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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by vnatale » Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:28 am

Watched Operation Red Sea last night.

Tremendous, impressive movie!

I've seen tons and tons and tons of movies in my life. This one is one of the BEST EVER that I have seen.

It'd fit into the War / Military genre. Struck me the same way Black Hawk Down struck me the first time I saw that movie.

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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by vnatale » Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:55 pm

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Post by dualstow » Sun Sep 20, 2020 2:53 pm

There’s an Australian show called The Letdown about new parents that’s pretty great so far.
I think it’s from 2016.
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Post by Smith1776 » Wed Sep 30, 2020 4:16 pm

Saul Goodman has more hair in Better Call Saul than he did in Breaking Bad. This despite Better Call Saul being the newer show. He also has fewer wrinkles.

They really young-ed him up!
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Post by vnatale » Fri Oct 02, 2020 11:47 pm

American Murder is unique.....and hard to watch...

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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by vnatale » Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:56 pm

Enemy at the Gates is an exceptional movie. Cannot believe it's a 19 year old movie and never knew about it until Monday night.

The battles scenes at the beginning are both realistic and intense.

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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by dualstow » Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:11 am

vnatale wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:56 pm
Enemy at the Gates is an exceptional movie. Cannot believe it's a 19 year old movie and never knew about it until Monday night.

The battles scenes at the beginning are both realistic and intense.

Vinny
That is still the only movie I’ve ever seen with a Holocaust/concentration camp sex scene.
Ed Harris was awesome.
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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by vnatale » Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:49 am

dualstow wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:11 am
vnatale wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:56 pm
Enemy at the Gates is an exceptional movie. Cannot believe it's a 19 year old movie and never knew about it until Monday night.

The battles scenes at the beginning are both realistic and intense.

Vinny
That is still the only movie I’ve ever seen with a Holocaust/concentration camp sex scene.
Ed Harris was awesome.
That was NOT a Holocaust / concentration camp. It was where all the Russian snipers were.

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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by dualstow » Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:57 am

vnatale wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:49 am
dualstow wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:11 am
That is still the only movie I’ve ever seen with a Holocaust/concentration camp sex scene.
Ed Harris was awesome.
That was NOT a Holocaust / concentration camp. It was where all the Russian snipers were.
Could be. My memory is a bit hazy on it as I saw it soon after the release.
But, it may as well have been a camp, regarding the visuals.
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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by Kriegsspiel » Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:04 pm

The sex scene was in the sewers or a bunker in Stalingrad. Apparently there was a group of young female snipers in Stalingrad with a cool name. The Untouchables or something like that. If normal soldiers were caught with them in flagrante delicto, the soldier would be shot.

Really good movie anyway.
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The battles scenes at the beginning are . . . realistic.
What are you basing this on?
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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by Kriegsspiel » Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:40 pm

Ah, yes, it was in Ghosts Of The Ostfront, part 3:
Some Russian female soldiers looked like professional wrestlers. These Sniper Girls were like pinup girls, 18, 19, 20 years old, and very pretty. And the battalion saw them coming and thought 'Ohh, heyyy. Some girls in the unit!' and the first thing the commander said was, 'these women were the Untouchables' he called them. 'And if any one of you touches these women, you're going to be off to a penal battalion. So they were the Untouchables. But they earned the respect of this male unit, who started calling them the "Sniper Girls" when they saw what they could do.
Some more:
The Germans didn't like facing women in combat, and they faced a lot of them on the Russian front. There was another unit that the Germans wrote about that they called die Nachthexen; the Night Witches. This was a unit of bomber pilots, all women, and they flew the old-style World War One biplane. These planes were very quiet anyway... And the tactic that the Nightwitches used was to come over the German trenches at night, and then fly wayyy up high, before they cut their engines (turned them off) and let them glide down noiselessly over the Germany trenches and release the bombs when they got real low. And this would FREAK the Germans out. Because they wouldn't hear anything coming, and then all of a sudden the bombs are dropping. And these were the Nachthexen.
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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by vnatale » Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:19 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:04 pm
The sex scene was in the sewers or a bunker in Stalingrad. Apparently there was a group of young female snipers in Stalingrad with a cool name. The Untouchables or something like that. If normal soldiers were caught with them in flagrante delicto, the soldier would be shot.

Really good movie anyway.
vnatale wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:56 pm
The battles scenes at the beginning are . . . realistic.
What are you basing this on?
That for a "war" movie the scenes seemed super realistic and not at all antiseptic.

I did later read that the Russians were not as aggressive as shown in the opening scenes in machine gunning their own solders who had been retreating after having been sent to be their slaughter against the well entrenched German army.

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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by Xan » Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:34 pm

vnatale wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:19 pm
Kriegsspiel wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:04 pm
The sex scene was in the sewers or a bunker in Stalingrad. Apparently there was a group of young female snipers in Stalingrad with a cool name. The Untouchables or something like that. If normal soldiers were caught with them in flagrante delicto, the soldier would be shot.

Really good movie anyway.
vnatale wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:56 pm
The battles scenes at the beginning are . . . realistic.
What are you basing this on?
That for a "war" movie the scenes seemed super realistic and not at all antiseptic.

I did later read that the Russians were not as aggressive as shown in the opening scenes in machine gunning their own solders who had been retreating after having been sent to be their slaughter against the well entrenched German army.

Vinny
I think Kriegs is pointing out that you don't actually know what "realistic" means in a battle. By "realistic" you mean "gory". Which might well be true!
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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by Kriegsspiel » Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:44 pm

vnatale wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:19 pm
That for a "war" movie the scenes seemed super realistic and not at all antiseptic.
Gotcha
I did later read that the Russians were not as aggressive as shown in the opening scenes in machine gunning their own solders who had been retreating after having been sent to be their slaughter against the well entrenched German army.
Where did you read that? Dan Carlin talked about Order 227 (Not One Step Backward) quite a bit in Ghosts. If you're interested in the Ostfront at all you should definitely check it out, it's phenomenal. Jocko also talked about it in Jocko 109 Stalingrad: Memories Of Hell, if memory serves.
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I think Kriegs is pointing out that you don't actually know what "realistic" means in a battle. By "realistic" you mean "gory". Which might well be true!
Well, I wasn't thinking like that, but that might be the case as well.
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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by dualstow » Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:01 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:40 pm
Ah, yes, it was in Ghosts Of The Ostfront, part 3:
Some Russian female soldiers looked like professional wrestlers. These Sniper Girls were like pinup girls, 18, 19, 20 years old, and very pretty. And the battalion saw them coming and thought 'Ohh, heyyy. Some girls in the unit!' and the first thing the commander said was, 'these women were the Untouchables' he called them. 'And if any one of you touches these women, you're going to be off to a penal battalion. So they were the Untouchables. But they earned the respect of this male unit, who started calling them the "Sniper Girls" when they saw what they could do.
Some more:
The Germans didn't like facing women in combat, and they faced a lot of them on the Russian front. There was another unit that the Germans wrote about that they called die Nachthexen; the Night Witches. This was a unit of bomber pilots, all women, and they flew the old-style World War One biplane. These planes were very quiet anyway... And the tactic that the Nightwitches used was to come over the German trenches at night, and then fly wayyy up high, before they cut their engines (turned them off) and let them glide down noiselessly over the Germany trenches and release the bombs when they got real low. And this would FREAK the Germans out. Because they wouldn't hear anything coming, and then all of a sudden the bombs are dropping. And these were the Nachthexen.
Awesome.
Fun off-topic fact: Dr Ruth (before your time, Kriegs?) was a sniper once upon a time. That’s just crazy.
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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by Kriegsspiel » Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:18 pm

I think I watched a Dr. Ruth show when I was a young kid, but she talked about it in such a non-hot way that I couldn't get into it. Another fun fact: the first girl I screwed in college was an IDF chick O0
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Post by dualstow » Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:22 pm

O0 I have to agree Dr Ruth didn’t make it sexy, but she was- is- a fun character.
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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by Smith1776 » Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:52 pm

Enemy at the Gates is one of my favourite movies of all time.

The sex scene is just kind of awkward though. Why does Rachel Weisz have such a look of fear in her eyes?
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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by Kriegsspiel » Thu Oct 15, 2020 6:10 am

It's almost like she was pretending to be in Stalingrad in 1942.
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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by vnatale » Thu Oct 15, 2020 8:05 am

Xan wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:34 pm
vnatale wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:19 pm
Kriegsspiel wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:04 pm
The sex scene was in the sewers or a bunker in Stalingrad. Apparently there was a group of young female snipers in Stalingrad with a cool name. The Untouchables or something like that. If normal soldiers were caught with them in flagrante delicto, the soldier would be shot.

Really good movie anyway.
vnatale wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:56 pm
The battles scenes at the beginning are . . . realistic.
What are you basing this on?
That for a "war" movie the scenes seemed super realistic and not at all antiseptic.

I did later read that the Russians were not as aggressive as shown in the opening scenes in machine gunning their own solders who had been retreating after having been sent to be their slaughter against the well entrenched German army.

Vinny
I think Kriegs is pointing out that you don't actually know what "realistic" means in a battle. By "realistic" you mean "gory". Which might well be true!
I had thought that was what he had meant in using the word. However, looking at the definition of the word, I believe I did use it properly: "representing familiar things in a way that is accurate or true to life."

I have read a fair amount of military books that describe battles in much detail. The scenes in the movie seemed to conform to those descriptions, particularly the ones I've read describing the D-Day assaults by the Allies and what they were met with by the entrenched and fortified Germans.

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Re: Netflix junkie

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Kriegsspiel wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:44 pm
vnatale wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:19 pm
That for a "war" movie the scenes seemed super realistic and not at all antiseptic.
Gotcha
I did later read that the Russians were not as aggressive as shown in the opening scenes in machine gunning their own solders who had been retreating after having been sent to be their slaughter against the well entrenched German army.
Where did you read that? Dan Carlin talked about Order 227 (Not One Step Backward) quite a bit in Ghosts. If you're interested in the Ostfront at all you should definitely check it out, it's phenomenal. Jocko also talked about it in Jocko 109 Stalingrad: Memories Of Hell, if memory serves.
Xan wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:34 pm
I think Kriegs is pointing out that you don't actually know what "realistic" means in a battle. By "realistic" you mean "gory". Which might well be true!
Well, I wasn't thinking like that, but that might be the case as well.
I did save as a bookmark one on the Ghosts you'd prior referred to and again here.

Here is what I'd found:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_at_the_Gates

The film also overdramatizes the role of blocking detachments in the Red Army. Although there was Order No. 227 (Russian: Директива Ставки ВГК №227) that became the rallying cry of "Not a step back!" (Russian: Ни шагу назад!, romanized: Ni shagu nazad!), machine gunners were not placed behind regular troops with orders to kill anyone who retreated. They were used only for penal troops. Detachments were used regularly to prevent withdrawal or desertion by regular troops. As per Order No. 227, each detachment would have between three and five barrier squads per 200 personnel.[25] In the first three months, blocking detachments shot 1,000 penal troops and sent 24,993 to penal battalions. By October 1942, the idea of regular blocking detachments was quietly dropped; by October 1944, the units were officially disbanded.[26][27][28] During the Battle of Stalingrad, the 62nd Army had the most arrests, and executions: 203 in all of which 49 were executed after battle, while 139 were sent to penal companies and battalions.[29][30][31]
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Re: Netflix junkie

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Smith1776 wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:52 pm
Enemy at the Gates is one of my favourite movies of all time.

The sex scene is just kind of awkward though. Why does Rachel Weisz have such a look of fear in her eyes?
Because they were bumping up a man on each side of them? There were tons of other men in the room in close proximity to them. There was the man who was up and walked by them and who was standing fairly close on.

And, then the information that Kriegsspiel gave us that if had been caught they would be executed! Or, at least he would be.

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Post by dualstow » Thu Oct 15, 2020 9:15 am

Kriegsspiel wrote:
Thu Oct 15, 2020 6:10 am
It's almost like she was pretending to be in Stalingrad in 1942.
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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by Smith1776 » Thu Oct 22, 2020 6:51 pm

Finally watched Bird Box. Excellent film, and a great use of psychological horror instead of actual monsters/demons/ghosts etc.
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Re: Netflix junkie

Post by Smith1776 » Wed Oct 28, 2020 4:52 pm

Have you guys watched The Queen's Gambit?
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