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Offline Dadtallica

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Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
« 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

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Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2023, 01:44:01 PM »
[youtube]https://youtu.be/1VDeLnOkcs8?si=iGtLuGjYCLRS-NHD[/youtube]




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Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
« Reply #2 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



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Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2023, 06:39:13 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.

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Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2023, 07:42:54 PM »

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

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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.
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Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2023, 07:45:21 PM »

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

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Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
« Reply #6 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.

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Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2023, 10:36:53 PM »

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

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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.
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Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
« Reply #8 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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Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2023, 07:41:18 AM »
I thought BOB 69 was free on prime...just prime isn't free  :joystick:

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Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
« Reply #10 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.
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Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2023, 01:08:00 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!
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Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2023, 01:13:56 PM »
Would like to see him critique the flight scenes in this movie:


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Re: Fighter Pilot Grades Hollywood WWII Air Combat
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2023, 03:34:48 PM »
BOB is also free on utube.
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