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    Quote Originally Posted by headbrace
    Erm, can we keep this for the films please? If ya wanna debate, then thats what Question time is for,
    No problem headbrace - do you want to carry the thread over there ?

    I've said what I wanted to say.

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    [QUOTE=Skii]
    Quote Originally Posted by MuTTy_Hc
    It's biggin up America once again, when we ALL know they wouldn't sacrifice men for 1 solitary man.

    QUOTE]

    Now this annoys me.

    There have been 3,400 Medals of Honor awarded to the american armed forces since its creation in 1861.

    Who on earth are you to say that 'We all know they wouldn't sacrifice men for 1 solitary man'

    Soldiers, Airmen and Sailors have recievd their countries highest awards for bravery on ALL sides for acts of heroism, bravery and self-sacrifice, in many instances, not alone.

    How anyone can smugly say that 'they would never do that' from the comfort of their computer keyboard about a War they never experienced 60 years ago.

    The dozens of D-Day veterans who worked with Speilberg on the film never once questioned the motive of a small squad of grunts that decided to make a last stand against massive odds. There was no mention or reference to non-American allied combatants in the film, fair enough, that was unfortunate, but lets not let this current trendy Anti-american attitude completely cloud our judgement eh ?

    Maybe you want to take a trip down to Normandy and look at the graves in their thousands, maybe, just maybe 1 or 2 of those American graves represented soldiers that took a bullet for a comrade - willingly.

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    I'm definately not Anti- American, and your point goes completely away from what I initially stated.

    It IS unrealistic that they would sacrifice 10 men to save one man because the mother had already lost two of her sons. that IS unrealistic isn't it?

    Other than that, the beach landing was superb and I credit spielberg for that completely, he knows how to picture world war 2, for example look at Schindlers List.

    I do believe that you completely mis-read what I had to say,

    some films which REALLY big up america against the english are for example, The Patriot. One of my favourite war films. Last of the Mohicans, an absolute masterpiece. They are definately anti- english, quite obvious to anyone.

    Please if you're going to make a statement, actually understand my point before classing me as a anti- something and ignorant fool.

    I full well know what the men did in WW2 and how they helped their fellow men on the beaches, my point however as stated above is perfectly valid and true.

    EDIT: ALso for the record Skii, I also found the end of SPR very moving.

    SPR itself was a dramatised, almost 'fairytale' story about WW2 (hence the yank generals ordering those men to save the one brother etc for the mother so she could hold onto at least one son) and then it added extreme realism to the movie (beach landing, final battle scene) and merged together to make an extremely good movie.
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    It IS unrealistic that they would sacrifice 10 men to save one man because the mother had already lost two of her sons. that IS unrealistic isn't it?
    No, it wasn't unrealistic. Why? Because, even then, the Yanks had the power of PR sussed. If something like that happened, and imo it probably did, that story would have been syndicated across the Western World and morale amongst the Allies boosted. War isn't all about fighting and campaigns, it involves intelligence and propaganda as well.

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    Vanilla Sky
    Waynes World 1&2
    Austin Powers
    Clueless
    Amelie
    Pretty Woman
    The Matrix trilogy
    The Crow
    The Green Mile
    Total Recall

    An interesting mix?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MuTTy_Hc
    I'm definately not Anti- American, and your point goes completely away from what I initially stated.

    It IS unrealistic that they would sacrifice 10 men to save one man because the mother had already lost two of her sons. that IS unrealistic isn't it?

    Other than that, the beach landing was superb and I credit spielberg for that completely, he knows how to picture world war 2, for example look at Schindlers List.

    I do believe that you completely mis-read what I had to say,

    some films which REALLY big up america against the english are for example, The Patriot. One of my favourite war films. Last of the Mohicans, an absolute masterpiece. They are definately anti- english, quite obvious to anyone.

    Please if you're going to make a statement, actually understand my point before classing me as a anti- something and ignorant fool.

    I full well know what the men did in WW2 and how they helped their fellow men on the beaches, my point however as stated above is perfectly valid and true.

    EDIT: ALso for the record Skii, I also found the end of SPR very moving.

    SPR itself was a dramatised, almost 'fairytale' story about WW2 (hence the yank generals ordering those men to save the one brother etc for the mother so she could hold onto at least one son) and then it added extreme realism to the movie (beach landing, final battle scene) and merged together to make an extremely good movie.
    Mutty, I didn't misunderstand what you said - you made a clear statement, which I quoted and resonded to, You have subsequently explained yourself better and qualified some of your points, but what you initially stated, was where I took issue.

    The concept of many soldiers dying for 1 man is indeed probably an unlikely concept, but not impossible, and in the thousands nay millions that died in WW2, I'm willing to wager it happened.

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    In no particular order

    1 - Fight Club
    2 - Donnie Darko
    3 - LOTR - The Two Towers
    4 - Saving Private Ryan
    5 - Natural Born Killers
    6 - Pulp Fiction
    7 - Se7en
    8 - Trainspotting
    9 - High Fidelity
    10 - The Matrix

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    On the subject of over emphasising American efforts in war films and so forth, I personally don't have much of a problem with that. These films are dramatisations of actual events. What I do have a problem with is when they completely rewrite history.

    Example
    The capture of a "Shark" Enigma machine in U571 - not with standing they weren't the first people to 'obtain' one, the 5-series U-Boats didn't come out till right at the end of the war, long after Enigma had been cracked.

    Still, we brits can be just as bad, as it was the poles that cracked the simplest version of Enigma first. We cracked Shark and developed the Colossi to decode the messages quicker.....

    Anyway, top 10 films in no particular order -

    Seven Samurai
    Twelve Angry Men
    The Princess Bride
    Bringing up Baby
    The Matrix
    The Goonies
    Evil Dead 2
    Leon
    Star Wars
    The Iron Giant

    Would actually find it harder to complete worst 10 films, apart from THE worst which is Plan 9 From Outer Space - it's so bad that it's a cult classic
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    Leon
    The Rock
    The Fast and the furious
    Face off
    The Matrix
    xXx (not because of film content, just because the action is good)
    The Game
    Tommorow Never Dies (Car chase best ever IMO)
    The Italian Job 2003
    The Italian Job

    Just looked at the films that look most scratched in my DVD collection

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    As the saying goes 'In no particlar order'

    Once upon a time in America (apart from that bloody telephone ringing)
    Groundhog Day
    The Maltese Falcon
    The Searchers
    The Apartment
    Memento
    Shawshank Redemption
    Mr Smith goes to Washington
    Fargo
    The Princess Bride

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    Shawshank redemption
    Face Off
    Shrek
    Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    Evolution
    City Of Angels
    Se7en
    Mallrats
    Old Skool
    Identity

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5lab
    bit o/t but.. omfg silent ben you go to ranelagh.. owned
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