If you happen to be indoors this weekend,Sundance Channel is running a nice lineup of war movies,I got stuff going on,but should be able to catch a little.
Battle of the Bulge
Sands of Iwo Jima
Memphis Belle
Dirty Dozen
Hurt Locker
The Big Red One
Hart’s War
Platoon
Kelly’s Heroes
Green Berets
Heartbreak Ridge
Thanks for the info Tojo! Gonna TRY to see one or two of them, if SWMBO stops adding to the “Honey Do” & “Honey lets go see” list. [;)]
Have a great weekend.
Jim [cptn]
How you doing Tōjō just wrapped up the battle of the bulge . Now watching a bridge too far. The wife and kids out shopping my time…
more to the list…
the patriot
red badge of courage
sargent york
pork chop hill
flight of the intruder
american sniper.
Pretty good,lazing on the couch,watching the Bulge.
Going out now,a friend is having a “Low Country Boil” should be a good time,will have to pick it up again tonight.
[B]
The local bird cage liner had an article on the top D-Day movies.
In addition to the obvious top two, they listed “The Big Red One”, which I’ve never seen.
Well for the Memorial Day week & weekend I was into:
Black Hawk Down and the Band of Brother mini series.
Now that D-Day is arriving I know I’ll have a selection from which to watch:
Saving Private Ryan
Battleground
Wake Island
The Patriot
Platoon
Flags Of Our Fathers
Sands of Iwo Jima
We Were Soldiers
and of course The Pacific mini series.
It all depends on how I feel. Enjoy fellas.
Those were all on TV memorial day weekend ??
would have enjoyed Band of Brothers.I thought the Sundance lineup was pretty good for just one channel.
Lets see if anyone runs Gettysburg on the 4th of July
Its not a great film, but not a bad one either. The Reconstruction version is better in the D-Day sequence than the original theatrical release. The low budget and resultant filming locations and props/scenery do detract from what could have been a great film. But then again, Sam Fuller’s war movies were more about the basic story and characters than any grand sweeping view. Definitley a good look at life in a US Army Infantry rifle squad.
Very true Stik…very low budget, but worth watching.
I like the fact that it’s semi auto biographical. One of the four rifleman, Zab, is Sam Fuller’s alter ego . Just like Eugene Jerome is to play write Neil Simon.
The final battle sequence of the film and its aftermath are so powerful. Years later I saw an interview with Fuller where he described some of those events. That’s when you realize how personal the film was to him.