Just finished watching A Bridge Too Far

[Forever Free]

An outstanding movie, an outstanding cast (complete with Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Robert Redford, James Caan, and Gene Hackman), and best of all, outstanding acting by all!

By far, IMO, the definitive WWII movie....its a good war movie but it still has a heart and human side to it. It has that classic movie feel of a bygone era, where the story is character-driven, as opposed to merely action-driven. Well done, Joseph Levine!

P.S. But I still love Patton! George C. Scott, you're my hero!.

[bridgit]

1. i haven't seen that one in years...

big stuff that :kick:

[LastKnight]

2. i love that movie

i wound up doing a report on Market Garden in highschool. and i bought the movie as a visual aide to show a scene or two, but the dvd didnt get here in time, and whenever i wanna watch a WW2 movie its one of the first i go to.

very very good movie.

[ForrestGump]

3. Brilliant film based on an excellent book

Ditto "The Longest Day," the film version of which was like this one in that it featured the proverbial All Star Cast. Not sure there's been a similarly big-star-heavy film made since A Bridge Too Far (1976?), at least not on that scale. They just don't make 'em like that any more.

Market Garden was just one reason why Monty was a little doofus unworthy to lick the mud from Patton's riding boots. Thank goodness that at least the Yanks (and the Soviets, though Stalin killed most of them in one of his brilliant moves) had some good generals on hand, because the British top brass (scum of the earth in WWI, though one would hope that they might have learned from that experience) were way outclassed by their incredible German counterparts.