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Post by flyjoe180 on Jan 26, 2013 8:48:30 GMT 12
If it means a NZ film then Gallipoli is fine by me. I'd quite like a movie about the LRDG in North Africa, I think that would have a lot of potential.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 26, 2013 8:53:22 GMT 12
I really don't know what people expected of The Pacific, I think it is a superb piece of film making. It has finally shown that awful conflict as it really was, and not the romantic tropical paradise crap that so many films have portrayed it as before.
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Post by Luther Moore on Jan 26, 2013 9:19:21 GMT 12
I really don't know what people expected of The Pacific, I think it is a superb piece of film making. It has finally shown that awful conflict as it really was, and not the romantic tropical paradise crap that so many films have portrayed it as before. Agree. I think the names say it all.Band of brothers was more of a story that gave you a few nicer stories of the war, The Pacific showed the rough side a bit more.
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Post by corsair5517 on Jan 26, 2013 10:33:14 GMT 12
I really don't know what people expected of The Pacific, I think it is a superb piece of film making. It has finally shown that awful conflict as it really was, and not the romantic tropical paradise crap that so many films have portrayed it as before. Absolutely right!! Dad has the greatest respect for the US Marines, and the Aussie infantry, because he saw and experienced a little of what they had to contend with....
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Post by strikemaster on Jan 26, 2013 15:41:20 GMT 12
Spot on, the more I read, the more respect I get for them. Not so much for McArthur, but for the front line troops. All of them. What about a story of the Kiwi invasion of the Treasury Islands?
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Post by ngatimozart on Jan 26, 2013 20:19:29 GMT 12
My dad was on Green Island and his brother was in the jungle in the 3rd NZ Division hunting japs. That's how he phrased it. I didn't like The Pacific as much because I thought it had a fragmented story line. Band of Brothers had a story line that followed a particular unit and it didn't hide the brutallity of war in Western Europe 1944 - 45. War in the Pacific was far more brutal and I like others have a lot of respect for the US Marines. I agree The Pacific showed the brutallity but not as much as could have been. My uncle taught me never to leave a live enemy behind me and some other things. Another uncle and my grandmother said that he came back totally changed and rarely laughed or smiled except when drunk and usually only when around other returned servicemen. So like I say my criticism is about the plot structure, not the substance or how it was portrayed.
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Post by planecrazy on Jan 26, 2013 21:37:54 GMT 12
What about Alan Deere's life both the country side and an aircraft Sir Peter could use in New Zealand, how about "Nine Lives" for a title!
Also a great movie with Spitfires in it Dark Blue World, if you haven't seen it get it out, great film and one of my all time favorite sections with in a war movie the train strafing segment!
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Post by phas3e on Jan 27, 2013 11:43:24 GMT 12
Does anyone recall the opening scene from Spielbergs Taken?
Apart from the Germans flying 109E's its pretty good
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Post by strikemaster on Jan 27, 2013 21:59:29 GMT 12
That did a pretty good job of scaring the bejeezus out of me, that shot of the tail gunner is like hanging out your danglies. You know he is screwed. My Granddad told my father about tail gunners being hosed out of the rear of Lanc's when the planes returned. I couldn't imagine a worse, more vulnerable job.
Dark Blue World is second only to BoB IMHO. Superb film and that train sequence is brilliant.
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Post by strikemaster on Jan 27, 2013 22:11:07 GMT 12
Speaking of North Africa, anyone seen this?
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