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Post by Doom on Jan 22, 2007 0:03:19 GMT -5
Although the 1970 film Kelly's Heroes is completely absurd, glorifies war and has some insane historic/uniform flaws, I LOVE this movie. Saw it as a kid in the late 70's and absolutely ate it up. Watched it this weekend on TNT and I still love it. Just good, dumb fun. Makes me want to steal Nazi gold with my hippie tanker friend Oddball...A 60's hippie in WW2? I had no idea. What are some other WW2 guilty pleasures out there?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2007 1:26:31 GMT -5
I thought it was pretty accurate but that movie "Battleground" is still one of my top 5 WW2 movies ever made. it is what got me into ww2 when i saw it years ago! i love this movie!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2007 1:29:01 GMT -5
oh i forgot to mention, The Dirty Dozen. You cant even say lee marvin isnt the greatest actor who ever lived! -matt
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Post by 2nd Bat on Jan 22, 2007 2:28:28 GMT -5
None but the Brave. Pacific plane crash full of Marines on a Japanese occupied island. Similar sized elements as the occupying force was quite small.
And there was a movie with Glenn Ford where he was an NCO pretending to be a General during a armored attack so the troops wouldn't panic I really enjoyed it but don't remember the name.
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Post by wade on Jan 22, 2007 6:59:54 GMT -5
"A Walk in the Sun" isn't that bad, exept the singer at the beginning has a bad voice, and the axis fly P-51s.
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Post by jaeger on Jan 22, 2007 10:03:33 GMT -5
How about Where Eagles Dare. Now that was a classic.
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Post by Doom on Jan 22, 2007 11:59:37 GMT -5
I thought it was pretty accurate but that movie "Battleground" is still one of my top 5 I think Battleground is excellent. Made right after the war ended with a cast of actual soldiers. A+ I was thinking more "not so excellent" WW2 movies that you like...It wouldn't be a guilty pleasure if it was outstanding. Stuff like "Force 10 From Navarone", "The Bridge At Remagen", "Dirty Dozen" (as mentioned above) etc...Fun WW2 movies that are not exactly factual but still something you like to watch.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2007 4:11:34 GMT -5
so is indiana jones considered a guilty pleasure! hey, there are Knot-see's!!
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Post by Russianboy on Feb 3, 2007 16:04:14 GMT -5
If you want to talk about movies that are off, like real bad off. The movie Top Gun, they were calling F-5s Migs.... Its not WW2 but that just poped in my mind...
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Post by natman on Feb 3, 2007 22:06:21 GMT -5
so is indiana jones considered a guilty pleasure! hey, there are Knot-see's!! First of all, Indiana Jones is not fiction, it is a documentary, the face melting scene and everything, I love seeing Nat-sees getting pwn'd by God. also Kelly's Heroes is great, in spite of horrible historical accuracy issues, but that's overrated thanks to Band of Brothers and the like ruined it for all the lazy filmmakers out there, its not like american movie goers WANT to know about history... we just like explosions... and face melting
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Post by lollipops hunter33 on Feb 8, 2007 21:36:35 GMT -5
/\ true dat!!!
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Post by magic8ball on Feb 12, 2007 14:49:46 GMT -5
I liked "Pearl Harbor" except for the fact that they seemed to concentrate more on the love triangle between the Ben Affleck-Jason Hartnett-Kate Winslett characters and world war II seemed like just a background thing
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Post by spitfire740 on Feb 12, 2007 17:33:22 GMT -5
Lets hope Michael Bay doesn't include the same "error" with pearl harbor in Transformers!
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Post by airsoftblitzkrieg on Feb 13, 2007 13:26:09 GMT -5
I love the older movie "The Eagle Has Landed"
Fictional story of a squad of FJ jump into London disguised as Free Polish paratroopers. Their mission was to capture and bring back to Berlin, Winston Churchill. In the mist of the mission, something goes wrong and they're exposed. then....thats all I'm going to say, but i suggest watching it.
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Post by 160thsoar on Feb 21, 2007 20:37:33 GMT -5
im sure u all know what my ww2 guilty pleasure is. Yes its Wintalkers one of the great ww2 movies
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Post by spitfire740 on Feb 21, 2007 21:58:47 GMT -5
A very, very good movie that is unknown, that I really enjoyed is the movie, "Kokoda." I have trouble pronouncing it, but its a very good (and depressing) movie: www.kokodathemovie.com.au/It's hard to get a copy in the US, but its really impacting.
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Post by Doom on Feb 23, 2007 18:03:21 GMT -5
The Last Drop is starting to grow on me. It's a direct-to-dvd movie and I review it in a thread several below this one, but it has a few decent firefights as well as a watchable "let's steal Nazi treasures" plot....
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Post by click on Feb 24, 2007 2:27:38 GMT -5
I love the older movie "The Eagle Has Landed" Fictional story of a squad of FJ jump into London disguised as Free Polish paratroopers. Their mission was to capture and bring back to Berlin, Winston Churchill. In the mist of the mission, something goes wrong and they're exposed. then....thats all I'm going to say, but i suggest watching it. Im gonna have to agree with you on that one. The German enlisted men really speak Polish, and English with a Polish acsent! But yeah, the Americans soldiers in the film use M2 carbines which might make scence . I am going to add a series that I absolutely love: HOGANS HEROES!!! It is so freaking cool dispite the weapon/uniform/language flaws(I never understood how the allies could speak German so well, but whatev). And on the topic of uniforms and weapons, it apears that all Uniforms are Luftwaffe or SS. Smgs are Thompsons, and all the rifles seem to be Krag Jorgsons(or how ever you spell that). There... I have confessed.... ;D Click(or should I say Klink? ;D)
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Post by Doom on Feb 24, 2007 21:45:15 GMT -5
A movie that is great fun is "Ambush Bay" from 1967. It's about a group of Marine Raiders that sneak around a Japanese held island to knock out a communication network that controls mines (in the ocean). Great WW2 Marine camouflage, a good amount of blood and some fantastic shootouts make it one to watch more than once. Find it and let me know what you think. MGM put it out on DVD for 9.99!
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Post by bond on Mar 1, 2007 6:05:48 GMT -5
My guilty pleasure has to be "Anzio" with Peter Faulk and Robert Mitchum, as assumed it deals with the anzio landing but it's a story about a handful of soldiers[a few rangers, a war correspondent[Mitchum], and 1 First Special Services Force Member[Faulk] ] who get caught behind enemy lines after the rest of the ranger company got eliminated/captured by german forces in an ambush and attempt to make their way back to friendly lines. it's probably one of my favorite movies, although a fictional story it somewhat based on true events that happened during the time of Operation Shingle, when the Germans surrounded the 1st and 3rd rangers near Cisterna di Latina. Out of two battlions only 6 men escaped back to Allied lines. Awesome movie i suggest everyone to check it out, i got it for christmas, and have yet stopped watching it at least once a week.
Another good one i suggest is Castle Keep. Peter Faulk was in this as well and it was about a handful of walking wounded troops trying to hold a Castle from the germans. very cool film.
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