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01-28-2020, 11:42 AM | #2 |
This is the way
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1917 is the most edge-of-my-seat film I've seen since The Hurt Locker. The suspense was at times agonizing (in a good way).
Not sure I'd want to see it again but it's one of the best movies I've seen in the past few years. |
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01-30-2020, 06:50 PM | #3 |
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
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Not me - I can't wait to see it again. Vast parts of the movie are absolutely mesmerizing. Particularly the flare scene.
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01-30-2020, 11:15 PM | #4 |
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01-30-2020, 06:30 PM | #5 |
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More of a mood piece than I anticipated. Surreal. Loved it.
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01-31-2020, 06:21 PM | #6 |
Woman should only make babies
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MoHillbilly needs to be in the old sckool thread
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02-02-2020, 09:19 AM | #7 |
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02-14-2020, 08:44 PM | #8 |
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OK, it was awesome...
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02-23-2020, 09:54 AM | #9 |
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I'm watching the old BBC documentary "The Great War" right now. I don't know a lot about WW1 so it's a lot of new info in my case.
It was made in 1964 so it isn't trying to be gritty or shocking or anything. Still interesting though. I'm not sure the movie went far enough in showing what a nightmare trench warfare was. I've just watched a bit in the documentary where the Germans hit the French with poison gas for the first time. As the gassed Frenchman ran away from the gas cloud their British allies shot them down for being cowards. The whole war seems like a huge cluster**** and every military plan seems to be "throw more ill-prepared, ill-equipped men into a meatgrinder." A million Frenchmen dead or wounded in the first 6 months and the Russians lost even more ( I think). The Germans killed 100,000 Russians in a single battle early on. It's on Youtube if anyone is interested. |
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02-23-2020, 06:08 PM | #11 | |
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02-23-2020, 06:42 PM | #12 | |
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Cool pic, Cheater5.
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Yeah, it's nuts. You're dead on about the tech. The last episode I watched was about Verdun. This is apparently the battle where the Germans started using flamethrowers. Not a good day to be on the front lines. In another battle, who's name escapes me, the British decided to start using poison gas. They had the foresight to give their troops rudimentary gas masks, but apparently they didn't give them enough training. As they charged into battle they became short of breath, assumed they had been poisoned, and ripped their masks off...only to then have the wind change direction and blow the gas back on them. The point you made about sending waves of men into oncoming machine gun fire is a good one. It seems like every battle involves this strategy so far. In one of the first battles the Germans sent their guys in tight formations with lines of men directly behind one another. The British machine gunner they interviewed said he could basically kill two men with every bullet he fired. |
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If you haven’t listen to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History series called Blueprint for Armageddon. It’s some of the best history listening I’ve ever been exposed to. He does a nice job of pulling in motivations, tactical approaches and chooses to focus on what it was like for the dudes. I can’t recommend it enough. |
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02-24-2020, 03:50 AM | #14 |
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as violent as the first few minutes of Saving private Ryan" at any point?
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02-24-2020, 08:54 AM | #15 |
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