Question of the Day, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022 (Early Version)

[neely]

Happy Early Version Whiskers Wednesday! I will be busy tomorrow so wanted to get a jump on the Question of the Day.

We recently switched one of our cable packages to receive TCM, (Turner Classic Movies). I was watching one of my favorite movies, The Best Years of Our Lives, which takes place post WWII. Veterans Day is almost upon us, November 11th. It's a celebration to honor and give thanks to veterans who served their country during war or peacetime. There have been so many movies made around this subject from Casablanca to The Dirty Dozen to Saving Private Ryan, to Life is Beautiful to Grand Illusion to Schindler's List to Captain America, etc.

WHAT IS ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE MOVIES THAT PAYS TRIBUTE TO VETERANS?

 

[MonaLyssa33]

I don't really enjoy or watch movies that involve war, so I can't say there is a veteran movie I like because they all seem to have war incorporated in some capacity.

 

[Margot Lane]

Such a sobering question as there (sadly) have been so many wars. Coming Home springs to mind but also a poem not a movie called Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen. Thanks for mentioning Grand Illusion.

 

[catloverfromwayback]

None, I’m not that into movies and have never been into war movies at all. I do love the earlier series of *Foyle’s War* if that counts.

 

[strider rose]

not a movie but my favorite tv series called army wives does

 

[CatladyJan]

Life is Beautiful - love love love the movie. Schindlers List

 

[Mia6]

The Deer Hunter

 

[MoochNNoodles]

White Christmas. I mean its my favorite movie period; but gosh that scene where they all surprise the general in uniform? Very touching. I just don’t like a lot of heavy subjects in my entertainment so I don’t watch regular movies like that. Its hard when things touch so much on someone’s reality.

 

[NY cat man]

None that I can think of. Too many portray us as borderline psychos- think First Blood, or any of the Rambo series, for that matter, or merely pathetic losers. I give a hard pass on them all, because, for the most part, we ain't like that at all.
EDIT: I refused to see Coming Home, because 'Hanoi Jane' Fonda was in it, and I want nothing to do with anything that she has a part in. Ever.

 

[di and bob]

Dirty Dozen. War is real and we can't just ignore it or protest it to make it go away. So many have already died to give you the right to NOT protect our rights and our country, I wish they could experience a communist country like Korea and China and finally realize what a great country we live in......

 

[Jem]

I've seen quite a few war movies, I'm not really "into" them but my husband is a WWII buff. Having said that, the Band of Brothers movie set is pretty good. Hacksaw Ridge is a touching movie, I actually really enjoyed watching it...you really fall for the main character...it's based on a true story. Saving Privat Ryan was good too. That's all I can think of off hand.

 

[Boris Diamond]

Sergeant York was a good movie. Gary Cooper is excellent as the title character. He went from wild child to pacifist to war hero.

 

[CatladyJan]

Sergeant York was a good movie. Gary Cooper is excellent as the title character. He went from wild child to pacifist to war hero.

Iz supposin that right there is a good movie

 

[iPappy]

I saw Joyeux Noel, and it was cool knowing it was based on a true story.
WWI's Christmas Truce: When Fighting Paused for the Holiday

 

[Margot Lane]

Just watched The Wipers Times, excellent movie about a WW1 that was, miraculaously, about a newspaper put out and circulated through the trenches. It must have been uplifting to have something -anything- to read then!