Possibly the worst war film I've ever watched... The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Though it was an absolutely stupid representation of the Holocaust/Concentration camps.
The British Stiff Upper Lip, or bloody mindedness, versus Japanese Bushido principles and traditions. One as mad as the other and both losers in the end.
Not a war film really but an observation on innocents who did not have a clue why they were where they were almost by accident but a friendship developed. No place for either of them to be but at least that friendship could have lasted outside their parents thinking.
Just found it daft personally. The idea's kind of clever but the way it was done just felt far fetched to me. I get what it was about mate. I just didn't enjoy it. Felt too moral, like a fable or something, for me. The story should be absolutely harrowing but I was completely unmoved by it.
No mention of the Battle of Britain? I'd watched that film a hundred times or so by the time I was 8, got to give another mention to the Longest Day as well, I definitely lived a weird early childhood!
Unbroken is a decent film, I'm not sure I'd sit through it again but it was worth watching first time round.
Watched it many moons ago mate. Not one of the main stream war films and shot on a low budget, but is should be available on DVD though. I can get by in German and I was aching to interpret their conversations.
Good choices, like you I have watched the Battle of Britain multi times and non-aerial filming was brilliant as a sub-plot, especially the ops room tension. I remember watching The Longest Day in colour on TV yonks ago and it took on a whole new aspect and without being disrespectful was much more effective. Tried to get it on video and later DVD but it wasn't available.
Book was a brilliant read but the film was a total letdown as it didn't really convey what he really went through. On the other side The Railway Man, which is about a Brit survivor of Jap camps really gets to the meat of the aftermath of suffering.
