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24-07-2006, 06:03 PM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newark, NJ, and Christchurch, NZ
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 |  Re: The most historically incorrect movies/books. I'll vote for "Pearl Harbor" as the worst WW2 movie I ever saw. I did not see "Windtalkers." I'm sorry, but the air battles over Hawaii on December 7, 1941, were not 1940versions of the battles to destroy the Imperial Death Star in "Star Wars," and Admiral Yamamoto is not Lord Darth Vader. The behavior of the nurses in the film as sex-crazed sluts is an insult to these dedicated women. The dialogue and love triangle were appalling. The best special effect in the whole movie was Kate Beckinsale. Hubba hubba! 
__________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com |
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13-08-2006, 10:00 PM
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| Junior Member   Join Date: Aug 2006
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| Re: The most historically incorrect movies/books. Just a little follow-up on Pte. Steele - the scene where he's finally rescued and can't hear his comrades because of the bell adds a little humour to the film, but according to Ryan's book (upon which the film was based), Steele was actually cut down by the Germans and taken into captivity. However, I'd never noticed a fraction of the things on Spidge's list - must print it off and watch the film again - see how many I can spot! |
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14-08-2006, 07:21 PM
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| Angels one-five   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. In the USAAF in World War II, over three times as many men were killed as wounded. Donald L. Miller. Avatar: SOE (F Section) agent Andree Borrel murdered at Natzweiler Camp 6th July 1944.  | |
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18-08-2006, 02:36 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: House of Bedfords, Perth, Western Australia
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| Re: The most historically incorrect movies/books. [quote=The best special effect in the whole movie was Kate Beckinsale. Hubba hubba! [/QUOTE]She's not a special effect, she's real! U-571. I cringe every time I see the fish scrape the hull of U-571...for allt he wrong reasons! The German "destroyer's" stern profile drives me nuts too. Cheers Andy
__________________ Cheers Andy Apres moi le deluge But there are deeds that should not pass away....And names that must not wither - Byron HMAS Sydney II - lost with all hands and waiting to be found |
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18-08-2006, 06:43 PM
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| WW2 Veteran   Join Date: Nov 2004
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| Re: The most historically incorrect movies/books. My pet moan! Hollywood pictures and Documentaries...Complete rubbish with very little truth in any of it. What has happend is that for 62 years they have churned this stuff out, so that now because of the pictures that has become the accepted legend of D Day. Nowhere have I, in the last 62 years, seen a picture about the British Sword Beach landings. The most heavily fortified area of the whole invasion coast BAR NONE! Nowhere! have I read about the losses we sustained...Not a bloody thing! Assault craft....29 lost out of 38....Not a word. Not a word about the Huge Hillman post. About the size of a village 650 metres by 450 metres. Why worry? because it downgrades the sacrifices of heroic British men that gave their lives for freedom. Sapper |
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18-08-2006, 10:34 PM
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| Very Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland
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18-08-2006, 10:43 PM
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| Top Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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 | Re: The most historically incorrect movies/books. Back to movies. What did you all think of "Capatin Corelli's Mandolin", not as a love film but as a war movie? I quite liked it, comic moments, tragic moments. |
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18-09-2006, 12:32 PM
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| I Like Tanks.  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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I'd definitely go with Battle of the Bulge, those m47's just upset me, I could forgive it but the film's so bloody awful in so many other ways. Surprised nobody's mentioned 'Enemy at the Gates', truly cringe-making. | |
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18-09-2006, 03:57 PM
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| Ostfront is where its at!  Join Date: Apr 2004
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18-09-2006, 07:17 PM
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| Very Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland
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| Re: The most historically incorrect movies/books. How about Enigma which was on telly recently Truly rubbish histrolically but when you took your brain out, a good action stroy full of holes! |
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