[Kraut Killer]

Saving Private Ryan... best movie I've ever seen. Thin Red Line, incredible movie... I hope they come out with a director's cut. Pearl Harbor... save for the Shakespearian Love tragedy crap, and it's okay for Americans to be patriotic about a moment that helped define our nation. The Longest Day, incredible movie, although very dated. When Trumpets Fade, visually a great movie, well written, very good acting... sound sucked. Battleground, a powerful movie for the time, actually holds pretty well to todays standards. Patton... he will wreck you. A Bridge too Far... Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, James Caan... need I say more? Sands of Iwo Jima, the mother fuckin Duke ruled ass in this movie. Guadalcanal Diaries, watch this movie, then watch the Thin Red Line... it's weird. Enemy at the Gates, needed more combat scenes, but was a great movie, sans the love crap and poor sound design.

Now for a couple of movies I thought sucked... Stalingrad, I thought this would be like Saving Private Ryan, only in the Eastern Front... it wasn't. It sucked, the movie sucked, the sound sucked, the pacing sucked, and the visuals sucked. I especially hated when the guy was cut in half... that looked awful, or when the guy shot himself in the mouth, and it took the bullet about two seconds to go through him and the blood spurted out of his back. Then Tora! Tora! Tora! sucked. It sucked when it came out, and it sucks now. It left out the whole personal feeling of the attack on Pearl Harbor that it needs. It downlplayed Dorrie Miller's bravery, hell... I didn't even know that was a black guy until I really looked. It was just a boring, long, boring movie with no personality. I could go on with more movies that I didn't like... but this is good for now.