OT:splendid WWII movie you'll never see:(

[primitive]

Thermo:
Your letters, although interesting, are describing well known internal struggles for power within the British government in the beginning of 1942. This was during one of Britain’s darkest hours and the British, both their leaders and the people, once again rose magnificently to the challenge.

What I fail to see is how this in the remotest way could be significant to your post regarding 44-45.

In a nut shell, governments do not make war, Nations make war. And as citizens, we are all libel for the actions of our nations. The allies knew that the Germans were on the verge of a fission bomb, and they knew that the V5 (4?) was a few technical problems away from flying to the eastern seaboard of the US. The Allies were in no position to not press their advantage once they had gained it. Also, people tend to forget that England was done for by 1944-45. Two major wars in less than thirty years had gutted her manpower, and the people at home were very tired of war. The V1’s and V2’s had driven moral down to levels not seen since 1940-41, and the fiasco that was Market Garden had spent a vast portion of her offensive capability. Also there was the issue of supplying the troops on the continent, their maximum numbers were dependant on how many tons of supply that could be trucked to them from the few working docks on the coast.

[ February 20, 2004, 08:12: Message edited by: primitive ]

[gregebowman]

Let's steer this back to WWII movies. I think I've seen almost all that Hollywood produced during my lifetime. I grew up on them almost as much as I did the old 50's sci-fi flicks. So I was wandering if anyone knows if or when Battle of the Bulge will ever come out on dvd. This is about the Last of the big war movies I still don't have in my collection. That, and The Enemy Below.

[Intimidator]

AAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH,

Just (and I mean just, was on national TV about 4 hours ago) saw that movie (Battle of the Bulge)

The F*cking movie isn't even historical acurate, some nice action but really terrible.

Tiger tanks, NOOOOOOOO WAY.

SS Colonel Kesler , It was Kampfgruppe pfeifer (or something) AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH

But I enjoyed it............

Intimidator

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Intimidator:

But I enjoyed it............

[SARCASM]yes, that's >very< obvious.[/SARCASM]

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Intimidator:
AAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH,

Just (and I mean just, was on national TV about 4 hours ago) saw that movie (Battle of the Bulge)

The F*cking movie isn't even historical acurate, some nice action but really terrible.

Tiger tanks, NOOOOOOOO WAY.

SS Colonel Kesler , It was Kampfgruppe pfeifer (or something) AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH

But I enjoyed it............

Intimidator

I know it's not very historically accurate, but it's still a good war movie. And I've always enjoyed that German song they sing in it. I used to have it, but when I lost my old computer, I lost that song. Panzerlied? Something like that. But like I said, I've been watching these older war movies for most of my 41 years, so I'd like to get my Favorites on dvd. I finally got Where Eagles Dare recently, and that was another one that was high on my list. So I may have to be just a little more patient, but I'd still like to have a release date.

[Intimidator]

A good Warmovie for me is : historical acurate (is a 99% must, I can understand 1% writers creativity)

Such as The Longest Day or A Bridge to far, that are good movies. I even like the films about Patton and mc Arthur.

And offcourse (not a movie butr a TV serie) Band of Brothers, absolutly perfect and historical acurate.

And now comes the worst part of cheap WWII movies, And I don´t think the most Americans know this BUT The germans are speaking DUTCH instead of GERMAN in a lot of movies. I know the both Languages are a like but please when you are making a movie It isn´t that hard to hire the correct translater !!!!

And believe me even your precious Panzerlied is partly DUTCH..........

Intimidator

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Intimidator:
A good Warmovie for me is : historical acurate (is a 99% must, I can understand 1% writers creativity)

Such as The Longest Day or A Bridge to far, that are good movies. I even like the films about Patton and mc Arthur.

And offcourse (not a movie butr a TV serie) Band of Brothers, absolutly perfect and historical acurate.

And now comes the worst part of cheap WWII movies, And I don´t think the most Americans know this BUT The germans are speaking DUTCH instead of GERMAN in a lot of movies. I know the both Languages are a like but please when you are making a movie It isn´t that hard to hire the correct translater !!!!

And believe me even your precious Panzerlied is partly DUTCH..........

Intimidator

I'll take your word for that. That's the main reason I took German in high school, though, was I wanted to know what the Germans were saying in all of these movies. But it's been over 20 years since I took German, and I never really used it after I graduated, so I don't remember too much of it. For practical purposes, I should have taken Spanish, but I didn't know back then that I would have a use for it.