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PostPosted: 19 Jan 2007 16:25 
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Right so I am sort of making myself into a reviewer here but what the heck. Any one seen the film? It deals with Hitlers last days of power and his slowly deteriating control of both his troops and himself. It's excellently done with all german actors speaking german and the locations looks breathtaking. If you're going to see a film about the war then see this one!

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Zed, that sounds like a good movie, is it sub-titled? Since my german sux. :bs

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man, you gotta realise that thor and bos fell out of the patriot tree (like the ugly tree, but instills patriotism instead of ugly) and hit every branch on the way down.


"Gone now, dispersed by the brutal destruction of this one day, was the belief that the Darkman and his army of the dead were so superior as to be invincible. By attempting to destroy the morale of the Marines, the Darkman had restored it to full vigor. Dia De La Muerto had failed in its objectives."
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Hmm I've heard of this one. Another good one is Downfall. It was made in Germany a few years ago (I think just before I went to Boot) and is about well... the downfall and the last days of the Third Reich. Puts a good human impression on what could have went on down there.


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In that case wolf these two movies have excactly the same angle. And yes it is subtitled and the actor playing Adolf is so like any picture you have ever seen of the dictator that you wouldn't know the difference! And (at least on the version I have) there is a pretty heavy interview with him on how he feelt it was to utter the most grave natzi propaganda and yet be able to be himself a none racial and regular actor.

Oh and just so you know my german isn't much better I'd imagine :w

It's really a thought provoking film with one scene heavier then the next. Personally I think this is a MUST HAVE! and rate it 5 of five stars!

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Zed I will ad that one to my purchase list also. I hope you know you have just doubled my monthly budget for movie purchases. :w :bs




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man, you gotta realise that thor and bos fell out of the patriot tree (like the ugly tree, but instills patriotism instead of ugly) and hit every branch on the way down.


"Gone now, dispersed by the brutal destruction of this one day, was the belief that the Darkman and his army of the dead were so superior as to be invincible. By attempting to destroy the morale of the Marines, the Darkman had restored it to full vigor. Dia De La Muerto had failed in its objectives."
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In that case glad to be a pain! :w Though really, I can't wait to hear your initial reactions :AH

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I think two scenes that stick out in my memory from Downfall are when he's awarding Iron Crosses to a bunch of Volksgrenadier (all kids)


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and this underlying story line of another group of kids that man a PaK im the middle of the street. Their NCO gets killed and they are getting overrun, the two older kids send the younger ones away and are getting ready to run when out of the clear the girl hands a boy a pistol and tells him to shoot her... Which he does...


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As soon as I watch them, I will post my reactions. :AH

So, have you read my fallout meets stargate fanfic yet? :bs




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Benno the Mad Wrote:
man, you gotta realise that thor and bos fell out of the patriot tree (like the ugly tree, but instills patriotism instead of ugly) and hit every branch on the way down.


"Gone now, dispersed by the brutal destruction of this one day, was the belief that the Darkman and his army of the dead were so superior as to be invincible. By attempting to destroy the morale of the Marines, the Darkman had restored it to full vigor. Dia De La Muerto had failed in its objectives."
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Sorry no, but I might just do that since I have some ideel time right now. And now I am pretty sure we are talking about the same movie wolf. (It must be they can't both have that similar scenes) The question that arise is why did the publichers think they needed to rename it before releasing it on the American marked? :AC

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Yes we are. I always thought it was two different movies but it turns out that they are the same. I guess they changed the title so Americans/British wouldn't wonder what "Der Untergang" means. So its "Downfall" to us.

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Yes it's kind of insulting really do they really think the american and british consumers don't understand two words of german? Well what ever at least that mystery is out of the world :AH

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Or the fact that you can easily look it up on here on the net. I took 1 1/2 years of high school German and I don't know what it means, but I can still look it up!


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Yeah it just seems silly well as I said no matter, I am not an english man nor american and I got it with the original title so it's really not my fight :w

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