evangilder
"Shooter"
They act equally poorly!
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Nonskimmer said:Well that's the danger with films like that (Pearl Harbor), isn't it? Many folks tend to take everything depicted as historical fact.
Anything out of Hollywood is great for it's entertainment value, and maybe for getting the general gist of the story across, but should never be thought of in terms of a documentary.
the lancaster kicks ass said:this however is not the case with the dambusters film, the makers of which set out from the start for it to be a "semi- documentary", it is extremely accurate, they consulted most of the men involved and the model of the dam used in the briefing scene in the film?? that's the actual model used byt the RAF!! that's how accurate it was, most of barnes' wallis' items in the film were actually his own!!
evangilder said:That's part of the problem Lanc. When they do make a film that is historically accurate, it's great. But for some reason, people tend to think if one was historically correct, they all are. I think a movie can be historically accurate and still be entertaining. Thanks to U-571, people think it was the Americans that got the sub and the enigma. That really frosted me. Give the proper credit where it was due. But then again, anyone that is not an American in a Hollywood film ends up with an English accent. That is what really made me laugh about enemy at the gates. Russians with English accents!
That was actually the second Enigma captured by the British. The first was taken by them from U-110 in May of '41.wmaxt said:I agree the movie was fictishous but wasn't the first enigma and associated codes captured by the British between Greenland and Iceland from a German trawler/Communications ship in '41 or early '42?