Absolutely nothing!
Other than a few good movies. And of course putting the Confederacy in its proper place, the trash bin of history.
Today’s draft is simple: War movies. Is it a movie? Is there a war in said movie? Is the war somewhat central to the plot? If you can answer all ‘yes’ to all three of those questions then baby, you got yourself a draft pick.
In the event of any disputes your commissioner is the only obvious choice:
My first pick may be a little off beat, since it combines a good war movie with a rollicking, (SAT word? Maybe, but if fits), with a heist movie.
The rest of you are on the clock
If you think I’m not gonna waltz in here at midnight and argue for the movie of the musical of Hamilton… you’d be wrong, because that is EXACTLY what I’m doing.
Hamilton.
Not a movie, but season 4 is too poignant to leave out.
The ending absolutely killed me.
If it doesn’t get you teared up, you’re badly broken inside.
Can’t believe I can sneak in with The Great Escape. Does this make Steve Mr Irrelevant?
RED DAWN!!
No idea how this one lasted with all the children of the 80s up in here
I thought of it early in the day, but promptly forgot. I had pretty late round grade on it.
Hard to believe only three of you chose Glory.
I’ll close out my draft with Schindler’s List, mainly out of a feeling of obligation.
I’ll take “The GOP’s 2024 platform” for $600, Alex.
Last pick. “Wizards” from 77.
Not your prototypical “War movie”, but definitely a movie about war, and how utterly pointless & horrid it is.
Loved the look of it as well. Always wondered if they borrowed from V. Bode’s “Junkwaffel”
Maybe not an actual war movie, but lots of battles! Monty Python and the Holy Grail
I’ll allow it.
Here’s a fun one!
I thought Jarhead was a good “War is really fucked up” movie…
A fairly fun war movie that didn’t require a lot of intellectual investment:
“Fury.”
“pick up his face”
Lawrence of Arabia
I have never seen that, mostly because I never have the 14 required hours.
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
d. Lewis Milestone
Empire Strikes Back
Veronica: “Hey Randall.”
Randall: “37!?”
Like a trained circus seal
She misinterpreted Order 66 as blow them, instead of blow them away.
Poor Timmons…
The Hurt Locker
Fuck, I forgot about this one.
That was an excellent movie.
Ooh, that tops my Jacob’s Ladder value. Well done.
Forest Gump, cause why not and like, Tom Hanks
It’s literally about everything, so why not indeed.
4. All right, since my previous pick was invalidated, I’ll go with Master and Commander: Far Side of the World.
Fathers Day was yesterday ppl forget that
Paths of Glory (1957)
d. Stanley Kubrick
4. Damnit the run on Mel Gibson movies has started, so I’d better snatch one up: Braveheart.
No, he was drawn and quartered.
Witches are burned or drowned.
Ah, damnit, serves me right for not Ctrl-F’ing the previous page too.
You forgot pressing. What a horrible way to go! They never tried that shit on an actual witch!
Just poor decisions here. Even for World War One.
“Smells like Gallipoli.”
What a fooking mess that was.
I mean, good thing Winston Churchill was an upper-class white man, otherwise he may never have gotten a second* chance!
*also applies to chance #1
And he lobbied hard to do something similar in WWII, going through the Balkans.
And who exactly would he be replaced with?
Did anyone pick Blackhawk Down yet?
Nope
Gumby’s pick is The Tomorrow War.
The movie is just OK, and called “We Were Soldiers Once”, because there’s only so much room on a marquee, but the book is outstanding. See the movie, then read the book.
Quality value late in the draft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBWmkwaTQ0k&ab_channel=Shout%21Factory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S68FYzq2vqU
Good flick
I wanted to like that movie, but did not. I almost picked it to tell the story of sometime commenter Pickett’s charge. Neil deGrasse Tyson was up to his usual schtick, complaining that some movie, (can’t remember which), didn’t;t have anything in the actual movie related to the title. Of course everyone jumps into the comments with ‘complaints’ about similar movies, (mine was ‘The Silence of the Lambs” was notable for its lack of either), and Picketts Charge comes in with:
/Credits roll at the end of ‘The Thin Red Line’
Me: FIRST OF ALL…..
I spit most of a drink out right there.
I thought it was good, but it moved a bit slowly. I thought Nick Nolte was fucking amazing. Sean Penn, too. But he always is. Mostly it was gorgeous and haunting. It definitely stuck with me.
Nolte is very good in that.
5th and final pick, because I had a platonic best friend named Tara (but I am not good at maintaining real-life friendships):
teh racially problematic Gone With the Wind
For my Revolutionary War pick…
Jesus! Actual fucking size!
I like the classics. Casablanca.
I had the Pamela Anderson remake on my board.
Enemy At The Gates featuring dueling snipers!
That was a fantastic film, I got talked into going to see it and ended up liking it more than everyone else who went.
Saw Operation Mincemeat recently. I liked it. Showed the “other side” of war rather well, I thought.
Same.
Time to go a little dark (this was teenage nightmare fuel, thanks to Metallica):
Johnny Got His Gun