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CubanMissile posted:Basilone’s story was worth telling because I never get to see Anna Torv outside of Fringe. But no amount of storytelling will ever make me understand why he’d go back. Sometimes war breaks people in a way where it's the only place they feel like themselves. I've seen plenty of posts in /r/veterans where people post about how they wish they could deploy again because they don't feel like they fit in regular world.
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Dr.Radical posted:No they need to do the theater my grandfather was in: The Caribbean. He was a dentist in the navy and had harrowing stories about stuff like seeing a huge spider in the dental clinic on the ship Spielberg and Hanks finally give us the gritty 21st Century adaptation of It Ain't Half Hot Mum the world has been begging for.
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I’d like a Flying Circus movie. WW1 is hot again
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I dont care how many times they go up-diddly-up-up they're still gits.
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Arc Hammer posted:I dont care how many times they go up-diddly-up-up they're still gits. Oh, come on, sir! I'd love to be a flyer, up there where the air is clear!
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Feb 13, 2024 18:19
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The chances of the air being clear anywhere near you are zero. I always get confused between the sound of a Sopwith Camel, and the sound of a malodorous runt wasting everybody's time.
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CubanMissile posted:Basilone’s story was worth telling because I never get to see Anna Torv outside of Fringe. But no amount of storytelling will ever make me understand why he’d go back. Wasn't she in the Leckie bits? As to the other, some people think less of themselves if they don't do X.
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Cojawfee posted:Sometimes war breaks people in a way where it's the only place they feel like themselves. I've seen plenty of posts in /r/veterans where people post about how they wish they could deploy again because they don't feel like they fit in regular world. The Hurt Locker is good for this.
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Monica Bellucci posted:Wasn't she in the Leckie bits? She's the hollywood starlet Basilone is banging on his US tour
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George H.W. oval office posted:I’d like a Flying Circus movie. WW1 is hot again Careful--we wanted a Richtofen movie, and for our sins, we got one.
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I'm only capable of paying like 65% to this show but did they kill Elvis offscreen?
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mcmagic posted:I'm only capable of paying like 65% to this show but did they kill Elvis offscreen? He didn't die, he just went home to Stalag Luft III
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mcmagic posted:I'm only capable of paying like 65% to this show but did they kill Elvis offscreen? i mean elvis: the movie killed elvis offscreen so there's precedent
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Gotta say i dont usually like these types of melodramatic theme songs but i do like the one in Masters. And seconding Neptune's Inferno. It would be a natural companion to the Pacific. And drat its got some harowing scenes, especially the first night battle off Savo Island (a near disaster for the Allied fleet).
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The absolute insanity of the surface battles around Guadalcanal will absolutely make it to the screen one day (I know that a smidge of the battle of Savo Island was seen in the Pacific, but still). Neptune's Inferno was a crazy read.
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:The absolute insanity of the surface battles around Guadalcanal will absolutely make it to the screen one day (I know that a smidge of the battle of Savo Island was seen in the Pacific, but still). Neptune's Inferno was a crazy read. Surface Warfare might be a tall task to convert to screen because of the distances involved.
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Flikken posted:Surface Warfare might be a tall task to convert to screen because of the distances involved. Just go with the battle off Samar and have USS Johnston lead a destroyer charge against the fricking Yamato.
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Arc Hammer posted:Just go with the battle off Samar and have USS Johnston lead a destroyer charge against the fricking Yamato. I mean I dug the destroyer combat in Greyhound but I think it would be hard to show how balls to the wall crazy Evans was in that fight.
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Flikken posted:I mean I dug the destroyer combat in Greyhound but I think it would be hard to show how balls to the wall crazy Evans was in that fight. Greyhound was good, but they really didn't need to turn the uboats into supernatural killer whales.
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Stegosnaurlax posted:Greyhound was good, but they really didn't need to turn the uboats into supernatural killer whales. I kinda feel like Greyhound did not do any favors to this show. Hanks et al. clearly got all  about the green-screening and minimal set work and copy/pasted it for MotA.
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speaking of greyhound, is it recorded in history that germans would paint easily identifiable and improbably massive evil symbols on their submarines and then taunt americans with wolf noises?
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Eau de MacGowan posted:speaking of greyhound, is it recorded in history that germans would paint easily identifiable and improbably massive evil symbols on their submarines and then taunt americans with wolf noises? They for sure painted emblems on their uboats. Some pirate esq, some were like unit flags and poo poo. The luftwaffe did it too. They definitely didn't surface within gently caress you distance of escorts to give them a call. if they did they'd have depth charges raining down within 5 mins.
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Flikken posted:Surface Warfare might be a tall task to convert to screen because of the distances involved. Both Das Boot and Battleship had different but equally great takes on how to do Naval Warfare well. Its entirely possible to do it well given a competent production team. I have no faith in Hollywood hiring a competent production team instead of a bunch of consultant committees but a man can dream.
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Arc Hammer posted:Just go with the battle off Samar and have USS Johnston lead a destroyer charge against the fricking Yamato. For context, since this is TVIV instead of one of the coldwar/history threads: Here is the start of The Operations Room's four part series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIrBqsn0WCY Leyte Gulf - Battle of the Sibuyan Sea Leyte Gulf - Battle of Surigao Strait Leyte Gulf - Battle off Samar (1/2) Leyte Gulf - Battle off Samar, USS Johnston Fights to the Death (2/2) This is a dude with essentially the CGI level of a 1998 grog strategy video game making a compelling 80 minute narrative. M_Gargantua fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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The Greyhound bits where the u-boat crew was taunting was pretty ridiculous. Doing that kind of thing would be drat near suicidal and it's weird they put that kind of hollywood nonsense into it. They did paint the side of U-boats sometimes though, so that part is fine. I agree that surface warfare between naval ships would be tricky to get right on film, but that's why the Guadalcanal stuff in Iron Bottom Sound would seem to be tailor made for it as a lot of it was close range wild poo poo with a melee of ships firing pretty much into each other's faces. Albeit at night though, which would make it harder to show. I am shocked that the USS Johnston / Taffy 3 story hasn't been done on film yet.
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M_Gargantua posted:For context, since this is TVIV instead of one of the coldwar/history threads: Oh boy if we're posting TOR videos about aerial operations we want to see big screen adaptations of, if only because both of them fit the category of "You can't make this poo poo up," my number one would be the Falklands Vulcan raid, and the other would be Midway. But the Midway movie would never be made because in order to make it compelling you'd have to overtly premise it on how the US won because of luck alone, which makes for huge amazing suspense, but probably wouldn't do too well with the "RAH RAH USA BACK-TO-BACK WORLD WAR CHAMPS" crowd who'd also be their prime demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5yAtuYPHK4 ^^ WATCH THAT AND TELL ME THAT'S NOT THE MOST INSANE poo poo YOU'VE EVER HEARD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HkBW7X7LaU edit: wait there was midway movie??! i have some catching up to do XYZAB fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Feb 16, 2024 |
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I thought the Midway movie was pretty good and I'm shocked that it came from Emmerich of all directors.
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Yeah I actually enjoyed the Midway movie. They had a lot of stuff to fit in and for the most part I thought it turned out good.
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Eau de MacGowan posted:speaking of greyhound, is it recorded in history that germans would paint easily identifiable and improbably massive evil symbols on their submarines and then taunt americans with wolf noises? For the most part U-boat insignia was pretty dopey: 
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Cessna posted:For the most part U-boat insignia was pretty dopey: greyhound would have been a lot better if it was the snowman submarine and they taunted the americans with "Vott killed ze dinosaurs, greyhound? ZE ICE AGE!!!!!"
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U-47: You know what zey say, Greyhound? Ze bull gets zee horns  Krause: But... you're the bull. You're getting the horns? U-47: ... you win zis round, Greyhound...
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Cessna posted:For the most part U-boat insignia was pretty dopey: the axishistory forum, under uboats had a 40-50 page sticky with photos of them. I'm not going to link a place with so many swastikas, but it's comprehensive in historical records. There is some less than stellar art on a lot of them.
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Stegosnaurlax posted:the axishistory forum, under uboats had a 40-50 page sticky with photos of them. I'm not going to link a place with so many swastikas, but it's comprehensive in historical records. There is some less than stellar art on a lot of them. What do you expect from people dumb enough to get on a boat where using the toilet valves wrong sinks the ship.
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Cojawfee posted:What do you expect from people dumb enough to get on a boat where using the toilet valves wrong sinks the ship. Better that than a steel tube full of pickled cabbage farts.
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Have there been any good dramatized depictions of the North African campaign? I'd love a series about tankers slugging it out in the desert.
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Bloody Pom posted:Have there been any good dramatized depictions of the North African campaign? I'd love a series about tankers slugging it out in the desert. SAS Rogue Heroes is a fun show, but you have to navigate around the PR and lies about David Stirling.
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SA website Masters of the Air thread devolves completely into hypothetical chat about what other series would be better. Here’s why that’s bad for Joe Biden (1/76)
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drat, this episode was rough in a different way from episode 3. Though those moves during the fight were cool as poo poo. I don't think those last fighters knew what they were in for against a solo bomber.
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Those are the kind of moves I pull in war thunder. But yea absolutely brutal. Crosby 
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