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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Beefcake on July 23, 2000, 08:12:00 PM
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Found a copy of the movie "1941". I had seen it when I was about 7, but I haven't seen it since. After watching it, I wanted to ask some questions. (If you've seen 1941 then you'll know what I'm talking about)
Ok:
1. Will we ever have little gas stations on the map, so I can land my B17 and refuel?
2. Will they blow up, after my B17 loses control and starts to roll away?
3. Will we ever see the P40?
4. What was that type of Tank they used in the moive? (the US one that had the 75mm and what looked like a 20mm cannon in the turret)
5. Will we ever have 40mm AA guns that we can tow with a jeep?
6. Can we have a AI that is dumb enough to shoot at our own planes?
7. Can we have a Theme Park near the ocean that we can bomb and strafe? (I've always wanted to blow up a Ferris(sp?) Wheel)
8. Can you but a BIG sign on one of the mountians that says "HOLLYWOOD"?
9. Can "Mad Man Maddox" lead the rooks?
10. Can I have his trainer?
Ok thats it. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
[This message has been edited by Beefcake (edited 07-23-2000).]
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Most important question, Beef, is (and you forgot it...)
WILL WE SEE THE TWIN ENGINE ZERO IN AH?!?!?! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
God that movie was FUNNY! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Originally posted by Beefcake:
4. What was that type of Tank they used in the moive? (the US one that had the 75mm and what looked like a 20mm cannon in the turret)
M3A Grant/Lee. It had a 37mm gun in the turred and one 75mm gun on the hull. Was the direct predecessor of Sherman M4.
Was quite a shock in North africa for the germans (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) for the time the best AT gun they had on board a tank in that TO was a 50mm AT of PzIII...quite less effective (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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ROFL RAM yes I want my twin engine Zero that has no guns (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) boy that will be a great plane
And thanks for the INFO, now I hope HT will put that tank in the game (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Did ya know that the critics chewed that movie a new stunninghunk? Steven Speilberg's first BIG budget movie and the reviewers hated it.
Personally, any movie with Slim Pickens is a good movie!
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Who was the guy with the puppet? I used to work with a guy who was the spitting image of him!
Brilliant film, so sad that John Belushi is no longer with us.
'Nexx'
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Originally posted by milnko:
Personally, any movie with Slim Pickens is a good movie!
Yo ! Agreed!
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Originally posted by milnko:
Personally, any movie with Slim Pickens is a good movie!
Yup, Slim Pickens is a riot! He is also native to my home state-- Alabama (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Slim Pickens
Dan Ackroyd
John Belushi
Treat Williams
Ned Beatty
Robert Stack
Tim Mathison
One of my all time favorites.
I have the directors cut on DVD, obviously the Critics are disgruntled film students.
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I saw this one at the store a month ago for $6! Can you say SNATCH and run!!! I'm still recieving treatment for the embolism that occured while re-watching it.
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Will we ever have jap subs stocked up with prune juice? ehehehe (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Originally posted by RAM:
M3A Grant/Lee. It had a 37mm gun in the turred and one 75mm gun on the hull. Was the direct predecessor of Sherman M4.
Was quite a shock in North africa for the germans (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) for the time the best AT gun they had on board a tank in that TO was a 50mm AT of PzIII...quite less effective (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
You can't have a PTO without a M3A. It and Marines go hand in track. You know how they love things that have more roles then you can count.
- Jig
[This message has been edited by Jigster (edited 07-24-2000).]
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Originally posted by Jigster:
You can't have a PTO without a M3A. It and Marines go hand in track. You know how they love things that have more roles then you can count.
- Jig
I know it Jig (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) but I referred as NOrth Africa because the impact they produced on germans was a very BIG one...that 75mm gun outranged anything the Germans had,exception made of the 88mm AA/AT guns (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif). Was for sure superior to anything in the German panzer armory at that time (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) And it played a major part in most north african battles...
Of course then Tiger came and many things changed (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
[This message has been edited by RAM (edited 07-24-2000).]
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Yup, Slim Pickens is a riot! He is also native to my home state-- Alabama
ammo
Slim Pickens
(Louis Bert Lindley, Jr.)
actor, cowboy
Born: 6/29/19
Birthplace: Kingsburg, California
Pickens worked as a rodeo star before landing his first movie role in the western Rocky Mountain (1950). His numerous appearances playing a cowboy, of both the villainous and the comic sort, include Old Oklahoma Plains (1952), Down Laredo Way (1953), and Blazing Saddles (1974). He also played the pilot who waved his cowboy hat while guiding the nuclear bomb to its destination in Dr. Strangelove (1964).
Died: 12/8/83
I'm not laughing at you for thinking he was from Alabama... I only looked it up because I heard he was from Oregon (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
AKDejaVu
[This message has been edited by AKDejaVu (edited 07-24-2000).]
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Lemme kill two birds with one stone here, A SLIM PICKENS quote from 1941 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
A NAZI, I knew it! (http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/rowgue/nazi.wav)
Kinda sums up how I feel sometimes when us poor rooks is being ganged up on by knits & bishs (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
ENJOY
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Originally posted by Downtown:
Slim Pickens
Dan Ackroyd
John Belushi
Treat Williams
Ned Beatty
Robert Stack
Tim Mathison
One of my all time favorites.
I have the directors cut on DVD, obviously the Critics are disgruntled film students.
Ya forgot Christopher Lee (aka Dracula), John Candy, and that other guy (the one with the white mouse on his shoulder) from the Canadian version of Saturday Night Live, ummm, what was the name of that show again? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Music was by Paul Williams too.
And the story was from Robert Zemeckis, didn't he do that Back to the Future movie?
Screw them critics, I got the Director's Cut too, and I give it TWO THUMBS and TWO BIG TOES UP one of the best movies of all time IMHO.
I want to have some peaks like John "Wild Bill Kelso" Belushi hadda fly thru right after he tore a hole thru the middle of his map. Good God! the look on his face is priceless (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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[This message has been edited by milnko (edited 07-24-2000).]
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John Candy, and that other guy from the Canadian version of Saturday Night Live, ummm, what was the name of that show again?
SCTV (the blue-jean network)
Birthplace of the McKenzie brothers?
AKDejaVu
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Originally posted by AKDejaVu:
SCTV (the blue-jean network)
Birthplace of the McKenzie brothers?
AKDejaVu
That's the one! Very funny too, Rick Moranis, Harold Ramis, John Candy, etc. Just too bad they all foreigners. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Originally posted by RAM:
I know it Jig (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) but I referred as NOrth Africa because the impact they produced on germans was a very BIG one...that 75mm gun outranged anything the Germans had,exception made of the 88mm AA/AT guns (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif). Was for sure superior to anything in the German panzer armory at that time (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) And it played a major part in most north african battles...
Of course then Tiger came and many things changed (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
[This message has been edited by RAM (edited 07-24-2000).]
By the time the Grant was inroduced the Germans had both the Panzer IIIjL60 and the Panzer IVf2 in North africa. The IVf2 (75mml43 gun) was extremely rare(single digits at the time) but could quite handily deal with a Grant. The PzIIIJL60 (50mm L60)was more common and could give a great account for itself against the Grant.
The Grant was more common than either German tank at the time of the fall of Tobruk but never the less they were there.
sory to wreck your 1941 thread...cool show, Ill have to get it again...
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Originally posted by Beefcake:
to blow up up a Ferris(sp?) Wheel
Spelling is wrong. It is Fariz's Wheel, and I hate when someone blow it up (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
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Originally posted by RAM:
I know it Jig (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) but I referred as NOrth Africa because the impact they produced on germans was a very BIG one...that 75mm gun outranged anything the Germans had,exception made of the 88mm AA/AT guns (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif). Was for sure superior to anything in the German panzer armory at that time (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) And it played a major part in most north african battles...
Of course then Tiger came and many things changed (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
[This message has been edited by RAM (edited 07-24-2000).]
The 75L31/m2 was okay but I'd nearly bet most of the kills came from the 37mm. As with the 37mm's and 50mm's of the Panzers.
I can't really speak on how they used it North Africa but during the PTO it was normally just a CS gun because of aiming problems. Granted it was great because it could carry AP shells but...it was prefered to take a full load of FH shells for Pillbox busting. Twas a great gun at range but up close the 37mm was far better. And then you had aiming problems at range (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
And the Tigers vs Grant/Lee...hehe reminds me of the Pz38's who had no problem handing it to the Renault crews. Then there was the Kv-1. Bah ha ha (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
The PzIII crews had more trouble with the Matilda's anyway (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
- Jig