Crappy script, crappy movie.
But this one is classic.
War and peace
Russian and French original, with English subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-SAh4jdssA&t=39s
Can be viewed on Youtube
A Bridge to Far.
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Great cast! Lawrence Oliver? They pulled out all the stops for that movie!
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As well as the Battle of Britain, excellent movie.
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“Pork Chop Hills” with G. Peck is excellent about Korea!
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Really excellent movie which I saw on the big screen.
I saw Midnight Express at a driven theater. Great Show!
I guess I’ve never seen it.
I’ll watch it.
I know. It’s pretty funny. I was waiting to see if anyone noticed. The movie is good. Very hard core drama for 1963
I see his films, but despite the good cinematography, and beauty, I can’t stand his movies. I had read the book The Thin Red Line, years ago and it was great and while everyone In the artsy-fartsy world raved about the movie, I hated it. To me, it’s idiopathic, pretentious, voice-in-the head babble. I’ve watched it twice, but I just hate it.
Tree of Life, was very pretty, but again, I just can’t stand the forced artsy psychotic voice-overs. It’s so fake.
I’ve tried to like it, but I just hate it. It’s rare that I “hate” a movie as much as I do Malick’s. It’s the art for art’s sake and fake mysticism I don’t like and the whiney schizo-psycho-babble. So unnecessary.
The new one you mentioned might be good. It was amazing how he could ruin a story about John Smith and Pocahontas, with his trite, forced artsy-fartsy.
I usually like the directors that still use real film and 70mm. Now I see that Malick has gone digital with Hidden Life. Oh well.
His characters are like people on tranquilizers and SSRI’s
Is that enough?
No…One more descriptive…I find them— Juvenile, like a teenager dropping acid and saying, “wow …man, do you see that orange? It’s dripping with light!”. Bring in Cheech and Chong, or Bill and Ted!
Had he tweaked them into weird comedies like Lynch does (ex: Inland Empire, Twin Peaks Redux) I would have liked them.
Don’t take it personal
Thats a Good one for sure
Best Retro Comical War Film
Great Cast!
Clint Eastwood
Telly Savalas
Don Rickles
Carroll O’Connor
Donald Sutherland
Gavin MacLeod
Hal Buckley
Stuart Margolin
Jeff Morris
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Yeah, The Dirty Dozen was a fun movie, too. Telly Savalas playing the psychopath, Maggot.
I’d agree with those who chose Apocalypse Now, my favorite by a long ways. The Longest Day and The Battle of the Bulge were good movies of the old-fashioned kind. Then there’s Hercules vs. all of the villains of the ancient world.
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I will not take it personal, Malick is an acquired taste and is not for everyone. To me, he represents one of the last bastions of true film making and is a genius. He truly allows the camera to talk rather than relying on filling narratives with another Hollywood contrived screenplay, where the film itself is open for interpretation by the audiences that watch his films. “Tree of Life” was not one of my favorites and it hardly deserved the reviews it got. “New World,” IMO was a brilliant piece to which many aspects of the film captures an essence of what it must have been like arriving in the Americas for the first time and encountering the indigenous people who didn’t speak the same language. “Thin Red Line” has some of the same elements and like many of his films, they are multi-layered with complex thought provoking meditations, much like the relation of a father and son in his movie “King of Cups.”
Like I said, he is an acquired taste and is not for everyone, but he is one of my favorites. Terry Gillium is probably my other favorite, along with David Lynch, Ridley Scott, and Standley Kuberick.
One other film to which may qualify as a war film is the film “Barry Lyndon” The entire film is shot with natural lighting, one of Kubericks achievements as a film maker.
It looks good and I love the appearance, but that the chatter ruins it for me. Christopher Plummer is on a video talking about it and he just says, “get a Writer!”
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Yes, Barry Lyndon is Amazing.
I too like seeing Democrat racists suffering.
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My favorites:
American Sniper
Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
Band of Brothers
Defiance
I forgot about "Breaker Morant"great Boarer War movie.
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- Greatest story never told
- John adams series.
- Danger Close
- The Alamo
- Tropical Thunder…