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re: WWII Movies - Which Are More Accurate?
Posted on 6/28/19 at 12:09 pm to Darkknight
Posted on 6/28/19 at 12:09 pm to Darkknight
The Bridge at Remagen seems accurate to me.
I remember being disappointed in The Longest Day when it came out; probably because of the hype.
I remember being disappointed in The Longest Day when it came out; probably because of the hype.
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Posted on 6/28/19 at 12:20 pm to nctiger71
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I remember being disappointed in The Longest Day when it came out
You are some kind of old, baw.
Posted on 6/28/19 at 12:31 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
quote:Oh. Oops.
We were fighting in Somalia with Black Hawk helicopters in WW2?
Well, how is anyone here going to know about the accuracy of WW2 movies?
Posted on 6/28/19 at 2:52 pm to Ace Midnight
You are perceptive.
Posted on 6/28/19 at 3:43 pm to Shiftyplus1
quote:Which inspired one of my all time fave H'wood stories.
The Longest Day does a great job of showing the generals from each side and their thoughts on what was and what might happen. It also has many parts played by men who actually fought in the battles that they were in on screen
Richard Todd, matinee idol of the '50s, IRL was one of the parachute commandos who took the bridge in the attack. He played the attack commander in the film.
He was offered the chance to play himself, and thus glorify his own real-life courage and heroism, but turned it down b/c the part was too small.
Posted on 6/28/19 at 4:49 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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The Spitfire gliding for what seemed like an eternity was absolutely one of the dumbest things I've ever seen in a movie.
and while the pilot was flying dead stick, he shot down a Stuka!!!
Posted on 6/28/19 at 6:53 pm to nctiger71
Attack Force Z pretty good with a Young Mel Gipson
Posted on 6/28/19 at 7:35 pm to Darkknight
Inglorious Bastards 100% happened
Posted on 6/28/19 at 8:41 pm to blueridgeTiger
And shot holes in the side of the boat above the waterline and water rushes in.
Posted on 6/28/19 at 8:52 pm to BugAC
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However, the concentration camps weren't known about, nor discovered until long after the D-Day invasion. So how could he know that the Jews were being mass murdered if it didn't happen yet?
They knew Jews were being moved to camps. They just didnt know the extent to which the Nazis were going. As early as 1933, everyone knew Nazi ideology demonized Jews. Jews were fleeing Germany in droves prior to the war.
Not knowing the extremes doesnt mean Mellish wasnt aware of Nazi ideology and that Jews were being put in camps.
My impression of his crying was that it had more to do with the intensity of the experience for a kid who was probably just out of high school.
Posted on 6/28/19 at 8:56 pm to Darkknight
Midway, Tora, Tora, Tora, Battle of Britain,
Posted on 6/28/19 at 9:08 pm to Darkknight
Valkyrie and Conspiracy
Posted on 6/28/19 at 9:49 pm to Darkknight
I know it's not a movie. But would Band of Brothers be the most accurate WW2 portrayal on film?
For a movie , I definitely agree with Tora cubed
For a movie , I definitely agree with Tora cubed
Posted on 6/29/19 at 11:19 am to Kafka
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Richard Todd, matinee idol of the '50s, IRL was one of the parachute commandos who took the bridge in the attack. He played the attack commander in the film.
Right - that line, "the paras are always late" was him referring to himself. I think it was an ad lib even.
The tough old Irishman lived to be 90 and change.
Posted on 6/29/19 at 11:27 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Dunkirk is such a strange movie.
Who wants to make an unheroic movie?
Who wants to make an unheroic movie?
Posted on 6/29/19 at 12:02 pm to Shiftyplus1
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Come and See,
Reading the plot of that movie makes Schindler's list seem like a Disney movie by comparison.
Posted on 6/29/19 at 12:14 pm to BugAC
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However, the concentration camps weren't known about, nor discovered until long after the D-Day invasion.
I don't know where this comes from. At least 2 years before D-Day, these stories about executions, mass murder and Jewish purges were front page news in London and the United States.
And frankly, probably well known among Jews before this late date (mid 1942). There were literally thousands of stories of German and Polish ex-patriot Jews escaping, leaving others behind, with horrifying stories coming to London, New York and elsewhere. Albert Einstein probably THE most famous scientist on Earth at the time, and certainly a top 5 most famous living Jews at the same time was already a refugee from Nazi Germany, living in the United States in 1933.
So, I literally do not know where this, "The world didn't know until 1945" bullshite comes from.
This post was edited on 6/29/19 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 6/29/19 at 9:09 pm to Ace Midnight
Who in the world downvoted Ace Midnight’s post??? He’s completely right.
Posted on 6/29/19 at 9:41 pm to Darkknight
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