mediocre films with just a few brilliant parts

[scothunter 12,609]

those type of casualtys would be considered unacceptable in this modern army.

 

Your having a giggle arent ya?

 

Afgan is a nightmare now, most of the casualties are ied victims with limbs blown off or worse.

Ridiculous war that "could" have been sorted very easily without the loss of so many soldiers, if they had of thought about it.

 

Every five minutes now in camp bastion, "op minimise, op minimise, op minimise"

 

diffrent scenario altogether.what i meant was storming a beach head,or a battle charge like the somme.thousands killed in a few hours.wouldnt happen in a modern war situation.when the casualtys rose to those numbers,they would be cracking out the big guns so to speak

[littlefish 598]

I would question the sanity of anybody who wasn't moved by Saving Private Ryan, my grandad was one of the soldiers storming Omaha beach and this was the only film he ever went to see at the cinema and he said it was very accurate......

 

 

Iv'e never plucked up the couage to watch it. Friends who saw it in the cinema said people got up and left.

[just jack 998]

mediocre films with just a few brilliant parts

 

i think it is down to what you expect from the so called film to be honest,

if i watch a film and think its shite, then its shite if you catch mi drift, none of the best bit is at the end kind of thing

[long dogs 580]

rita sue & bob

[blan89 159]

mediocre films with just a few brilliant parts

 

i think it is down to what you expect from the so called film to be honest,

if i watch a film and think its shite, then its shite if you catch mi drift, none of the best bit is at the end kind of thing

 

not necessarily shite,just not particularly good, in your mind.

[scarface 10]

most horror films.

[Lab 10,979]

Jaws.....all shite but some good bits

 

[scarface 10]

Jaws.....all shite but some good bits

i watched jaws4 yesterday lol the shark scenes are a joke compared to recent films such as 'deep blue sea' etc.

[Born Hunter 17,960]

I personally thought Saving private Ryan was a decent film from start to end. It all seemed very real, unlike most films where someone gets shot and they fly back 10 feet with no blood or anything. Very similar to the Band of Brothers series. Also showed the grey areas in war where decisions aren't always is easy as some may think. Like sparing the german soldiers life and risking many mens lives for just one.

 

Can't say I felt deeply moved by it though. Enormous respect to those involved in any war, especially that one, but wasn't a particularly moving experience watching it for me. Perhaps I'm just a c**t, lol.

[scothunter 12,609]

I personally thought Saving private Ryan was a decent film from start to end. It all seemed very real, unlike most films where someone gets shot and they fly back 10 feet with no blood or anything. Very similar to the Band of Brothers series. Also showed the grey areas in war where decisions aren't always is easy as some may think. Like sparing the german soldiers life and risking many mens lives for just one.

 

Can't say I felt deeply moved by it though. Enormous respect to those involved in any war, especially that one, but wasn't a particularly moving experience watching it for me. Perhaps I'm just a c**t, lol.

 

the bit that got me thinking.was when the lad who wasnt really a soldier,stood at the bottom of the stairs shitting it as the SS soldier knifed his mates.one of my mates said what a f*****g coward.now although i agreed with him at the time,ive watched the movie since,and i think im the sort of guy who gets waded into any trouble.never been scared to get involved,but in a war scenario who really knows how you would react.ill bet there was a few times in the war when german and british have walked away from each other.dont mean in an all out assault.i mean a chance encounter man to man.after all were all human beings and we all share some kind of compassion and feelings.apart from the asians the russians that is lol

[gnasher16 31,602]

the bit that got me thinking.was when the lad who wasnt really a soldier,stood at the bottom of the stairs shitting it as the SS soldier knifed his mates.one of my mates said what a f*****g coward.now although i agreed with him at the time,ive watched the movie since,and i think im the sort of guy who gets waded into any trouble.never been scared to get involved,but in a war scenario who really knows how you would react.

 

Ive had this conversation many times..........

Myself ive always liked to believe i wouldnt back down from anyone and i fear no man alive in a physical confrontation...............but i dont want to die f**k that !....in a war situation like that i would melt the same as the next man......and thats what makes these soldier boys special.....for most of us it would be " bollocks to this im out of here im a survivor "........for them theres more to it and thats what puts them on a different level to the rest of us.

Edited October 26, 2011 by gnasher16

[scothunter 12,609]

Agree gnasher until your in that situation who the f**k knows how you would react.you could be the best soldier in the camp.but the first bullet whizzing past your ear,and your like oh f**k this lol

granted those on that beach on d day had no where else to go,but forward.must have looked like hell they were facing.each and every one have my upmost respect.

[Born Hunter 17,960]

It does make me wonder if people back then just had a different mindset to people in the modern day. A man has got to have a hell of a strong moral and mental beliefe to face a war situation where theres a bloody good chance he will meet a gruesom end. So many average joes became warriors and stood the test.

[scothunter 12,609]

think folk were made of stronger stuff back then.they didnt have the distractions of the modern world.you only have to look at the RAF.spitfire pilots,and bomber crews aged from 19 to 25 on average.This country asked a lot of its youth back then,a debt thats very seldem remembered by goverments.they should pay for f**k all after retirement age.even the f*****g supermarkets should give them parcels instead of throwing it away.

[gnasher16 31,602]

As an example....as coincidence would have it,they showed Platoon on sky last night,ive never watched it all through but there was this one soldier who had been giving it mr big bollocks all through.....then right in the last big battle scene at the end you see him drag a dead body over the top of him so as not to have to fight or be seen etc.....in other words he completely pussied out,i sat there hoping he,d get it just for that before realising shit,thats probably what id do .....but then thats why im not a soldier i spose !

Interesting theory did folk back years ago simply have a different mindset......especially keeping in mind most of our fathers/gr fathers etc would have been everyday working folk called up for war not career soldiers like they are in todays wars......