"Jcarr" (jcarr)
04/30/2015 at 11:39 • Filed to: Movies
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"Jcarr" (jcarr)
04/30/2015 at 11:39 • Filed to: Movies | 3
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Man, what a fantastic movie. Nearly up there with Saving Private Ryan on the great WWII movies list.
The dialogue was great, the characters were great, the cinematography was great. I could have watched 5 hours of it.
I was also really impressed with Shia LeBeouf. The guy can really act when you get him away from Michael McSplosion.
If you haven’t seen it, do it now.
Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
> Jcarr
04/30/2015 at 11:42 |
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Can confirm, best job I ever had
E. Julius
> Jcarr
04/30/2015 at 11:42 |
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Might have to check this out.
Grindintosecond
> Jcarr
04/30/2015 at 11:58 |
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It is good. I liked it quite a bit. I personally disagree with it being up there with Private Ryan but nobody really looked at the Tank heroes of war. They did capture how awfully gritty and thankless the job is.
Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
> Jcarr
04/30/2015 at 12:57 |
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Brilliant film.
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Jcarr
> Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
04/30/2015 at 12:59 |
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Were you a tanker? If so, when and what specifically (I assume some variant of the Abrams)?
LuczOr
> Grindintosecond
04/30/2015 at 13:05 |
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I’m with you on this one. It was certainly entertaining, and I would absolutely watch it again, but it didn’t have that same weight to it. Also there were a few times in the movie where the characters lacked authenticity.
However, I’m that guy that can observe the shortcomings in movies and not care at all because I got to see some tanks shoot at each other and ‘splosions!
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Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
> Jcarr
04/30/2015 at 13:40 |
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No it was a joke, in reference to the movie
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Jcarr
> LuczOr
04/30/2015 at 13:52 |
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I think you’re right. I don’t know if any WWII movie can match the punch that SPR had. It was just so different from other war movies to that point. The way Spielberg filmed it combined with the weight of the story just gave it a feeling and realism that nothing else had.
A good comparison would probably be Norman from Fury and Upham from SPR. Both small, intellectual types who are thrust into brutal combat. I think Upham’s development is probably a little more realistic (he is still so afraid of fighting toward the end of the movie that he lets Mellish get killed by the Nazi) whereas Norman becomes more of a gung-ho fighter rather quickly.
bob and john
> Jcarr
04/30/2015 at 16:48 |
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it was a good movie, I agree