Dambusters to be remade

[Sailor.]

The British Film Institute recently put a tickled up version of the original film on limited release at selected cinemas. We went along expecting there to be a few likeminded sad bastards dotted about the cinema.... this is a fifty year old flick, black and white, and has been on the telly dozens of times, remember.
The place was full, not an empty seat in the house! Young lads and their girlfriends, families with kids, old farts old enough to have lived through it and us anoraks.
Taught me a bit of a lesson, don't undersetimate the British cinema going public!

 

[A4K]

I hope they do a good job of it - the only thing really wrong with the original film is the technical inaccuracy of the type 464 provisioning, the bomb still being classified at that time despite one being found intact by the Germans in the morning after the raid.

The Lanc looked like a pregnant goldfish with that mock-up bomb in the film..

 

[Negative Creep]

Really looking forward to it. There a few better people than Jackson who can make a film with incredible effects and a good story. Problem is with older film like this or 633 Squadron is that the special effects really aren't special anymore and it can be hard to overlook!

 

[B-17engineer]

Cool that'll be good to see....