I remember every detail. The Germans wore grey, you wore blue...

[chris_damage]

I just saw Casablanca for the first time ever (not that we're pining for North Africa at all, oh no...) funny to think we were there last week, trying to sleep on a rickety old train

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[evil_heat]

post holiday comedown perchance?

[chris_damage]

Oh yeah! :(

[barrysarll]

I was talking to a friend recently about how many of people's favourite films are set in WWII; mine was Casablanca until I saw A Matter of Life and Death, hers is The Sound Of Music. I think we concluded that on the Western front at least, it's perhaps the only time that history has provided as starkly Good Vs Evil a backdrop as one can find in fantasy, and that really brings out the colours in the romance set against it.

[chris_damage]

Yes, I think you're right. The presence of actual bad guys does lend itself to the creation of heroes.

[emlett]

A Matter of Life and Death
i love that movie, i got it free with daily mail
*shamed*
david niven is such a god

[barrysarll]

I once bought the Mail for a WWII film too - Cabaret. Which they gave away with a General Election postmortem issue containing all manner of horridness - I particularly remember one vile article crowing over how some gay candidates hadn't been elected. One wondered whether they'd ever seen the film; if they had, I presume they just sang along with 'Tomorrow Belongs To Me'.

[emlett]

i can't belive you've only just seen it. i thought we used to watch it every xmas?
have you seen african queen?
(of course universal soldier is up there too)

[chris_damage]

Yep, seen the African Queen loads of times, another cracking film.

[emlett]

although not quite up there with unisol obviously
;)