The *Other* March Madness Bracket

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bayonetbrant

March 19, 2015, 08:26:23 AM
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Barthheart

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March 19, 2015, 08:44:05 AM
Voted.... some odd choice in there...

Sir Slash

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March 19, 2015, 09:53:28 AM
Agree. And some odd match-ups too. I'm going to sound like a total nerd here but I've always thought of the LOTR trilogy as war movies. Not real wars but certainly about war. My all-time favorites would have to be Band of Brothers and The Pacific series on HBO.
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

Barthheart

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March 19, 2015, 10:22:17 AM
Mine would be The Longest Day and Tora! Tora! Tora!.

Shelldrake

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March 19, 2015, 12:07:59 PM
Glory is on the list and not Gettysburg?  ???
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bayonetbrant

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March 19, 2015, 12:27:37 PM
might have already been knocked out?
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Martok

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March 19, 2015, 12:29:00 PM
They put Good Morning Vietnam up against The Hunt for Red October?!?  That's just cruel.  :( 

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Nefaro

#7
March 19, 2015, 09:18:43 PM
Yeah a few odd match-ups in there.

Forrest Gump vs Last of the Mohicans?  And Forrest Gump is winning?!  ::)

Sir Slash

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March 19, 2015, 10:34:38 PM
Too true.
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

JasonPratt

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March 25, 2015, 03:13:36 PM
In no reality is Forest Gump more of a war movie than Gettysburg, Gods and Generals, or any of a dozen movies that didn't make the list.

And it beat Last of the Mohicans. Not only much more of a war movie (and on a war not usually filmed, outside that story itself occasionally), but I'd argue generally a better movie overall.

Jesus wept.

Stripes was demonstrably more of a war movie.

Which beat A Bridge Too Far. A BRIDGE! TOO! FAR!!

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bayonetbrant

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April 17, 2015, 05:27:17 AM Last Edit: April 17, 2015, 05:30:43 AM by bayonetbrant

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Full Metal Jacket beat Patton in the final.
The problem to me is that FMJ is really only half of a movie.  Once they get in-country, the movie kinda goes to shit.  Patton is much, much more solid the whole way through.

Same thing, to me, with SPR vs Blackhawk Down.
SPR is an incredible movie, up until they get off the back.  Once off the beach, I don't think it holds up nearly as well.  BHD stays consistently excellent the entire way through.
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