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Summary: A must see WW1 movie starring Mel Gibson!
Review: Gallipoli, the story of two young men who join the ANZACs and are sent to the fateful and disaterous campaign against the Turks in 1915, is well acted and a great movie. The cinematography is excellent. I highly recommend if one is interested in learning about WW1 or a fan of Mel Gibson.
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Summary: A great war movie.
Review: This was a fantastic movie with tons of action and adventure. The movie is based around two boys who get together after a race. They then go on a whirlwind adventure until they get to the battlefield at Gallipoli where no amount of training could prepare them for what would happen. I liked this movie for the most part, but the music did nothing for me. A better soundtrack would have added a whole lot more to this movie.
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Summary: Well-made, interesting war film worth seeing!
Review: They don't make many films about World War I, partly because it was such a poorly-fought conflict consisting almost entirely of soldiers being machine-gunned down in no-man's land. And the Gallipoli campaign was one of the most brutal, as well-illustrated in this movie. Still, I really liked this film, if only for the historical insights as to what would make an Australian travel half-way around the world to die fighting the Turks? A great film, with a great cast!
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Summary: One of his best
Review: The movie Gallipoli was a great film in all respects. First the acting was some of Mel Brooks finest work along with the rest of the cast. WATCH OUT, if you check out this movie make sure your comfortable and have no interferences because it is hard to follow as it is. The movie is about two boys who meet in a race and become friends. The two then decide to join the army and go fight for Australia in WW1 at the battle of Gallipoli. Gallipoli is an emotional thrill ride but don't think it's a chick-flick because it's everything but, It's set in Australia for starters(probably the most ungirly place on Earth) and half of the movie takes place in a war. If you are a Mel Gibson fan then BUY THIS MOVIE
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Summary: Great Movie, Bad Soundtrack
Review: Wonfully crafted film, with fine performances. Beautiful cinematography that captures the surreal quality of war. This movie should be re-released with a new soundtrack, and then I would give it 5 stars. What was Peter Weir thinking when he agreed to the score?
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Summary: Volunteers
Review: Of course, it has to be remembered that the Australians were the only entirely volunteer army in the First World War.No one fought at Gallipoli who didn't want to be there - in the sense that the soldiers all thought that fighting for the British was all part of a great adventure and an opportunity to see the world. Australia had two referenda on conscription and both were defeated during the war, against the government's hopes of drafting young males into the war effort. Australian military units, like those in the battle of The Nek portrayed in Weir's movie, were all recruited from particular regions. That meant that, as in The Nek, if they were wiped out, whole towns and villages lost all their young men, causing immense distress to their families and the tiny populations in rural communities who relied on the men to provide most of the farm labor. The recruitment of troops based on regions was abandoned as a result, and by the Second World War troops were recruited across the country. The first Australian recruits in WWI were all required to be 6 feet tall with a 40 inch chest - huge, gigantic and extremely fit men, all wiped out at Gallipoli. Another important issue: Australia suffered the highest casualty rate in the First World War of any Allied army. That's a lot of small towns that were devastated by the loss of the youngest, best, fittest and brightest.
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Summary: Postscript: Too real to be invented
Review: And if you think the climax of the movie, the charge by the Australian Light Horse at The Nek, is too ludicrous, too horrible, too absurd to be true, too insane to have ever been allowed to take place, well.... it happened, and it happened just as it is portrayed in the film. Such is the madness of war.
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Summary: THE crowning achievement of Australian cinema's new wave
Review: Australia is such a young country, it hasn't had long to create those defining moments that its people can latch on to as being examples of what it means to be "Australian". The WWI disaster that was the Gallipoli campaign is that single moment. It was Australia's "baptism of fire". And it led to the creation of the Anzac (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) legend. Remember that Australia, as a country independent of Great Britain, was only 14 years old when this battle took place. What Peter Weir's film, coupled with a screenplay by top Australian playwright David Williamson with technical advice from historian Bill Gammage, does is capture that defining moment brilliantly. But this is not a gung-ho war blockbuster. It is a very real, very strident examination of how a single military disaster that cost thousands of lives, came to be the mould that Australians now use to cast their national character. More than this, Gallipoli also captures, like no other Australian film, the essence of Australian "mateship" - that is: standing by your friends through thick and thin at all costs while scoffing at authority. The first day of the Gallipoli campaign, April 25 1915, gave rise to Australia's most important national celebration and also the annual commemoration of war dead. To outsiders, it is strange how Australia and its people have used this tragic defeat to examine their national character: do they still measure up to their ancestors who stormed ashore under the Gallipoli clifftops all those years ago? If you want to see a film that captures the spirit of an entire nation, then this is it. NB. Rupert Murdoch helped finance this movie because his father Keith (later Sir Keith) was the war correspondent who bluntly told the Australian government that Gallipoli was doomed to fail and that the Allied troops must be withdrawn. Gallipoli was Murdoch senior's defining moment too.
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Summary: WHAT MANY REVIEWERS FAIL TO NOTICE...
Review: IS THE BRAVERY OF THE TURKISH ARMY, AND THE INCREDIBLE HUMANITY LESSONS TO BE DERIVED FROM THE TURKISH COMMANDER:(SPEAKING FOR ENEMY SOLDIERS)
"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives..you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours.. You,the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears; Your sons are in peace.After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well." MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK
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Summary: One of the best war films made.
Review: While Gallipoli is only a "war" movie for about the last 45 minutes, it is still among the best war movies made. In fact, I believe that the attention paid to character development, which fleshes out the characters and makes them more than just uniformed soldiers to the viewer, is really what makes this a great anti-war film. I first saw this film in 8th grade, when my history class was studying the Great War and its causes. The callousness of the British officers as depicted in the movie was probably somewhat exaggerated, and there are historical inaccuracies in the film, but these are minor points best left to be argued by people who don't have a life. (Like those who argue about certain points of detail in "Saving Private Ryan") All in all, I rate this movie among other anti-war greats as Stalingrad, Cross of Iron and Platoon.
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