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05-16-2007, 03:36 PM
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05-16-2007, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Njaco  Speaking of Russian aircraft and movies, was that a real Russian Helo and tank in the movie "The Beast" with George Dzunda and Jason patrick? | The tank was real T-55 but the chopper was most definitely not a Mi-8. Wikipedia says that it was actually an Aerospatiale SA.321 Super Frelon. Great movie by the way. 
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05-16-2007, 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by comiso90 Symantics on the "accuracy"
I've heard many people scoff at the same facts that u pointed out. | Never said it was a bad movie...
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05-16-2007, 04:27 PM
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Country: | Pretty good movie. Didn't go too heavy with Russian and Afghan sterotypes and had to throw in a political dig here and there but otherwise a good enjoyable war film. Matt, if you get a chance to see it don't pass it up. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon.
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05-16-2007, 04:36 PM
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Country: | 9th Company was pretty awful. As a war film it was sometimes enjoyable, but fighting scenes were just horrible. Mujahedeen fighters attack uphill against Russian 12.7mm gun emplacements without taking cover and shooting AK's without aiming a bit, a Russian slaughters half of them using a PKM with one hand... IMDB 
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05-16-2007, 05:21 PM
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| The tank commander in "The Beast" told his crew he was a Stalingrad veteran.
Somehow, the age of this charchter wouldnt have added up to the age in real life if that had happened.
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05-16-2007, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by syscom3 The tank commander in "The Beast" told his crew he was a Stalingrad veteran.
Somehow, the age of this charchter wouldnt have added up to the age in real life if that had happened. | Yeah, I remember doing the same thing. I came up with an age somewhere in the 55ish years old area. And that is if he were 14 at Stalingrad. | |
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05-16-2007, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Cyrano 9th Company was pretty awful. As a war film it was sometimes enjoyable, but fighting scenes were just horrible. Mujahedeen fighters attack uphill against Russian 12.7mm gun emplacements without taking cover and shooting AK's without aiming a bit, a Russian slaughters half of them using a PKM with one hand... | We had Rambo, they get "The 9th Company". Both trying to refight and win the wars they lost. The Rambo series was pretty bad too. | |
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05-16-2007, 07:16 PM
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Country:  | FWIW 'First Blood' - the original rambo - book wasn't bad and concentrated on the PTSD aspects of the Vietnam experience, but then Hollywood / Stallone got involved.....
On the F-5's I'm fairly sure they were the aircraft flown by the USAF squadron who were used to mimic SovPac units & tactics in training. They sported Russian colour schemes & insignia - the film probably just borrowed this squadron. | |
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05-16-2007, 08:44 PM
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Yeah, I remember doing the same thing. I came up with an age somewhere in the 55ish years old area. And that is if he were 14 at Stalingrad.
| If I remember, the tank commander character did say he was a kid working both sides, similar to the kid in the "Stalingrad" movie.
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05-17-2007, 02:22 AM
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My old man fell about laughing, he said he and his mates did the same thing when they saw it originally during the war. I cant repeat what he said about Noel Coward in the title roll. | |
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05-17-2007, 02:59 AM
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Originally Posted by trackend " I want my Captain" | 
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05-17-2007, 04:34 AM
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05-17-2007, 01:59 PM
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Country: | Pearl Harbor for me, I found a contradictory during the movie. That scene where Ben Affleck tells his fellow pilots that " P-40s cannot outrun Zeros, so don't even try". Then in the next scene, I see Ben Affelck not only outrun a zero in a P-40, but also keep up with it in a climb. Also, how can two pilots, one who didn't have any combat experience, take down 7 Zeros which were probably flown by experienced airman. I know about the two real life pilots who scored some kills, ( sorry, I forgot their names), but I'm pretty sure not all of their kills were zeros. | 
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05-17-2007, 03:39 PM
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Country: | Or the B-25 crashing into the Jap forces at the end of the Dolittle Raid within feet of the other downed airmen. That was a "guffawer".
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