Upcoming Movies

Started by Leon, 30 August 2018, 11:18:04 PM

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Leon

There seems to be quite a few historical / war-themed films coming up over the next 12 months, so is anyone planning on watching any of these?

Hurricane:



T-34:



The Captain:



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petercooman

Looks like a few interesting ones. Had seen the Trailer for hurricane already, and will be watching that one!

Steve J

Quite a few of those look to be of interest. Thanks for the 'heads up' :)

Leman

Strange how the Earth was created in 1939.
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Leman

That goes some way to explaining the popularity of the Korean War as a gaming period.
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steve_holmes_11

Opened the worm can here. You know that a sample of reviews will be:

"Officer's belt was one discontinued in 1942, totally ruled the 1944 atmosphere for me."
"That weapon wasn't issued until 2 months afre the end of the story - made a nonsense of the entire film".
"Tracer shooting from an MG 34 - ohhh the humanity!!!"
"Totally inappropriate tracks on the T34 for a winter battle - how can anybody watch this".

Then in 6 month's time.

"Nobody makes films aimed at a wargamer audience - the PC brigade strike again".

fsn

I tend to be quite charitable to film makers in this regard, but there are a lot of source materials out there so it's very often easier to get it right than get it wrong.

We've come a long way since M48 Tigers and M24 Shermans.  I think there's a trend to getting re-enactment societies involved, so standards are a lot better than they used to be. In fact, now that the authenticity of uniforms has gone up, the standards of writing seem to be plummeting.*  Perhaps I just didn't notice the poor script in "The Battle of the Bulge" because I was decrying the poor choice of armoured vehicle.



*Take "Fury". I have a large, well armoured but quite slow moving Tiger tank. I am in cover. I see 5 Shermans lined up nicely. I pop off a couple then charge over the open ground, closing the distance to a point where even a 75mm can do me serious damage, upsetting the gunner's aim and generally sacrificing all my advantages for a closer look at Brad Pitt.
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Leman

One reason I really enjoy WWII films is that I don't game it, so know sod all about what gun goes where, how shiny SS boots should be etc. Unfortunately I do game an awful lot of the earlier periods, so get brassed off with TV documentaries showing French in Adrian helmets and British in shrapnel helmets whilst discussing 1914. I know there was less film footage then, but there were plenty of photographs (the French even had colour ones) and paintings. I'd rather the masses did get a bit of education rather than pandering to the constant need for a moving image. Or are the politicians wrong and the British public actually is stupid  :d
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Westmarcher

Quote from: Leman on 31 August 2018, 07:52:53 PM
Strange how the Earth was created in 1939.

Hopefully, this will help to redress the balance, Andy (although, already, I have seen some mumblings - but surely it cannot be worse than the historical cart crash that was Braveheart! ?).

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Leman

Who knows - at least RB doesn't appear to be covered in woad.
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steve_holmes_11

Quote from: fsn on 11 September 2018, 08:04:10 AM
I tend to be quite charitable to film makers in this regard, but there are a lot of source materials out there so it's very often easier to get it right than get it wrong.

We've come a long way since M48 Tigers and M24 Shermans.  I think there's a trend to getting re-enactment societies involved, so standards are a lot better than they used to be. In fact, now that the authenticity of uniforms has gone up, the standards of writing seem to be plummeting.*  Perhaps I just didn't notice the poor script in "The Battle of the Bulge" because I was decrying the poor choice of armoured vehicle.



*Take "Fury". I have a large, well armoured but quite slow moving Tiger tank. I am in cover. I see 5 Shermans lined up nicely. I pop off a couple then charge over the open ground, closing the distance to a point where even a 75mm can do me serious damage, upsetting the gunner's aim and generally sacrificing all my advantages for a closer look at Brad Pitt.


This might be the time to mention that Braveheart made use of Reenactment societies.


steve_holmes_11

Quote from: Leman on 11 September 2018, 10:39:20 AM
One reason I really enjoy WWII films is that I don't game it, so know sod all about what gun goes where, how shiny SS boots should be etc. Unfortunately I do game an awful lot of the earlier periods, so get brassed off with TV documentaries showing French in Adrian helmets and British in shrapnel helmets whilst discussing 1914. I know there was less film footage then, but there were plenty of photographs (the French even had colour ones) and paintings. I'd rather the masses did get a bit of education rather than pandering to the constant need for a moving image. Or are the politicians wrong and the British public actually is stupid  :d

The politicians know, they simply aren't letting on.

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