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Message: [QUOTE="storrsroars, post: 4278895, member: 2500"] Watched a couple of recent war flicks over the weekend. [B]1944[/B] is a film about Estonia being caught between the Nazis and Russians, each of whom conscripted Estonians to fight for them, leading to relatives and friends fighting relatives and friends. Battle scenes are very well done. It's not really plot-driven, more of an exploration of the challenges faced by Baltic states during WWII. Acting seemed decent enough but Amazon only gives the option for English overdub, which is pretty bad. Had they left it in Estonian with English subtitles it might've been even more compelling. [B]T-34[/B] is a very good war movie cloaked within a nationalist Russian propaganda message. It's the story of an exceptional Russian tank commander who gets taken POW and uses an opportunity offered by his captors to use a captured T-34 tank to teach newly conscripted Nazi soldiers how to operate tanks in combat. He is reunited with some of his former tank crew and they decide they're going to use the tank to make a break for the Czech border, which was controlled by Russia. There's a lot of attention to detail, such as what it's really like to be inside a tank during battle. The tank crew offers plenty of dark humor and are the types of characters you'd want to go into battle with. This is one I'd watch again. While the plot may seem unbelievable, the story is convincing, the acting is good, and it's an enjoyable ride. [/QUOTE]