new ww2 movie

[Cthulhu]

Red Tails and U-571 are two of the worst films in the history of films!

+1

[Motherland]

There's 2 reasons it could really suck. I also have a suspicion they will show a single Sherman ripping through Tigers according to the story.
Hopefully I'm wrong.

I read Michael Pena as Michael Cera and realized that there should be a movie adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five starring Michael Cera as Billy Pilgrim in Germany

[mthrockmor]

As long as this isn't Pearl Harbor all over again!

Having spent many a long stretch of time in a tank turret, they are cramped. Unable to fully stand up, lay down, etc. Lots of moving parts and plenty of ways to hurt yourself. Im guessing for a movie it would take a whole other type of camera work to show how cramped they are. It is that tightish nature that adds to the fatigue. Staying buttoned up for ever, long road marches, etc...I've only done it for weeks on end, not months.

[zack1234]

Coupled with the fact that it took a British Military victory and portrayed it as a US one, along with the bumbling English duffers in the background

The colonials never rewrite history 

Apologise Danny

Bumbling is the national past time of the British, that is why old Narzzies are in a bad mood,they complain "we could not beat the Britsh twice?". 

We invented the Jet engine,P51 engine and the English language, its amazing really considering the UK isfull of retards

[GScholz]

Oh please... You Brits owe your existence to the US. After all, Ben Affleck won the Battle of Britain almost single-handedly! And later Brad Pitt and a handful of Jews won the war by machine-gunning Hitler in a Paris cinema! 

[danny76]

The colonials never rewrite history 

Apologise Danny

Bumbling is the national past time of the British, that is why old Narzzies are in a bad mood,they complain "we could not beat the Britsh twice?". 

We invented the Jet engine,P51 engine and the English language, its amazing really considering the UK isfull of retards

As well as them we also invented almost everything else.

We stopped inventing stuff when the country filled with chaos and liberals

[Grayeagle]

'Can a Sherman tank destroy a Tiger I?  Sure, under the right circumstances'

Just ask Oddball.. re: Kelly's Hero's

As for the actual tactics of Sherman vs Tiger

My Dad said he watched 3 Shermans engage a Tiger in France one fine day long ago.

He said it always took 3 and they'd lose one or two every time, depending on how well the 3 worked together.
One would tease the Tiger from the front while the other two would flank both sides,
with a bit of luck one would get a rear angle shot on the Tiger from fairly close range.
And balls. Big Ones.

Dad had two close encounters with Tigers during the mad dash across France.

First one he went over a hill, Tiger was mid-road at the bottom, looking their way.
They all bailed ..jeep blew up.. and they ran like hell.

Second encounter, friend of his and him rounded a corner in a French town and
ran right into the back of a Tiger.
Tiger backed up.
As their Jeep was being mulched, Dad jumped out with the bazooka, on one side.
His friend jumped out with the backpack fulla bazooka rockets on the other side.
No way were they crossin the street to hook up.

3 months later my Dad made it back to American lines..never saw his friend again.

Dad was forward radio observer for one of the Arty battalions part of Patton's 3rd.
His name is on that statue thingy on the Normandy beach.

He was 17 when he waded ashore.. crazy bastage, loved his Springfield.

-Frank aka GE

[LCADolby]

"That's Paint!"

[danny76]

"That's Paint!"

 

[Cthulhu]

"That's Paint!"

    

[Rich46yo]

At this point Im grateful for any WW2 movie that makes it to production. Red Tails might have sucked but the P40s looked pretty good in it. There are still some undiscovered foreign ones out there. I keep recommending the Japanese made movie "Yamato". While you have to read subtitles its really a good overall movie and worth the price of the DVD. The final scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a1-zsd7Sn0

It chronicles the lives of some very young sailors assigned to her and really finalizes the death of the Battleship era. The actual movie shows even more dramatically the horribly effective tactic of the USN to strafe one side of a BB in order to reduce the AA for the torpedo planes.

I'll go see this new one. There are very few even making it to theaters nowadays.

[Cthulhu]

There are still some undiscovered foreign ones out there. I keep recommending the Japanese made movie "Yamato".

Yeah, that flying battleship is cool!

[Brooke]

I'm with Rich -- they might suck, but I'm glad they make them even so.

Also, there are occasionally very, very good ones, even in modern times (Band of Brothers, Das Boot, Downfall, Saving Private Ryan, Dark Blue World).  And, of course, many excellent WWII movies that aren't new but awesome (Theirs is the Glory, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, Twelve O'clock High, Midway, Piece of Cake, A Bridge Too Far, Battle of Britain, The Best Years of our Lives).

I hear that an HBO series based on Masters of the Air is in development.  That could be amazing.

[Brooke]

We invented the Jet engine,P51 engine and the English language

And computers, the WWW, the magnetron, the smallpox vaccine, the tank, penicillin, the industrial revolution, the pencil, and a thousand other great things.

And they had Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Robert Hooke, John Dalton, Francis Crick, Humphry Davy, and hundreds of other great scientists.

Unfortunately, though, Marx and Engels took up residence in London.

[smoe]

And computers, the WWW, the magnetron, the smallpox vaccine, the tank, penicillin, the industrial revolution, the pencil, and a thousand other great things.

And they had Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Robert Hooke, John Dalton, Francis Crick, Humphry Davy, and hundreds of other great scientists.

Unfortunately, though, Marx and Engels took up residence in London.

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Ricky: "Chinese food."
Cal: "Chinese food."
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