Posted on Jan 1, 2019
Which 1940s-1970s military movie would you like to see re-made today?
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I've put a few possibilities in the survey, but sense I can list 5 choices, I'm certain that the most popular choice will be "Other." If you choose "Other" then please leave a comment listing the movie you would prefer to see re-made.
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NONE! Today's P.C. culture would undoubtedly ruin any and all movies it tried to remake.
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"Re-makes" are usually horrible, so I'm not too sure I'd like to see one. However, if I had to choose, I'd like to see a re-make of "The Green Berets." Clueless, progressive, anti-military journalist embed with CT Special Forces unit and get an "education"...sounds good. Maybe Michael Bay (13 Hours) could do a decent job of it.
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Yeah, or Michael Mann. I wanted to list that one in the survey options but I ran out of space.
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That one is awesome. A great leadership movie. That's what new movies are missing: plot and a point. I like the human aspect of the older movies.
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
SGT (Join to see) - I did love that movie and also for a few years there was a TV series, 12 Oclock High which was a weekly one hour show. I was also very well done and with a Bomb Group of B17s in the 8th Air Force.
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SGT (Join to see) I wouldn't want any re-made. I would like to see some other stories get told. I'd also like to see some other contemporary stories get told.
A few I have always wanted to see made into films:
- a Village Called Freedom /Beyond Nam Dong: story of the 1963 defense of a SF Camp that resulted in the first MoH recipient in Vietnam.
- Blackhorse Riders/FSB Illingworth: a two week period in March/April 1970 where ATroop, 11th ACR rescues an infantry company from 2/8 IN 1CD and then days later 2/8 fights for its life against the same NVA Regiment they smeared at the onset. All of this on the cusp of the Cambodia Incursion. PUC for A Troop and MoH recipient Peter Lemon from 2/8 IN for the defense of FSB Illingworth.
- Lewis Millet's life story...it would be daunting, dawn of WWII in 1940 through Vietnam. Would be a challenging series of period pieces.
- a Longest Day type ensemble cast tell the story of a BCT in Iraq or Afghanistan during a massive operation. If they need some ideas they should look at the unit citations for some of the BCTs in Afghanistan when it was the economy of Force theater while the Iraq surge was ongoing. I know there was plenty in my BCTs narrative to make a few movies.
- Monuments Men type montage / ensemble cast of the first EOD detachments in WWII.
- after watching a recent gun truck documentary on the Smithsonian Channel, it would be a hooah feature film.
I am glad to see COP Keating will be on the silver screen (MoH recipients Romesha and Carter's stories). Good to see the sacrifice and heroism of conventional units get some air time.
A few I have always wanted to see made into films:
- a Village Called Freedom /Beyond Nam Dong: story of the 1963 defense of a SF Camp that resulted in the first MoH recipient in Vietnam.
- Blackhorse Riders/FSB Illingworth: a two week period in March/April 1970 where ATroop, 11th ACR rescues an infantry company from 2/8 IN 1CD and then days later 2/8 fights for its life against the same NVA Regiment they smeared at the onset. All of this on the cusp of the Cambodia Incursion. PUC for A Troop and MoH recipient Peter Lemon from 2/8 IN for the defense of FSB Illingworth.
- Lewis Millet's life story...it would be daunting, dawn of WWII in 1940 through Vietnam. Would be a challenging series of period pieces.
- a Longest Day type ensemble cast tell the story of a BCT in Iraq or Afghanistan during a massive operation. If they need some ideas they should look at the unit citations for some of the BCTs in Afghanistan when it was the economy of Force theater while the Iraq surge was ongoing. I know there was plenty in my BCTs narrative to make a few movies.
- Monuments Men type montage / ensemble cast of the first EOD detachments in WWII.
- after watching a recent gun truck documentary on the Smithsonian Channel, it would be a hooah feature film.
I am glad to see COP Keating will be on the silver screen (MoH recipients Romesha and Carter's stories). Good to see the sacrifice and heroism of conventional units get some air time.
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LTC Jason Mackay
SGT (Join to see) - a dramatization of Death Traps by Belton Cooper would be cool too.
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LTC Jason Mackay
SGT (Join to see) - an English language version of Oz 77. Israeli film about the Armor TF that was instrumental in shutting down the combined Arab assault in the Golan Heights in 1973. The book is The Heights of Courage written by the BN TF Commander, BG Kahalani who was also the Israeli SECDEF in the 1982 Lebanon invasion.
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LTC Jason Mackay
SGT (Join to see) - can't believe I left it out...Thunder Run, 2003 mech/Armor push into Iraq.
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LTC Jason Mackay - Ah, yes, the Hollywood "Frisbee"/"French Painter" style of unshaped beret.
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I think a naval movie would be a lot better with today's special effects. Maybe Midway or that one where the aircraft carrier went through time to WWII.
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LTC Jason Mackay
SGT (Join to see) - the Bedford Incident would have an audience of blank stares as hardly any young people today understand the Cold War itself or the nearly hot War the Allied Navies and the Warsaw Pact engaged in every day during the Cold War.
One of my instructors from the NWC was a cold warrior SWO. His impression: I had more in common with Russian Naval Officers than the average American as we were in the same struggle in the same ocean on opposite sides at the same time.
One of my instructors from the NWC was a cold warrior SWO. His impression: I had more in common with Russian Naval Officers than the average American as we were in the same struggle in the same ocean on opposite sides at the same time.
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None. Too many movies are getting "re-made" or "rebooted." Leave alone what is already good/great.
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I was thinking that I wish more young people saw the Audie Murphy film To Hell and Back, but almost none of them ever will. That leaves them with various superhero movies that present courage and initiative as the domain solely of the physically strong or especially talented. I like the Joe-Everyman aspect of many of the classic war movies.
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I doubt very much they could improve any any great movie from the past. One example, the longest day, with an all star cast and close following of the events and even the German's speaking in German. (There were subtitles to see what they were saying) The eye for detail that seems to escape many newer movies.
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The old movies are generally better than the new ones, but I think that's because the old ones had plots whereas the new ones are just special-effects demonstrations. Imagine an indie film done by a small studio that is adamant about realism and story but has access to some modern effects.
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