Best God Damn Movie Ever Made

[Professor S]

The Longest Day was made in the fifties or early sixties. It was a very politically charged time with the Red Scare. To expect it to be completely accurate in all accounts is kind of silly. They did touch on the french resistance a good bit, though, so I don't think you have that much to complain about there.

What really made D-Day possible wasn't European intelligence, even though that helped, but it was the cracking of the German's secret code. The US sent false messages to the German's giving them the idea that they would be invading from England. They even went so far as to have the British inflate fake military vehicles along the English border too fool Rommel.

But I digress...

[Xantar]

Originally posted by sdtPikachu
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.

What are you talking about? That movie must have devoted over 5 minutes to Sean Connery marching around with a bunch of Scotsmen playing the bagpipes behind enemy lines.

Actually, if you want one of the more balanced true war story movies, I suggest you take a look at We Were Soldiers. It doesn't really have a slant (except perhaps an anti-war one). You can be sure that it had to pass through the rigorous scrutiny of my Vietnamese family before I could make a declaration like that.

[Dragon-Fly]

Well its a good movie but i just don't find it amazing. not what i thought.

[gekko]

We Were Soldiers doesn't have an anti-war slant. Moore doesn't strike me as an anti-war guy. He just wanted to show the other side of war, particularly in a Vietnam film, since none of them show the human sides of the soldiers. Moore doesn't seem anti-war, just trying to get people to respect the men who died, on both sides. Seems him and the Vietnamese general are good buds now.

On a side note, the guy who played the Vietnamese general is apparently being thrown out of his country for treason.