Posts from The Ringo Kid in thread „Schindler's List (1993)“

Hi Keith, nope, I meant the girl who played in the movie and not one fo the actual survivors. I read the story about 2 days ago.

Speaking of schindlers list, the 3 year girl (now 20 or so years older) has said she regretted playing that little girl in the movie. I forget why?

Same here. I think ill give it a free pass and buy it instead of renting it-much like I did with: Valkyrie.

Have you see his latest movie Taken? I keep forgetting to order it on Netflix so I don't know if its a good movie or nto? I heard from one person who did liek it but they didn't say anything much about it.

Hi Shortgrub, I never said Schindler never did anything for "his" Jews, but when he did, he did it with the mind-set of making money. Though I hate the movie, I think Liam Neesen is a fine actor and like him very much. ;-))

Hi Keith, sorry but for me-this movie deserves ten Yawns out of ten with ten being the worst I can give this movie.

If you Ladies and Gentlemen want to watch something that brings fourth the realities and emotions that those who were murdered went through, I think first you should watch a great movie that shows real newsreel footage of dead Jewish inmates being bulldozed into a massive burial pit. This movie is a classic and is called: Judgement At Nuremburg.

Next, I VERY highly and respectively suggest watching The Winds of War and War and Remembrance maxi-series. Though these were made in the 1980's, both of these maxi-series showed live action of some of what the Jewsih people had to endure. Also, this stuff is VERY graphic, and shows nudity and you hear the screams of those people while sufficating from Zyklon B, and other gasses-as well as you see bodies twitching as they lay dying.

Those scenes evn though they were only actors playing a role-were so darn realistic that watching masses of Jewish people being slaughtered by the SS scum, actually made my cry. These scenes felt so real.

All of this is coming from me-someone who has read hundreds of books about WWII, has met and become friends with many American, British and German WWII Veterans. I am also a Militaria collector.

Having said that, seeing that stuff in WoW & WoR, really unsetteled and greatly sickened me.

Quote from dukefan1

Ringo, you may be the only person I know who doesn't care for this film. It is a masterpiece, in my opinion, and can not be watched without bringing out very raw emotions. Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley were supurb in their portrayals of Schindler and Stem.

If you don't mind me asking out of curiosity, what is it about the film that you dislike?

Mark

Hi Dukefan, things I did not like about the film was that they embellished at how "heroric" that Schindler was when he does NOT deserve such credit. Schindler in real life was one who was really only interested in being a war proffiteer. Schindler true, saved many Jews from being murdered but, it "cost" those Jews much.

In other words, Schindler wasn't as goody-two-shoes as teh movie makes him out to be. The "real" man was also a member of the nazi party and held some of their beliefs but was mainly a member of the party-so he could get rich from the war.

The movie was too long and boring for me and being that I fast-forwarded about half the movie, I can't cite everything I disliked about it. To me, this movie is as bad as The Pianist.

There are some factual errors made in the Goofs section-made by the guy who wrote them. One of them off the top of my head is, when he was talking about the Golden Party Badges. The true part is that the vast majority of party badges were indeed made of Gold-washed Brass-but that was after the 5,000th badge produced.

Another factual error that author made was that he said there was a difference in Golden party badges is that there was a Civilian version as well as a Military version of that badge---wrong!! There was no "Military" version of that badge and no difference between it and the ""Civilian"" made badge. They were one and the same.

Also, a Political badge is NOT a Military badge.

Other than that, my opinion of this movie is a very low one. But Keith, thank you for posting it anyway ;-))

P.S, if a German Officer had been a member of the Nazi PArty, the only allowed place to wear it on his tunic, was the middle or upper part of his left breast pocket. If he wore it in the middle of his pocket, then he probably had not had any combat or qualification badges yet. If the badge was worn in the upper middle part of the left pocket, then most likely this officer had been awarded both classes of the Iron Cross and the Iron Cross 1st class, would be the combat decoration worn in the middle of his left breast pocket.

Sorry for the lecture, this is only coming from a collectiors observation.