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Author Topic: Passchendaele on Netflix  (Read 7781 times)

Offline Sterling Moose

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Re: Passchendaele on Netflix
« Reply #15 on: December 18, 2010, 02:17:14 PM »
It was pants.
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Offline Chairface

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Re: Passchendaele on Netflix
« Reply #16 on: December 19, 2010, 05:29:59 AM »
Eh, it was ok. I had free tickets to an advance screening though, so I didn't feel overly cheated. I was hoping for more, but if it's on netflix and it's not costing you anything watch the battle scenes.

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: Passchendaele on Netflix
« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2010, 06:57:53 AM »
Does Celine Dion get killed early in the piece? Preferably a direct hit with a 'Jack Johnson'. If so it might be worth my while viewing it.
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Offline Calimero

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Re: Passchendaele on Netflix
« Reply #18 on: December 19, 2010, 03:20:27 PM »
Does Celine Dion get killed early in the piece? Preferably a direct hit with a 'Jack Johnson'. If so it might be worth my while viewing it.

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Offline tim in saskatoon

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Re: Passchendaele on Netflix
« Reply #19 on: December 25, 2010, 04:38:12 PM »
I have to admit I was terribly disappointed with the film. I had read a number of interviews with paul Gross (who starred in, Directed and produced the film) and he talked about wanting to make it a tribute to his grandfather who had fought in the battle. So I went in thinking it would be a movie about the battle of Passchedale and the Canadians involvement in it (movie is named after the battle, director/producer claimed it was a tribute to relative that fought in it...). It was not about the battle. If I hadn't been expecting that, and had been expecting a romance set against the backdrop of war, I may not have been so disappointed - I might have even overlooked the gross historical inaccuracies... (oh, don't get me started...).

I think a movie that's about a battle should leave the average movie goer, who knows little about military history, with some sense of what actually happened historically - A Bridge too Far is a great example. It should also inspire easily distractible wargamer like myself want to go home and start painting toys for the period in question. I did not run home and bust out the 28mm late war Canadians... If it could have inspired me to do anything it would have been to run home and dress my wife up in a nurses uniform and have a little romp out in the rain with fireworks going off in the background... er...

I have a sense that Mr. Gross only used the name Passchedale because it sounded like sort of like passion-dale...  adding further to my disgust and disappointment.

Offline Stecal

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Re: Passchendaele on Netflix
« Reply #20 on: January 13, 2011, 01:11:38 PM »
Bill Trotter at the The Wargamer just posted a review of the movie:

http://www.wargamer.com/article/2980/passchendaele
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Offline dodge

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Re: Passchendaele on Netflix
« Reply #21 on: January 13, 2011, 03:04:37 PM »
I watched it recently,

and I have to say I lked it,

I felt the story and liked the bits of action

so there !

Offline Old Goat

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Re: Passchendaele on Netflix
« Reply #22 on: March 06, 2011, 11:23:56 AM »
I finally got around to this yesterday and well... :o

The bits I did think were interesting were opening scene the hand to hand scenes at the end which does something to convey the savagery of what trench fighting must have been like.

The rest was just awful, I mean awful, Morphine addicted nurse love interest with german father who died fighting for Germany at Vimy, the asthmatic younger brother who will join up at any cost, the crucification scene and the carrying the crucifed comrade back to his own lines with him still on the cross...Dear God!  Clumsy, daft...Bad film, which was a shame as it could have been brilliant.

I would also add for Tesco shoppers, avoid Company K as well...It doesn't matter how cheap it is...

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Offline GladioHumanitas

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Re: Passchendaele on Netflix
« Reply #23 on: March 06, 2011, 09:01:19 PM »
May be it´s only me. My father liked it a lot. I think I was mainlydissapointed because of the very few battle scenes. And I think that love-stories in Warmovies ALWAYS suck.

There are war movies with love stories mixed in... and then there are love movies with war stories mixed in.
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Offline Bugsda

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Re: Passchendaele on Netflix
« Reply #24 on: March 06, 2011, 09:55:44 PM »
There should never be birds in war films, unless it's Susannah York in The Battle of Britain 

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Offline carlos marighela

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Re: Passchendaele on Netflix
« Reply #25 on: March 07, 2011, 12:17:23 AM »
Au contraire. There probably should be more as long as they are along the lines of Irene Papas in The Guns of Navarone, Cláudia Abreu in The Canudos War or Marisé Alvarez  in Che, El Argentino.

 :P

 

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