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draganm
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2020 12:59 am Post subject: 1917 |
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from a friend I sometimes strongly disagree with on movies, but it sounds promising
| Quote: | Wow that movie was amazing. It is a very most realistic war movie.
It had an amazing sense cinematography and amazing acting. It was probably better than Saving Private Ryan I would think that I'm a different scale. Truly impressive and definitely worth going to the movie theater to see it |
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kal
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HaydnG90
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Probably one of the few films I'll go see at the cinema this year, along with James Bond
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kal
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draganm
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| kal wrote: | Looking forward to seeing this one. I love this genre of movie and have enjoyed Sam Mendes movies in the past.
I'm also currently reading Ken Follett's Fall of Giants which covers WW1 stuff (among other things). I've seen/read so much about WW2 that it's interesting to take a step back and see how we got to WW1 in the first place (which many would agree led to WW2). You know the old saying "those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it". 
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I read Eye of the Needle in Junior High and then Pillars of the Earth about 20 years ago? Both were also made into movies.
Don't read much about War anymore though, what you eventually find out is that it's 99% bad. WW1 was interesting in that it led to the collapse of the European Monarchies, which was good.
But it also signaled the rise of the Industrial age, and with them a new Capitalist Aristocracy. So we can say things got better , but always a violent and murderous transition for society followed by a slew of new problems.
That's really what scares me, we are in the middle of another transition, and we have massive global climate change to add to the mix
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