Originally Posted by
ScoutHikerDad
I hear you. I love modern, edgy movies too, but lately have fallen back on those old classics. Watched The Dirty Dozen the other night. One of these days I hope to stay awake all the way through The Longest Day. Gangster classics I have seen too many times already are also up for another watch lately. I need to be reading more, honestly (kind of a job requirement for me).
As to their realism, I wasn't there, so I can't say, but I've read reports of utterly savage fighting and conditions during the island-hopping campaign in the Pacific. They show quite a bit of Newsreel footage, but they obviously edited out the most horrific stuff. Years ago when it 1st came out, I watched Saving Private Ryan with my father-in-law, a WWII vet. It seemed pretty realistic to me. I remember both of us just sitting there at the end, just speechless by it.