Italian war movies aka Macaroni Combat

Another one… Rangers

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And then some more (Yes, I have a problem)

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Commandos uncut HD is on some European Neflixes

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I have that tape too

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Not from where I’m standing - these are great … love the packaging too :wink:

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Not bad at all …



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Unfortunately, the Tubi version is full screen and sourced from a VHS.

Is it possible to share the widescreen version? Thank you.

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I´m considering getting The Inglorious Bastards. Does anyone have the Uk blu ray (or a picture of the back of the cover)?

I just found a picture of the back of the cover on the internet. Does it not have subtitles at all?

Doesn’t look like it acording to blu-ray.com

Thanks, Max. I might get it. Have you seen the fim, and if so, did you like it?

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I think its a great film. Smashing cast too. Well worth it :+1:

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The saw The Biggest Battle… qutie an ambitious piece of filmmaking by Lenzi

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Just watched Sullivan’s Marauders, the US cut of Commandos. Typical desert actioner… the film drags a bit in the middle but it has some nice action scenes. Not bad for 80 minutes. I can’t say I’m particularly eager to check out the longer cut. Do the additional scenes change the overall impression of the film? It seems to work just fine in its truncated version. The length felt appropriate for the content.
P.S. the print on the Code Red DVD is very nice.

Only ever saw the long one and I thought it was a fantastic flick

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I’ve seen better macaroni war films but I did enjoy it.

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Gonna agree with Seb on this. Don’t know what is different about the shorter one, but the longer version is my favourite Macaroni Combat flick!

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There was some debate over in the thread “Is GBU overrated?” wheter GBU was a war adventure.

To me a war adventure is a movie where the characters take active part in a war and the macaroni combat genre are true war adventures. This is war as entertainment, not showing the realities of war, but never mind it can still be exciting.

Besides the Italian war movies there were some Yugoslav ones produced during the same period late 60s and early 70s. I don’t think you’ve mentioned any of these in the thread? One such film is The Bridge (Most, 1969).

And the Eastwood movie Kelly’s Heroes (1970) was a Yugoslav co-production shot in Yugoslavia. They had made war movies there before and the Yugoslav army supplied tanks and other military hardware.

Besides Kelly’s Heroes (1970) there were also other Yugoslav war movies with well known stars.

Battle of Neretva (1969) was a Yugoslavian, Italian, West German, French, US co-production, with among others Yul Brynner, Franco Nero and Curd Jurgens in the cast.

And Battle of Sutjeska (1973) a pure Yugoslav production starring Richard Burton.

I think these two films have some drama also, they’re not just action adventure.

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