They Shall Not Grow Old - WW1 documentary dir by Peter Jackson trailer

[HHR]

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.

I think you could have skipped the "battle" scene entirely, honestly. In the postscript, Jackson mentioned all of the other footage and topics they had to excise, and I was immediately disappointed in that choice.

 

[TheGodling]

I think you could have skipped the "battle" scene entirely, honestly. In the postscript, Jackson mentioned all of the other footage and topics they had to excise, and I was immediately disappointed in that choice.

Nah, you can't make a documentary on the war and skip the actual war being fought. I mean, you could but I think given the interview narrative you had to show how actual veterans experienced the battles themselves.

 

[IVS]

Def will check this out

 

[Starman]

Going to see this Wed. Maybe even tomorrow if I feel up to it .

 

[Starman]

Saw it. Loved it. The art was a bit of a distraction in the midst of a glorious upgrade. I felt like i was on the western front.

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

Cacs lionize cac soldiers. No surprise there. I imagine Mende do the same for their own.

 

[Return of the Jedi]

Says it was in theaters in October. Where can I catch it now?