Two CIA operatives and close buddies end up in all out warfare after they discover they are both dating the same woman. The guys are Chris Pine and Tom Hardy and the girl is cute and sexy Reese Witherspoon. It's an action/romantic comedy that makes good viewing for couples. It's the kind of film I would have enjoyed watching with my wife. Nothing new and it has a predictable ending but it's an entertaining 90 plus minutes just the same.
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But there isn't a helluva lot of war in Pearl Harbour. It is a story of two friends and the woiman they both love, told against the backdrop of the second world war, before the US got involved, and after (Pearl Harbour).
The movie drags a bit at 3 hours. And the war action all told probably... -
This is a Canadian made World War One film starring Paul Gross, a well known and respected Canadian actor who also wrote and directed Passchendaele. Gross was intrigued by a story told to him by his grandfather, Michael Dunne, about how he bayoneted a young German to death and how it haunted him until...
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Any thoughts on the RTS game "Real War"? I just downloaded the demo of it and may purchase the full game. Real war has the elements that I like, strategic gaming with modern day weapons. As much as I liked "Age Of Empires", I longed for a RTS game where it was not...06 October 2001, 13:54 Saturday -
It was THE YOUNG LIONS. released in 1958, it is based on a novel by Irwin Shaw. It was a bestseller in its time, and the film was hot at the boxoffice. It stars a young Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin. It is more about character development and doesn't have a lot of actual war action...05 December 2001, 09:43 Wednesday
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WINDTALKERS.
John Woo, the master of action films, does his magic in Windtalkers. It's a good old fashioned war film, and though the back story deals with how Navajos were used ( their native tongue) to create a code for communications. It was the one wartime code that was never broken....
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