoothest and Nino Rota's soundtrack can get repetitive, but all is forgiven for the legendary ballroom sequence, every film that came afterwards tried to replicate it to no avail.
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Post by andrew on Dec 26, 2020 13:12:21 GMT -5
Oddly enough, I've never seen a single film that had anything to do with the Italian unification (I won't say "re" unification). Except maybe "l'hussard sur la Toit" (The Hussar on the Roof), which was, obviously, a French and not Italian film, and was more of a personal story than anything to do with the revolution.
As a quasi-Italian myself, I do wonder why.
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Post by Windischer on Dec 31, 2020 12:37:24 GMT -5
- A Bridge Too Far and Zulu. Both have their inaccuracies but are imo two of the greatest military films.  - Tunes of Glory. Definitely worth a watch. A bit of a different perspective.  - The Longest Day. Quite fun actually, especially if you consider when it was made. The cast puts it a bit in the Wild Geese/Wild Geezers realm and it's duration definitelly turns your day into one of the longest. I'd still watch it though.  - Most Yugoslav partisans films. It's the same as westerns, some are good, some are bad. I don't have any particular one in mind, so I'm putting the whole genre here. - Saving Private Rian. Sorry, I just don't buy the story. Several scenes that really annoy me. - Fury or the series Vikings.
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Post by andrew on Dec 31, 2020 14:47:58 GMT -5
- The Longest Day. Quite fun actually, especially if you consider when it was made. Fun fact about The Longest Day - the French resistance girl was Zanuck's mistress. She also appears in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines and for the same reason: Payment for services rendered.  Everybody knew she couldn't act, nobody liked her, and he made sure she got as few lines as possible. I think she got one line in TLD and none at all in TMM. But damn she was built. I don't blame the man a bit. |
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Post by Windischer on Jan 1, 2021 8:28:25 GMT -5
- The Longest Day. Quite fun actually, especially if you consider when it was made. Fun fact about The Longest Day - the French resistance girl was Zanuck's mistress. She also appears in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines and for the same reason: Payment for services rendered. Everybody knew she couldn't act, nobody liked her, and he made sure she got as few lines as possible. I think she got one line in TLD and none at all in TMM. But damn she was built. I don't blame the man a bit. Didn't know that, that's hilarious. Reminds me of Paul McCartney's gf making music with him. Or Yoko Ono. A similar affair, if you think about it. |
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Post by andrew on Jan 10, 2021 21:07:16 GMT -5
Gunpowder (2017) Interestingly, Kit Harington, who produced and starred in this three-part miniseries is a direct descendent of Robert Catesby, whom he portrays. Liv Tyler turns in a pretty amazing performance as his cousin Anne Vaux too. Don't know how accurate it is or isn't, but it was fun to watch.
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Post by Aurelia on Jan 12, 2021 13:58:25 GMT -5
"Taboo" - On Hulu = (It stars Tom Hardy, so maybe it's more like a  )  Was it addicting? Yes. Was it also hard to watch with the depressing Dickensian backdrop and the sordid array of things going on in every episode? Yes. You have an adventurer returning from Africa to butt heads with the largest international conglomerate of the time (The East India Company) over the possession of land. The premise is based on a true story - the story itself is fictional. What I found fascinating was how researched the making of gunpowder was... and enjoyed seeing how many times Tom Hardy could turn the tables and tell someone "I have a use for you." |
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= Great! / Highly recommend it's probably the best WW2 movie ever made.
= Rather painful to watch basically re-writing of what the Royal Navy did but replacing everything with the USN. Hollywood propaganda.
= Watching will fill you with rage a revisionist bs series with lesbian resistance fighters and a mixed race u-boat sailor, basically a politically correct version of Nazi Germany. It's like watching a satire and shows how far German historical movies have fallen when compared to the original.
- Tunes of Glory. Definitely worth a watch. A bit of a different perspective.
- The Longest Day. Quite fun actually, especially if you consider when it was made. The cast puts it a bit in the Wild Geese/Wild Geezers realm and it's duration definitelly turns your day into one of the longest. I'd still watch it though. 
- Most Yugoslav partisans films. It's the same as westerns, some are good, some are bad. I don't have any particular one in mind, so I'm putting the whole genre here.
Everybody knew she couldn't act, nobody liked her, and he made sure she got as few lines as possible. I think she got one line in TLD and none at all in TMM. 
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