Where Eagles Dare - brilliant, though really more a spy thriller set in ww2 than a bona fide war movie. What it does show, is that soldiers fought and died for eachother. It showed, really well I might add, that in war soldiers tend not to focus on the "bigger goals", that of winning the war for king and country. It was a really good movie beyond the violence. Some might remember "HH" as being chalked full of violence, which it was, but, I saw an "edited for television" version on the history channel. It is a contest between "Apocalypse Now" and "Hamburger Hill". The best war film I have seen would probably not be a World War Two film. It probably won't turn out to be as good as my memory says it is. I am sure that these blokes were representative of all who died, and that in fact this British soldier was going gradualy insaine throughout the film. The thing that really sticks in my mind, is, that practically all of the extras, those who are British soldiers, were coloured head to to (in full military gear) in bright florescent colours. If my mind serves me, I think it starts off in France, then, they are in North Africa, and then in Western Europe again. It was a weird film, all about a British soldier. I saw it a long time ago on A&E, but, that must have been back in the late 1980's. It is one of those weird comedy/dreaded war type movies.
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