"Broadsword calling Danny Boy": The definitive WW2 films thread

[great_badir]

I'd nominate Play Dirty as worth a watch. And the Olly Reid film mentioned above is Hannibal Brooks, which is the best film Michael Winner ever...even...churned out.

Wrong - The Mechanic is his best film.

As is Death Wish 3, but for all the wrong reasons.

[gatchamandave]

Wrong - The Mechanic is his best film.

As is Death Wish 3, but for all the wrong reasons.

I concede your point.

[Endicott]

Did someone mention The Train. Classic movie. I can hear the sound of the shunting yard just thinking about it.

For top notch Sunday afternoon viewing, Tora! Tora! Tora!

[Mark Steels Stockbroker]

Now that we've got CGI etc. we ought to be in a golden age for war films now, as we can finally get somewhere near to actual realism about the confusion and chaos that occurs in a real tank battle. Ditto for air battles, marine landings etc.

[Tapiocahead]

Kelly's Heroes reminds me of The Dirty Dozen, due to Telly appearing in both.

Speaking of which, does anyone know why they took him on the mission in the latter? The rest of the dozen are all hard nuts. He's just a total mental.

Donald Sutherland's in both as well, although very different characters.

I don't know why they took Telly on the mission.

[great_badir]

Now that we've got CGI etc. we ought to be in a golden age for war films now, as we can finally get somewhere near to actual realism about the confusion and chaos that occurs in a real tank battle. Ditto for air battles, marine landings etc.

Unfortunately CGI still looks like a computer game.

[Dex Sawash]

Just watched Fritz Lang's Man Hunt (1941)
Concept had promise. Pacing of these old films is hard to deal with. Would like to see an updated version of this story. Kind of shit but nice B&W though.

[Mijkediablo]

Dealing with the ruins of Germany in the immediate aftermath of the end of the war, but Germany Year Zero (1946) is harrowing as fuck. A bunch of families all crammed into one tiny apartment, women and young girls forced by circumstance into prostitution, hints of paedophilia, all culminating in

Spoiler alert

patricide and child suicide

[close]

- and with a backdrop of a ruined Berlin, piles of rubble and half-destroyed buildings become the playgrounds of the young. The acting is of differing quality- some amazing performances, some very weak- but the film is bleak and it stays with you.