Posted on Jan 1, 2019
Which 1940s-1970s military movie would you like to see re-made today?
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I've put a few possibilities in the survey, but sense I can list 5 choices, I'm certain that the most popular choice will be "Other." If you choose "Other" then please leave a comment listing the movie you would prefer to see re-made.
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NONE! Today's P.C. culture would undoubtedly ruin any and all movies it tried to remake.
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SGT (Join to see) I wouldn't want any re-made. I would like to see some other stories get told. I'd also like to see some other contemporary stories get told.
A few I have always wanted to see made into films:
- a Village Called Freedom /Beyond Nam Dong: story of the 1963 defense of a SF Camp that resulted in the first MoH recipient in Vietnam.
- Blackhorse Riders/FSB Illingworth: a two week period in March/April 1970 where ATroop, 11th ACR rescues an infantry company from 2/8 IN 1CD and then days later 2/8 fights for its life against the same NVA Regiment they smeared at the onset. All of this on the cusp of the Cambodia Incursion. PUC for A Troop and MoH recipient Peter Lemon from 2/8 IN for the defense of FSB Illingworth.
- Lewis Millet's life story...it would be daunting, dawn of WWII in 1940 through Vietnam. Would be a challenging series of period pieces.
- a Longest Day type ensemble cast tell the story of a BCT in Iraq or Afghanistan during a massive operation. If they need some ideas they should look at the unit citations for some of the BCTs in Afghanistan when it was the economy of Force theater while the Iraq surge was ongoing. I know there was plenty in my BCTs narrative to make a few movies.
- Monuments Men type montage / ensemble cast of the first EOD detachments in WWII.
- after watching a recent gun truck documentary on the Smithsonian Channel, it would be a hooah feature film.
I am glad to see COP Keating will be on the silver screen (MoH recipients Romesha and Carter's stories). Good to see the sacrifice and heroism of conventional units get some air time.
A few I have always wanted to see made into films:
- a Village Called Freedom /Beyond Nam Dong: story of the 1963 defense of a SF Camp that resulted in the first MoH recipient in Vietnam.
- Blackhorse Riders/FSB Illingworth: a two week period in March/April 1970 where ATroop, 11th ACR rescues an infantry company from 2/8 IN 1CD and then days later 2/8 fights for its life against the same NVA Regiment they smeared at the onset. All of this on the cusp of the Cambodia Incursion. PUC for A Troop and MoH recipient Peter Lemon from 2/8 IN for the defense of FSB Illingworth.
- Lewis Millet's life story...it would be daunting, dawn of WWII in 1940 through Vietnam. Would be a challenging series of period pieces.
- a Longest Day type ensemble cast tell the story of a BCT in Iraq or Afghanistan during a massive operation. If they need some ideas they should look at the unit citations for some of the BCTs in Afghanistan when it was the economy of Force theater while the Iraq surge was ongoing. I know there was plenty in my BCTs narrative to make a few movies.
- Monuments Men type montage / ensemble cast of the first EOD detachments in WWII.
- after watching a recent gun truck documentary on the Smithsonian Channel, it would be a hooah feature film.
I am glad to see COP Keating will be on the silver screen (MoH recipients Romesha and Carter's stories). Good to see the sacrifice and heroism of conventional units get some air time.
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LTC Jason Mackay
SGT (Join to see) - a dramatization of Death Traps by Belton Cooper would be cool too.
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LTC Jason Mackay
SGT (Join to see) - an English language version of Oz 77. Israeli film about the Armor TF that was instrumental in shutting down the combined Arab assault in the Golan Heights in 1973. The book is The Heights of Courage written by the BN TF Commander, BG Kahalani who was also the Israeli SECDEF in the 1982 Lebanon invasion.
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LTC Jason Mackay
SGT (Join to see) - can't believe I left it out...Thunder Run, 2003 mech/Armor push into Iraq.
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LTC Jason Mackay - Ah, yes, the Hollywood "Frisbee"/"French Painter" style of unshaped beret.
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"Re-makes" are usually horrible, so I'm not too sure I'd like to see one. However, if I had to choose, I'd like to see a re-make of "The Green Berets." Clueless, progressive, anti-military journalist embed with CT Special Forces unit and get an "education"...sounds good. Maybe Michael Bay (13 Hours) could do a decent job of it.
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Yeah, or Michael Mann. I wanted to list that one in the survey options but I ran out of space.
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