Harry Potter and the Battle of Loos

[dominic]

Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori

[xeoran]

What has always amazed me are the Americans who had the benefit of three years of hindsight but still joined with the same enthusiasm as their allies had at the beginning.

Well in part the war wasn't seen as the utter horror it is today. In good trenches it was entirely possible to have a nicer set up that back in the East End slums in Blighty. One of my English teachers told me that his grandfather joined up from Ireland because the trenches looked nicer than where he was living and they got free food and clothing.

[Plynkes]

Well I must say I rather enjoyed it (though I'm not sure "enjoyed" is the right word), though it is (perhaps expectedly) something of a tear-jerker, and a little depressing.

Not an action film by any means, probably about a minute's worth of action in the whole two hours. Us Brits don't really do action. A moving emotional drama, then,  but no real surprises.

The Great War was beastly, awful and unfair, and there can never be enough tears to shed over it. I think we all knew that fact anyway, but I suppose it doesn't hurt to be reminded of it every now and then.

[Lowtardog]

I agree not a bad film, I still can`t get over Harry Potter with a moustache, but it did show well how young many of these brave boys were. You can`t imagine how Rudyard must have felt knowing he did everything he could to get his son into the war and then be confronted with the fact that he in effect he sent his son to his death.

[Mainly28s]

It's a typically British film. It relies more on acting than action. I certainly enjoyed it- and learned a few things as result ('cos I ended up researching Rudyard Kipling). All in all, very well worth watching.

[dominic]

Good news to all those with no access to great British TV.  The DVD will be released on 19 November.  You can get it at Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.de

[Prof.Witchheimer]

It's a typically British film.

great ! honestly, I love typically British movies, much more better then german ones. Will definitely order that movie.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

btw, there is another movie with Daniel Radcliffe, December Boys, not historical at all but sounds like a nice story about some orphan boys

[dominic]

Ooo...Orphan boys... does he meet Tom Riddle in a cave somewhere?? ::

[Hammers]

It's a typically British film. It relies more on acting than action.

...which is why I consider BBCworlds best producer of TV. Well, BBC and HBO.

[Plynkes]

Ahhh!!!! Got it! It has been driving me mad! I couldn't figure out for the life of me where I had seen the girl playing Jack's sister before.

I finally gave in and looked on IMDB.


She was Sally Sparrow in Doctor Who!


Phew, that's a relief.

[W.B.Kurgan]

:: I would have told you if I'd known it was doing your nut!

I know what you mean though - there's nothing worse than recognising an actor an not knowing where you've seen them before!

I still haven't got round to watching the second hour of this yet. We watched the first half when it was on but recorded the second half.  :roll:

[xeoran]

"A Young Man Fights For His Country"- somebody shoot the man who came up with the tag!  :wink: