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
I just watched this one last night. It has the most expensive scene ever made during the silent era. 42,000 bucks in 1925 to drop a train off a bridge. That’s around 700k in today’s money.
This is still the greatest air battle movie ever made, all done with real airplanes. It also stars Jean Harlow’s tits.
Braveheart was entertaining and it ended with Mel Gibson getting gutted.
That’s a hanging sinker waist high.
The movie version of Daniel Woodrell’s “Woe to Live On.”
It’s about Quantrill’s Raiders and features the most authentic re-enactment of the raid on Lawrence Kansas on film.
I loved the book. Is he ded or did he just quit writin??
The Maids Version was released in 2013 and his most recent work. I check every few weeks to see if there’s anything in the works and nothing yet. Get to writing son!
This counts, and Patricia Arquette was at her hottest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3IfhWV_w1w
Haven’t seen it so will reserve judge-judginess as to whether or not its a war movie, but ‘True Romance’ would like a word about Ms. Arquette at her hottest:
This is a good point…
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy. Book was good and the movie had a killer cast.
I probably should have disallowed Cold War earlier and made that a separate draft. There are a ton of good movies we could have used just on that.
Ah well, you get what you pay for.
Glory is a really good film, even if the South does win the climactic battle. Turns out “hi-diddle-diddle, straight up the middle” isn’t the best strategy against entrenched troops with artillery support.
/shakes fist at WCS
BY THREE MINUTES YOU BASTARD!!! THREE MINUTES!!!
-sigh- No, no, I’ve got this one.
Was Jeff Fischer their strategy/tactics guy?
3. I’ll be very impressed if anyone can get better value than this moving forward: Jacob’s Ladder
I haven’t seen that in years. I know it deals with PTSD but is there a war anywhere in there?
He gets shot in Vietnam.
Good enough!
Within his own mind?
Without spoiling things for anyone who hasn’t seen it, yes, it takes place during the Vietnam War.
Terrific film.
Goddammit man! I was just watching the clock before taking this.
It is a fantastic film and it guts me every damn time I see it.
I couldn’t agree more. Sooner, yes, but not more.
Hamburger Hill was a good watch.
“It sure was!!”
Andy Reid, thinking of something else.
Eff it, I’ll take Captain America
So fucking pissed right now. Asked out of the blue by an internal team I have never dealt with to present information about a software integration and was asked to provide the technical info. During the meeting they threw me under the bus for being too technical. My manager had never heard of these people and I am finally figuring out that they are operating outside of their remit. But they have completely thrown me under the bus and are constantly apologizing for my presentation which presented exactly what they said they wanted presented.
Gonna go up my COC (military reference linking to the draft) and see if I can’t stir a cauldron of shit up.
You just can’t let shit like that pass unaddressed. Bring a flame thrower Buddy.
Talked to COC, we figured out these people were actually sales weasels, and actually were making contact with the client (who have been my only assignment for 13 years) without the person ultimately responsible for the client on our side not knowing anything about it. Interesting to see how this will go down. Fucking sales weasels, they probably don’t even know that if they sell a service to the client they do not get commission due to the relationship already established.
If they aren’t smrt enough to understand technical info, they should not have requested it. Make sure your COC knows that you dumbed it down for them!
Need some Gregory Peck up in here: “Pork Chop Hill.”
Star Wars, If that’s too vague, I’ll go with the original, aka part 4 aka New Hope.
The Blair Witch Project would have also worked.
Return of the Jedi was already taken, now New Hope.
All others are on the board.
Missed that it was an image when searching
Knowing well the history behind this raid, Hollywood, as usual, comes up short. However the base story is in there and it was an extraordinary operation.
Edge of Tomorrow
That was the 2B pick on my board – I went back and forth several times.
2. Starship Troopers. A brilliantly subversive masterpiece.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-_7FaWnlhS4
Cold War intrigue? The Third Man is great.
/insert “Lucky Pierre” joke
World War Z?
/read the book, did nae see the moviefilm
I really hope HBO turns that into a series someday. The movie wasn’t particularly bad, but as a series in the right hands it could be an absolute treasure.
No, because the movie is fucking terrible.
Me either. Booky book was good.
Going with another Lee Marvin movie, “Hell in the Pacific”. I think “Enemy Mine” might have been loosely based on it…
Relax… she gets her’s… in the END…
Sounds like my kinda flick!
I saw this one on TV a few months ago, talk about WTF channel surfing.
Next pick: 1941
I’d like to put in a pick on tWBS’ behalf.
This seems like it should be a Hallmark movie, but unlikely with the actors listed.
It was better than I expected, if not as good as the book (North Cakalaky author)
It was such blatant Oscar bait that I couldn’t abide watching it, though I should probably read the book.
How the hell is M*A*S*H still available?
Not anymore! Yoink!
Oh, I’ll take M*A*S*H.
I’ll take
Valerie Perrine’s Breastser, Slaughterhouse Five please.Could probably also go in an anti-war draft.
Hunt for Red October
not sure its a war movie, as like, it was part of the Cold war.
The Cold War opens up many possibilities.
If we’re going to allow ‘Stripes’, (and we very much are), we’re going to allow Hunt for Red October
(Had to switch Commissioner pictures)
PEDANTRY ALERT:
The fact that Patton was selected as the Commissioner does not mean Patton the movie has been selected.
So I’ll double down on George C Scott and take Patton the movie
I was waiting for someone to do this. Fair is fair.
“Rommel you magnificent bastard…I READ YOUR BOOK!!!!”
Three Kings.
Damn solid movie despite Mark Wahlberg.
GREAT movie. Wish I’d picked it.
The Big Red One.
Going with another Lee Marvin vehicle, because Lee Marvin was a total fucking bad ass.
“I bet you’re a big Lee Marvin fan, aren’t ya.”
https://youtu.be/rB5AiyTcMic
Michelle Triola wasn’t
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c91XUyg9iWM
That screeching, squealing, rapacious swamp sow….
Palimony!
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
The Cold War at its coldest, yet all of the submarine exteriors were shot at or near San Diego, and all the polar scenes were shot on the massive exterior MGM Lot 3 at Jefferson & Overland in balmy Culver City (which is all redeveloped now). This was Howard Hughes favorite movie, and he had it screened hundreds of times as he lay in bed in his blacked out suite at The Desert Inn and during these viewings he dictated that his engineers needed to do more cool secret projects like this and also his toenails grew another ten inches.
I’ll take Bridge Over The River Kwai (Leonard) “What have I done?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaArxPRaCLc
Great pick.
THIS DRAFT I CALL IT MY DAD BECAUSE IT LOVES ALL THE SAME MOVIES
1. Perhaps a little recency bias for me, but I really enjoyed Dunkirk
Excellent pick. Talk about pacing.
Ahhh! I was gonna go right there!
I’m going with Victory for my next pick. Pele in his best movie role.
Hard to believe there was a time when both Oliver Stone and Charlie Sheen were sane, but Platoon was a great movie.
Oh, they’ve NEVER been sane. No one cared back then.
Despite its relative newness I’ll take “1917.”
An excellent film, with insane long takes and maniacal pacing.
too Blair today
Also a great found-footage witch movie.
Can’t blame ya, I think we all wanted Kelly’s Heroes on our squad.
Author’s privilege.
Kind of like prima nocte, without all the rape
I blame the time zone delay…
To be fair, it’s a great movie.
To be unfair and petty, (which I’m pretty sure is in our mission statement)…
I always liked the subversive nature of “The Dirty Dozen”
Fuuuuuck that was my next next pick.
(Lots of Telly Savalas up in here)
Who loves ya, baby?
Robin Williams’s best movie? Possibly.
Good Morning, Vietnam
https://youtu.be/Erf2iFHG44M
Das Boot (1981)
I saw this 400’ beneath the surface of the North Atlantic. We watched it for diversionary escapist entertainment.
Well, Yeah Right screwed me with the excellent pick of A Bridge Too Far, (and he’s right about the casting, too. Michael Caine and Sean Connery are just two of many), so I had to put my thinking cap on and come up with
Probably more of a courtroom drama when you get right down to it, (I frankly think it ought to be required viewing for law students as to what zealously advocating for your clients means), but it does take place during the Boer War, and it is an excellent, excellent movie. Seek it out if you haven’t already seen it, and please don’t shoot any itinerant Dutch preachers.
My mom loved her sexy actors and some of her most swoon worthy were Sean Connery, Michael Caine, James Caan, Ryan O’Neil and Robert Redford. When the movie was released I read her the cast and she almost fainted then immediately started looking for movie times.
And an aubergine
I’ll take The Guns of Navarone only because my dad made the single greatest fart joke in the history of the world when we were watching it and he had to take a shit.
That is a great movie irrespective of your dad’s bowels
Full Metal Jacket
This would have been my second pick.
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I mean, this is as obvious as Baker Mayfield at 1 overall.
Bart said it, so it must be true: “There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II and the Star Wars trilogy. If you’d like to learn more about war, there are lots of books in your library with cool, gory pictures. Well, good night, everybody.”
Thirty minute rule invoked: next pick. Whenever I’ve got 72 or so hours to kill I can always waste a majority of them watching “A Bridge Too Far.”
The budget for casting alone had to be insane.
You bastard. That was my next pick. Recently rewatched it on Netflix. Took me three nights.
Inglourious Basterds had it’s moments.
You son of a bitch. Taking Kelly’s Heroes. That was my go to.
Saving Private Ryan
Was going to go with “Shaving Ryan’s Privates” but since that is a movie based on the title of a war movie, seemed a bit too far of a stretch.
I would have allowed it. The Ballsofsteelandfury Corollary and all that.
Hmm, the Patton image isn’t allowed to be pictured. Goddammit.
/slaps wounded private, hard.
Just as long as you don’t slap wounded privates, hard or otherwise…
opps
Dr. Strangelove
Stripes
RAZ-ZLE DAZ-ZLE!
Apocalypse Now.
Particularly if hallucinogens are involved.
I heard that “Coming Home in a Body Bag” was almost as good.