Was going to watch The Longest Day today but opted for Gladiator again.
Still a class film, but should have gone with the John Wayne flick I think.
Still a class film, but should have gone with the John Wayne flick I think.
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I have been watching the Vietnam War on PBS, you have to wonder how both sides kept going
The details of it are incredible, so much more to the build up and how it escalated than I ever imagined. What I like the most is the live footage with the very open and honest eye witness accounts describing the battles from soldiers and commanders on both sides.
I think it's more obvious why the North kept going. Even the American soldiers respected them more than South who they were fighting for.
It's a brilliant documentary series. Binged 8 episodes and 2 more to go.
Most of them thought they were fighting the wrong side after their tour of duty
America wasted so many young men fighting battles that they did not need to fight because they kept looking at the kill ratio rather than land taken
Very much so.
They didn't know what they were getting into. Too busy fighting against something (communism) they didn't stop to think what they were fighting for (a corrupt dictatorship to all intents and purposes).
The worst is they turned the place they were defending into a cesspit. At one point some general quoted as saying about one of the towns, we had to destroy it to save it.
Also all the prostition didn't exist in Saigon until the country had been virtually bankrupted and it was borne out of that.
The other PBS series I enjoyed was the American Civil War (actually started on my birthday) America has still not fully recovered from that and the irony was that the Vietnam conflict was almost the same as the Civil War
Child 44 8.4/10
Very good thriller set in post war full-on communist USSR with an MGB agent trying to find a child serial killer whilst trying to escape charges of treason.
Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman.
Well worth a watch.
Based on a book as part of a trilogy. Might go read the other two.
Very good thriller set in post war full-on communist USSR with an MGB agent trying to find a child serial killer whilst trying to escape charges of treason.
Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman.
Well worth a watch.
Based on a book as part of a trilogy. Might go read the other two.
yeah, excellent film, Paddy Considine & Charles Dance too iirc.
Funny, what you've written about All Quiet on the Western Front applies to Rebel moon imo, it felt like I'd watched every scene in other films and the actors were seeing their lines for the first time and reading them from an auto-cue. FX were good though.
I remember as a kid a mate of mines dad had a Great War Movies theme tune LP.
Can still whistle most of them!
Dam Busters
Longest Day
Battle of Britain
633 Squadron
Battle of the Bulge
Bridge Too Far
Great Escape.
Cracking album tbf.
Can still whistle most of them!
Dam Busters
Longest Day
Battle of Britain
633 Squadron
Battle of the Bulge
Bridge Too Far
Great Escape.
Cracking album tbf.