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Beyond the war propaganda American pilots had not much
to fight for over Europe! That's why the American Aces were made over Pacific. |
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Exasctly. By the time the Yanks got into the European Theatre of Operations in 1942 there were barely one or two Luftwaffe squadrons left flown by wet-behind-the-ears rookie pilots. Well, except maybe for New Years Day, 1945............
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Has Hollywood made a good/realistic WWII film? A lot of people say that Saving Private Ryan was perfect, but I found it to be Spielberg's typical "Heavy-Handed" tripe. The effects were amazing, and good choreography, but every 5 minutes I found myself pulled out of the experience by some manner of glaring error, or stupid thematic device (like having every German soldier a skinhead).
Yes Mr. Spielberg, we didn't forget that the Holocaust happened, but skinheads were an invention of the 70's/80's. I'm really glad that they didn't make that Battle of Britain movie since this is 100% how it would have happened. . . ![]() Did I manage to get all the Hollywood WWII Cliches into it? Last edited by speculum jockey; 10-27-2011 at 02:03 PM. |
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Good one Speculum J,That was solid gold mate, spot on
![]() The closest I can come up with as a reasonable modern WWII hollywood movie is probably Memphis bell! Cheers Craig Last edited by trumps; 10-27-2011 at 03:12 PM. |
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Yup, that's a good example. The only way I can think of that being blown out of proportion "Hollywood Style" would be to have the gunners shooting down dozens of 109's. Then again they had a pretty tight budget that didn't leave much for superfluous special effects.
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![]() A whole generation of pilots learned to treasure the Spitfire for its delightful response to aerobatic manoeuvres and its handiness as a dogfighter. Iit is odd that they had continued to esteem these qualities over those of other fighters in spite of the fact that they were of only secondary importance tactically.Thus it is doubly ironic that the Spitfire’s reputation would habitually be established by reference to archaic, non-tactical criteria. |
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I found it very funny and very true...
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Yes they did, long time ago, but they did just to name a few:
Not from Hollywood, but nevertheless a good one:
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12 o'clock high would definately be one of the best war movies made.
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