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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
I can't argue against that assessment. It's really not my favorite genre. Off the top of my head, the only WWII flicks I can say I've seen are Saving Private Ryan, Fury, Inglorious Basterds and Pearl Harbor.
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I never watched Pearl Harbor, because Bay/Bruckheimer should never touch historical material of any type.
By far the most bleak WWII film that I've seen that focuses on combat and not the externalities of war ( Schindler's List) is the 1993 version of Stalingrad. After that, I'd say Saving Private Ryan, Das Boot, and Fury are in order of descending bleakness.
Dunkirk was an extremely good film. I'm surprised that people had as many problems understanding the narrative structure as they did. My main critiques focus on the lack of claustrophobia that must have been present on that beach and, IMO, needed to be stressed in greater detail, and the
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