Movies you wish they'd make

[StarOfAfrica2]

Originally posted by Seagoon


But the problem with WW1 is that unless you focus on the last few months of 1918 and the German collapse, all you have is mud, and despair and sacrifice that achieves little or nothing. Any movie therefore ends up being either a desperate struggle for survival or inevitably falls into the anti-war war flick, and only the best of directors are going to be able to do this without making it 2 hours of patently obvious bludgeoning about the evils of our own time.

- SEAGOON

Actually I read a book not too long ago (but cant remember the title right now) that focused on the lives of the Brits at home during the war.  Not in London, or near anywhere near the coast, but out in the countryside.  It focused on how much the class barriers fell during the war, and how the people adjusted to what was essentially an entirely new way of life.  Such changes arent so apparent to those of us on the outside looking in, but to those people then, it was a huge upheaval in the way the world worked.  Fascinating characters.  I'll have to dig it up.

[AWMac]

M*I*L*F

[SirLoin]

Originally posted by oboe
Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe

That would be a MIGHTY fine movie!

[Sikboy]

While it would be mostly a Political Story, the "battle" off Mers El Kabir would be my very first choice to make into a movie.

The overarching story over what to do about the French Fleet, with de Gaulle and Churchill trying to come to agreement, the fear of the fleet falling into the hands of the Germans. The French Officers and Men forced to consider where their loyaty may lie between the Resistance, the Vichy, and their own lives. The final Battle where Owen Wilson and the USS Arizona arrive just in time to Sink the French Fleet, as well as a Nazi submarine that was secreting away a nuclear weapon to use on New York.

Really, that story has it all.

-Sik

[Krusher]

Originally posted by Sikboy
Really, that story has it all.

-Sik

What about the love triangle?

[Simaril]

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Originally posted by Roscoroo
they already made a donner party movie.
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they did?
Whats it called?


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Several actually. Weren't they

"Eating Raoul", "Live and Let Die", and

"The Breakfast Club"?

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by Krusher
What about the love triangle?

Sorry, I forgot. Owen Wilson gets with de Gaulle and Churchill.

-Sik

[mosgood]

The STEN books

The Wheel of Time books   (if the bastard ever finishes them)

The Forever War


and the story of how I ended up banging my old room mate and her hot girlfriend.... that would have to be a blow by blow 3 hour epic in real time...  

[Sandman]

Originally posted by mosgood
The Wheel of Time books   (if the bastard ever finishes them)

Oh yeah... that would be right up there with the Dungeons and Dragons movie. Maybe they could get Thora Birch for this one too.

[mosgood]

I take it you didn't like them?

[Sandman]

Originally posted by mosgood
I take it you didn't like them?

I couldn't get past the first book. I like character development as much as the next guy, but it seemed that Jordan took forever to actually reveal the plot. I don't think I finished more than 75% of the book before I gave up.

[mosgood]

It got A LOT better.  I agree the first book was slow

[Flit]

Team Yankee

[Flit]

Originally posted by AdmRose
WWI would make an excellent movie. Haven't seen a good WWI movie since The Lost Batallion.

 You ever see "The Anzacs"?

[Meatwad]

Red Dwarf, the movie Red Dwarf