| mwindsorfw | 12 Nov 2018 1:31 p.m. PST |
Just watched HBO's "The Pacific," which virtually ignored the navy, and it got me thinking. Since "In Harm's Way," there haven't been many movies or TV series dealing with WW2 naval warfare. And of those, they typically focused on carriers or submarines. Am I missing some foreign (non-English language) films? Considering what they can do with technology today, why no movies on WW2 surface naval actions? |
| mwindsorfw | 12 Nov 2018 1:56 p.m. PST |
This should have been in media. My bad. |
| Winston Smith | 12 Nov 2018 2:22 p.m. PST |
Where is the love interest? Where is the hook that would make a studio want to invest $100 USD million in a movie that the few people who would go to see it would pick apart for "inaccuracies" that only exist in their own minds.
It's a business. |
| Wargamer Blue | 12 Nov 2018 3:06 p.m. PST |
Tom Hanks is in Greyhound which comes out in March 2019. US destroyer in the pacific. |
| mwindsorfw | 12 Nov 2018 3:48 p.m. PST |
Greyhound looks interesting. I normally get irritated that movie actors are way too old for the rank they play. Tom Hanks is probably too old for the part, but it makes more sense in the context of C. S. Forester's book. |
| darthfozzywig | 12 Nov 2018 3:52 p.m. PST |
First person to reply with " there's this movie coming up…." is met with "well, here's something about it that irritates me" before the picture even hits the screen. Perfectly illustrates Winston's observation. :) |
| Dn Jackson | 12 Nov 2018 11:09 p.m. PST |
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| athun25 | 13 Nov 2018 7:08 a.m. PST |
You are all forgetting that wonderful film 'Battleship'!! |
| Dynaman8789 | 13 Nov 2018 11:00 a.m. PST |
> You are all forgetting that wonderful film 'Battleship'!! Well, we WERE… |
| Winston Smith | 13 Nov 2018 3:11 p.m. PST |
I just looked Greyhound up. It has Elisabeth Shue in it, so there's your love interest!
She's still a fox, so it's nice to know that old farts like Tom Hanks can still make time with the Ladies. Speaking of old timers in action movies…..
I still crack up when I think of Bruce Willis playing a Lieutenant in Tears if the Sun.
He looks like a rather fit 55 year old. I know Special Forces used to be a career graveyard, but a Lieutenant in his 50s? |
| ptdockyard | 17 Nov 2018 12:14 p.m. PST |
Greyhound looks good but wasn't the original concept for a Royal Navy destroyer? |
| sjpatejak | 05 Dec 2018 3:31 p.m. PST |
There are more movie goers in the US than the UK. |
's first experience with 1:4800 scale naval models.
