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Month: October 2014

#292: Battle of the Bulge [1965]

Ooooh!

Title: Battle of the Bulge
Director: Ken Annakin
Score:   1/6
Chronology:    December 1944 (but not really)

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#291: A Bridge Too Far [1977]


I was going to replay some WW2 FPSes, but I’ve run into a problem!

Title: A Bridge Too Far
Director: Richard Attenborough
Score:   4/6
Chronology:    September 1944

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#290: Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed [2012]

Oof…

Title: Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed
Director: Ryan Little
Score:   1/6
Chronology:    August 1944

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#289: The Longest Day [1962]

Not the only movie to tackle D-day.  This has the awesomest scene, though.

  

Title: The Longest Day
Director: Ken Annakin
Andrew Marton
Bernhard Wicki
Score:   6/6
Chronology:    June 6, 1944

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#288: Overlord [1975]

I can recommend this.  Quite slow and … contemplative.  Is that a word?

Title: Overlord
Director: Stuart Cooper
Score:   4/6
War movies:    They’re back!

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#287: Best Worst Movie [2009]

A documentary about people who think yesterday’s film is awesome.

Title: Best Worst Movie
Director: Michael Stephenson
Score:   4/6
War movies:    They’re making a comeback!

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#286: Troll 2 [1990]

Ok, that is pretty bad.

Title: Troll 2
Director: Drake Floyd
Score:   2/6
War movies:    I needed a break.

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#285: Anzio [1968]

Robert Mitchum and Peter falk.  You’d think it’d be less boring.

Title: Anzio
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Duilio Coletti
Score:   3/6
Chronicle:    Operation Shingle, Italy 1944.

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#284: Cross of Iron [1977]

Meeeeh…. Not quite there. James Coburn with a fake german accent is a hard pill to swallow. Didn’t finish. Didn’t swedish either.

Title: Cross of Iron
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Score:   3/6
Chronology:    1943, Caucasus.

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#283: Fortress [2012]

Wow, that was pretty bad.  But, somehow not offensively so.

Title: Fortress
Director: Michael Phillips
Score:   2/6
Chronology:    1943, Italy.

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