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RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:58 pm
by Terminus
ORIGINAL: Speedy
Lucky i'm an easy going guy who likes chat [;)]
Your theory is that for them to be classed as genuine WW2 aircraft means they have to have been built between 39-45, every part on them has to be the original part, the nuts and bolts have to be the originals? [:D] If so I wonder how many of them have been in any film.....
They can't have the chassis of a WW2 aircraft and have been modded to be classed as genuine WW2 aircraft in a film?
Regards,
Steven
Erm, you're kidding, right Speed?
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:59 pm
by Terminus
ORIGINAL: Bradley7735
You didn't even mention the best part. Ben Afleck (a fighter pilot on 12/7/41) becomes one of Doolittle's B-25 pilots and bombs Tokyo. I had so much expectations from that movie. It blew more chunks than any other war movie I've seen.
Again, Pearl Harbor was NOT A WAR MOVIE. That would be the same as calling Gone with the Wind a war movie.
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:03 pm
by Tankerace
ORIGINAL: Terminus
ORIGINAL: Bradley7735
You didn't even mention the best part. Ben Afleck (a fighter pilot on 12/7/41) becomes one of Doolittle's B-25 pilots and bombs Tokyo. I had so much expectations from that movie. It blew more chunks than any other war movie I've seen.
Again, Pearl Harbor was NOT A WAR MOVIE. That would be the same as calling Gone with the Wind a war movie.
True, but it was marketed as a war movie. Now, if they stuck with the original title of "Tennessee", I would be forgiving, but the whole marketing ploy was that it was a war movie, the next Tora Tora Tora.
Though, on a humerous note, Saddam Hussein called it "The Feel Good movie of 2001".
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:03 pm
by Speedysteve
ORIGINAL: Terminus
ORIGINAL: Speedy
Lucky i'm an easy going guy who likes chat [;)]
Your theory is that for them to be classed as genuine WW2 aircraft means they have to have been built between 39-45, every part on them has to be the original part, the nuts and bolts have to be the originals? [:D] If so I wonder how many of them have been in any film.....
They can't have the chassis of a WW2 aircraft and have been modded to be classed as genuine WW2 aircraft in a film?
Regards,
Steven
Erm, you're kidding, right Speed?
Dude when do we ever kid? I'm a Brit. We don't do humour right? [;)]
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:05 pm
by Terminus
ORIGINAL: Tankerace
True, but it was marketed as a war movie. Now, if they stuck with the original title of "Tennessee", I would be forgiving, but the whole marketing ploy was that it was a war movie, the next Tora Tora Tora.
Okay, must only have been in the States. When they started marketing it over here, there was never any doubt in my mind that this wasn't a war film. At least that I can remember; many a moon ago now...
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:07 pm
by Speedysteve
Trying to think what it was like over here in the UK. I think it was mainly targetted as a LOVE story but with the name PH I ascribed it other things. I unfortunately dragged a mate along to see it..............
= 2 very disapppinted blokes who downed several pints afterwards to comfort ourselves.
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:08 pm
by Tankerace
ORIGINAL: Terminus
ORIGINAL: Tankerace
True, but it was marketed as a war movie. Now, if they stuck with the original title of "Tennessee", I would be forgiving, but the whole marketing ploy was that it was a war movie, the next Tora Tora Tora.
Okay, must only have been in the States. When they started marketing it over here, there was never any doubt in my mind that this wasn't a war film. At least that I can remember; many a moon ago now...
Yeah, over here there is a fine line between fallacy and marketing. Anybody could tell it wasnt a war movie, but they tried to present it as one.
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:10 pm
by Terminus
ORIGINAL: Speedy
Trying to think what it was like over here in the UK. I think it was mainly targetted as a LOVE story but with the name PH I ascribed it other things. I unfortunately dragged a mate along to see it..............
= 2 very disapppinted blokes who downed several pints afterwards to comfort ourselves.
Was he still your friend afterwards?
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:11 pm
by Speedysteve
Out of interest reagrading BoB - how many aircraft were actually used in the filming anyone know?
Steven
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:12 pm
by Speedysteve
ORIGINAL: Terminus
ORIGINAL: Speedy
Trying to think what it was like over here in the UK. I think it was mainly targetted as a LOVE story but with the name PH I ascribed it other things. I unfortunately dragged a mate along to see it..............
= 2 very disapppinted blokes who downed several pints afterwards to comfort ourselves.
Was he still your friend afterwards?
He's a very good mate still. Was gonna be best man at his wedding until he cheated on his fiancee that is and realised he wasn't happy [:D]
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:32 pm
by Terminus
ORIGINAL: Speedy
Out of interest reagrading BoB - how many aircraft were actually used in the filming anyone know?
Steven
No idea, though probably quite a few more than if the film had been made today, and more Spitfires and Hurricanes than any of the German types.
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:38 pm
by Tankerace
ORIGINAL: Speedy
Out of interest reagrading BoB - how many aircraft were actually used in the filming anyone know?
Steven
Not sure about the Spanish 109s and He-111s, but there were 27 Spitfires and 5 Hurricanes (with three flyable). Also a B-25 was used as a camera plane. This from imdb.com.
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:39 pm
by Terminus
Damn, 27 flying Spits... Wonder if there's more than 10 flying in the entire world today?
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:23 am
by Sarge
ORIGINAL: Yamato hugger
ORIGINAL: Sarge
ORIGINAL: m10bob
IMHO, Turner's movie "GETTYSBURG" rates as one of the best......
As for the guyss' in SPR "fighting the whole German army"...Well...They WERE RANGERS !!!
And Airborne
Actually, no. Rangers in WWII werent airborne qualified.
Your right, but I was talking about the 101st boys they meet up with
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:36 am
by Big B
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Damn, 27 flying Spits... Wonder if there's more than 10 flying in the entire world today?
I have been locked away working (on stuff) -
But YES Battle of Britain was a GREAT movie. (And was best seen on tyhe big screen to really do it justice).
B
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:50 am
by GaryChildress
Let him who desires peace prepare for war
Vegetatus
Isn't that like saying "let him who doesn't want to play football prepare for the kickoff?"
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:57 am
by GaryChildress
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:17 am
by denisonh
More like If you don't want to die when your house burns down, be prepared for it when it does.
Forward thinking and preparation are the best ways to prevent bad things from happening.
ORIGINAL: Gary Childress
Let him who desires peace prepare for war
Vegetatus
Isn't that like saying "let him who doesn't want to play football prepare for the kickoff?"
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:24 am
by Sarge
ORIGINAL: denisonh
More like If you don't want to die when your house burns down, be prepared for it when it does.
Forward thinking and preparation are the best ways to prevent bad things from happening.
[;)]
Guess some have never read philosophy
RE: OT: Saving Private Ryan
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:29 am
by GaryChildress
ORIGINAL: denisonh
More like If you don't want to die when your house burns down, be prepared for it when it does.
Forward thinking and preparation are the best ways to prevent bad things from happening.
I would have thought the best way not to die from your house burning down would be to avoid playing with matches.
[:-]
