"They Shall Not Grow Old" Peter Jackson's WWI film

[MC Bodge]

I sat down to watch this earlier, but it has now been removed from iplayer after only 7 days...

How irritating.

[kev1974]

Still on at a handful of cinemas around the country.
https://www.theyshallnotgrowold.film/

[geeman237]

I just got wind that its playing here in the US. I am planning to go with a few friends on the only local showing on Dec 17th. It will be interesting to see how many Americans will go.

[Bebee]

Report back.

[geeman237]

Bebee said:

Report back.

I went to see the film last night at the local showing here in the US. They were showing a 3D and normal format version. A fellow Brit and I saw the normal format. We found the cinema at least 80% full with what appeared to be a mixed crowd of people of most ages. Once showing it was quiet from the audience. Several rounds of laughter at some of the funnier comments by the soldiers narration. About a third or so left at the start of the credits, the remainder of us staying for the "how they made it" bit. After that several folks broke out into a subdued round of applause.

A very well done film.

[FunkyNige]

geeman237 said:

I went to see the film last night at the local showing here in the US.
...

Was it subtitled? I wondered if the Americans would struggle with the accents.

[coppice]

Voldemort said:

That WE MUST NOT LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN.

But we did- 21 years later. We convince ourselves , as a nation, that we must remember as not to do so means we are condemned to repeat past mistakes. It is noble sentiment but a self delusional one.

[Smollet]

FunkyNige said:

geeman237 said:

I went to see the film last night at the local showing here in the US.
...

Was it subtitled? I wondered if the Americans would struggle with the accents.

It only started for the USA in 1917 so probably not enough time to get to grips with them

[RC1807]

Voldemort said:

Langweilig said:

I'd recommend that you visit the Menin Gate Memorial with its 40,000 names of those who've no known grave. If you can, attend the Last Post ceremony at the memorial. The roads are closed to traffic and the ceremony is held every evening.

Take some time to visit Tyne Cot military cemetery. The world's largest military cemetery at Passchendaele. The number of burials and commemorations (four of them German) run well into five figures.

Although the Menin Gate is massive it was discovered to be not big enough to list the missing, so the /cont is at Tyne Cot.

Wiki says 'On completion of the memorial, it was discovered to be too small to contain all the names as originally planned. An arbitrary cut-off point of 15 August 1917 was chosen and the names of 34,984 UK missing after this date were inscribed on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing instead'

[there are 54,395 listed on the Menin Gate - although, interestingly, that number is declining. As battlefield remains are identified they are given a full military funeral and the name is removed from the Menin Gate/Tyne Cot wall]

I visited Ypres last Thursday as I said I would.
Visited Tyne Cot and the cemetery and memorial gardens at Passchendale. The fact it was fking freezing, for me - in my big down filled coat, wolly hat, scarf - made it even more an eye opener to think just how awful it woudl have been for the average tommy in 14-18.
Menin Gate's Last Post ceremony was very well attended. About 4 wreaths were laid that night.

All very moving, sobering stuff.

[geeman237]

FunkyNige said:

geeman237 said:

I went to see the film last night at the local showing here in the US.
...

Was it subtitled? I wondered if the Americans would struggle with the accents.

No it wasn't subtitled. I am sure there were some parts that went over the head of most of the audience. References to money and the recruits gaining a stone in weight during training etc. (American's don't use 'stone' for weight) for example. The biggest laugh from the audience actually seemed to come when Peter Jackson revealed the end credits song was sung by members of the British Embassy/Consulate in New Zealand. Go figure.

What surprised me was just how bad the teeth were of so many of soldiers. No wonder the American's still joke about Brit's teeth!

[gareth_r]

BBC2 this coming Saturday (2/2/2019)

[coppice]

If anyone is interested my wife has a fairly large pile of Western Front Association magazines available FOC - but you collect (N Yorkshire ) or pay postage. She was a subscriber for a time for MA studies. PM me if you would like them

[henrycrun]

As above - now on the iplayer for Feb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0brzkzx/the...

[kev1974]

henrycrun said:

As above - now on the iplayer for Feb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0brzkzx/the...

For a decent length of time this time as well - when it was first on iplayer just before Christmas it was only on there for 7 days.

[Donbot]

This is on BBC2 at 10:10

As a reminder if I'm not the only one who still hasn't seen this yet.

[Big-Bo-Beep]

its highly recommended by those who know about them things

[anonymous-user]

It's very very sobering

[mcelliott]

A quick heads up for anyone interested in the repeat showing of Peter Jackson's documentary bringing the story of WWI to life - well worth a repeat watch.

[Halb]

mcelliott said:

A quick heads up for anyone interested in the repeat showing of Peter Jackson's documentary bringing the story of WWI to life - well worth a repeat watch.

thanks for this, missed it first time round

[Nuclearsquash]

Langweilig said:

I'd recommend that you visit the Menin Gate Memorial with its 40,000 names of those who've no known grave. If you can, attend the Last Post ceremony at the memorial. The roads are closed to traffic and the ceremony is held every evening.




You could also visit the café/museum at Hill 62, Sanctuary Wood, Kemmel Hill, Ypres. I'll never forget my visit there in 1999. After I left the museum, I walked up a slight incline and the sight of the trenches - complete with authentic Flanders mud hit me in the face. I stood there thinking, "Dear God! Is this really what it was all about? How could any human being live in that filth for weeks on end? Yet with all, I couldn't overcome a strange compulsion to step down into the trench and stand in the mud. I discovered later that my grandfather (27495 L/Cpl James Henry Crozier. 10th Batt Royal Irish Fusiliers) and my great-grandfather (L/Cpl James Crozier. Winnipeg Fusiliers. Canadian Expeditionary Force) had both served there.

Edited by Langweilig on Wednesday 14th November 19:35

Edited by Langweilig on Wednesday 14th November 19:36

My great great great Uncle Charles was killed in action on Hill 62 on the 24 Feb 1916, he was in the Royal West Kents, and reading their war diary they were having a bit of a time of it. Charles is buried nearby in the maple copse cemetery.

Now:



Then:

Edited by Nuclearsquash on Monday 11th November 10:48