Probably the best thing I've ever watched on TV. It's currently airing on the SpikeTv channel for those of you who've not seen it.
"Saving Private Ryan" is also a favorite but I almost view it as a documentary because of it's vividness. I have to be in a certain mood to watch it if that makes sense.
to remember all those great men and women who have died protecting our country?
Mine is going to be "Midway!"
A real piece of hack work & technically cheesy. Most of the action footage was lifted from an earlier Japanese film. If memory serves me correctly, didn't Pat ( "Karate Kid" ) Morita play an Admiral in that film ?-----------LMAO !
The link below will take you to Feb GD board discussion on greatest war films-----some classic titles listed there. Dear God, let's not get another "Hogan's Heroes" controversy-------------LOL !
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but has value in telling about a very important episode the war against the Japanese. I can still remember the planes sent to find and destroy the the Japanese Armada, and just when the have to turn back, due to fuel, the clouds part and they find the fleet. It seemed much more an act of God than mere coincidence.
First "The Winds of War" and then "War and Remembrance", they are novels that recreate quite well many historical events including Midway. They are available on DVD.
on it, nor Pat Nourita playing the admiral.
Thanks for jogging my memory. Heading for blockbuster now!
is by far Herman Wouk's best novel. Told from the standpoint of an officer on a mine sweeper that never quite gets into action in WWII, the Caine Mutiny is a naval legal procedural written before procedurals were even recognized as a genre.
The Caine Mutiny tells the story of the officers of the Caine relieving Cap. Queeg of command on grounds that he most certainly is mentally unfit to command. But, at the trial, things that seemed so clear on board ship look a bit differently.
Some of the scenes are Catch 22 type funny; others are accurate depictions of a slice of navy life rarely captured elsewhere; others -like the Captain's habit of rolling steel balls between his fingers - have become of part of literary culture and reappear in series as disparate as Star Trek.
While Wouck became more famous with the television mini series, the Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouck at the top of his powers.
Nineteen episodes in all for both novels. All the screenplays were mostly written by Wouk himself. It was not afraid to delve into details left untouched by other media. As far as Midway goes it was given only 30 or 40 minutes but they were quality.
was not going to work anyway.
And I think it was the last major role for Ali McGraw who the critics hated but I found irresistable when I was a teenager. I found the recent filming of the Pacific to be not nearly as good.
Add to that teenage fantasy, Katharine Ross (Butch Cassidy) and Jennifer O'Neill (Summer of ’42)
In Wouk’s sequel “War and Remembrance” Ali McGraw was replaced with Jane Seymour. At 37 she seemed so young in this role. My favorite movie she was in is “Somewhere in Time.”
but I do remember Jane Seymour, although I thought she was a lot younger than 37 at that time.
Jennifer O'Neill was the fantasy that never happened to me, that's for sure.
But I was equally surprised when I looked up Ali McGraw and discovered she was both in 1938. I thought she was teenager in Goodbye Columbus but in fact she was nearly 30. Haven't seen Somewhere in Time.
they all look similar to me and I often confused the three in my wet dreams. LOL
"Somewhere in Time" stars Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour in a science fiction romance. Odd but I really loved it.
I just finished the last episode of War and Remembrance. It was fantastic. Even though Schindler's List is the most moving film I've seen, W&R raised the bar on revealing different sides to that era.
no, this cannot be compared to the power and the greatness of Wouk's 'Marjorie Morningstar' both novel and flick.
MM seem to be pretty basic compared to TCM but I will defer to your judgment if you have read both.
What is it about this novel that you deem great?
I'll agree it may be a little cheezy by many standards, but if you can not be too serious "it is a movie", its not a bad flick.
If you want realism...
1) Band of Brothers
2) Blackhawk Down
3) Saving Private Ryan
...dudes who produced "Band of Brothers"...Speilburg & Tom Hanks.
"Attack" Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, Richard Jaekel, Buddy Ebsen [yes, Jed Clampett, I kid you not] directed by Robert Aldrich. Followed by "Paths of Glory."
More traditional fare will include "Sands of Iwo Jima," "Merrill's Marauders," "Battle of the Buldge," "Pork Chop Hill," "The Victors," "The Guns of Navarrone," "The Cruel Sea," "Action in the North Atlantic," "Sahara."
But not all in one sitting
They Were Expendable
Father Goose
No Man is an Island
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison
Sargent York
The Long Grey Line
Operation Petticoat
Das Boot
All Quiet on the Western Front
Probably the best thing I've ever watched on TV. It's currently airing on the SpikeTv channel for those of you who've not seen it.
"Saving Private Ryan" is also a favorite but I almost view it as a documentary because of it's vividness. I have to be in a certain mood to watch it if that makes sense.