sdr633 Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 I hope it's all right to post about a non-game topic. I'm looking to buy a movie about the eastern front and am torn between THE WINTER WAR (about the Finns) and CROSS OF IRON. For some reason, I just bet people here have opinions on which I should get. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiggDogg Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 633, "I'm attacking. I'm defending. I'm counterattacking" "This is not a brothel. This is a var." :eek: "Steiner, Steiner." Cross Of Iron. :eek: Cheers, Richard 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 Before Martin wakes up and moves this to the general forum: Since both are very good movies I'd suggest to get both. I like Talvisota a bit better. Maybe just because I didn't know much about the winter war when I saw it the first time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaegerMeister Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 Cross of Iron is a great film and you can get it cheaply on DVD or video these days, sets the mood for some good CMBB battling! There are some great battle scenes in it. Got anymore info on the winter war film?..whats the proper title and is it in English or sub-titled ? Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdr633 Posted March 3, 2004 Author Share Posted March 3, 2004 What I know about THE WINTER WAR I learned at Amazon. The product ASIN is B0000646UN. As a Finnish movie, it is subtitled in English. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted March 5, 2004 Share Posted March 5, 2004 I have both movies, but "Winter War" is really a poor quality flick. "Winter War" has some cool battle scenes with T26 and Russian human wave attacks against Finnish trenches, but the story and dialog blows as well as the cinematography. "Cross Of Iron" is a superior flick in comparison with equally cool battle scenes and a better story and dialog (although Stiener's halucinations in the hospital were very queer and way too long). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve woods Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 You've just got to watch 'Stalingrad' from the same production team that made 'Das Boot'.It's the best film I've seen about the Ostfront.Once you've seen it,you'll thank me for bringing it to your attention. You can buy it from Amazon.com. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattias Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 Well if you don't mind Germans that speak English (complete mood killer in my book) and a story that generally comes through as fiction, say stereotype characters, I'd say that Cross of Iron is a nice enough movie. Good even, but not in comparison with the Winter War (Talvisota) when it comes to the east front experience. I'd place the Finnish movie well ahead of "Stalingrad" too, as I find it refreshingly no nonsense and head on gritty when compared to the others. Perhaps the subject of Stalingrad is so charged and the story so well known (if your interested in the subject) that it tends to get a little, well, dull, when you just have to be exposed to every stereotype situation associated with that battle, one after the other. Nah, to see something you have not seen before and that gets you down and dirty with war go for the Winter war. As for it being a "poor quality flick"... The thought never crossed my mind in the three times I have seen it, quite the contrary really, I guess I was too gripped by it to notice... In the end you'll watch them all no doubt M. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdr633 Posted March 6, 2004 Author Share Posted March 6, 2004 Thanks for everybody's thoughts on the matter (and I do have STALINGRAD already). In a strange twist, battle scenes are now a little less important to me than they were in the past because CMBB already delivers them. Now I'm trying to flesh out the warriors a bit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve woods Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 Seeing how this Winter War comes so highly recommended...I'm going to get myself a copy too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cessna Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 I'll also mention the recent film "Enemy at the Gates," about Stalingrad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aco4bn187inf Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Also kind of interesting are The Cranes Are Flying and Ballad of a Soldier. Soviet films made in the 50's as I recall. Not technically accurate but a possible insight into the Soviet experience. I highly recommend Come And See, about partisans in Byelorussia. Definitely NOT for the faint of heart. The DVD includes a short propaganda film on partisans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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