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[quote]Passchendaele is a Canadian film that focuses on a CEF Sergeant who falls in love with a nurse. The soldier re-enlists into the CEF in order to help protect the Nurse's younger brother who enlisted in order to kill Germans. A moving and powerful tale of the Canadian men in world war one. A love story is miixed into this powerful and hard hitting film. A must for all fans of war films and one which would teach all school chldren just what the elderly did for this country.[/quote]
Watched this in Social Studies, it was pretty good
Are all modern World War One films love stories just using the conflict as a convenient backdrop?
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That poster is very "Band of Brothers" lookin'
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;27474967]Are all modern World War One films love stories just using the conflict as a convenient backdrop?[/QUOTE]
The combat gets pretty brutal, especially the hand to hand shit at the end.
I like it when something shatters the preconceived bullshit about the Great War. Everyone seems to have this fucking asinine notion that the entire war was just a bunch of faceless husks standing in perfectly straight trenches and shooting at eachother, which keeps it from being presented in any form of media. A WWI FPS with CoD-level production standards would be the greatest game of all fucking time and no one has the balls to realize that.
[QUOTE=madmax678;27475307]That poster is very "Band of Brothers" lookin'[/QUOTE]
Because silhouettes against a dark background always has something to do with band of brothers right?
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Why did you use the video with the 3D Dance of Death cover? It's the most disturbing damn thing on this planet.
[QUOTE=Araknid;27475402]Because silhouettes against a dark background always has something to do with band of brothers right?[/QUOTE] Yes, because they were the first ones to make it look cool, not anti-social...
It was fairly enjoyable, but I wouldn't rank it up there with movies like Flags of Our Fathers or Saving Private Ryan.
I know it's WW1 and not WW2 but my final impression was just a little bit lower then I was expecting for a movie like this.
It was a little Hallmark-y for my tastes and the [sp]crucifixion mimic[/sp] scene was kind of goofy. But as a war movie it's enjoyable.
It was filmed close to where I lived in Canada. :smug:
Parts of it at least.
I remember when I went to see it. After it ended not a single person in the theatre moved. Everyone sat through the credits not saying a word. I guess they were so emotionally moved by the movie. I thought it was kind of funny, though.
I didn't like it, way to cheesy and cliché for me. I really wish someone could make a proper WW1 movie since it's a really interesting era.
Saw it for my Civics class in theatres, great film
Would like to see more films from this war. WW2 is to overused.
Great movie, we watched it in History this year.
I never watched this movie because when it first came out all my friends who went to see it said it was mostly a love story with only 10 minutes or something actually about the battle. How close to true would that be?
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who the hell gave Iron Maiden a dumb rating?
What a coincidence. Just got this on DVD for my birthday.
[QUOTE=mastermaul;27475339]The combat gets pretty brutal, especially the hand to hand shit at the end.
I like it when something shatters the preconceived bullshit about the Great War. Everyone seems to have this fucking asinine notion that the entire war was just a bunch of faceless husks standing in perfectly straight trenches and shooting at eachother, which keeps it from being presented in any form of media. A WWI FPS with CoD-level production standards would be the greatest game of all fucking time and no one has the balls to realize that.[/QUOTE]
On the western front, places like ypres and the Somme would make an awful game. It would consist of sitting around getting trenchfoot, crying in a hole because your friend was just hit by a mortar and your wife doesn't know where you are or how you are, post traumatic stress, getting caught on barbed wire, then eventually being told it was your squads turn to go over the top. To make your walk- Yes walk you weren't allowed to run- toward a wall of bosch with mounted guns to cut you down. It rained, it was cold, there were rats eating at dead bodies, men committed suicide, and a whole generation of men were nearly wiped clean from history. I remember I was in the Somme and our guide was telling us about a conversation he had with a man who had survived the Somme offensive, the guy said
"At the end of the first day, when the guns fell silent and mortars stopped launching, we heard something. Maybe if I lived for another hundred years, I would know how to describe what it sounds like, but for now the closest I can get is fingers being slowly dragged down a wet window pane" and that was the sound of the dying and the wounded, the men left out on the no mans land.
I'm actually suprised that Canada would make a film about this at all, considering the horrible losses Newfoundland suffered at the Somme, nearly the entire Newfoundland regiment were lost.
Watched this in World History sophomore year in high school. Pretty interesting and hardcore stuff.
Shit. I gotta find this.
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