war movies

I have watched and enjoyed Catch 22 greatly. I think the guy who plays Yossarian does it very well, Dodds's good, so's Milo, the girl Yossarian falls for, chaplain great too, and Y's roomie just as good as imagined him to be, even better if that's possible. Of course you're making it from a book, so u do pick and choose, but all that's done so well. I think I like Mike Nicholls.Glad of the friend too to've passed it on.

Just think of another adaptation from a book, they make different kinds of hash out of every instalment of Harry Potter. Though admit that's a different game altogether. But the way this movie catches the flavour of the book is really good. And possibly there's also something to do with the fact of having lived through a war yourself. Not necessarily talking of participating in it. Think Oliver Stone's Platoon, for instance. Then again you'll wonder what possessed the director and the cast in the Guns of Navarone. How can a man strut like THAT throughout a film? You'd think Gregory Peck's arse would ache..And to climb a rock face like THAT- and then to suddenly let go of your hold out of the blue and to pretend that your hand slipped..Seriously, you'd wonder if they'd thought their audience to be retarded. Aar boi pore ki keu jante parto Andreas je sharakkhon without reason danth khichoy. I'd thought he was this beautiful man who called Mallory 'my Keith'. There's something about male camaraderie that is so unattaningly beautiful..
Then their's The Rainbow and The Rose by Nevil Shute(?) Haven't met anyone who's read it. When I was in 1st or may be 2nd year, there was this selection of Shute at Landmark saying that he was being reprinted after so-many years (splendidly vague that). I read it in school. Loved it very much indeed, the magic dream-like quality, of Johnny Pascoe, Robert something, of Tasmania, memories of the war, and of love..
Books...

But God how smug I sound passing judgement on people.
And by the way, Martin Sheen (in Catch 22) looked every bit as delicious when he was young as Charlie Sheen did. That's the son, by the way. Who, for ignoramuses comme mon amie, was also there in Platoon. Martin Sheen was also there in Apocalypse Now Redux, which, sadly, I haven't watched. He has a more important role there, I believe.