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  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Mallory wrote: »
    I am making by way through the Bourne films, having acquired the first four in CEX for a ridiculous price on blu-ray (£2 for the first three and Legacy for £3 on 4k).

    Really enjoyed revisiting the first one - Identity. Its surprising how "lo-fi" the whole thing feels (it doesnt feature a huge amount of tech) and I liked Marie as a character.

    Supremacy to me just didnt seem as good. I still enjoyed it, but I felt the story was more contrived and I wasnt totally on board with the shaky-cam style of directing, but the end car chase was pretty awesome.

    On to Ultimatum next, which I have very fond memories of.

    Can't beat a bit of CEX :D

    Love the Bourne films. (Possibly why i'm so fond of QoS!)

    Ultimatum is my favourite. Rapid pace and gripping action. With Bourne relying on his wits to keep one step ahead of his pursuers.

    Really liked Legacy, which i only saw for the first time last year.

    But they're all excellent thrillers to varying degrees. I do like Paul Greengrass's direction.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    edited 7:48pm Posts: 7,837
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    GoldenGun wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Paths Of Glory is a great contender too. For some reason, the term "war movies" always takes me to WWII, almost by default. I need to expand my view. ;-)

    A superb WWI film that I also highly appreciated is the recent Im Westen nichts Neues (aka All Quiet on the Western Front. I actually think it can stand next to the rest that have been mentioned so far. I was really impressed by it.

    It’s one of Kubrick’s finest, a daring film in every sense. In the 1950s, we were still busy celebrating our war heroes, and Paths of Glory does that too, but with a difference. It exposes an enemy within our own ranks. The de facto enemy is conspicuously absent from this war picture: there are no faceless German soldiers, no confrontations with the Kaiser’s generals. Instead, the villains wear our own uniforms. They are the officers in the ivory tower.

    It’s hard not to draw unsettling parallels to other wars, social struggles, and the repressive mechanisms of modern society. The final scenes are deeply moving, a stark reminder of the tragedy that every war carries, insolently repackaged by propagandists as “victory.”

    Sounds very similar to AQotWF.

    And indeed, also to Das Boot. There's one scene in which the captain decides to not pick up enemy survivors and one sailor asks the captain why they didn't and the captain replies that he doesn't even have enough provisions for his own crew to make it through the voyage, let alone extra pow's, he then asks how many he should have picked up, 5? 50? 100?, as he continues "for all else you can address the gentlemen that started all this madness in the first place." Or something among those lines (it was in German of course). And that's in the end what it's all about, those who start the damn things aren't the ones fighting them...



  • K2WIK2WI Europe
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    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Incredibly gripping, shocking, visceral stuff. Had me hooked from the first minute (pun intended). I’m ashamed to admit it’s a first-time watch, because it’s clearly something I should’ve checked out a long time ago and it’s reputation as one of the greats of 70’s horror is truly well-deserved.

    Re: the recent All Quiet on the Western Front, while I think it’s very well-made from a technical point of view and the actors are all doing good work, I didn’t find it particularly emotionally compelling and I found the score somewhat routine. A solid 3.5/5 picture, but little more.
    (I also seem to recall it getting excoriated in Germany for the liberties it took with the book, though I can’t comment on them as I haven’t read it yet).
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    LeonardPine wrote: »
    007InAction wrote: »
    Saving Private Ryan 1998
    The best "WAR" film ever ?
    Spielberg's last "great" film ?

    Best war film...i'd go with Paths of Glory and Platoon

    I concur mate, that 'Paths of Glory' is a stunner of a film, but I'd say its more an Anti War movie!
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    edited 5:20pm Posts: 7,837
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    007InAction wrote: »
    Saving Private Ryan 1998
    The best "WAR" film ever ?
    Spielberg's last "great" film ?

    Best war film...i'd go with Paths of Glory and Platoon

    I concur mate, that 'Paths of Glory' is a stunner of a film, but I'd say its more an Anti War movie!

    To be fair, Das Boot, AQotWF,Apocalypse Now and Platoon are also more anti-war films then, aren't they? Most of them are to some degree I'd say. That's perhaps why SPR doesn't really gel with me all that well, it's all a bit glorifying, or maybe that's just me?
  • Mathis1Mathis1
    Posts: 8,557
    GoldenGun wrote: »
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    007InAction wrote: »
    Saving Private Ryan 1998
    The best "WAR" film ever ?
    Spielberg's last "great" film ?

    Best war film...i'd go with Paths of Glory and Platoon

    I concur mate, that 'Paths of Glory' is a stunner of a film, but I'd say its more an Anti War movie!

    To be fair, Das Boot, AQotWF,Apocalypse Now and Platoon are also more anti-war films then, aren't they? Most of them are to some degree I'd say. That's perhaps why SPR doesn't really gel with me all that well, it's all a bit glorifying, or maybe that's just me?

    Good point ,mate!
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