Over 20 years after its release, We Were Soldiers still holds up and is worth revisiting this Veterans Day. The film honors soldiers who’ve served in the military, doesn’t glorify the perceived necessity of war, and aims to highlight the unbreakable bonds only soldiers and their families ...
Fraser: We were fixed on a crane arm. There was only a certain height that we could get in the exterior where we shot that at Origo. We definitely had a lot of extras that day. I can’t remember exactly, but we must have had hundreds. The beauty of this movie is that it so sea...
“I’m gonna walk / down the sidewalk / like it’s a runway / … / I’m gonna be like Madonna” We Are Soldiers We Have Guns, November I’ve just moved to New York City, and it’s just turned to November, and I have to say that I admire the attitude of those lyrics. When...
To do that, you hire soldiers to either attack an opponents territory or defend your own territories. You pick how many soldiers to take with you and then enter a team death match style game mode and see who loses all their soldiers first. I found that sneaking around and flanking the en...
As a war movie, it is more notable for what’s not in it, than what is in it. No politicians. No maps. No lengthy captions explaining where in the war we are, other than 330,000 British, French, Belgian, and Canadian soldiers are on a beach waiting to come “home.” A couple ...
Dune: Part Two's opening fight scene between the Fremen and Harkonnen soldiers takes place during a solar eclipse, making for some instantly memorable orange-tinted visuals courtesy of cinematographer Greig Fraser. In an exciting twist of fate, the cast and crew of Dune: Part Two witnessed an...
The Giants won the pennant that year, but Willie went hitless his first 22 times at bat. Manager Leo Durocher came upon him in the clubhouse. Tears were streaming down Willie’s cheeks. “I can’t help it. I can’t hit them cats, Mistah Leo,” he sobbed. Leo put his arm around ...
soldiers, scholars and peasants. At first sight a list beginning with kings and ending with peasants looks like a mere omnium gatherum, but in reality all these people have a common factor. All of them are archaic types, people who are governed by tradition and whose eyes are turned towards...
The movie chronicles the harrowing journey of German soldiers attempting to desert the Wermacht's 6th Army during the highly pivotal Battle of Stalingrad, which is what makes it unique among great war movies that bombed at the box office. While Stalingrad is also just one of the many films ...
Some were simply the surplus male population who had to look for another source of income; others were runway serfs or ex-soldiers; a minority, though the most interesting, were outstanding men who were unwilling to accept the meek and passive role of peasant. They usually operated in bands ...