pilots

[Crimguy]

It was so bad I tried walking out. My wife agreed it sucked, but insisted we stay because it was supposed to "have a really good ending." I then saw the Doolittle raid and Ben flying a Mitchell, and almost puked in my jujubees.

It was the Howard the Duck of war movies.

[rjopel]

RevRick.  You need to check your spelling. 
 
You have a miskey.

[DivePac88]

ORIGINAL: rjopel

RevRick.  You need to check your spelling. 

You have a miskey.

It's Morse Code. [:D]

[Anthropoid]

Oh come on you curmudgeons; you tellin' me you found ZERO value in the computer-generated attack scenes? Those were pretty dramatic, and ain't no past flicks gonna compare on that basis. The battle scenes and special effects in Tora! Tora! Tora!, and Midway and any other 'better' movie about the era, quite frankly _suck_ by modern standards. Not only that, but characters and acting, and plots in most of the older movies of the war in the Pacific are also _highly_ cheesy, although I admit that this one took the Big Cheese award . . .

I will agree with you that a serious story, without so many extreme acts of 'artistic license,' the unrealistic concentration of heroism in the few main characters, the overuse of standard war-movie cliches, the excessive Rah! Rah! pro-America-rhetoric, etc., would have improved it tremendously. Indeed, its shortcomings in these areas make it an overall low-rater in my books. But if you skip these points of technical/political inaccuracy, and only focus on: (a) the cutesy inter-character dynamics (yes, even including the romances) which, if cheesy are no less unbelievable than any other cutesy inter-character dynamics in any other movie ever made about Americans during WWII; (b) the CGI battle stuff; and (c) hottie nurse, as well as just plain old (d) imagery of people, places and machines of the era provided with a high-budget modern cinematographic view--for what it is worth, then its not _so_ terrible, now is it? In effect, if you were to cut out the 75% of the movie that was bad, and focus on the 25% that was 'good,' couldn't you at least acknowledge that it had some merits? [:)]

[RevRick]

ORIGINAL: rjopel

RevRick.  You need to check your spelling. 

You have a miskey.

Grazi... thanks for the catch. corrected.. That's what you get when you use 40 year old memory banks....[8|]

[bobogoboom]

ORIGINAL: Yamato hugger

ORIGINAL: mutterfudder

Does it matter if they are bomber or fighter pilots?[&:]

In WitP a pilot is a pilot. Only thing that really matters is experience. And with a few notable exceptions once a pilot is assigned, thats where he is. You arent putting P-40 pilots in B-25s flying off carriers as a movie would have you believe [:D]

why do you have to bring up the movie that shall not be nammed[:-] just for that no ae for you.[:'(]

[bobogoboom]

ORIGINAL: Crimguy

What can't we mention?  P_E_A_R_L__H_A_R_B_O_R_?_?_?_?_?

i want you to know i have email both joe and erik and a ban should be comming shortly.

[stuman]

ORIGINAL: DivePac88

ORIGINAL: castor troy

ORIGINAL: Anthropoid

No matter how bad that movie was, that nurse chick was a hottie . . . no one can take that away from us.

I liked her more in a "modern" dressing...

I think She would look just fine in no clothes at all. [:'(]

wow.

[bobogoboom]

ORIGINAL: Anthropoid

No matter how bad that movie was, that nurse chick was a hottie . . . no one can take that away from us.

i was to busy vommiting from the rest of the movie so yes we can take that away.

[bobogoboom]

ORIGINAL: stuman

ORIGINAL: Anthropoid

No matter how bad that movie was, that nurse chick was a hottie . . . no one can take that away from us.

Yes she is.

The movie is still a travesty. And for some reason it seems to be running almost everyday on some channel here.

the bigfoot and alien channel?

[stuman]

" In effect, if you were to cut out the 75% of the movie that was bad, and focus on the 25% that was 'good,' couldn't you at least acknowledge that it had some merits? "

Only Kate has merit. And not enuf to redeem that dreck of a picture show.

[bobogoboom]

ORIGINAL: Anthropoid

Oh come on you curmudgeons; you tellin' me you found ZERO value in the computer-generated attack scenes? Those were pretty dramatic, and ain't no past flicks gonna compare on that basis. The battle scenes and special effects in Tora! Tora! Tora!, and Midway and any other 'better' movie about the era, quite frankly _suck_ by modern standards. Not only that, but characters and acting, and plots in most of the older movies of the war in the Pacific are also _highly_ cheesy, although I admit that this one took the Big Cheese award . . .

I will agree with you that a serious story, without so many extreme acts of 'artistic license,' the unrealistic concentration of heroism in the few main characters, the overuse of standard war-movie cliches, the excessive Rah! Rah! pro-America-rhetoric, etc., would have improved it tremendously. Indeed, its shortcomings in these areas make it an overall low-rater in my books. But if you skip these points of technical/political inaccuracy, and only focus on: (a) the cutesy inter-character dynamics (yes, even including the romances) which, if cheesy are no less unbelievable than any other cutesy inter-character dynamics in any other movie ever made about Americans during WWII; (b) the CGI battle stuff; and (c) hottie nurse, as well as just plain old (d) imagery of people, places and machines of the era provided with a high-budget modern cinematographic view--for what it is worth, then its not _so_ terrible, now is it? In effect, if you were to cut out the 75% of the movie that was bad, and focus on the 25% that was 'good,' couldn't you at least acknowledge that it had some merits? [:)]

you mean like the scenes that they have pearl harbor layed out wrong. or the blowing up of kidd class destroyers from the 70s and expecting us to believe they were ww2 ships. that movie has absolutly no redeaming value what so ever. i would make a personal attack at you for liking it but i might get banned.

[RevRick]

ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

ORIGINAL: Yamato hugger

ORIGINAL: mutterfudder

Does it matter if they are bomber or fighter pilots?[&:]

In WitP a pilot is a pilot. Only thing that really matters is experience. And with a few notable exceptions once a pilot is assigned, thats where he is. You arent putting P-40 pilots in B-25s flying off carriers as a movie would have you believe [:D]

why do you have to bring up the movie that shall not be nammed[:-] just for that no ae for you.[:'(]

Heaven help us!! The AE nazi has arrived!!!

The only thing I have noticed about pilots and Air Squadron commanders is that the AI (at least in WitP) has a marked tendency to get their strengths utterly confused. Pilots best at Patrol Squadrons commanding Fighter Squadrons, best at Fighter Squadrons command Bomber squadrons, etc., etc., etc. (with apologies to Yul Brenner!) We ought to be given a couple of thousand PPs just to straighten that clusterflop out.

[Anthropoid]

Well, not all of us are experts, which makes it a lot easier for us to be satisfied with a movie [:D] but yeah, if you are a true WW2 expert who notices major glitches like that, I suppose it might be totally unpalatable.
 
I liked 300 [Spartans] too!