The movie thread

[Gen]

lets help that along

 

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[RocknRolla]

must... not... press..play.....

[Lurch the stalker]

must... not... press..play.....

Press it, we know you want to...

[Tumbleweed]

lets help that along

 

 

 

Bastard!   

['Dale]

I detect a tad of sarcasm there...   

 

I've never seen Eastwood's Iwo Jima films. Any recommend them?

Beautiful

Well worth it, B

['Dale]

Off the top of my head...

Apocalypse Now

Patton

Empire of the Sun

Full Metal Jacket

Salvador

The Killing Fields

F U R Y with Brad Pitt was quite good and I rate it highly

Edited June 23, 2015 by ' Dale

[Tumbleweed]

Glory with Brad Pitt was quite good and I rate it highly

 

Is that the tank story? I think my son rented it last weekend, but circumstances meant we didn't get around to watching it. 

Edited June 23, 2015 by Tumbleweed

[Skubarra]

Glory with Brad Pitt was quite good and I rate it highly

 

Fury?

 

But yes - awesome movie

 

Edit - Glory (excl Brad Pitt) also a pretty good war movie

Edited June 23, 2015 by Skubarra

[Stretch]

im not a huge fan of modern war movies - that one on Sunday was bearable but so full of nauseating ra ra

['Dale]

Fury?

 

But yes - awesome movie

 

Edit - Glory (excl Brad Pitt) also a pretty good war movie

 

 

Yes, FURY 

Hehehee

Excellent acting by The Brad

 

Le'me edit my earlier post.

[Tumbleweed]

im not a huge fan of modern war movies - that one on Sunday was bearable but so full of nauseating ra ra

 

Ja, I also struggle to get into them a bit. I was so disappointed with Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down when I read up about it. Despite the insistence that it was as accurate as possible, there was a faie amount of criticism about it being very pro-American.  

[Skubarra]

Ja, I also struggle to get into them a bit. I was so disappointed with Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down when I read up about it. Despite the insistence that it was as accurate as possible, there was a faie amount of criticism about it being very pro-American.  

 

It's an interesting point - most modern Hollywood war movies "based on true events" are grossly inaccurate, basically American propaganda - American Sniper is a good example.

 

But then on the flip side, they are movies not documentaries (even if they market themselves as true stories). If they get a lot of facts wrong but it's an entertaining & intriguing hour-and-a-half does it mean it's a bad movie? 

[Imploder]

The Hurt Locker!!

[Tumbleweed]

It's an interesting point - most modern Hollywood war movies "based on true events" are grossly inaccurate, basically American propaganda - American Sniper is a good example.

 

But then on the flip side, they are movies not documentaries (even if they market themselves as true stories). If they get a lot of facts wrong but it's an entertaining & intriguing hour-and-a-half does it mean it's a bad movie? 

 

Ja, I get that. And I'm willing to suspend disbelief for a bit of skop, skiet, donner, bliksem, nuke!...but, when you get filmmakers like Ridley Scott being all indignant about criticism of the accuracy of his film, and his political bias, it becomes an issue.  

[Stretch]

It's an interesting point - most modern Hollywood war movies "based on true events" are grossly inaccurate, basically American propaganda - American Sniper is a good example.

 

But then on the flip side, they are movies not documentaries (even if they market themselves as true stories). If they get a lot of facts wrong but it's an entertaining & intriguing hour-and-a-half does it mean it's a bad movie? 

 

thats why band of brothers is soo good...sure they embellished certain things..but for most part it is a fair account of what happened..while still affording us the opportunity to personalise and relate to characters and situations

[RocknRolla]

Question:

 

If one sets out to make a documentary, is there a general rule to say X amount of information is to be factual? Who checks it?

 

What I'm getting at, that in film and visual reporting, there is a fair amount of editing that happens, chronological sequence of events that may be taken out of context and skewed to get a certain "message" across (Think, Carte Blanche)

 

I personally don't put too much faith into "true stories", the only "reality" is the one that is observed (think accurate perceptions of events - not the observed photon ) in the Television/Movie Theatre sense.