 | Best Scene from a War Movie or TV show| OFF-Topic / Misc. Discuss Best Scene from a War Movie or TV show in the Current forums; Originally Posted by Cyrano
Apocalypse Now - Valkyrie choppers
Yeah, that was a classic.... |
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04-26-2007, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Cyrano  Apocalypse Now - Valkyrie choppers | Yeah, that was a classic. | 
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Originally Posted by DOUGRD The movie scenes that get my vote are both from the Battle Of Britain. the first is where Dowding is asked what would he do if war came. Pray to god , and trust in radar? To which he replied "I would rather pray for radar, and trust in God." The look on Lawerence Oliviers face told the whole story of Dowdings plight. He was tired, frustrated, angry and near wits end. The second scene I liked is where Galland answers Gorings question "What do you need to win?" (or words to that effect) Galland says "Give me a squadron of Spitfires. You got to admit, Galland had guts. To say that to the Reichsmarschall in that time and place was unbelievable! Galland was pure class!!!! | Good movie. Like most of the high budget flicks of that time, strove more for accuracy than for Hollywood (See "Pearl Harbor", one of the worst movies ever made, man does it suck).
Does anyone think it will ever be redone? "The Battle of Britian" I mean. Given the way CGI has advanced, such a big scene movie has real possibilities. | |
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04-26-2007, 08:35 AM
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Country: | At the risk of contridicting myself in a previous post, the scene where the USS Arizona gets the chop in an otherwise incredible bad movie ("Pearl Harbor") was a great scene. Seeing the mags go was amazing.
The rest of the movie should've been left on the cutting room floor. | |
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04-26-2007, 10:40 PM
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Country: | JUST A LITTLE SIDE NOTE Remember in the early post WW2 movies where you see a ship in a convoy smack into a mine and this big plume of water would shoot fifty to seventy-five feet up into the air? You could see that the ship was a model in a big tank of water. I always thought the studios could do better than that. Wellll I got surprised! In 1987 I was in the U.S. Navy's only seagoing airborne minesweeping helicopter squadron, HM-14 (HM-15 was standing down to refit with the MH-53E) and we went to the Persian Gulf to sweep mines and do convoy escort duty. So anyhow.. when we located our first contact mine (the type like in the movies) Our ship ,USS Guadalcanal, pulled up to within about 3/4 of a mile from it and our Seal team went over and set a charge and blew the puppy up and you know what? It blew just like in the old movies! I couldn't believe it!! Oh well, just a little color commentary there.
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04-27-2007, 02:36 AM
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Country:  | Here is a little entertainment news. Sequel to Band of Brothers is being shot in Melbourne Australia. Jungle Scenes will be done in North Queensland and Interior scenes filmed in Melbourne Sound Stages. It will be called to my understanding The Pacific | |
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04-27-2007, 05:21 AM
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Our ship ,USS Guadalcanal, pulled up to within about 3/4 of a mile from it and our Seal team went over and set a charge and blew the puppy up and you know what? It blew just like in the old movies! I couldn't believe it!!
| Ive been on the Guad before Doug, and we blew more than a couple of mines in my time...
Heres a shot of one we blew in the North Atlantic....
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04-27-2007, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Emac44 Here is a little entertainment news. Sequel to Band of Brothers is being shot in Melbourne Australia. Jungle Scenes will be done in North Queensland and Interior scenes filmed in Melbourne Sound Stages. It will be called to my understanding The Pacific | Great news! I heard they were shooting it back in '01 but then it just died away. Heard nothing more. Heard it was going to be the same type of thing as the original but in the Pacific.
Do you know any more? Is there a web site?
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04-27-2007, 09:55 AM
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04-27-2007, 10:48 AM
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04-27-2007, 11:11 AM
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Country:  | My favorite scene has to be the Chopper scene from Apocalypse Now. Why?
Because I remember my first combat Air Assault mission that I flew we were flying some Cav guys in and I was first chopper in the serial which also had Commander of the Cav squadron on board. He comes walking out to my aircraft with a Cav hat on, a shot gun strapped to his back and a cigar hanging out of his mouth. It reminded me of the movie and I was so excited. The whole flight to the objective I was humming the Valkrie song. Everytime I see that scene now I think of that first assault mission that I flew.
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04-27-2007, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Bernhart origional quiet on the western front, fight in the graveyard | Excellent choice!
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04-27-2007, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by lesofprimus Ive been on the Guad before Doug, and we blew more than a couple of mines in my time...
Heres a shot of one we blew in the North Atlantic.... | North Atlantic? That must have been there for a while?
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Country: | Yea it was, and we took out 8 of them I think over 3 months or so...
Gotta love hazardous duty pay...
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