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Summary: This is war boys, and it is'nt pretty
Review: This film really reached into your chest and yanked at your guts from beginning to end it portrayed the reality of war not glorified,or softened up for the screen it showed you what your average G.I suffered, and did to survive the insanity of war,and the utter waste. Certain scenes in this film will leave you breathless thinking just one thing why? why such waste of humanity? Ron Eldard as the weary Private Manning was superb you could feel his frustration,and pain in every scene mostly without him even speaking just the look on his face told you (I've done things ,and seen things I'll never be able to forget) now thats acting. The way you watch the new recruits change and transform from naive kids to hardened soliders,cowards,and real heroes is also impressive.This film is amazing, and had it not been released right along with Private Ryan I believe it would have been mush more appreciated as it should. I salute John Irvin on an amazing accomplishment in film making.
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Summary: Runner up to S.P.R.........
Review: An excellent all-around film, and a movie distinctly absent of a "hollywood" influence. HBO did such a good job on this movie I was compelled to write them and tell them how I felt. Lo and Behold, they answered my letter (6 mos. later) The Realism of this movie is second to only S.P.R. and maybe the Thin Red Line. The characters picked to portray the soldiers were all excellent choices, including Dwight Yoakum as the irritable Major. This film was filmed on location in a European forest, somewhere close to Belgium. The attention to detail is apparent in this movie. A must-see for all WWII buffs.
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Summary: It can't be more realistic and gut wrenching
Review: Can war movies get better? The movies locations made me feel the cold damp air. The emotions of the first and last scenes put a tear in my eye. The attitudes of the "raw" recruits changed. The main character showed us that, when put in that situation, you will do what it takes to go home alive. As far as action and realism are concerned, Private Ryan, Thin Red Line, Stalingrad are movies that meet or exceed this movies efforts to show how it really was for those involved. Too bad it came out when Saving Private Ryan did. This movie should have been shown in the theaters, not on HBO. Good job to the actors who made me feel that war is something not to be glorified.
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Summary: Great movie! Bad timing!
Review: This was a great WWII movie overshadowed by Saving Private Ryan. It shows that war is not always heroic and clean. The good don't always live. The cowards don't receive poetic justice in the end.
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Summary: Realism and history is as important as entertainment.
Review: Being neither a history or war film fan, I struggled with the beginning of this video. It soon captured my attention due to it's realistic qualities. As the daughter of a WW II vet, I saw my Dad there. Little did I know at the time that he was. The reality of the film was acknowledge in his response. After 50 years, he still cried. War is not glamorous. Heroes just men. WHEN TRUMPETS FADE helps us not to forget.
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Summary: I doubt if my grandfather's generation acted like this movie
Review: Dwight Yoakum is in it I think, other than that, this is a poor movie overall. The battle in the forest I am sure, could have some redeeming qualities, but it doesn't show it too much. It seems like it is geared towards generation X with the soldiers wearing their hats backwards and the parts with the cigarette smoking to explicit to say here.One of the few movies that I have rented that I felt like turning off and watching was a chore and a bore. Private Ryan is an epic. This movie isn't as good as Hamburger Hill which I would give 4 stars. It isn't even as good as "Tora, Tora, Tora."
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Summary: Great movie!!
Review: This movie is very realistic.It is a great acount of the Hurtgen Forrest battle.It's as good as Saving Private Ryan.I highly recomend this movie to everyone.
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Summary: Some good scenes
Review: Historically accurate? Wearing the caps backwards like kids do now? I would give it 4 stars, but seeing how some give it 5, easily wrong, I will dock it one. Dissapointing compared to Pvt. Ryan and Stalingrad, to name a few, dissapointing after Hamburger Hill as well. In that different time, I don't think the soldiers were as profane. Thin Red Line is much better than this.
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Summary: Excellent film ranks up there with SPR and Full metal jacket
Review: This was a very realistic movie in some small parts more so than Saving Private Ryan> For example it shows you the real feelings the soliders are having and that the commanding officers were,nt your friends. Also that they could,nt care less if you lived or died you were only a number. That was a great move on their part in making the lead character Manning a unlikable anti-hero. This was a great film one that should have been released at the box office.
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Summary: One of the best epics of all time.
Review: Because of being HBO and a non-theater release "When Trumpets Fade" never got the praise it should of. After seeing this movie I fell in love with it. It is very different but equally as good as Private Ryan. I'd say better then Platoon, The Deer Hunter, and many more. If you havn't seen, SEE IT. I cried at the end. Be aware veiwers, contains graphic and very disturbing human carnage.
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