| Calculon | 28 Jun 2016 3:51 a.m. PST |
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| Henry Martini | 28 Jun 2016 6:05 p.m. PST |
Well GGouveia, I have been known to occasionally play with toy soldiers, so I think I'd have to admit to eccentricity at the very least. What about you? |
| GGouveia | 29 Jun 2016 9:53 a.m. PST |
Henry I also play with toy soldiers and have been doing so for 40 years. I plan on being like the old General from Faulty Towers in my old age. LOL Cheers BTW where in Oz are you at? My wife and I are there in July. |
| Monophagos | 05 Jul 2016 2:38 p.m. PST |
He was a Major not a General and didn't play with soldiers. Also Fawlty Towers, not "Faulty".
The origin of Thin Red Line was "Thin Red Streak" in reference to the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders seeing off he Russian Cavalry at Balaklava. The war correpondent William Russell used the term in one of his dispatches for the Times. |
| GGouveia | 05 Jul 2016 3:05 p.m. PST |
The whole conversation turned into the meaning of the title from the ww2 movie set in the Pacific. There was no dispute about the origin of the classic British Thin Red Line. |
| spontoon | 05 Jul 2016 4:50 p.m. PST |
Has anyone even read the book" The Thin Red Line"? Nothing like movie! |
| GGouveia | 05 Jul 2016 5:29 p.m. PST |
No spontoon do you recommend it? I rather liked " A helmet for a pillow" or something like that by Lecky from The Pacific. |
| Old Contemptibles | 24 Jul 2016 11:59 p.m. PST |
While I agree with many of he articles choices there are inaccuracies made by the author. The Luftwaffe and USAF in WWI? "The Battle of the Bulge" is pretty bad. Filmed in Spain, no snow, wrong equipment. "U-571" was terrible. It was an insult to the RN. I nearly walked out on it. "Pearl Harbor" was just awful. Totally inaccurate. Among the many insults to history was American Army officers receiving orders to fly for the RAF? The US was still neutral and the officer would have to resign his commission to join a foreign military. As far as I know, no active duty US pilot flew with either the Eagle Squadrons or the Flying Tigers. I would like to point out that even "Patton" had many inaccuracies. I recently saw a documentary of the making of the movie and they really played fast and loose with the facts. The most obvious is that the tanks were all wrong. |
| 14Bore | 26 Jul 2016 1:24 p.m. PST |
Found out recently in a video of a flamethrower expert there were no flamethrowers on D-Day. It was a good plan just nobody bothered on day 1. |
| Retiarius9 | 02 Aug 2016 4:50 p.m. PST |
And while we're at it let's add "Band of Brothers" to the list – though that was at least decent watching.
Dude, are u out of your mind, dont let feelings cloud your good judgement
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| GGouveia | 03 Aug 2016 12:06 p.m. PST |
No kidding, band of brothers on the list is pure insanity. |
| Weasel | 04 Aug 2016 11:17 p.m. PST |
Enemy at the Gates was garbage from a historical perspective in more ways than can be counted, and some of the dialogue was absurd, but I still enjoyed it a ton. U571 is kind of offensive to the Brits,but it WAS a good flick. Flyboys was an awful movie.
Windtalkers, I quit after the first battle scene at the beginning.
Pearl Harbor, nice effects in the theater. I had expected a chick flick, so wasn't that disappointed.
Hurt locker a lot of people got mad about, but I liked it as a film.
Surprised The Patriot "lets have the British commit warcrimes perpetrated by the SS" didn't make the list.
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| projectmayhem | 16 Aug 2016 5:39 a.m. PST |
Using the wrong tanks in a film doesnt necessarily make it a bad film, The Bridge at Remagen is superb. Fury has to be one of the worst, they go to all that trouble to get the right equipment and getting their hands on Tiger 131, insisting on all this 'authenticity' and then they way they put it to use in the film is such a joke. |
