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British Bias

posted 13 years ago by jacta
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Just because this film is British does not make it good, its not awfully bad but it is not a good british film. It's simply a low budget war film that happens to have sean bean and danny dyer in it.

I know a lot of people are inclined to like it because to be honest there are very few British war films. Unfortunately this does not make up for it. there are a lot of low budget, non american war films that are very good. This film is entertaining but its not a classic. There is no need to defend it because it is British.

Just thought i'd put it out there as most of the threads seem to be

>This films crap
>> no it's not, it's a good british film.

etc.

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[–] ronfirv 13 years ago

Yes, not a great but not bad either.
I am not sure it has Brit-bias, other than it is about the infancy, to coin a word, of the modern-day SAS, so if a film is about a British Army Unit, written from their point of view, it is almost bound to run a high risk of being accused of bias. Virtually unavoidable.

Not so many good Brit war movies as there used to be, true; try watching the Korean (South) movie, Brotherhood. Highly realistic and some excellent acting.

[–] thatguy_ice 13 years ago

"because to be honest there are very few British war films"

Britain has probably made more war movies than any other country.

A good example of this is the fact that in Michael Caine's first 5 years of acting (1955-1960) he starred in about 20 British movies. Ten of these were set during a war. British war movies are certainly less common now than they were 1940-1980, but plenty of them are still being made.

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[–] widescreeneyes 10 years ago

because to be honest there are very few British war films

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_war_films