My Final Legacy to this Forum

[bobbysocks]

there was a german flick about little kids being pressed into service in the last days of the war. actually saw it in german class in college. probably truer ( not the actual story of little klaus...but the event ) than we know and also very sad.

[Soviet Ace]

I saw Windtalkers at the dollar theaters, when it was there, and I'm SO glad I didn't spend more than a buck to see it. What a waste of film. I saw it more as a focus around Nicolace Cage, than the actual Navajo Windtalkers. Out of more modern Pacific War movies, I think that Thin Red Line was probably the best.

And for anyone who hasn't seen it, The Winter War, is a great movie as well. It focuses on the Finn side, but it's really good since it's probably one of the most limited movie out that focus on the Winter War.

Enemy At The Gates was good, but I thought to dramatized for such a place like Stalingrad where there was nothing but fear and death happening 24/7.

Downfall, a German made movie, is really good. I like it a lot.

[Zatoichi_Sanjuro]

One of the best films about the Eastern Front if not just war in general:Idi i smotri


Of course Das Boot is a classic and the full TV mini-series is even better.

Two somewhat obscure films about the Soviets in Afghanistan:
9 Rota


The Beast of War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uygUt7RWPvc

[bobbysocks]

actually...still am a friend of my college german teacher....he works with my wife now. the name of that flick is bothering me....hate that. going to have her ask him what it was...

[Soviet Ace]

The thing I find funny about most movies, like The Beast and Rota 9, that take place on the Soviet side of the war, is how often they always have one or two deserter or dissident in their ranks. When actually, reading up on the Soviet-Afghan war, you'll see that it wasn't a very common thing for Soviet soldiers to do, and that those who did try to leave were usually taken in by a patrol and executed for desertion.

[Zatoichi_Sanjuro]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

The thing I find funny about most movies, like The Beast and Rota 9, that take place on the Soviet side of the war, is how often they always have one or two deserter or dissident in their ranks. When actually, reading up on the Soviet-Afghan war, you'll see that it wasn't a very common thing for Soviet soldiers to do, and that those who did try to leave were usually taken in by a patrol and executed for desertion.

Considering what was likely to happen to you if you were captured in Afghanistan, I don't blame them.

[Luftwaffe_Rommel]

I have been absent from this forum for a few days and I can see how this thread has evolve from mini scale airplanes to World War II films to what you might consider modern wars.

Well here's a kicker for u gentlemen of fine taste:
When I was a little kid about 3-4 years perhaps even as young as I can remember my first film and also my first war film was that of Rambo Second Blood. How about that, you would think what kind of parent let a 3 year old watch a war movie with gore and violence, you may also think I might grow up to be a war maniac. Well, my parents were not bad, actually I think they are the best, and as of the Psycological impacts that movie might have had on me are unotizable, I use to love war up until my great grandma died when i was 5. Then I came to understand that war was evil and people died, people you love just like my great grandma. Anyways this is not the point, the point is Since this discussion is head with Russia and Middle East I might as well through in Korea and Vietnam. John Rambo was my war hero as a child, I even pretend I was him and used sticks or rocks pretending they were a machine gun and granades. Also I got in love with planes, The Huey Gunship Helicopter was and is my favorite war aircraft. So to make this thread even more interesting lets hear what were your favorite war movies and ur childhood heroes.
PS I now have mixed feeling about Vietnam [good/bad] so confused, specially after I took a history class entirely on the Vietnam War. Though, one thing is clear John Rambo the character is awesome. "I'm coming for u mordok". I don't like the last movie on Rambo, that one does suck big time.