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.
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
Rebel moon was good, loads of star wars references in it, 7.8/10 I look forward to part 2 Just turned off all quiet on the western front after about 40mins, total bore fest, **** acting and awful writing, total ****e 1/10
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.
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 don't watch it but I saw the Xmas Dr who where the new Dr gendermorphed or some ****. Was weird can someone explain?
Slow Horses series 3 completed 8.3/10 Very good throughout, possibly a bit OTT at the end but well worth it all. Showed clips of the next series. Looks good, this bloke's in it... please log in to view this image
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.
