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Title: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Dadtallica on October 24, 2023, 12:48:27 PM: Pretty cool video if you have 20 min to kill. He does about eight movies maybe. I’ve never seen the movie Battle of Britain but now I want to! Some of Hollywood’s dogfights are a lot of fiction lol.

https://youtu.be/1VDeLnOkcs8?si=B8PRwkWv4U2Pwkqm (https://youtu.be/1VDeLnOkcs8?si=B8PRwkWv4U2Pwkqm)

How do you all embed the video in the bbs posts?
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Shuffler on October 24, 2023, 01:44:01 PM: [youtube]https://youtu.be/1VDeLnOkcs8?si=iGtLuGjYCLRS-NHD[/youtube]

You can also hit the youtube icon above and paste your link in between the tags...
[youtube]videolink[/youtube]
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Eagler on October 24, 2023, 03:02:43 PM: Battle of Britain 1969 is a must see..saw it in the theater as a kid at 10 years old..

Checkout the opening..the flight scenes are great

Eagler
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Oldman731 on October 24, 2023, 06:39:13 PM: Quote from: Eagler on October 24, 2023, 03:02:43 PM
Battle of Britain 1969 is a must see..saw it in the theater as a kid at 10 years old..

Eagler the youngster. Problem with BoB 69 is that you can't rent it or buy it anymore.

- oldman
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Dadtallica on October 24, 2023, 07:42:54 PM: Quote from: Oldman731 on October 24, 2023, 06:39:13 PM

Eagler the youngster. Problem with BoB 69 is that you can't rent it or buy it anymore.

- oldman

I am going to check it out. I managed video stores back in the day too not sure how I missed this one. You can stream it a ton of places.
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Volron on October 24, 2023, 07:45:21 PM: Quote from: Oldman731 on October 24, 2023, 06:39:13 PM

Eagler the youngster. Problem with BoB 69 is that you can't rent it or buy it anymore.

- oldman

Good think I have the DvD sitting right next to me. :D
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Bixby on October 24, 2023, 08:04:55 PM: 1969 Battle of Britain gets my vote as either 1 or 2 on my list. The original Tora! Tora! Tora! is the other.

I watch each of them a couple times a year on DVD.
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Dadtallica on October 24, 2023, 10:36:53 PM: Quote from: Oldman731 on October 24, 2023, 06:39:13 PM

Eagler the youngster. Problem with BoB 69 is that you can't rent it or buy it anymore.

- oldman

Good news oldman and fellow old farts… it’s free on MGM+ with a most regular cable subscriptions. Have your grandkids show you how to download it and get hooked in.

I am watching it now for freeeeeeee.
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Brooke on October 25, 2023, 01:42:57 AM: He didn't review the most-realistic WWII fighter film of all time: 1942.

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Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Eagler on October 25, 2023, 07:41:18 AM: I thought BOB 69 was free on prime...just prime isn't free :joystick:

Eagler
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Maverick on October 25, 2023, 10:51:52 AM: I agree with the assessments of the films. If anything he was probably being generous in his scores. To me, the red tails movie was a waste of film / tape and a terrible disservice to the real Red Tails.
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Shuffler on October 25, 2023, 01:05:16 PM: Buy it on bluray here....
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Britain-Blu-ray-Michael-Caine/dp/B000WC39RW
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Dadtallica on October 25, 2023, 01:08:00 PM: Quote from: Shuffler on October 25, 2023, 01:05:16 PM
Buy it on bluray here....
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Britain-Blu-ray-Michael-Caine/dp/B000WC39RW

Watched BOB and it was totally worth it. I like anything with Robert Shaw and Michael Caine!
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: oboe on October 25, 2023, 01:13:56 PM: Would like to see him critique the flight scenes in this movie:
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: nopoop on October 25, 2023, 03:34:48 PM: BOB is also free on utube.
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Brooke on October 25, 2023, 04:31:02 PM: Quote from: oboe on October 25, 2023, 01:13:56 PM
Would like to see him critique the flight scenes in this movie:

I LOVE that scene.
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Dadtallica on October 26, 2023, 08:39:38 AM: Quote from: oboe on October 25, 2023, 01:13:56 PM
Would like to see him critique the flight scenes in this movie:

I think I know a couple things he might say. The guy never pulls lead when he shots the dot is right on the plane. The other thing is the river chase, there was a similar chase between buildings in Pearl Harbor.
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: DmonSlyr on October 26, 2023, 08:58:27 AM: Quote from: Brooke on October 25, 2023, 04:31:02 PM
I LOVE that scene.

Remindes me of a lot of the current scenario going on! Could easily be a film right out of Aces High :)

Man you just have to know that their hearts must have been pounding in these types of fights in real life. I feel it in Aces High FSO, scenarios, koth, and it's not even a real life or death situation.
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: oboe on October 26, 2023, 09:51:57 AM: Quote from: Dadtallica on October 26, 2023, 08:39:38 AM
I think I know a couple things he might say. The guy never pulls lead when he shots the dot is right on the plane. The other thing is the river chase, there was a similar chase between buildings in Pearl Harbor.

I think you're right about that, DS, and I also think he would say they went full-Hollywood when he pulls a barrel roll under the bridge at the last second and somehow causes the pursuing FW to crash into it.
Title: Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
Post by: Eagler on October 26, 2023, 10:16:16 AM: Real a2a is too boring for hollyweird.

It involved flying for hours for a two minute engagement

No one would pay to see that thus the exaggerations

Eagler