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Schindler's List is hitting Blu-Ray at the beginning of March for those interested.
 
I'm not really a huge war movie fan, but Howard Hawks's Air Force is pretty boss + it's referenced in Christopher Walken's Pulp Fiction monologue.
 
Byron, you fancy yourself an auterist. You gotta get buck with Cross of Iron and Fuller's The Big Red One.
 
I've been wanting to see The Big Red One for years now (no homo) but for some reason haven't?
 
Das Boot. That one did an amazing thing when I first saw it: I literally forgot that I was watching "the bad guys" as the heroes. The story completely gripped me, and I was right there with the Germans hoping that they could vanquish their enemies. It wasn't until we get a scene where the submarine surfaces after torpedoing an enemy ship, and the poor basterds floating in the water are screaming for help... in English... and, uh, yeah, it was rough.

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I've been wanting to see The Big Red One for years now (no homo) but for some reason haven't?
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It's p. cool.
 
Just watched a movie from 1993 called Swing Kids featuring a young Robert Sean Leonard and young Christian Bale. If you ever wanted to see Bale spout Nazi rhetoric, this is your movie! As it is, it was a neat look into the Swing Kid side of Germany but that's to the extent of it (outside of a few creepy/haunting scenes that only Nazi films can pull off.)
 
Mistletoe Quinn said:
Just watched a movie from 1993 called Swing Kids featuring a young Robert Sean Leonard and young Christian Bale. If you ever wanted to see Bale spout Nazi rhetoric, this is your movie! As it is, it was a neat look into the Swing Kid side of Germany but that's to the extent of it (outside of a few creepy/haunting scenes that only Nazi films can pull off.)
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I had to watch this in my honors History course in high school. It went from a damn fine look at the crushing of youth counter culture during Nazi Germany into saccharine garbage by the end. "Swing Heil"...fuck outta here.
 
Just watched Remember on Amazon Prime. Came out in 2015 and stars Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau. Very powerful movie about a man in a nursing home, whose wife dies, and is requested to fulfill the promise of a fellow patient to hunt down an SS officer from Auschwitz whom killed his family.

7/10
 
Čœrêÿ Łåżárüß said:
Mistletoe Quinn said:
Just watched a movie from 1993 called Swing Kids featuring a young Robert Sean Leonard and young Christian Bale. If you ever wanted to see Bale spout Nazi rhetoric, this is your movie! As it is, it was a neat look into the Swing Kid side of Germany but that's to the extent of it (outside of a few creepy/haunting scenes that only Nazi films can pull off.)
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I had to watch this in my honors History course in high school. It went from a damn fine look at the crushing of youth counter culture during Nazi Germany into saccharine garbage by the end. "Swing Heil"...fuck outta here.
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Heard the title before and always assumed it was about swing dancing. My bad.
 
Since this got bumped, I'll throw out "Conspiracy" (2001). It's basically a one set TV movie about how the Nazi leadership came up with and discussed the implementation of the Final Solution during the Wannsee Conference. Stars Kenneth Branaugh, Colin Firth, and Stanley Tucci (and features a "blink and you'll miss it" appearance by a then unknown actor named Tom Hiddleston). Although somewhat dramatized, they do take heavily from the actual minutes of the meeting. Chilling to see how basically a dozen or so guys sitting around a table decided how to most efficiently eradicate an entire people.
 
Watched Nuremberg and it was solid mostly thanks to Remi Malek and Russell Crowe's performances. 6.5/10

It was based off a different book (The Nazi & The Psychiatrist) rather than Douglas Kelley's original book, which I think kind of hurt the overall experience of the movie. The actual trial and hearing with Goring was the most interesting part, to me, but a lot of the prior stuff was glossed over or felt short-changed despite the long run time considering its a 2 hour+ movie (the multiple scenes with Goring's wife & daughter could've been cut down to the 1 initial meeting scene IMO). Rudolf Hess also felt like a cameo bit piece, which kind of irked me as I was hoping there'd be more screen time with him and Ley felt very underutilized as a character.

The film also implies Kelley's book failed which contributed to his suicide later in 1958, which is a bit disingenuous given his post-trial accomplishments and history of alcoholism/suicidal thoughts ("In 1946, Kelley published a book on the Rorschach test. He later directed the Graylyn Psychopathic Hospital at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in North Carolina. A year after this, Kelley became the head of the Department of Psychology at Berkeley.")
 
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