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Steelmonkey said:
Found the time today whilst everyone else in the house lay about with hangovers (jnrs 20th, so had a houseful watching the UFC last night).

Watched the German language version with subs - superb. Definately think a dubbed version would be inferior.

Films like this should be force-fed to political leaders all over the world to hammer home the idiocy of war and it's consequences to those on the front line...
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It does make you very Anti-War…..young men sent to fight young men for a cause that none of them understand
 
Staines R's said:
Just on a break after yet another spectacular, horrific and outstanding battle scene that surely must go someway in getting across to people the horror of war and battle. The pure chaos and brutality is stunningly portrayed to people like us, who will never experience that kind of situation.
Interesting to think of the conflict from the German point of view and makes me reflect that although we see “the other side” as just “the enemy”…..every single one of them was someone’s father, someone’s son, someone’s husband or someone’s love….and every death was ****ing tragic.
I’ve never read the book, although seen the other two versions of this movie, but will put it on my list…..if it makes me feel as “anti war” as this movie has….then it’s well worth a read. (Although I have heard the endings in this film differs from the book.
This movie really does deserve an Oscar and if it doesn’t then it’s a travesty.
On another note, and I’m assuming you will anyway, watch in the original German….always better in my opinion.
Let me know what you think…..back to the movie
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You should’ve said something earlier:
 
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QPR999 said:
It might be worth watching the documentary about the writer of the show to see how realistic it is ...

BBC iPlayer - SAS: Rogue Warriors - Series 1: Episode 1
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Watched the first two episodes of this, and along with the Rogue Heroes accompanying podcast it's scary how much of the events in the series are actual events. The biggest deviation from truth is the love interest...although the historian on the podcast seems to think it as a metaphor as to how close Stirling was to French intelligence.

The "traitor raid" that @Staines R's alluded to actually happened, right down to how it ended. The undercover mission in Bengazi, with Churchills son happened, and they've even downplayed some of that! These guys were seriously insane but bloody good at what they did.

There's definately got to be a second series, and if we're lucky a third and fourth!
 
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Went to see Mark Thomas’s latest show in Cambridge last night, very good unless you’re a Tory. One nice thing to see is there were a few QPR fans in the audience
 
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Just started watching the Channel 4, three part documentary Italia 90 : When Football changed forever.
Part one is very much about the social history of the time, the decay, the way fans were treated, the hooliganism and the general violence of being a football fan at the time. A great watch and if you were there, will bring back some great memories of the time
 
Staines R's said:
Just started watching the Channel 4, three part documentary Italia 90 : When Football changed forever.
Part one is very much about the social history of the time, the decay, the way fans were treated, the hooliganism and the general violence of being a football fan at the time. A great watch and if you were there, will bring back some great memories of the time
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I watched the first part of Italia 90 - Four Weeks That Changed The World on one of the Sky channels - I'd imagine it's along very similar lines...hooliganism, English football being ****e, lad culture...also a good watch
 
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Staines R's said:
Just started watching the Channel 4, three part documentary Italia 90 : When Football changed forever.
Part one is very much about the social history of the time, the decay, the way fans were treated, the hooliganism and the general violence of being a football fan at the time. A great watch and if you were there, will bring back some great memories of the time
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Don't expect anything different from the 2nd and 3rd part. Watched all 3 and thought it was OK but nothing new I hadn't seen before on countless other programmes about it.
 
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Anyone who loves their true crime stories as much as I do , has to watch this 4 part series. Utterly compelling, unbelievable and shocking. Superb
 

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Hammersmith bookie said:
Don't expect anything different from the 2nd and 3rd part. Watched all 3 and thought it was OK but nothing new I hadn't seen before on countless other programmes about it.
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I was in the original documentary that came out not long after (they do an interview with the bloke in this one)
For a brief second their is me, walking across the camera with my hold-all over my shoulder, while mayhem and tear gas going off in the background.
Happy memories
 
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Marisa Tomei in ‘My Cousin Vinny’….

Fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup, fup…, uuurgh.
 
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