Article: Staff Picks #006

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

reference: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=765

I picked some unconventional ones. I just want to mention that I don't think those are really my favorites, but they're recommendations and they deserved to be brought up.

Go ahead and add your own favs here.

[House of Mustard]

I pleased to see how many times Patton was recommended.  I was also pleased to see how times The Sands of Iwo Jima was mentioned.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Patton had me with the first line

"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country"

[Brenna]

My very favorite movie set in the WW II era is "Empire of the Sun."

It's a very powerfully emotional movie, and it's interesting to see the war from the viewpoint of a little boy caught in the conflict.

[Lieutenant Kije]

For you musical theater types, theres South Pacific.

And if I'd have seen it all the way through I would have responded just to get Bridge on the River Kwai on the list.  That's a great movie.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

that's my problem too. So many movies I've just never seen all the way through: Guns of Navaronne, Great Escape, Dirty Dozen, yatta yatta yatta.

I'm an uncultured swine, I know, but I make up for it in verbosity.

[Fellfrosch]

Bridge on teh River Kwai is also very good, but South Pacific is...not very good. In my estimation, at least (which is always correct).

Like Mustard, I'm a huge fan of The Longest Day--though you don't really appreciate that movie until you watch it with our father, every single year, and listen while he pauses the movie ever five or ten minutes to read a relevant excerpt from a book or quote a random fact from his trivia-laden head. When it came time to choose three, though, it had to be Patton.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Im with ya fell,... longest day is good to.

South Pacific, Its a shame the musical is so bad when the michener book is so good.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I read most of the Longest Day in my War & Lit class. I say most because our teacher had us read certain parts of it. It was really rather good. Although its a more patriotic sorts of book, its still pretty good.

I liked Enemy at the Gates. That was a good one.

[JP Dogberry]

I had to study the book of Empire of the Sun in school.

That movie was not powerful, clever, or even "Not awful".

It was evil incarnate.  And I *Still* have that tune stuck in my head, which accounts for 90% of my viewpoint.

[Brenna]

That's funny, because I *adore* the music to that movie.

[Fellfrosch]

I've never seen Empire of the Sun, buit I love the soundtrack.

[JP Dogberry]

You didn't have to study it in school. You didn't have to write essays on the book. You didn't have to spend an hour or two every day for a month talking about it in a literary sense.

[GorgonlaVacaTremendo]

I enjoyed the recent movie "Hart's War".  I thought it was very well done.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

that would just make it more interesting for me. You people who are bothered by analytical study completely mystify me.