City Hobgoblin
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Switch off your phone and reduce the lightning , immerse yourself and enjoy/suffer what these people went though. Very hardFor anyone who hasn’t seen it, Das Boot is on TCM movies at 11pm tonight.
Incredible movie. Wonder if they’d edited about 20 mins out of it and scrapped some off-note cameos if it would have been perfect. Beautiful thing regardless.The thin red line also deserves a mention.
For me, Band of Brothers is the best thing that’s ever been on TV or film.Not a film but Band of Brothers was exceptional.
more recently, Dunkirk and 1917 were very good.
Platoon, The Deer Hunter.
Where Eagles Dare
3 Kings.
Unlike 'The Piano' which has to be the worst god knows how many hours of film watching i've ever endured.The Pianist is one of the best films I’ve ever seen.
I thought 1917 was astonishing. Its the first time I've ever seen the trenches realistically portrayed (not that I was there of course and my only other point of reference was Blackadder Goes Forth)For me, Band of Brothers is the best thing that ever been on TV or film.
The Pacific is also very good. The good thing for me is that I watched The Pacific before I’d ever watched Band of Brothers, so I thought TP was very good with no bias towards BoB (whereas others were somewhat disappointed with TP as it didn’t compare to BoB). Then I watched BoB straight after and was blown away… but I love both!
Hanks wanted to do a third series around the Battle of Britain but I don’t think it took-off (haha!) because American audiences would be as interested as they’d not entered the war then. Shame really as that really was when Britain was under the cosh!
Dunkirk and 1917 got some bad reviews, but I thought both were very good.
T-34 (2018)There's a foreign language film, possibly 'The Tank', which is remarkable. Set entirely inside a tank fighting it's way out of a war zone.