 | Most Accurate War Film| OFF-Topic / Misc. Discuss Most Accurate War Film in the Current forums; Originally Posted by Soundbreaker Welch?
There were so many funny little films made during WWII.
One of them was "... |
|
04-13-2007, 09:44 PM
|
#76 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Adelaide
Posts: 3,503
Country:  | Quote:
Originally Posted by Soundbreaker Welch?  There were so many funny little films made during WWII.
One of them was "Thunder Birds, 1942" which I watched this year. No combat, just a movie about training pilots for the War in Boeing Stearmans. It takes place at Thunder Bird Airfield in Arizona. The plane footage is pretty exciting with no special effect squadrons, since there was no lack of real planes to fly in those war day films. And it's in color, so the blue and yellow paint schemes are not missed like in a B/W. | Other good ones in colour are "Captains of the clouds" where bush pilots join the RCAF and "Dive Bomber" with Errol Flynn.
__________________  | 
|  | |
04-14-2007, 03:34 PM
|
#77 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Colorado, USA
Posts: 1,506
Country:  | I added them to my IMDB WWII movie list, so when I rent something I'll look for them!
As I was looking them up, the site recommended to me: A Guy Named Joe (1943)
On the poster of the movie they show a couple of P-38's.
Anybody seen the film? Are the P-38's just an advertising gig?
Sounds weird somewhat with the ghostly humour of it, but pilots are often superstitious.
Sometimes it seems, and I'm sure you agree, the best way to see WWII planes is actual footage taken of them. A lot of it is poorly preserved, but you can still see the movements and excitment of a combat that actually took place. The best footage I have seen of the "P-51D" in combat in from the war documentary "The Last Bomb" (1945). Have to thank Zeno's Warbird drive in for that. Quote: |
How many different planes did they have on that island?
| They had Hellcats. Those Marines were keeping that plane a secret from the Navy!
__________________ 
"His motor's conked out!"
"What's the differance, they're all Nazis!"
"Luke, shut up!"
"Fear the hook!"
"Oh.....I wanna fly."
"You mean the kind that go under water and fly up the stairs?"
"What you doing? Oh Nooooo!"
Last edited by Soundbreaker Welch? : 04-14-2007 at 04:05 PM.
| |
| | |
04-14-2007, 04:25 PM
|
#78 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NIAGARA
Posts: 4,601
Country:  | A good one that is being overlooked is called The Bridge its a german film circa the 50's 60's about a bunch of Hitler Youth kids called out from school to defend a bridge in their home town in the closing stages of the war in German its called Die Brucke
__________________  | 
| | |
04-14-2007, 07:44 PM
|
#79 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Plymouth
Posts: 619
Country:  | Has anybody mentioned Come and See yet? 1980's Russian film about a young boy who joins the partisans when the Germans destroy his village. Pretty brutal stuff, with lots of religious symbolism, but captivating at the same time | |
| | |
04-14-2007, 08:01 PM
|
#80 | | Forum Politruk
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Bristol, UK
Posts: 2,406
Country:  | Ohhh, Idi I Smotri. I'd say brutal would be a mild word to describe it - especially the end.
It's almost unbearable to see without having prior warning about what you're letting yourself in for. | |
| | |
04-15-2007, 07:34 AM
|
#81 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Phila, Pa
Posts: 2,514
Country: | Quote:
Originally Posted by pbfoot A good one that is being overlooked is called The Bridge its a german film circa the 50's 60's about a bunch of Hitler Youth kids called out from school to defend a bridge in their home town in the closing stages of the war in German its called Die Brucke | Saw "The Bridge" some time back. Good movie, but heavy. Like "Gallipoli", good movie but one of those flicks that bothered you after it was over. | |
| | |
04-15-2007, 04:42 PM
|
#82 | | Der Crewchief
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
Posts: 29,819
Country:  | Quote:
Originally Posted by T4.H I think, "Das Boot" is perhaps one of the most accurate war films of all time. Of course with two exceptions. The inside colour of the german submarines was not dark-grey, it was white. And of course, as I know, the germans stopped the use of rivets for the construction of there submarines even before WWI.
Both facts were well known. It was good for the dramaturgy.
I prefer the director's cut version with 208 minutes. The TV version is with 5 hours too long. And I will never forget the cool sound at the beginning, when the bow of U96 appears through the unclear water.
What do you think about "Tora! Tora! Tora!"? I think, this film is as accurate as possible.
Hey, this was my first post!!!  | I agree and I too prefer the directors cut as well. For some reason I have 2 copies of it...
I dont know why I have 2. 
__________________  US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
| | |
04-15-2007, 04:46 PM
|
#83 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Montrose, Colorado
Posts: 2,176
Country: | Just saw a war movie on TV that was well done. "The Great Raid" was about US Army Rangers going in to rescue POWs in a Japanese prison camp in the Philipines. I read the book sometime ago and the movie stayed pretty close to the real story. As I remember the critics panned the movie which I guess tells you more about the critics than it does about the movie. It was a very patriotic movie and some of the brutality of the Japanese raised my hackles. | |
| | |
04-15-2007, 08:27 PM
|
#84 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
Posts: 6,753
Country: | Has anybody seen "No Man's Land" about the war in Bosnia. I thought that looked pretty on target along with the tongue in cheek humour.
__________________ 
"If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!" | |
| | |
04-15-2007, 08:37 PM
|
#85 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 8,301
| Quote:
Originally Posted by renrich Just saw a war movie on TV that was well done. "The Great Raid" was about US Army Rangers going in to rescue POWs in a Japanese prison camp in the Philipines. I read the book sometime ago and the movie stayed pretty close to the real story. As I remember the critics panned the movie which I guess tells you more about the critics than it does about the movie. It was a very patriotic movie and some of the brutality of the Japanese raised my hackles. | That was a great movie!
__________________
"Pilot to copilot..... what are those mountain goats doing up here in the clouds?" | |
| | |
04-16-2007, 12:42 AM
|
#86 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Adelaide
Posts: 3,503
Country: | Quote:
Originally Posted by syscom3 That was a great movie! | Agreed, they filmed this movie about 30 minutes from where I grew up.
__________________ | |
| | |
04-16-2007, 09:13 AM
|
#87 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Montrose, Colorado
Posts: 2,176
Country: | I agree with youall. That movie,"The Great Raid" was outstanding. I was amazed at he quality of the action scenes and the acting was good also. I watched all of the stuff after the end with the B and W film actually shot of some survivors and it really got to me. Just goes to show that Hollywood can produce good films but I guess there is not much demand for that type of film today. I was only disappointed by the Lockheed Hudson flying over the camp. Looks like they could have found a B25. I doubt if a Hudson would have been in that theater of the war at that time. | |
| | |
04-16-2007, 10:09 AM
|
#88 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 8,301
| Quote:
Originally Posted by renrich I agree with youall. That movie,"The Great Raid" was outstanding. I was amazed at he quality of the action scenes and the acting was good also. I watched all of the stuff after the end with the B and W film actually shot of some survivors and it really got to me. Just goes to show that Hollywood can produce good films but I guess there is not much demand for that type of film today. I was only disappointed by the Lockheed Hudson flying over the camp. Looks like they could have found a B25. I doubt if a Hudson would have been in that theater of the war at that time. | the USN used "Hudsons" in the PTO
__________________
"Pilot to copilot..... what are those mountain goats doing up here in the clouds?" | |
| | |
04-16-2007, 02:44 PM
|
#89 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Montrose, Colorado
Posts: 2,176
Country: | Were they Hudsons or Venturas at that stage of the war? At any rate it is a minor point. | |
| | |
04-16-2007, 04:58 PM
|
#90 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Montrose, Colorado
Posts: 2,176
Country: | Speaking of war films, I don't know if it was all that accurate but one of my favorite films of all time is "Zulu" Stanley Baker directed and starred in it and it was one of the early films that Micheal Caine played in. The king of the Zulus was played by the modern day king of the Zulus. Buthelezi I believe his name was. | |
| | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | All times are GMT -5. The time now is 05:43 AM. | | |
