Saints and Soldiers is really good equipment-wise, the movie itself is mediocre. It’s on Amazon prime instant video. It’s set in the opening days of the battle of the bulge. The only thing I noticed is that the Germans who shoot 70-plus American POW’s at Malmedy are regular Wehrmacht and not SS, but whatever.
What WW2 movie would you like to see made?
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I would like to see a movie about kursk. It could follow the buildup and the tension, and release it in a climactic epic battle. The movie should probably follow a german and a soviet solider who witnessed in the Battle of Prokhorovka. The entire battlearea would be filled with black smoke, and poor visibility
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The entire battlearea would be filled with black smoke, and poor visibility
It’s a good thing Edward D. Wood isn’t still around because he might well have grabbed on to the “black smoke, low visibility” element to propose making an “epic” movie on the Battle of Kursk on a budget of a few thousand dollars, using stock footage of black smoke coupled with a soundtrack of explosions and of Russian and German dialogue.
That being said, I’d love to see a big-budget, properly-done film about this biggest tank battle in history.
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Unfortunately, it will not make money for Hollywood.
It lacks USA interest or patriotism in it.Letters from Iwo Jima qualified somehow because it was an epic battle for Marines Corps.
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Speaking of low-budget movies about famous WWII battles, the world record for cheap production values (and story brevity) probably has to go to the “re-enactment” of the Battle of Pearl Harbor which appears in the Monty Python movie “And Now for Something Completely Different”. The re-enactors are old ladies (actually the Python actors dressed as old ladies) who are members of a historical society, and they start by introducing their re-enactment project to the audience with a serious and sweet and low-key verbal presentation delivered straight as the camera. Then we see the re-enactment, which consists of about twenty seconds of high-speed footage of the “ladies” clubbing each other with their handbags while rolling around in the mud. To its credit, I really enjoyed this sequence, whereas I’ve never seen the apparently atrocious Pearl Harbor movie with Ben Affleck.
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@CWO:
I’ve never seen the apparently atrocious Pearl Harbor movie with Ben Affleck.
If you want to see Pearl Harbor done right, check out the Japanese film on the subject, “The Admiral”… I have it on Blue Ray, very well done… you can see some of the footage here (it’s also a newer film then Ben Affleck’s).
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@CWO:
I’ve never seen the apparently atrocious Pearl Harbor movie with Ben Affleck.
If you want to see Pearl Harbor done right, check out the Japanese film on the subject, “The Admiral”… I have it on Blue Ray, very well done… you can see some of the footage here (it’s also a newer film then Ben Affleck’s).
Holy $hit. :-o
That looks f-ing incredible. And it’s got Midway too??? Good God.
Wolf, this may turn out to be the best post I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing. Had no idea this existed.
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I have ordered it Wolf. Thanks.
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Where at ?
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From Amazon SS
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Holy $hit. :-o
That looks f-ing incredible. And it’s got Midway too??? Good God.
Wolf, this may turn out to be the best post I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing. Had no idea this existed.
Ya, no problem, I have other links to really good unknown films on the page 2 of this thread… you can get any of these films from Amazon… I have “The Admiral” on Blue-Ray from Amazon, great film.
@Private:
I have ordered it Wolf. Thanks.
No problem, enjoy the film, let me know what you think of it.
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Holy $hit. :-o
That looks f-ing incredible. And it’s got Midway too??? Good God.
Wolf, this may turn out to be the best post I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing. Had no idea this existed.
Ya, no problem, I have other links to really good unknown films on the page 2 of this thread… you can get any of these films from Amazon… I have “The Admiral” on Blue-Ray from Amazon, great film.
I assume you got the single disc release? Does it have an English language track, like the trailer? From what I have seen, it looks like all versions only have English subtitles.
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English subtitles… but if that is a problem, you can always just learn fluent Japanese.
(kinda funny, but it reminds me of my parents old living room TV back in the 1980s… it was a very old TV and cut-off the bottom of the screen… I used to like to watch WWII movies, and when the Germans were on speaking in German, the subtitles were always cut off… it annoyed me so much, I took several years of German in school so I didn’t have to read the subtitles!).
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English subtitles… but if that is a problem, you can always just learn fluent Japanese.
(kinda funny, but it reminds me of my parents old living room TV back in the 1980s… it was a very old TV and cut-off the bottom of the screen… I used to like to watch WWII movies, and when the Germans were on speaking in German, the subtitles were always cut off… it annoyed me so much, I took several years of German in school so I didn’t have to read the subtitles!).
Gotcha. No thanks. I have barely passable German as-is.
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English subtitles… but if that is a problem, you can always just learn fluent Japanese.
(kinda funny, but it reminds me of my parents old living room TV back in the 1980s… it was a very old TV and cut-off the bottom of the screen… I used to like to watch WWII movies, and when the Germans were on speaking in German, the subtitles were always cut off… it annoyed me so much, I took several years of German in school so I didn’t have to read the subtitles!).
Na da bin ich mal gespannt welche Filme du uns noch waermsten empfehlen kannst.
Seite 2 sagtest du?
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@aequitas:
Na da bin ich mal gespannt welche Filme du uns noch waermsten empfehlen kannst.
Seite 2 sagtest du?
:lol:Well, I recommend Yamato and the Admiral… those are my two favorites… but yes, page-2… you can see the trailers there.
Or was I supposed to answer auf Deutsch? Â :-D
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Roland Emmerich directing new film on the Battle of Midway.
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