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sdtPikachu · 09-23-2002, 01:29 PM

I still don't think it's a patch of Full Metal Jacket though...

But then war movies (based on true stories or not) tend to suck badly anyway. They tend to be horribly biased, which I consider to be a bad thing.

Take "The Longest Day" for example. Classic 3 1/4 hour war film about the D-Day invasions, dubbed "how the Americans won the war for us". How much mention does it make of all the british and french resistance intelligence work? Not an awful lot.

How much does it make the Nazi's look like a poorly organised and evil rabble? Quite a bit.

Sigh.

09-23-2002, 01:29 PM	#29
sdtPikachu Super Toaster! sdtPikachu is offline Location: London, UK Now Playing: Posts: 384	I still don't think it's a patch of Full Metal Jacket though... But then war movies (based on true stories or not) tend to suck badly anyway. They tend to be horribly biased, which I consider to be a bad thing. Take "The Longest Day" for example. Classic 3 1/4 hour war film about the D-Day invasions, dubbed "how the Americans won the war for us". How much mention does it make of all the british and french resistance intelligence work? Not an awful lot. How much does it make the Nazi's look like a poorly organised and evil rabble? Quite a bit. Sigh. __________________ "If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If you believe in parthenogenesis, ascension, transubstantiation and all the rest of it you are deemed fit to govern the country." - Jonathan Meades