Hollywood presents WWII. Films that grind your gears.

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Entertaining is one thing. "Inglorious Bastards" and "The Dirty Dozen" come to mind. But to be absolutely lazy about the subject at hand is horrible.
 
pattle said:
As far as I know Sven Hassel's own war record is still shrouded with doubt and speculation and the actual truth behind it is disputed, the pc lynch mobs are certainly out to get him whatever the truth though.
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His war record is really irrelevant as he always stated his books were works of fiction not fact
 
s1chris said:
On the plus side (accuracy aside) Memphis Belle has to be one of my favourites.....
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Accuracy? Really? There are scenes and lines in that movie that make me gag.

Plane all busted up, target obscured by a cloud, so they go around because there's an orphanage or something like that next to the target. PUULEASE!

Then the line "Up to now, we flew for Uncle Sam. Now we fly for us." I feel my lunch coming up!
 
Hollywood can not in any way, shape or form, make a proper WWI or WWII movie, end of....
As we all know, they won the BoB!
As SPR, a lot of mistakes in it, bullets do NOT travel well in water, just to mention one!
IIRC, people also complained why all the Italians were killed in that movie...of Italian heritage it should be...

Makes you wonder, with all the research and information on the web, why is it so (censored) difficult, to make a accurrate ture to the stoy, no (censored) lovey-dovey war movie?
 
redcoat said:
His war record is really irrelevant as he always stated his books were works of fiction not fact
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Fiction of a sort yes, Hassel was not recounting his memories word for word but his books were said by him to be based on his wartime experiences, the controversy comes from claims that he lied about being at the front.
 

Howdy,

by accuracy aside I mean exactly what you have pointed out lol I,e it's not accurate.

But as a 14 year old lad and in the absence of any real good modern ww2 aviation films, it smashed it for me.
It did at least in the most part use real aircraft.

Cheers Chris
 
Lucky13 said:
Makes you wonder, with all the research and information on the web, why is it so (censored) difficult, to make a accurrate ture to the stoy, no (censored) lovey-dovey war movie?
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Better yet Jan......How can Trump make the area in front of the pit on there P-51's 6"(?) out of scale with all that info and drawings out there

Yes "We were Soldiers" is a good one never got into "Hambuger Hill" but for a plain story and HW got to like "Apocolypse Now"
 
meatloaf109 said:
I understand that Marine D.I.'s are not allowed to curse any longer.
Dammed, (Oop's), Darned shame.
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Do you really believe that ??

My own dad was a Marine DI right before and in early WW2, and then became a preacher later in life.
He would talk much more about his DI days, than his time on Guadacanal.
 
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