PoorAndDangerous
Superstar
looks amazing
They Shall Not Grow Old - WW1 documentary dir by Peter Jackson trailer
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looks amazing
CACs always try to romanticize WW1, when in reality it was the chickens coming home to roost. There were no more colonized people to turn their guns on so they started killing each other. Does some 18 year old cac from Essex feel more pain than a 18 year mende?
Bringing it back I'll watch because I'm a history buff
Bringing it back I'll watch because I'm a history buff
PoorAndDangerous
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It was such a brutal form of warfare the trench warfare shyt was...they were using chemical weapons too which were subsequently banned afterwards. You'd have to sacrifice 1000 men for 30 feetCACs always try to romanticize WW1, when in reality it was the chickens coming home to roost. There were no more colonized people to turn their guns on so they started killing each other. Does some 18 year old cac from Essex feel more pain than a 18 year mende?
Bringing it back I'll watch because I'm a history buff
Sunalmighty
Superstar
looks amazing
incredible how technology has advanced.
PoorAndDangerous
Superstar
Seeing this tomorrow... Y'all sleeping
wanted to catch it during those limited showings but missed out.
They had to add 4 extra showings here, from 1 originally
Yesus the teeth on these cacs 
18 year olds used to look 40 in 1916
18 year olds used to look 40 in 1916
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
This pretty much describes every British person ever, not just 1916, breh.Yesus the teeth on these cacs
18 year olds used to look 40 in 1916
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
I was wary about this beforehand but the added voices to the restored archive footage was featured so little it didn't bother me, mostly it was just folks laughing and the occasional off-hand comment. I thought the strongest part of the documentary wasn't even the next level restoration, it was the decision to have the entire movie "narrated" by hands-on interviews from dozens of veterans. The picture painted by the tales of people who fought the war often resonated more than the video footage.
Agreed. The use of narration is incredible.
The only other section of the film I didn't care for was the use of illustration when no footage was available
Able Archer 83
Two Minutes to Midnight
Not to jump in on this comment five months later, but a millions of colonized people fought in the Great War, killed by colonizers and other colonial people, and Africa was a sizable (albeit non-crucial) battleground for the entirety of the war.
Yeah, the illustrations were a questionable choice.
I didn't have that much of a problem with the voices and noises; they hired lip-readers and hunted down text. And Peter Jackson made it clear that this wasn't a strict historical documentary; he wanted to give a generalized view of life for men in the trenches, to let the viewer experience the life and death of the Great War soldier, and sound was an integral part of drawing the viewer in.
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
I agree about the illustrations but they really were a necessary evil. Jackson already said he didn't want any reenactments and since there's no footage of actual battles, that's all he had to depict them as accurately possible given what was available at the time of the war. Otherwise you'd be looking at ten minutes of nothing but pictures and footage of corpses.
