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Summary: World War Winner
Review: Do you ever catch yourself awake late at night watching old WW II documentaries? Would you like to see a movie that incorporates all of the history PLUS great drama, effects and being tame enough for your children? Look no further. This is one the whole family can appreciate. Balsam's performance is unparalleled in this G-rated but life-like tale of America's most heart felt battle.
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Summary: Three Magnificent War Movies but One Appalling Fantasy
Review: It is up to the viewer to decide what is fact and what is fiction or what is utter and complete fantasy. But in my Opinion, The Longest Day, Patton and Tora Tora Tora are renowned war movies, 'The Thin Red Line' is not. Maintaining a very slow pace throughout its three and half hours lenght, in the 'Thin Red Line' more Japanese soldiers are shown surrendering in the few hours of combat depicted than actually did the first three years of the Pacific war! (If you do not believe me, look up Tarawa, New Guinea, Marshall Islands, and Iwo Jima for example.) And of course the Americans are shown almost to last as the inhuman beasts and the Japanese as noble Samurai. Following in the tradition of the racist epic 'Birth to a Nation', movies like the Thin Red Line and Pearl Harbor are rewriting ouf history. For example, in Pearl Harbor the Japanese are depicted as being justified in attacking, when actually the United States stopped selling the Japanese oil because they were allies with Hitler, making war on China, and had just invaded French Indochina.
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Summary: Two bad movies for the price of five
Review: Let's face it...the Thin Red Line is the most boring war movie ever made. Tora Tora Tora is very outdated, and although it does show the attack upon Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective, it is very much outclassed by the newer movie, "Pearl Harbor,"
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Summary: Nice box, but why?
Review: The three older movies in this set are undeniably among the better "traditional" movies about World War II. "The Thin Red Line" may not belong in the same set (given its recent origin and approach to war) but it, too, is a movie with merit. My only question about this set is why would you buy them together when they are cheaper to buy if you purchase them separately? Is that slipcase worth the extra bucks? You decide.
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Summary: I'll tell you why...
Review: To answer another reviewer's question: Why would you buy this set when you can get the individual films cheaper? You can't buy the individual films cheaper. The version of "Patton" in this set is the 2-disc Special Edition, which is out of print except for in this set, and selling for more than the price of this entire set on auction sites. So save some money, get the 2-disc version of Patton, and get three other great WWII films for free (essentially).
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Summary: I'll tell you why...
Review: To answer another reviewer's question: Why would you buy this set when you can get the individual films cheaper? You can't buy the individual films cheaper. The version of "Patton" in this set is the 2-disc Special Edition, which is out of print except for in this set, and selling for more than the price of this entire set on auction sites. So save some money, get the 2-disc version of Patton, and get three other great WWII films for free (essentially).
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Summary: I'll tell you why...
Review: To answer another reviewer's question: Why would you buy this set when you can get the individual films cheaper? You can't buy the individual films cheaper. The version of "Patton" in this set is the 2-disc Special Edition, which is out of print except for in this set, and selling for more than the price of this entire set on auction sites. So save some money, get the 2-disc version of Patton, and get three other great WWII films for free (essentially).
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