We watched Gallipoli in high school and the soundtrack still haunts me to this day. As an important piece of our national birth and mythology, properly visualising the campaign for the first time really helped my understanding of something I had heard about since I was a little kid. It gives you a taste of the pride, the guts, and the tragedy, all while immersing you with great set design and environments. I can't say, as I wasn't alive in 1915, but it really feels authentic.
>>64150723 (OP)
The 1931 film is incredible. While it's clearly an entirely anti-war work and everything within it serves that explicit purpose, I enjoyed it thoroughly and compared to more modern stuff is still one of the best films I've seen in a long, long time, even its depiction of the actual fighting itself. Such a shame that the 2022 adaptation was total ass.
>>64150850
Watching Apocalypse Now for the first time was an experience. I never understood the hype around it and always assumed that as a movie people frequently cite as the best, it would be something I wouldn't enjoy but a friend is writing a paper on it and so we watched it one weekend and that opening sequence is absolutely one of, if not the best I have seen in my life. It sucked me right in.
>>64150939
Watched this while painting models one evening, it was good fun. Some incredible actors in their prime and absolutely riveting the whole way through. A lot of movies focus on individuals or a smaller group, but A Bridge Too Far really helped to piece together, to a degree, the whole scale of the Operation from individual effort to collective, and how that pieces into the wider picture of the war as a whole. It's something you often lack with a lot of other films and books, really.
