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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Muzzy on September 13, 2010, 09:19:31 AM
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Two movies in development that I'm waiting to see are the Tuskegee Airmen film that George Lucas is working on, and the rumored remake of Midway.
I'd like to see a Black Sheep film (more historically accurate and without real gun camera footage) and a film about the Battle off Samar (Taffy 3 vs Yamato and Company).
What films would you like to see made?
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A good Revolutionary War movie.
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a new Battle of Britain
tom clancy Red Storm Rising
the battle of kursk
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I think the March 6, 1944 raid on Berlin would be great fodder for the 'epic CGI smorgasboard of awesome' pic. I'd watch it.
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Two movies in development that I'm waiting to see are the Tuskegee Airmen film that George Lucas is working on, and the rumored remake of Midway.
I'd like to see a Black Sheep film (more historically accurate and without real gun camera footage) and a film about the Battle off Samar (Taffy 3 vs Yamato and Company).
What films would you like to see made?
Was just thinking about this, and you hit my 2 choices dead on, Midway and the Battle of Letye Gulf
TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS :D
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Battle @ the Aleutians :aok
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New version of Battle of Britain
More WWII flying movies in general.
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Two movies in development that I'm waiting to see are the Tuskegee Airmen film that George Lucas is working on, and the rumored remake of Midway.
I'd like to see a Black Sheep film (more historically accurate and without real gun camera footage) and a film about the Battle off Samar (Taffy 3 vs Yamato and Company).
What films would you like to see made?
Was just thinking about this, and you hit my 2 choices dead on, Midway and the Battle of Letye Gulf
TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS :D
Make a movie from The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,041205_Last_Stand,00.html).
wrongway
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A movie with P38s and P47s.
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Now all we need is Sean Penn staring in one or more of them...
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a new Battle of Britain
tom clancy Red Storm Rising
the battle of kursk
WOOt at BOB and Red Storm
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A good movie WW2 for the view point of the german soldier. A kind of alls quiet on the western front for WW2.
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A good Revolutionary War movie.
The Story of John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard
Or
Not quite the revolutionary war. But 1812
Movie about the USS Constitution.
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The story of the Bismarck would be just about perfect for a two-hour movie. Some of the other suggestions, BoB and Blacksheep in particular, would be better suited for my taste in a 10 part mini-series kinda thing.
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Don't remake any old movies, they are fine the way they are.
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and the rumored remake of Midway.
some movies are such classics that they never need to be be redone because no matter how much they try. They will always fall short of the original.
Such movies. Pearl Harbor, King Kong. Moby Dick. Frankestein, The Wolfman.
Midway is another one of those movies.
Other movies that should never be attempted to be remade. Casablanca, Zulu, Mr Roberts. The African Queen, Ben Hur. and probobly 1,000 others
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tom clancy Red Storm Rising
Yes!! I would love to see that made! I was on the edge of my seat for that entire book. It would be a long, long movie, but so worth it if they did a good job.
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late Air war Europe! fighters only!
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Flying Tigers.
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some movies are such classics that they never need to be be redone because no matter how much they try. They will always fall short of the original.
Such movies. Pearl Harbor, King Kong. Moby Dick. Frankestein, The Wolfman.
Midway is another one of those movies.
Other movies that should never be attempted to be remade. Casablanca, Zulu, Mr Roberts. The African Queen, Ben Hur. and probobly 1,000 others
Pearl Harbor? Are you serious? Or perhaps (hopefully?) you were thinking of "Tora Tora Tora" and not the Ben Affleck version?
Back to the topic, I've always thought a movie about the flight that took out Admiral Yamamoto would be a good 2 hour movie. Or a movie about Frank Luke and/or Eddie Rickenbacker would be good.
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How about bigger-than-legend, young triple-digit-aces from WW2 like Marseilles and Hartmann?
Fangirls like those who watched Pearl Harbor movie will love these guys, and I know Hollywood likes to cast males that they consider 'hot' and 'slightly effeminate' as seen on the movie Twilight and HBO's True Blood :devil
Marseilles
(Hans)-Jochen (Marseilles) was a practical joker; he was forever playing pranks. He came to see me and my squadron - No. 8 Staffel - one day in his colorful Volkswagen jeep. He called it Otto. After a talk, a cup of sweet coffee and a glass of Italian Doppio Kümmel, he got into his jeep and drove it straight at my tent flattening everything. Then he drove off with a grin stretching across his face."
(Werner Schrör, 8/JG 27, 61 Kills in N. Africa)
"Marseille's superb ability as a pilot was only outshined by his uncommon, gregarious, and sometimes boyish behavior on the ground. He wore his hair long, had a penchant for practical jokes, and listened to taboo music like American jazz and swing, which was often referred to as "Jew" and "******" music. Marseille also had a fairly popular, and sometimes unpopular, reputation as being a "playboy." Early in his career, he was transferred from JG-52 by his commander, the famous Johannes "Macky" Steinhoff who said, "Marseille was remarkably handsome. He was a gifted pilot and fighter, but he was unreliable. He had girlfriends everywhere, who took up so much of his time that he was often too tired to be allowed to fly. His often irresponsible understanding of duty was the primary reason I sent him packing. But he had an irresistible charm." He was quickly shipped off to JG-27 and upon his arrival in North Africa, his commanders were in possession of a thick file containing his breeches of military discipline and unorthodox behavior. "
(http://warrelics.eu/forum/military_photos/art-decor-exotica-third-reich/50430d1250115921-hans-joachim-marseille-commemorative-plate-img_0700.jpg)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rgLL4e_UAYs/S6flU_ePCRI/AAAAAAAACBQ/KKvGsIr07Lg/s1600/30.jpg)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GwSfpmCZ_sE/SXy_YMgqteI/AAAAAAAAACo/uZb0vc1ybVQ/s1600/Luftwaffe%2Bace%2BHauptmann%2BHans-Joachim%2BMarseille%2B-%2BJoaquin%2BPhoenix.jpg)
(http://www.markstyling.com/bf109fs/Bf.109.Fcu.10x.jpg)
Hartmann
look @ this! from financial and latest trends standpoint, Hollywood should cash it in by making a film about him!
Or they could re-use the same formula that made Pearl Harbor a hot Box Office movie in 2001.
I read some info about this guy... He nearly got washed out of the Luftwaffe as a pilot when he first started. Couldn't do anything right and kept pranging planes. Then all of a sudden it clicked.
(http://www.finn.it/regia/immagini/alleati/erich_hartmann.jpg)
(http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/611/583px-Erich_hartmann_front.jpg)
(http://www.nostalgicaviation.com/New%20Photos/Luftwaffe%20Aces/Hartmann%20Mertians.jpg)
(http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn101/Pictures77_2008/hartmann_flyby.jpg)
(http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/foto1/hartm1-1.jpg)
(http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/359904-2/2114390105_cfb4af9f19)
The take-away
1. good looks...
2. bigger-than-legend life story...
3. appeasement of fangirls that made Pearl Harbor a runaway success...
have all three and you'll see modern Hollywood greenlight war movies :aok
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How about bigger-than-legend, young triple-digit-aces from WW2 like Marseilles and Hartmann?
Fangirls like those who watched Pearl Harbor movie will love these guys, and I know Hollywood likes to cast males that they consider 'hot' and 'slightly effeminate' as seen on the movie Twilight and HBO's True Blood :devil
Marseilles
(Hans)-Jochen (Marseilles) was a practical joker; he was forever playing pranks. He came to see me and my squadron - No. 8 Staffel - one day in his colorful Volkswagen jeep. He called it Otto. After a talk, a cup of sweet coffee and a glass of Italian Doppio Kümmel, he got into his jeep and drove it straight at my tent flattening everything. Then he drove off with a grin stretching across his face."
(Werner Schrör, 8/JG 27, 61 Kills in N. Africa)
"Marseille's superb ability as a pilot was only outshined by his uncommon, gregarious, and sometimes boyish behavior on the ground. He wore his hair long, had a penchant for practical jokes, and listened to taboo music like American jazz and swing, which was often referred to as "Jew" and "******" music. Marseille also had a fairly popular, and sometimes unpopular, reputation as being a "playboy." Early in his career, he was transferred from JG-52 by his commander, the famous Johannes "Macky" Steinhoff who said, "Marseille was remarkably handsome. He was a gifted pilot and fighter, but he was unreliable. He had girlfriends everywhere, who took up so much of his time that he was often too tired to be allowed to fly. His often irresponsible understanding of duty was the primary reason I sent him packing. But he had an irresistible charm." He was quickly shipped off to JG-27 and upon his arrival in North Africa, his commanders were in possession of a thick file containing his breeches of military discipline and unorthodox behavior. "
(http://warrelics.eu/forum/military_photos/art-decor-exotica-third-reich/50430d1250115921-hans-joachim-marseille-commemorative-plate-img_0700.jpg)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GwSfpmCZ_sE/SXy_YMgqteI/AAAAAAAAACo/uZb0vc1ybVQ/s1600/Luftwaffe%2Bace%2BHauptmann%2BHans-Joachim%2BMarseille%2B-%2BJoaquin%2BPhoenix.jpg)
(http://www.markstyling.com/bf109fs/Bf.109.Fcu.10x.jpg)
Strangest 109 I ever did see on that memorial plate there...artist must be a fan of the 'History Channel'.
Oh yes, as for a movie I'd like to see made; something that occurs during the Franco-Prussian war would make me :banana:
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Strangest 109 I ever did see on that memorial plate there...artist must be a fan of the 'History Channel'.
From what I heard, A-20's could out turn it.
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Nice me-109...
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I'd like to see a movie about the 2nd American Revolutionary War. In it, the people would rise up and crush the federal government.
It would be good to remind those tools about who is supposed to run this country.
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A movie about the War of 1812, with "Old Hickory" Andrew Jackson fighting in the battle of New Orleans.
Either that, or a movie about the hardships faced by America with the Articles of Confederation, essentially, we were at war with ourselves, until the new constitution was ratified.
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Different aspects of WW2 by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.
One scene, in particular, in "The Pacific", where the marines are loading up LVTs inside an LST( ? ) and you see the guys lining up in the bowels of the ship. Little details you don't think about. Then the front of the ship opens up and you see the LVTs roll out..
I'd love to see that detail on CV life.. perhaps a story of VF and VT squads on the early ships.. Coral Sea and Midway.. the briefing rooms.. living quarters.. some hint of what life was like..
Then some sort of film of the battle wagons. Perhaps during the Kamikaze attack period. The AA gunners... The gunner crews.. ammo handlers.. The bombardment batteries.. operations in the battle bridge.. Bismark would be a real good opportunity for that..
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Yamato is a great battleship movie, I liked letters from Iwo-Jima, something awesome though, would be to take mini siries like the Pacific and Band of Brothers, and look at it from the opposite sides, like Germany and Japan
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Another ten-part World War II television miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg on the 8th AF or 9th AF.
A much better Rev War w/o Mel Gibson or F@I war.
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Would agree in relation to Marseilles but it would have to be made by the Germans for any kind of authenticity.
I would like to see one about the second highest scoring RAF, (not Commonwealth) ace of WW2. Brendan 'Paddy' Finucane in part because he's Irish and in part because his story is rather tragic. He died aged 21 in 1942 while a Wing Commander, yet was only outscored by Johnnie Johnson who survived the war.
It has all the elements, he was good looking square jawed, a great leader, a celebrity of the time although nearly forgotten now and his death was rather pointless and tragic thus suiting the obligatory anti war theme every war movie apparently needs. There is even a romantic element. All that and his extreme youth.
If there's a film Hollywood ought to make it should be about the Hurtgen forest battle. That again has all the elements. A grim bloody battle again illustrating the waste of war. It could be a claustrophobic film set in a deep forest more akin to a horror movie.
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Pearl Harbor? Are you serious? Or perhaps (hopefully?) you were thinking of "Tora Tora Tora" and not the Ben Affleck version?
Back to the topic, I've always thought a movie about the flight that took out Admiral Yamamoto would be a good 2 hour movie. Or a movie about Frank Luke and/or Eddie Rickenbacker would be good.
No. I intended it as written. To clarify. Pearl harbor was an example of a movie that shouldnt have been made. Because of Tora Tora Tora.
If you notice. the other movies I listed were all failed remakes.
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I) A movie about the Eagle Squadrons -the first American volunteers in WWII
II) A movie about JV 44 the Me-262 unit. Fortunately they are 5 262 replicas now so they don't have to make the movie using crap digital effects
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i think a good honest movie about the War in Afghanistan would be fitting
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i think a good honest movie about the War in Afghanistan would be fitting
Go watch "Restrepo". Nothing Hollywood could produce would equal the real thing...
Personally, I'd like to see a movie about Tarawa. Watching those guys wade 600 meters through that lagoon would be more excruciating to watch than the airfield attack on Pelielu in the Pacific. Or, fast-forward 7 years and do one (or a mini-series) on the 1st MarDiv at the Chosin Reservoir. Korea has never gotten much love from Hollywood.
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id also like to see a re-make of "Pork Chop Hill"
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I agree with something about the Korean War. About all we have is MASH.
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I wish a new sub movie would come out.
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I would like to see a good WW1 war movie, and a good WW2 movie focusing on aerial combat of the Luftwaffe in the final days of the war, struggling to slow down the Allied bombing campaign whilst faced fatigue and inexperienced pilots.
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I wish a new sub movie would come out.
I could dig that too... I was watching a great show on the battle for the Atlantic and was thinking a new U-boat flick (without Mathew McConihay) would be great.
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I agree with something about the Korean War. About all we have is MASH.
MASH was more of your standard comedy than a war series/movie
granted there were many moments that showed the harsh reality of war
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i think a good honest movie about the War in Afghanistan would be fitting
They are supposed to be making "Lone Survior"
http://www.amazon.com/Lone-Survivor-Eyewitness-Account-Operation/dp/0316044695/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284501769&sr=8-1
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1091191/
But Peter Berg the director put it on hold while he focuses on the movie "Battleship"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440129/
No Battleship will not be a movie on WW2 battleships, but on the board game we all played as kids. :rolleyes:
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Flying Tigers.
Don't tell Fork or Soda, but you were always my favorite.
(http://a6.idata.over-blog.com/500x346/0/39/65/84/august-2008/flying-tiger-crew.jpg)
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A movie based on the Book "Blind Mans Bluff" true story of covert events that went on during the cold war
if you have read it, my Dad served as a Lt.Cmdr on the Seawolf and Shark (Sister Ship of the Scorpion)
Unfortunatly he passed before this became de-classified, so he never talked about it
good litte read here if intrested
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_12_30/ai_53421544/
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Id like to see a movie about the ground fight in Italy.
Mt.Belevadere, Riva Ridge, Po Valley.....
Maybe make it following PFC McGraths unit through the engagements.
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How about a good movie version of the novel Battle Cry. Great novel, but the movie made way back when is awful.
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Speaking of remakes, has anyone heard anything else about Peter Jackson's Dam Busters project?
They just made "First Light" (Geoff Wellum's great book about the BoB and beyond) into a TV drama in the UK, haven't read much about it yet though.
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/features/BBC-series-First-Light-recalls.6526566.jp (http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/features/BBC-series-First-Light-recalls.6526566.jp)
They made a Hurtgen forest movie a while back:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135706/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135706/)
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I'd like to see a good Guadalcanal movie that switches the movies plot between stories of members from both sides of battles with both air and land battles....A new flying tiger movie would be cool. I'm not a fan of Iraq and Afghan war movies....its still going on so I think we should wait a bit before making such films...and so far every one I've seen is unrealistic and stupid...especially that horrible Brothers movie....
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What the hell is wrong with BoB to warrant a re-make???
I'd like to see a Band of Brothers style mini-series about the Eighth Air Force.
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You know what I want?
I want a Band of Brothers style series about the British Involvement in WW2, all the time I see Americans running and gunning raising the flag and saving the world. Just once I want to see a British infantry squad doing that.
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You know what I want?
I want a Band of Brothers style series about the British Involvement in WW2, all the time I see Americans running and gunning raising the flag and saving the world. Just once I want to see a British infantry squad doing that.
don't we all!!!
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oops that was the french, my bad!
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would be sweet to see a movie about one of the German aces, a movie about their lives before during and after the war. I know Hartmann sat and rotted in a Russian prison for 10 1/2 years after the war, only to return safely to his waiting wife. if thats not a human interest story, idk what is. Gallands story would make an awesome movie too, about his constant struggle with the Luftwaffe high command and excellent flying and leadership abilities. or i'd like to see more of a ShowGirls2 format, with some random war pictures tossed in around the strippers for effect :uhoh
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Alvin C. York
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Once again. War of 1812, Andrew Jackson's battle at New Orleans where he was outnumbered and outclassed. :)
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AJ brought the Pirates though. The Brits failed to bring Ninjas to counter, which is why they lost. Still, late shots after the final bell don't count. The Brits won the war on points.
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Okay, so what if the battle was a couple weeks too late? A battle's a battle. How about a movie about the overall war? Or a movie about George Washington before he turned into an American General and commanded British troops in the French and Indian War? A movie about the French and Indian War which isn't also a romance (The Last of the Mohicans). If there is one, I haven't seen it. :)
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Battle of the Nile or Trafalgar or some of Wellington's battles against the French and Spanish.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Full_Measure
It's too bad Gods and Generals sucked, because this would have been made already otherwise.
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Okay, so what if the battle was a couple weeks too late? A battle's a battle. How about a movie about the overall war? Or a movie about George Washington before he turned into an American General and commanded British troops in the French and Indian War? A movie about the French and Indian War which isn't also a romance (The Last of the Mohicans). If there is one, I haven't seen it. :)
Sorry. Forgot how touchy Americans get when they lose a war. ;)
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As I recall, we didn't lose, the Brits left America, a treaty was signed. Just never try to comandeer American ships for naval power ever again. ;)
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Sorry. Forgot how touchy Americans get when they lose a war. ;)
we've never lost a war. America has kicked arse for some 230 yrs and we'll continue to do so. That is all. :salute
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Sorry. Forgot how touchy Americans get when they lose a war. ;)
It's just that we haven't had as much opportunity to become de-sensitized to it as you.
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Well we can both make fun of the French. :D
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Corrigidor, Battle of Bataan, Wake Is are the first 3 that pop into my head.
There is LOTS of material out there if someone really wanted to go looking.
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we've never lost a war. America has kicked arse for some 230 yrs and we'll continue to do so. That is all. :salute
*cough*
Vietnam
*cough*
1812
*cough*
Seminoles War
*cough*
Red Cloud War
*cough*
Sorry guys, I think my allergies are acting up.
-Penguin
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Sorry guys, I think my allergies are acting up.
I hear a GED is a great anti-histamine.
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"You know what I want?
I want a Band of Brothers style series about the British Involvement in WW2, all the time I see Americans running and gunning raising the flag and saving the world. Just once I want to see a British infantry squad doing that."
YES!!!!!!
"would be sweet to see a movie about one of the German aces, a movie about their lives before during and after the war. I know Hartmann sat and rotted in a Russian prison for 10 1/2 years after the war, only to return safely to his waiting wife. if thats not a human interest story, idk what is."
Another YES!!! I'd love to see it from the 'other' side. Soldiers, Airmen, and so on who were just doing their duty. That would be awesome.
"we've never lost a war"
Ummmmm ... well we've come in second in a few 'police actions' and I'm betting the vets of those called it a 'war'. Just sayin :)
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I have a couple:
Caesars conquests of Gaul: 40,000 Romans against 250,000 Gauls. Epic
The capture of U-505. (1st enemy vessel captured by the US since the War of 1812)
The attack on Scapa Flow by U-47.
The Liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp by US troops. (Nasty day and very controversial)
The Crater: Battle of Petersburg, Civil War.
Need more WWI movies. Tons of stories there.
I agree, a remake of The Battle of New Orleans would be great.
Revolutionary War movies would be great as would the Spanish American War.
With newer computer graphic technology, many of these movies are do'able.
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tom clancy Red Storm Rising
the battle of kursk
+1000000 and infinity
QFFT brother those two would be some kick bellybutton movies.
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All Quiet on the Western Front would make a really good movie as well. Joyeux Noel proved that you can make a really good World War One movie without having it centered on the fighting, but rather on the people. I'd like to see one about the Finnish Air Force and the Winter War for some good early war aircraft fighting, as well as one set during the Spanish Civil War, from either viewpoint. You know, movies about the events leading up to World War Two, because people think "The Great Depression" rather than "The Great Depression as well as a whole bunch of other stuff" when you mention the 1930's.
Avia B.534 all the way!