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Offline Biggles

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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #45 on: September 23, 2013, 05:01:54 PM »
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #46 on: September 23, 2013, 05:03:12 PM »
Quote from: GScholz on September 23, 2013, 08:56:35 AM
I have Otoko-tachi no Yamato

Anyone know where can I get a DVD (or with luck a Blu-Ray)?  I've looked around on the Web in the past and couldn't find it.  Does it have English subtitles?
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #47 on: September 23, 2013, 05:03:31 PM »
Quote from: Brooke on September 23, 2013, 04:59:37 PM
A remake of A Bridge Too Far?  Zachy, no no no . . .  ;)  We should have watched that together when you visited.

That movie had a cast that is unsurpassed in the history of film and the like of which is unlikely to be assembled again (Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Kane, Anthony Hopkins, James Caan, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullman, Elliot Gould, Edward Fox, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Robert Redford).

It also had real parachute jumps, in Holland, of 200 men, using real WWII kit.  It is impossible to get more realistic than that.

The consultants for the film included Colonel John Waddy, Major General John Dutton Frost, General James M. Gavin, Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks, Major General Roy Urquhart, and Brigadier Joe Vandeleur -- guys who played a major part personally in Operation Market Garden.

On all three accounts, such a feat is not possible again in the world.


Keep that film environmentally protected under armed guard.
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #48 on: September 23, 2013, 05:06:36 PM »
Coming soon is a Miyazaki film on the designer of the Zero.  I'm greatly looking forward to it.

Also, from Miyazaki with WWII themes is "Grave of the Fireflies".  One of the saddest films you will ever watch, but awesomely done.

And for aviation theme (not WWII), "Porco Rosso" -- whacky, but awesome.
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« Reply #49 on: September 23, 2013, 05:15:00 PM »
Good to hear that originals involving WWII are still being made.

How about war films we would like to see made?

"The Jolly Rogers!" (Exploits of VF-17)

Scene one

The Atlantic off of Morocco.

A pilot is adrift in his one-man raft. His mind is adrift, as well.

Backflash moments: Annapolis, flight training, bad weather in the F4F, Santee not responding, the ditch.

The scene gives way back to the present. A motor launch is there, sailors are pulling him into the boat. A destroyer is not far off.
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #50 on: September 23, 2013, 05:22:51 PM »
What I'd like to see made -- just about anything about WWII aerial or naval combat (surface or submarine).

For ground combat, I'd love to see German, Japanese, and Soviet "Band of Brothers"-type series or films.

By the way, Arlo, you left "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" out of your excellent list.
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #51 on: September 23, 2013, 05:26:19 PM »
Quote from: Brooke on September 23, 2013, 05:22:51 PM
What I'd like to see made -- just about anything about WWII aerial or naval combat (surface or submarine).

For ground combat, I'd love to see German, Japanese, and Soviet "Band of Brothers"-type series or films.

By the way, Arlo, you left "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" out of your excellent list.

I left a lot out.

I saw 'Patton' at the Corpus Christi NAS base theater at the age of 8 (base movies always started with the
National Anthem on screen). It was big screen nirvana.  :D

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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #52 on: September 23, 2013, 05:51:18 PM »
Quote from: Brooke on September 23, 2013, 05:22:51 PM
What I'd like to see made -- just about anything about WWII aerial or naval combat (surface or submarine).

For ground combat, I'd love to see German, Japanese, and Soviet "Band of Brothers"-type series or films.

By the way, Arlo, you left "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" out of your excellent list.

Have you seen "The Soviet Story"?
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #53 on: September 23, 2013, 05:56:42 PM »
Quote from: Bear76 on September 23, 2013, 05:51:18 PM
Have you seen "The Soviet Story"?

No, but I love getting recommendations here on the AH board.  I'll check into it.  Thanks!
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #54 on: September 23, 2013, 07:29:23 PM »
Flight of the Intruder needs a remake that is faithful to the novel.
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #55 on: September 23, 2013, 07:37:38 PM »
Quote from: Devil 505 on September 23, 2013, 07:29:23 PM
Flight of the Intruder needs a remake that is faithful to the novel.

Good point.  It wasn't great, but had some parts that weren't bad.  There's one that would stand a chance of being better in a remake.

Things like remaking Full Metal Jacket, though . . . what are people thinking?!  :uhoh
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #56 on: September 23, 2013, 09:01:25 PM »
"Why is Private Pyle out of his bunk after lights-out?"
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #57 on: September 23, 2013, 09:04:22 PM »
Debbie does Dallas.



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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #58 on: September 23, 2013, 09:09:08 PM »
Debbie Does Danzig?
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #59 on: September 23, 2013, 09:24:52 PM »
Quote from: Scherf on September 23, 2013, 09:09:08 PM
Debbie Does Danzig?
The guy or the city?  :devil
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