Suggestions for good war movies

[Walrus]

HI Gene
You'd have a different appreciation for the Haka if you saw it in proper context.

The Maori were not stupid warriors and were not prone to stand in front of massed guns and having a dance.
No.

The Haka is a pre-skirmish challenge to another tribe.

If you had 300 warriors, with tattooed and scared faces slamming their feet into the baked earth, hammering their own bodies...and waving Patu and Mere and of stone, bone and Greenstone (Jade to you...pounamu to us) standing in front of you....you'd be feeling it.

If you were sitting behind a maxim...you'd not be worried...but if you had no ranged weapons...you'd be pooing your pants bro.

I have been in the middle of 700 school boys as we hammered out our Haka...and it is fierce.

The military history of the conflict between Maori and and British forces 1840-1860 is very interesting indeed. A chap called Hone Heke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hone_Heke

http://www.history-nz.org/wars1.html

and his older General Te Kawiti did very well at the beginning, embarrassing the British very badly...and becoming very good at trench warfare and guerrilla tactics.

Anyway...at least our players are man enough to face each other without armour.
Body on body....proper sports...not your sanitised version...cut up for TV viewing. Yet another victim of advetising.
Don't get me started or we'll end up talking about cricket...and why America is doomed because it has forsaken the greatest game on the planet!
Hurrah and a cup of tea!

Cheers