We welcome the great, Kyle Anzalone of the Libertarian Institute on to discuss an under-appreciated and listener-suggested war movie, “The Best of War”, just in time for Armistice Day.
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“…I stumbled across a movie I had never heard of, it completely blew me away and so ever since I’ve been desperately trying to convince everyone across movie fandom to give it a shot and hopefully drag out of complete obscurity…I kid you not when I say this is the best Hollywood film you’ve never heard of. Quentin Tarantino’s old writing partner Roger Avery has it down as the best movie of 1988 and he also has it down as one of his 20 desert island films with ‘Apocalypse now’ being the only other war film…if you do see it, let me know if you agree with me that this might be one of the 10 best American movies of the 1980s, one way or another we need to find a way to raise this movie’s profile and prevent it from continual obscurity once and for all.”
Committed fighters, defending their homeland. Knowing the lay of the land. Using their weakness to their advantage. Being able to traverse the ridges where the tank was stuck going around and couldn’t raise the turret high enough there is a lot to talk about here.
Looks like a winner to me and we know Kyle, who was our guest on another war movie a few years ago called “War Machine” will bring a lot to the discussion as he is a machine when it comes to reporting on this topic on his show “Conflicts of Interest” with his co-host Will Porter.
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Google Description for the film
The Beast of War
A Soviet tank unit led by Commander Daskal (George Dzundza) destroys a village in Afghanistan in 1981. Taj (Steven Bauer), a member of the village, vows revenge and pursues him, along with the mujahideen. Meanwhile, the radical Daskal turns violent against his unit when he murders the tank crewman (Erick Avari) for his Afghan ethnicity and leaves tank driver Koverchenko (Jason Patric) to be killed by the mujahideen. Taj, however, offers Koverchenko sanctuary for his assistance against the unit.
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Kyle Anzalone is news editor of the Libertarian Institute, assistant editor of Antiwar.com and co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Will Porter.
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Kyle was our guest a long two years back to do the Brad Pitt movie, “War Machine”:
Show Notes:
War at the Top of the World Amazon Link:
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Best movies about the Soviet-Afghan War
https://www.rbth.com/arts/329964-9-best-and-worst-movies
http://blog.war-movies.info/tank-movies/the-beast-1988-tank-movie
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