OT: War Movie Review/Recommendation Thread

[Raellus]

Looks interesting. I wonder when we'll get a release in the West.

http://news.yahoo.com/lady-death-wwii-sniper-film-aims-hit-russia-034543400.html

[Targan]

The Odd Angry Shot. Not quite an 80s film (initial release was 1979) but it very much encapsulates Australian humour of the time. Bearing in mind that it was filmed only 5 or 6years after the last Australian troops were withdrawn from the Vietnam War. Some fantastic soldier philosophising by the late great Graham Kennedy.

Bung: "So what are we doing here then"

Harry: "You're a soldier, same as every other silly prick in this tossed-up, fucked-up, never-come-down land and that's why you're here. Because there's no-one else, and everyone's got to be somewhere, and you're here. So get used to it."

[Schone23666]

The Odd Angry Shot. Not quite an 80s film (initial release was 1979) but it very much encapsulates Australian humour of the time. Bearing in mind that it was filmed only 5 or 6years after the last Australian troops were withdrawn from the Vietnam War. Some fantastic soldier philosophising by the late great Graham Kennedy.

Bung: "So what are we doing here then"

Harry: "You're a soldier, same as every other silly prick in this tossed-up, fucked-up, never-come-down land and that's why you're here. Because there's no-one else, and everyone's got to be somewhere, and you're here. So get used to it."

Hmmm....could use some more cowbell---er, Mark "Jacko" Jackson...

OI!!! :P

"Ducks incoming projectiles"

[Raellus]

Mad Max: Fury Road

Speaking of Aussie cinema...

It's not, strictly speaking, a war movie, but it's certainly post-apocalyptic. The summer movie I'm most excited to see is:

Mad Max: Fury Road

http://io9.com/remember-mad-maxs-legacy-in-this-great-new-fury-road-tr-1698064386

The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2 in Australia) is one of my favorite action films of all time. I thought Beyond Thunderdome wasn't half bad. I've only tried once, but I've never really been able to get into the original Mad Max. I really, really hope that this new sequel doesn't suck.

[kato13]

It's not, strictly speaking, a war movie, but it's certainly post-apocalyptic. The summer movie I'm most excited to see is:

Mad Max: Fury Road

http://io9.com/remember-mad-maxs-legacy-in-this-great-new-fury-road-tr-1698064386

I REALLY hope that this breaks the trend of disappointing reboots of movies from my childhood that we have seen recently (Looking at you Robocop, Total Recall, Tron, Karate Kid, Willie Wonka, etc). Miller being attached is a very good sign but I still have concerns.

If you want to try the original Mad Max again i recommend the undubbed version. The poor dubbing is certainly a distraction.

[Targan]

If you want to try the original Mad Max again i recommend the undubbed version. The poor dubbing is certainly a distraction.

There's a dubbed version Let me guess... they dubbed in American accents

[kato13]

There's a dubbed version Let me guess... they dubbed in American accents

Yeah. In the undubbed version there are one or two characters who I could not understand due to local accents, but I still like it better. This is similar to what happens sometimes in UK films.

The undubbed version was not readily available in the US until after 2000 IIRC so most people saw the odd one.

[RN7]

I REALLY hope that this breaks the trend of disappointing reboots of movies from my childhood that we have seen recently (Looking at you Robocop, Total Recall, Tron, Karate Kid, Willie Wonka, etc). Miller being attached is a very good sign but I still have concerns.

If you want to try the original Mad Max again i recommend the undubbed version. The poor dubbing is certainly a distraction.

The reboot of Tron was actually not so bad, but Robocop, Total Recall, the Karate Kid and Willy Wonka were just awful, as was Red Dawn. I do hope that nobody wants to remake Rambo 1, Apocalypse Now or the Deer Hunter.

[kato13]

The reboot of Tron was actually not so bad, but Robocop, Total Recall, the Karate Kid and Willy Wonka were just awful, as was Red Dawn. I do hope that nobody wants to remake Rambo 1, Apocalypse Now or the Deer Hunter.

I can't believe I forgot Red Dawn, but I have not seen even one minute of it, my fears of how awful it is are just so great.

[Askold]

At least Dredd was much better movie than the previous attempt at making a Judge Dredd movie.

It might not have a story of as "epic" proportions as the Stallone one, but it was actually a good movie.

The Robocop remake isn't as bad as people make it to be but it just wasn't as good as the old one. They did well at "updating" the movie and even the hated all black paintjob has a good justification. (If some company made a robocop now it WOULD be "tacticool" and black.)

[RN7]

At least Dredd was much better movie than the previous attempt at making a Judge Dredd movie.

It might not have a story of as "epic" proportions as the Stallone one, but it was actually a good movie.

The Robocop remake isn't as bad as people make it to be but it just wasn't as good as the old one. They did well at "updating" the movie and even the hated all black paintjob has a good justification. (If some company made a robocop now it WOULD be "tacticool" and black.)

I liked the new Dredd which was far better than Stallone's version back in the 90's and I used to read 2000AD when I was younger. There is some talk about a sequal. I think the original Robocop on the other hand was just better in every way than the new one.

[Targan]

The undubbed version was not readily available in the US until after 2000 IIRC so most people saw the odd one.

Well I've learned something new.

[stormlion1]

The remake of Red Dawn had issues, but its one of them films where if you can just ignore the fact its a remake, its not so bad.

[Matt Wiser]

Don't even mention the remake. When John Milius said that he wouldn't have anything to do with it, and none of the remaining original cast wouldn't either, it was doomed. And that was before MGM held it up, had the changes to please the PRC (to avoid being banned from the PRC movie market-the original premise was the Chinese as the invaders, not NK), trimmed it from two hours to 97 minutes, and so on....when my GF and I came out of the theater, we said "That's $17.00 and 97 minutes we'll never get back".

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Battleground, 1949.

A WWII movie made when WWII movies were not en vogue. It depicts a fictional Airborne Glider Infantry unit in the line at Bastogne. What is so fascinating about it is, if you have read Band of Brothers or D-Day, you come to realize how factual it is: the Glider Infantry Regiment is in the same area of operations that Easy Company was in real life, and many of the stories of the fictional Battleground are related as factual events in Ambrose's books, and not just the broad ones like the famous "Nuts!" declaration to the Germans' demand for surrender.