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Zulu Dawn
 Good 17 Points 1979
BrianSez – with 17 Trust Points – rated it Good

I’d call Zulu Dawn “the Little Bighorn of South Africa.” If ever there was a cause more unjust – it was the British attempt to oust the Zulus from their territories in South Africa – despite the fact they were honoring an agreement to stay away. And, as this is a true story, I’m not spoi…

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Apocalypse Now
 Perfect 11 Points 1979
Fire at Will! – with 7 Trust Points – rated it Perfect

A fantastic film cataloguing insanity, war and imperialism, Apocalypse Now is a sprawling, magnificent film that masterfully builds up dread and tension through its adaptation of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

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All Quiet on th...
 None Yet 0 Points 1979
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The Deer Hunter
 None Yet 0 Points 1978
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Coming Home
 None Yet 0 Points 1978
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A Bridge Too Far
 Good 7 Points 1977
Fire at Will! – with 7 Trust Points – rated it Good

A fact-based retelling of Operation Market Garden, Richard Attenborough’s star-studded film suffers from its multiplicity of famous actors, and reminded this reviewer a little too much of Malick’s “Thin Red Line” (except Attenborough’s view of war does not match dead soldiers with injured birds)….

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Midway
 None Yet 0 Points 1976
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Aces High
 OK 17 Points 1976
BrianSez – with 17 Trust Points – rated it OK

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines – as the phrase went back in the day. Magnificent indeed, but also jaded, troubled, and struggling with the fact that so little of them ever make it through WWI sotries alive. Aces High takes a soft-pedal (well, soft for a 70’s movie anyway) look a…

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Patton
 Great 83 Points 1970
Wick – with 66 Trust Points – rated it Great

Essential though Patton may be – as war movie, as American history, as biopic – it’s not the epochal statement the Academy thought they were canonizing with seven Oscars in 1971, including Best Picture. Back then Frances Ford Coppola’s script seemed subversive, undermining American militarism …

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Tora! Tora! Tora!
 None Yet 0 Points 1970
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