Ya know what I hate the most about the movie A Bridge too Far?

[taterguy]

The fuckin' title is a fuckin' spoiler.

Of course they don't make it to the bridge.

IT WAS TOO DAMN FAR AWAY

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[KG]

1. reminds me of the movie Titanic. someone told the ship sinks at the end

so i never bothered to go see it. :grr:

[SCantiGOP]

16. I watched it on TV

with a group of 6 or 7 people. One woman, who REALLY liked it, commented at the end, "Well, you can be certain they'll make a sequel to that." There was kind of a stunned silence as she realized a movie showing them picking the frozen bodies out of the sea probably wouldn't do well at the box office.

[seabeyond]

2. lol lol. having never seen the movie or thought about it

that is funny

[Mopar151]

3. I read a book about it - called The Devil's Birthday,

The battle for the bridges at Arnhiem. Cheney and Rummy shoulda read it.

[Iggo]

4. If I have learned nothing else here...

...what I have learned is that taterguy effing HATES spoilers.

[yawnmaster]

5. A very unrealistic movie...

I know, because I have beat that scenario many times.
It wasn't so hard.

[Mopar151]

6. Maybe you shoulda read the book, too.

The whole point of the foreword (by General Sir John Hackett) was the difference between fighting planning scenarios and fighting the Waffen SS.

[taterguy]

7. Shit, my edition of the book doesn't have that forward

Is it worth looking for it in in the library?

[Mopar151]

14. Probably

IIRC, it was a new edition published when the movie came out - had some other added stuff, too.

[yawnmaster]

19. its easier to boot up battlefield 1942, choose the scenario and..

fight.
Yep...captured the bridge many times.
I doubt General Sir John Hackett was talking about scenarios played on a dual core with a quality nvdia graphics card, was he?

[GOPisEvil]

8. The book is fantastic.

As is "The Longest Day" also by Cornelius Ryan.

[Va Lefty]

13. I remember reading "The Longest Day" in High School and I concur

an excellent book!

[petronius]

9. You know what pisses me off? I watched 'Band of Brothers' all the way through and

none of them were even related! Not even cousins. Brothers? WTF?

[Orsino]

12. And they were too busy fighting to form a band.

I call bullshit.

[Orrex]

10. I never watched it, because I thought it was a movie about dental prosthetics

And who the hell wants to watch that for criminy's sake?

[taterguy]

11. Laurence Olivier's dentist movie was Marathon Man

And no one runs a marathon in that flick.

:wtf:

[Blue_Tires]

15. i hate that no real-life military commanders are a fraction as cool as the ones in the movie...

oh, and don't watch any civil war movies...i hear the south gets their asses beatdown like there's no tomorrow...

[taterguy]

20. Casting John Ratzenberger as an officer was the epitome of cool

Yes, it's a little known fact that Cliff Clavin from Cheers appears in that movie.

[Blue_Tires]

21. yeah, the most obvious game of 'pick out what doesn't belong' ever

connery, hopkins, caine, redford, hackman, caan, gould, ullman, schnell, fox, o'neal and ratzenberger...lol -- there's NO WAY that cast succeeds without him in there!

maybe bush went about it the wrong way in selling the iraq war...i'll be honest: you put someone like caine or hopkins in a uniform, have them say "we're going to iraq", and I'll be the FIRST to enlist...

[TZ]

17. But what did you think of "The Longest Yard"?

:rofl:

[LynneSin]

18. I'm just trying to find the bridge... Has anybody seen the bridge?

:rofl:

[taterguy]

22. John Paul Jones would have made it to the bridge

He was a fuckin' admiral.

He would have sailed the USS Constitution right up to it and kicked some Nazi ass.