What is sorely missing from my DVD collection? (4 Viewers)

[The General]

Conspiracy
Dunkirk
1914-18 (docu series)
Great War (channel 4 Docu series)
Sea of Sand
Ice cold in Alex
Malta story
Horror in the East (docu series)
Battlefields (BBC Docu series)
Went the day well
Battlefield (tv series)
Line of Fire (History channel series)
Tanks (History channel series)
Regeneration
Bomber Harris
My Boy Jack
Great battles of the Great War (three part series;Somme,Passchendaele,Gallipoli)
Big Red 1

Rob

Wow there's a lot of food for thought there Rob.

I have selective Line of Fire DVD's. I also have TANKS!, a three DVD boxed set. It's great.

When it comes to documentaries.... I have so many that some haven't even been unwrapped yet!

 

[OzDigger]

Hey Gen, do you have "The Eagle has Landed", it's one of my favorites, as is "We were Soldiers" - why didn't you like it?

 

[The General]

Returning to the recommended additions point, The Hunt for Red October (especially in Blu-ray) is a rather nice cold war piece.

I have trouble with the fact that the Russian sub Commander has a Scottish accent.

 

[The General]

Open Range is a very gritty and realistic western with a final gunfight scene that is probably more realistic than any thing else done in the genre. It also has great acting by Robert Duval and a pretty good performance by Keven Costner. You haven't commented on it but I wouldn't be without Kelly's Heroes. BTW, when I mentioned MASH, I did mean the movie, the series was good but you can't beat the original.

Thanks. Open Range sounds good.

Have trouble with Kelly's Heroes because it seems so 60's (attitudes, sayings, haircuts etc.) but is set in the 1940's. I might give it another go though.

 

[The General]

General,
Stalingrad (1992 version) is a German movie produced by the same company that did Das Boot; a terrific film, very good battle scenes, very well done IMO.

The Brotherhood of War is a Korean War film and is excellent; very, very good action scenes, the story is very good and sad at the same time, highly recommended.

The Winter War is about the Soviet invasion of Finland; a foreign film with excellent battle scenes and they nailed it with the equipment as well, early war soviet tanks especially...........

Mate, thanks for that. All 3 sound good.

 

[The General]

On similar lines to The Brotherhood try Assembly-Chinese war movie takes place at the Wen river during the civil war of 1948. I recently got the blu-ray version and the action/soundtrack blew me out of my armchair.

Sunday Times reviewer (a respected critic) described it as the most impressive war film since SPR.

And Total Film a so-so UK Film mag said "makes Letters of Iwo Jima look like a postcard" I kinda liked that.

SPR is the yard stick every war movie will be judged against and this movie borrows a lot from it but it's darn impressive with a large slug of it's own poignancy.

Reb

That's a pretty good wrap Reb. I'm sold on that one too.

 

[The General]

Hey Gen, do you have "The Eagle has Landed", it's one of my favorites, as is "We were Soldiers" - why didn't you like it?

Yeah Oz, I had The Eagle has Landed. It's a classic. The copy I had was poor so I gave it away. I will get a better copy in future.

My mate and I rented We Were Soldiers when it first hit the DVD stores. After 20 mins watching it he turned to me and said "This movie is s**t isn't it?" "Thank God", I replied "I thought it was just me!"

It started off really, really cheesy and didn't get any better.

I think there is a scene where Mel is in the jungle getting shot at from 200 directions but avoids death. It reminded me of Arnie in Commando or Sly in Rambo III. Absolutely terrible!

 

[OzDigger]

Yeah Oz, I had The Eagle has Landed. It's a classic. The copy I had was poor so I gave it away. I will get a better copy in future.

My mate and I rented We Were Soldiers when it first hit the DVD stores. After 20 mins watching it he turned to me and said "This movie is s**t isn't it?" "Thank God", I replied "I thought it was just me!"

It started off really, really cheesy and didn't get any better.

I think there is a scene where Mel is in the jungle getting shot at from 200 directions but avoids death. It reminded me of Arnie in Commando or Sly in Rambo III. Absolutely terrible!

We Were Soldiers certainly was cheesy in parts and imo focused too much on what happened back in the US, but I guess you have to make allowances as it was based on Moore's book. Not that I have got around to reading it as I have too many WWII books to read atm. I think it was one of Mel Gibson's better roles.

 

[theBaron]

... It reminded me of Arnie in Commando or Sly in Rambo III. Absolutely terrible!

Now, wait a minute! Do you mean to say that "Commando" was terrible? I'd have to debate you on that point.

"Don't bodder my friendt, he'ss deadt tired"

Prosit!
Brad

 

[Spitfrnd]

I have trouble with the fact that the Russian sub Commander has a Scottish accent.

It is something you can easily get past if you try. Accents have never bothered me much since the reality is that once you decide to do a movie in other than the native language, it is all arbitrary anyway. Russians do not have a Russian accent to other Russians, etc. Connery was otherwise perfect for the part, as is Scott Glen as the US sub commander and Sam Neil (Jurassic Park) as the Russian XO. It is one of those movies to just sit back and enjoy the flow you without picking at the details.

I will repeat the Duelists, which I just watched again last night. Simply amazing first big time film effort by Ridley Scott on a shoestring budget. The lighting, the costumes, the scenery and the atmosphere of the Napoleonic period are perfectly done and the dueling scenes between these two French Hussars are very realistic. Note for example this excerpt of the third duel with their cavalry sabers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wVT...4017682A6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3
Get the Special Collectors Edition since the interview with Scott is a treat. He notes that Keitel and Carradine were not his first choices but rather what he could afford but each did an excellent job with his respective part.

There is a BRD version of The Eagle has Landed that is supposed to be region free and a decided improvement on the previous dvd, which is poor. Here is a link to the BRD review
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews43/the_eagle_has_landed_blu-ray.htm

 

[the 999th]

Days of Glory/Indigenes (French)

Musa - (Korean)

9th Company (Russian)

Come and See (Russian)

 

[Rob]

Wow there's a lot of food for thought there Rob.

I have selective Line of Fire DVD's. I also have TANKS!, a three DVD boxed set. It's great.

When it comes to documentaries.... I have so many that some haven't even been unwrapped yet!

Glad to hear i'm not the only one with unwrapped dvd's then .

Battlefield is another great WW2 Docu series,well worth picking up.

Rob

 

[Uthred]

The director's cut of King Arthur (2004).

It is great, much better than the movie version!

Cheers...

Uthred

 

[Deitz]

A Man Who Would Be King, I had it, but lent it to a brother of girl I was dating, we broke up and I did not get the tape back. Oh well. I will get it when it comes out on Blu-Ray.

 

[Louis Badolato]

A Man Who Would Be King, I had it, but lent it to a brother of girl I was dating, we broke up and I did not get the tape back. Oh well. I will get it when it comes out on Blu-Ray.

Kipling, Connery and Caine . . . it just doesn't get any better than that!

 

[lancer]

Who can't love a Gurkha named Billy Fish? What a great movie. Always has been in my top 10 favorites. -- lancer

 

[cantinetozzo]

Wonderful movie , my favourite of all times!"Detriments you call us? Detriments? Well I want to remind you that it was detriments like us that built this bloody Empire and the Izzat of the bloody Raj. Hats on!"...

 

[The General]

I will repeat the Duelists, which I just watched again last night. Simply amazing first big time film effort by Ridley Scott on a shoestring budget. The lighting, the costumes, the scenery and the atmosphere of the Napoleonic period are perfectly done and the dueling scenes between these two French Hussars are very realistic. Note for example this excerpt of the third duel with their cavalry sabers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wVT...4017682A6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3

I'm gonna' get a copy now after that.

 

[kilted vampire]

I'm gonna' get a copy now after that.

It is a good one. Awwww poop I forgot.

 

[The General]

Just stumbled across this old thread of mine. My collection has seriously grown since then. Much of it on the back of many of your recommendations guys. Cheers. :salute::