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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Gorf on January 31, 2000, 08:59:00 AM
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Hello all!
Just thought I would pass this tidbit to you all.
DISNEY just gave the OK to spend $135 MILLION on a new Pearl Harbor movie!
Could be very COOL. With todays special effects technology!!..moahahah
Gorf
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Forget that, I'm ALL OVER Universal's U-571. Sub movies are the best (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Next to airplane movies, of course (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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-Rebel
"With a Rebel yell!"
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Here come the "sea men" jokes... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Something tells me that somehow, someway, Disney will get this movie politically corrected to the point where it will distort history, for a political cause...call me paranoid, but just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean I shouldn't be (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
I don't trust Hollywood, nor do I trust Disney.
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Brian "Ripsnort" Nelson
++JG2++ ~Richthofen~
(Formerly VF-101 Grim Reapers~Defected~)
"There is no reason anyone would
want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and
founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,1977
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Hello,
The newspaper item I read this morning said the movie would center on two fighter jocks who fall for the same nurse.
Knowing disney, mickey and all those other goofey executives, I am not, repeat not holding my breath for this ....
They probably have those jock flying F6Fs or P-38s. Which as you know is historically accurate.
delta
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Here come the "sea men" jokes...
This isn't a joke, but it is funny as hell. I use my real last name in my e-mail addy. You'll have to do a little investigation to figure out just what it is. In my life, I've gotten off pretty easy... my father on the other hand:
He was a "sea man"
His first name is "Dick"
Maybe this explains one of the most laid back attitudes I've seen.
AKDejaVu
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I hope they get the airplanes right, seeing that T-6 "strafing" the beach in "The Thin Red Line" was pretty cheesy (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif)
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Mark VanZwoll
33rd Strike Group
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If you are interested in Pearl Harbor history then read a book called "DAY of Deceit by Robert Stinnett. Then you will know why hollywood wants to be politically correct.
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BBGUN: did it read anything like this?:
http://cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/01/23/nanking.protests.ap/index.html (http://cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/01/23/nanking.protests.ap/index.html)
One would understand why Roosevelt had his secret agenda after the 1937 atrocities that Japan had commited. He should have taken a step further, and brought the war to Japan, rather than wait for ambush.
Anyway, back to the thread, I bought Saving Private Ryan, and I think thats a great flick .
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Brian "Ripsnort" Nelson
++JG2++ ~Richthofen~
(Formerly VF-101 Grim Reapers~Defected~)
"There is no reason anyone would
want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and
founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,1977
[This message has been edited by Ripsnort (edited 01-31-2000).]
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Ripsnort,
I wouldn't be to upset with old FDR. He did everything he could to get people to pay attention to Nazi Germany and Japan. But there were to many Charles Lindberg type isolationist out for his neck. You can blame Congress and the American people. Edward R. Murrow was on the radio every night broadcasting the bombing of London and still nobody cared until we got hit. He also didn't tell the base commander to park his airplanes in neat little rows along the runway either. Lets face it. If Hitler hadn't attacked our shipping and the Japanese hadn't bombed pearl harbor we probably wouldn't be playing this game right now.
F4UDOA
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One of the things my company does is produce some of the neat gizmos yah see in the movies and on TV. My favorite movie project was Flight of the Intruder... and those A6A's looked real to me; and I knew better. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Stop by an R/C Field sometime. Giant scale (1/4 scale) model aircraft can be awsomely convincing.. the goose pimples will sprout all over.. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Models CAN be used; and they look a heluva lot better than an AT6 "Hollywood Zero".
Hope they get it right! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Hang
PS: re; Saving Private Ryan.. The scene when the rain stops.. the last stand at the bridge; Tom Hanks hittin that Panzer with his .45; and then it blows. The stunned look on his face.. then the Mustang roars over... that scene had me RIGHT outta my chair! And THAT was a 1/4 scale model. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Well, if it is as good as thin red line...I will stay home and play AH instead, trust me...
But....let's not be "continental" and let's be positive, Disney did give us "Bamby" right ? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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Saint
DCO 186th Wardogs (Falcon4 Squad)
http://www.wardogs.org/ (http://www.wardogs.org/)
"Firepower Mate, that is what separates the men from the boys..."
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Ya got that right Hang,
Quick horror story. We were getting noise complaints at one of the local feilds from a guy that lived a mile away. One of the members was flying a 1/4 scale Stang w/o a muffler, when this fella came by to complain(which I feel he had every right to). Well the next thing ya know this guy waited for the stang to go in a dive and reached over and cut off the radio. WHOOOOP... silence!
Now while Ill agree that the love muffin flying the stang putting our feild in jepordy got what he deserved, that wasnt the way to handle the situation.
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For me it was Tom Hanks expression,
That look of,
Holy S#!+ I just destroyed a tank with a 45, no one will ever believe me, I don't believe it."
The Pony was through the Scene too quick for my Taste.
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Lincoln "Downtown" Brown.
lkbrown1@tir.com
http://www.tir.com/~lkbrown1 (http://www.tir.com/~lkbrown1)
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Hals und beinbruch!
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LOL Camel.. yah the hobby nowadays seems to be sprouting a**holes like mushrooms from goat turds since ARF's arrived. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
I set up a slick little 1/12 scale stang with electrics about 8 years ago to fly from schoolyards and stuff (still flyin it too!) and got the best compliment an electric R/C pilot can ever get when I took it to a local 'gas' field..
"What kinda tuned pipe yah got in that thing anyway?"
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Hang
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I love my .46(sorta scale) Mustang, one of my best flyers(second plane I built).
I have to admit Ive bought one ARF. I needed something to fight with since losing my only fighter a week before to a beutiful midair with my local shop owner (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif) He demanded a rematch(think he was just trying to move some stock, lol). Well I won the fight, but cracked it up alittle landing it(heavy sucker).
Note: We fight anything with a .40 or less, whenever we get an itch to fight (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) we are not a 1/12th scale fighting club.
camel
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I agree.....Disney and Pearl Harbor DON'T mix (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
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-floo- fangs out
463rd Bomb Group
15th Air Force
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http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=5100 (http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=5100)
Go there then click the link about a review of the Pearl Harbor Script. The movie isn't about Pearl Harbor. The movie is about how all the countries involved BECAME involved, by following the lives of two friends who become pilots (One for the RAF 71 Eagles Squadron and one for the U.S. in the Pacific) and a Nurse one of them becomes romantically involved with. My personal feeling is that they will get it right and it will be awesome, or they will blow it big time.....but reserving judgement until I see it.
As for U-571, the `Ain't it cool news' has a review of that movie by someone who went to a pre-screening and said it was excellent.
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This being a Disney flick, the 2 men will probably get married and the nurse will become a fighter ace.
--ra--
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Lets not forget the Jeep which will rush in and save the day ala Herbie the Love Bug (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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-floo- fangs out
463rd Bomb Group
15th Air Force
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RA: ROTFLOL!!!
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Brian "Ripsnort" Nelson
++JG2++ ~Richthofen~
(Formerly VF-101 Grim Reapers~Defected~)
"There is no reason anyone would
want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and
founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,1977
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Historic note: The evidence including copies of intercepts( in Mr. Stinnetts book) indicates that the US knew that the Japanese had plans to attack Hawaii like 9 months in advance. The FBI knew a Japanese spy was working in Hawaii as well and 'choose' to do nothing about it. The US intercepted a message from Admiral Yamamoto on 26 Nov 41 which read in part "advance into Hawiian waters". Washingtons attack alert message on Dec 7 was picked up loud and clear in the Phillipines but was "mysteriously" unreadable at Pearl. It certainly looks like Admiral Kimmel and General Short were setup and a lot of American lives needlessly lost because the Whitehouse wanted to lure the Japanese into making the first attack. I think the issue is not whether the Japanese committed war crimes- it is whether or not the US administration betrayed its own people. Even with the evidence more recently presented by congress, the executive branch will not budge off its original position and Kimmel and Short remain the scapegoats. Anyways if this interests anyone, there is a lot more stuff in Mr. Stinnetts book. BB out..........