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Title: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: LTARadio on January 06, 2009, 12:30:44 PM
I was looking for some movies with Stuka's in action and remembered...Enemy at the Gates. On the other hand, the link to the movie i'm posting is graphic. It shows how bad the Russian really had it. <S> to all those, including Germany, who fought in WWII.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhebpnpBFg8&feature=related

LTARecon



Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: Tr0jan on January 06, 2009, 12:33:19 PM
Love that film  :aok
Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: Rich46yo on January 06, 2009, 12:50:30 PM
Yeah that was a great movie. It had a couple of good flight scenes. Of course this one with the Stukas and the scenes of the German mediums carpet bombing the rubble. 111's right?
Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: LTARadio on January 06, 2009, 01:03:59 PM
HE-111s or JU-88s....they were dropping fairly low. I'll have to look at it again to confirm. <S>

LTARecon
Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: rabbidrabbit on January 06, 2009, 03:46:00 PM
The comments on the bottom are stunning, as in stunningly stupid.
Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: Treize69 on January 06, 2009, 03:49:30 PM
The comments on the bottom are stunning, as in stunningly stupid.

Like the movie? I think that was the lamest attempt at a "realistic" war movie I've ever seen. I had to force myself to sit through it.
Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: opposum on January 06, 2009, 04:34:34 PM
isn't that exact clip in your link a level in Call of Duty expansion pack? I can swear it is modeled right after it  :aok :aok


opposum


Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: oakranger on January 06, 2009, 05:44:06 PM
russian could have won the war sooner if they stop killing their own. 
Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: Becinhu on January 06, 2009, 05:45:24 PM
one of the COD Russian campaign missions uses the exact same scenes.
Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: crazierthanu on January 06, 2009, 06:30:16 PM
Yeah COD1 modeled the very first level after that....
Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: Curval on January 06, 2009, 07:02:30 PM
There is a photograph in my copy of Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad that I am sure they used as a basis for the backdrop when they show the shot of Stalingrad from where the guys hesitated before jumping, or being pulled, off the train in the movie.
Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: Anaxogoras on January 06, 2009, 08:14:39 PM
You know that a lot of Russian vets complained about this film... :noid  But from everything I've read there's more than a grain of truth to it.

russian could have won the war sooner if they stop killing their own. 

They would have repeated WW1 if they hadn't used their biggest advantage: more of their own blood to spill than the enemy could afford.
Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: DiabloTX on January 07, 2009, 01:46:22 AM
There is a photograph in my copy of Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad that I am sure they used as a basis for the backdrop when they show the shot of Stalingrad from where the guys hesitated before jumping, or being pulled, off the train in the movie.

I'm pretty sure you were the one to recommend that book to me and I have to say it was a helluva read.  Thanks!
Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: JB88 on January 07, 2009, 09:41:22 AM
just watched it again.

great film imho.

Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: RMrider on January 07, 2009, 10:09:37 AM
Just... Not even sure what to say.

When retreating from an enemy, seeing your officers but a hundred yards away, your ticket to live t osee the next day...

To see those poeple you just risked your life for, firing on you...

Im not sure if i lived through that if i could handle it.


I also cant believe some of the tools who commented on that movie, the ignorance of some poeple.
Title: Re: Not for weak stomachs
Post by: JB88 on January 07, 2009, 11:01:18 AM
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