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[Vector]

At least watch the first 15 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" for the Omaha beach landing scene, it's pretty brutal.

No, I'll definitely watch it.  If it was accurate enough to merit its own hotline for veterans with triggered PTSD, I figger I might as well >_>

Just need to wait until I can get it out of the library, because I don't want to watch it in crappy off-the-internet-o-vision.

[Reelyanoob]

Had to share this "war scene" from Meet the Feebles (a 1989 Peter Jackson movie)

EDIT: I found a copy where you can read the subs to see what the Communist muppets are saying:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLAcDQLOiDg&feature=related

Basically could be described as "Full Muppet Jacket"

Apparently Americans are Lizards and/or Frogs, while the Viet Cong are Gophers or Chipmunks or something.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You could see First Blood as being a sort of Post-War Movie, and that's definitely something to add to the list. First Blood does some exploration of PTSD psychology, so it's worth watching for that. The other Rambo films....not so much. That element still shows up every once in a while, but never to the same degree as in First Blood.

[Mindmaker]

Lying at the terrace at 10am and reading :3
Summer can actually be quite okay.

[breadbocks]

Yeah, it was an anti-war movie of sorts. Ozy's whole plot was

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Blow everything up to make it look like aliens are watching over humans, and that they want them to work together and not fight. In the movie, instead of aliens, it was Dr. Manhattan.

Which never made sense to me, because why would the world unite to take on one guy who they think is all-powerful anyway?  At least the comic story made a third side to unite against, the Doctor just doesn't work for a threat, especially since he leaves anyway.

No, see, they think he's acting as a parent of sorts yelling at his squabbling children. What Ozy was trying to do was get humanity into a position where it seems they're being told to unite or they'll die for it.

[Ochita]

My lips taste like cherry coke.

I am okay with this.

[Rose]

Had much fun in TF2.

Much fun indeed.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

My lips taste like cherry coke.

I am okay with this.

There is no god but vanilla coke, heretic. Refine your Biological Soda Cell Output.

[Darvi]

Everything is better with lemons.

There should be a trope about that.

[scriver]

You could see First Blood as being a sort of Post-War Movie, and that's definitely something to add to the list. First Blood does some exploration of PTSD psychology, so it's worth watching for that. The other Rambo films....not so much. That element still shows up every once in a while, but never to the same degree as in First Blood.

It's been a couple of years since I saw it, but if I'm not mistaken Rambo even breaks down and cries at a point. In an action movie. It's like-worthy just because of that, even if it as a whole is a rather bad movie.

[RedKing]

At least watch the first 15 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" for the Omaha beach landing scene, it's pretty brutal.

No, I'll definitely watch it.  If it was accurate enough to merit its own hotline for veterans with triggered PTSD, I figger I might as well >_>

Hell, I felt like *I* had PTSD after the Omaha beach scene. Which, as I understand it, is what Spielberg was going for. He was trying to inculcate in the audience the sort of shock and desensitization that the soldiers themselves went through, so that you're in as much of a daze as the guy walking around looking for a corpsman while carrying his own arm.

Gallipoli is another one worth watching, and I see you already mentioned All Quiet on the Western Front. 

[Il Palazzo]

I can't believe nobody mentioned Joseph Vilsmaier's Stalingrad yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6thQKSNBSo

[Blargityblarg]

Since it's not actually out of context:


codecimal: RF, would you trade the boot for a spy turtleneck?
codecimal: Oh damn, he isn't on
[DFC] RF entered chat.
Blargity Blarg: You can probably catch him in the trading thread
Blargity Blarg: ...
Blargity Blarg: Ohwow.
Jack Slenderman: Now he is
[DFC] RF disconnected.
codecimal: RF, would you trade the boot for a spy turtle neck?
codecimal: FFS
Blargity Blarg: BAHAHAHA

[breadbocks]

Two can play that game.

Blargity Blarg: BACK IN MY DAY, I BREATHED PAST THE DOCUMENTATION FOR AT LEAST FOUR PRINTERS AT ANY ONE TIME\
Blargity Blarg: I GOT AN AWARD FOR MOST FLEXIBLE THROAT, AND I SWALLOWED IT TOO
Blargity Blarg: but yeah
codecimal: Counterpoint: http://tinyurl.com/3velt69
Blargity Blarg: my mouse also has a button that supposedly makes you do a complete 180 in any FPS
Blargity Blarg: ...
Blargity Blarg: That SCP has a button that makes me do a complete 180 IRL.
codecimal: Swallow that.

[Darvi]

Amnesia. Cellar Archives. Shit's getting real.