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ORIGINAL: Ninebelowzero

History nerd time.

All the nation armies tried cavalry attacks against emplaced machine guns at the outbreak of WW1. What was unforgiveable was that the British already knew what effect maxim guns had from the Boer war campaigns.

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History nerd time

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

Go fight a war...........any war...........I sometimes still wake up screaming 50 years after I was in one up to my neck...........thank the gods for an understanding partner

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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

Go fight a war...........any war...........I sometimes still wake up screaming 50 years after I was in one up to my neck...........thank the gods for an understanding partner

Your profile says you're 45. Care to explain how you remember a war fought five years prior to your birth?

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ORIGINAL: Iamsemisweet

I saw a movie recently that would give War Horse a run for its money in the "dull" department.  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was so boring, I couldn't believe I had spent 15 bucks to see it.  It could not be saved by the presence of either Gary Oldman or Benedict Cumberbatch.  The book must have been better.

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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist

OK... I'm 15 minutes into the movie and I want to poke my eyes out with a pencil. 

I'll sum it up. 
A horse was born.
Someone bought it at a horse auction.
The end. 

Pass me a pencil please. 

Did anyone see this dog of movie? 
Does it suddenly become less boring than the English Patient at 20 minute mark or something?
Is there a discernible plot anywhere other than "just another uneventful, dull, droll, boring, slow day in the life of horse that lives in a uneventful, dull, droll, boring, slow town full of uneventful, dull, droll, boring, slow people "?

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We are less than seven years away from the anniversary of the end of World War I, and the last surviving combat veteran of the war died this year. There might be young people unaware of the dire historical facts and the unspeakable human toll of that war, but for almost everyone else, the sheer scale of the losses and nightmarish reality of the trenches, repeated in refrain for almost a century, has dulled us to the staggering truth of it all. Which is probably why Spielberg and the creators of War Horse have seen fit to transfer our sympathy from a mere human caught in that carnage to a horse, enlisting it to re-awake our sense of pathos in the form of that most noble and graceful of animals, into whose big, dark, anxious eyes Spielberg invests so much human emotion. It’s a remarkable feat, to be sure, but some part of me can’t help but be saddened that we’ve had to transfer to an animal what we can no longer comprehend in men.

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ORIGINAL: ShaharThorne

PTSD is a bitch to deal with.  I hate hunting season because of it.

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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist

At breakfast today I skimmed through the last half of the movie.  I skipping the 10 minute aerial views of a field and wide cinematic views watching the grass grow . . . the fucking movie was like looking at that TV show where a painter teaches you to make a landscape with a sponge.

Sure, there is some degree of human interest, but I have seen some good 'plight of war' topic movies.  The Pianist was awesome, Warhorse was not.  Bambi had more plot and was better paced in my opinion.