TV/Movies Megathread

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Silent Heroes (1987)

https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt0479812

Complete with misleading VHS covert art. 

Well, now that's a weird one. Directed by the oft-described worst British director, schlock meister Richard Driscoll, here is an anti-war movie shot in a Welsh backyard, in the backdrop of the Falklands War, with some exploitation cinema bits a thrown in for good measure.

So it begins with a traumatised SAS veteran (make-up FX fans beware!) being interviewed by a daring journalist, with allusions to a cover-up by politicians, with Vietnam War movie tropes used in a British context, lots of more or less convincing use of stock footage (most of the movie in fact) to attempt to make up for the shoestring budget, which explains as well the shakily edited not really convincing, yet sometimes atmospheric backyard battle scenes involving some fireworks.

It even gets artsy and philosophical in the end, à la Apocalypse Now.

For some reason it got released in France on VHS, and there is a French-dubbed, badly so, version on youtube.

Falklands Exploitation?

I don't think that ever saw the light of day here?