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Schindler's List is anyone else NOT buying?
01-02-04, 02:35 PM
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Originally posted by jough
I'm an amateur screenwriter and was writing a holocaust comedy a few years ago before I realized that someone had already beaten me to it with an entire television series. So I shelved it.
I'm an amateur screenwriter and was writing a holocaust comedy a few years ago before I realized that someone had already beaten me to it with an entire television series. So I shelved it.
01-02-04, 02:52 PM
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Originally posted by CaseyB
Jerry Lewis also made a comedy about the holocaust. I believe he played a clown who entertained children in the concentration camps. It was never released and Lewis is said to have all copies of the film.
Jerry Lewis also made a comedy about the holocaust. I believe he played a clown who entertained children in the concentration camps. It was never released and Lewis is said to have all copies of the film.
01-02-04, 03:20 PM
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01-02-04, 06:44 PM
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Originally posted by jough
I found "Band of Brothers" to be very moving and "Saving Ryan's Privates" to be silly and melodramatic (especially the scenes where the war stopped for a few minutes so Tom Hanks could deliver a ridiculous speech).
I found "Band of Brothers" to be very moving and "Saving Ryan's Privates" to be silly and melodramatic (especially the scenes where the war stopped for a few minutes so Tom Hanks could deliver a ridiculous speech).
01-02-04, 10:09 PM
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I'm sorry, but I just find a thread asking who's not buying a particular DVD kinda silly. Then again, I never really understood the ones asking who was buying a particular one either. So maybe I'm just a sourpuss. Or something.
I'll buy it though.
K
I'll buy it though.
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01-02-04, 10:31 PM
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Originally posted by Moefuscious
I missed most of it in the theater because I was making out.
I missed most of it in the theater because I was making out.
Making out in Schindlers List. I'll definitely be picking this one up. I watch this at least once every couple months on LD.
01-02-04, 11:40 PM
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Originally posted by RyoHazuki7
You cant call it crap! ITs about the HOLOCAUST!!!!
You cant call it crap! ITs about the HOLOCAUST!!!!
Personally, I've seen it once...I don't think it's the masterpiece that it has the reputation for being.
I do, however, see why people have been clamoring for this on DVD...
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01-03-04, 02:09 AM
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Originally posted by Moefuscious
I missed most of it in the theater because I was making out.
I missed most of it in the theater because I was making out.
01-03-04, 09:43 AM
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You stole this joke from the Seinfeld show! Now quit trying to pretend you are a comedian. You have the plagiarizing down though!
You stole this joke from the Seinfeld show! Now quit trying to pretend you are a comedian. You have the plagiarizing down though!
DOH! Nice catch...I'd forgotten about that episode.
01-03-04, 10:02 AM
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This in response to posts on the first page but if anyone here wants to see a REAL movie about the holocaust, check out Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's 9 1/2 documentary. It's absolutely devastating and it does cover the Warsaw uprising in detail as well as resistence within the concentration camps and numerous other topics. I posted a review of it here: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=7898
It's expensive but it does take a while to watch. I marathoned it to do the review and just felt absolutely spent afterwards.
It's expensive but it does take a while to watch. I marathoned it to do the review and just felt absolutely spent afterwards.
01-03-04, 10:22 AM
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I completely forgot about Life is Beautiful, which of course was a holocaust comedy that offended no one.
And yes, I've seen Saving Private Ryan. Hanks gives no less than six monologues in the film. I actually admire much of the film, just not the middle hour and a half. And the last scenes of the film are a little too maudlin and sentimental.
Of course, the whole conceit of the film (sacrificing ten men to save one) is a bit silly from the outset.
And yes, I've seen Saving Private Ryan. Hanks gives no less than six monologues in the film. I actually admire much of the film, just not the middle hour and a half. And the last scenes of the film are a little too maudlin and sentimental.
Of course, the whole conceit of the film (sacrificing ten men to save one) is a bit silly from the outset.
01-03-04, 10:53 AM
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Of course, the whole conceit of the film (sacrificing ten men to save one) is a bit silly from the outset.
Of course, the whole conceit of the film (sacrificing ten men to save one) is a bit silly from the outset.
Curious to know why it bothered you here?
01-03-04, 02:00 PM
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Originally posted by Gil Jawetz
This in response to posts on the first page but if anyone here wants to see a REAL movie about the holocaust, check out Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's 9 1/2 documentary. It's absolutely devastating and it does cover the Warsaw uprising in detail as well as resistence within the concentration camps and numerous other topics. I posted a review of it here: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=7898
It's expensive but it does take a while to watch. I marathoned it to do the review and just felt absolutely spent afterwards.
This in response to posts on the first page but if anyone here wants to see a REAL movie about the holocaust, check out Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's 9 1/2 documentary. It's absolutely devastating and it does cover the Warsaw uprising in detail as well as resistence within the concentration camps and numerous other topics. I posted a review of it here: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=7898
It's expensive but it does take a while to watch. I marathoned it to do the review and just felt absolutely spent afterwards.
01-03-04, 03:47 PM
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Originally posted by talemyn
Wow, jough . . . I'm surprised to here you say that. There are plenty of instances in real life everyday where a larger group of people put their lives on the line for a smaller group. Some examples that come to mind: firemen, mountain rescue, special forces, regular military . . . not to mention any of the spontaneous acts of heroism that regular people do everyday around the world.
Curious to know why it bothered you here?
Wow, jough . . . I'm surprised to here you say that. There are plenty of instances in real life everyday where a larger group of people put their lives on the line for a smaller group. Some examples that come to mind: firemen, mountain rescue, special forces, regular military . . . not to mention any of the spontaneous acts of heroism that regular people do everyday around the world.
Curious to know why it bothered you here?
It's not that I think that a larger ground putting themselves on the line for a smaller group is silly in itself - just the way they went about it in SPR. The military during WWII would likely not be so eager to bring Ryan home as to put a larger number of more experienced officers in harm's way to retrieve him (considering that Ryan was in no greater danger than anyone else, your fireman analogy isn't really apt here).
