What Are You Watching

[davidbfpo]

Ah, I can feel a thread merger is coming......

[Eden]

Last three:

Fort Apache
Kelly's Heros
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

By the way, does anybody else see The Walking Dead as a metaphor for counterinsurgency?

[Ken White]

However, wish I had. It's a great metaphor...

[Stan]

Ah, I can feel a thread merger is coming......

Say, you're not going to do that again this month, are you

BTW, we're still watching reruns of Baywatch and some Vampire Sierra here. By the time some fruit gets around to translating the show, it's 2 years old !

[Tukhachevskii]

Walking Dead (though this season was pretty tame, the last episode more than made up for it)
&
Game of Thrones
&
Storage Wars (think I have a thing for Brandi!)

[Bill Moore]

http://www.bluebellproductions.co.uk...mentaries.html

I recommend watching the trailer, it sounds interesting, but I can't find the actual documentary. Has anyone seen it? Was it worth watching? Do you know where I can find it?

There was one crossing point from North Vietnam into Laos which truck drivers, carrying weapons to fight in the South, called Death Gate. This was part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, North Vietnam’s logistical supply line. Each driver to enter the Gate expected to die trying to traverse the Desert of Fire. This Gate was critical for victory as whoever won the battle here would know the other’s main weakness.

In this documentary we reveal previously classified information. We hear for the first time real life stories of covert operations by American Special Forces. We interview the North Vietnamese on how their clandestine tactics overcame intense bombing, which exceeded the equivalent of a dozen Hiroshima’s. We gain rare access to remote parts of Laos and discover secret roads, crashed American aircraft and hidden army camps. Along the way we interview Lao villagers about their war and hear their stories which have never been recorded.

After 10 years of research we explode the myth that the Americans were fighting a peasant army - how can we learn for the future when we have denied the past?

Here is a link to the book:

http://www.amazon.com/History-Ho-Chi...oad+to+Freedom

[Backwards Observer]

A couple of recent samurai films from Japan.

13 Assassins - wikipedia

13 Assassins Trailer - youtube

...

Rurouni Kenshin - wikipedia

Rurouni Kenshin Trailer - youtube

Also worth checking out:

A Battle of Wits - wikipedia

[Bill Moore]

I watched this on a recent flight, and it was a truly beautiful and disturbing movie. Some in France criticized it because they claimed it humanized terrorists. First off terrorists do happen to be humans (the movie didn't do them any favors though), second and more important the movie demonstrated how absurd the views of the extremists actually are. It is in French and Arabic, with English subtitles. I think most readers of SWJ will enjoy it.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cul...dists-timbuktu