i just watched Pathfinders... unbelievably bad!!! superposed to be BEFORE the invasion but all you hear through it is GUNFIRE in the background
they talk in a normal voice not whispers and the acting, well, it just plain sucks
Posted on 11/11/2011 4:18:37 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Don’t forget the formation flying of B-25s to Japan from the Hornet. Pathetic.
I'm sure I must seem overly sensitive but I was right in the middle of that war and I am very proud of the performance of all those guys I knew over there.
Mark
But I do love a happy ending!
Mark
The “Choir Boys”. It was so bad that the author, Joseph Wambaugh, sued to get his name taken off of the credits. Non of the characters matched how they were described in the book, and the story line was messed up.
I’ve found that the vast majority of movies that I’ve seen, if I’ve also read the book, suck.
I would be honored to lead the surrender, er I mean assault, on that unit.
One good scene, when the Japs are trying to get the radio into the sub, and the Jap commander says, “We’ve got to make these smaller.”
1941 may have been a real "turkey," but it certainly had its moments. Like when Belushi finally "ejected" from his airplane... The scenes on the Ferris Wheel, Ned Beatty reciting what he was not to do with the AA gun, and Slim Pickens absolutely OWNED that movie!
Mark
I have also read extensively about the war in the Pacific. Every time I learn something new it just
shows me how much more there is out there!
I would say that this is good on your part, because writing a letter to my grandfather was a real wake-up call to the part of history that was left out of textbooks. After corresponding with him, along with additional research on American Intel in the Pacific, there’s just so much hard work done on our part that the film U-571 feels to me like a slap in the face, it is diverting attention away from where some real credit is due. Among all things that fictional films can deliver, one of them can be a prompt to try taking a look into actual history or facts behind the film or novel, Hunt For Red October got me interested in actual research on the history of how real submarines work, and some real events that happened. It’s also interesting that you chose the name you did, the nickname of a Soviet Submarine maneuver.
I was just disapproving of your posting as a flaw, one of the few actual facts in the movie.
Yeah, but in the movie the soldier was fleeing the MPs and jumped into the plane at the last minute without knowing where it was going. He wasn't a part of the mission.
-PJ
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i just watched Pathfinders... unbelievably bad!!! superposed to be BEFORE the invasion but all you hear through it is GUNFIRE in the background
they talk in a normal voice not whispers and the acting, well, it just plain sucks
HARTMAN: Do any of you people know who Charles Whitman was? None of you dumbasses knows? Private Cowboy?
COWBOY: Sir, he was that guy who shot all those people from that tower in Austin, Texas, sir!
HARTMAN: That’s affirmative. Charles Whitman killed twelve people from a twenty-eight-storey observation tower at the University of Texas from distances up to four hundred yards. Anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald was? Private Snowball?
SNOWBALL: Sir, he shot Kennedy, sir!
HARTMAN: That’s right, and do you know how far away he was?
SNOWBALL: Sir, it was pretty far! From that book suppository building, sir!
HARTMAN: All right, knock it off! Two hundred and fifty feet! He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target. Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot! Do any of you people know where these individuals learned to shoot? Private Joker?
JOKER: Sir, in the Marines, sir!
HARTMAN: In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will be able to do the same thing!
In Harms Way
You can’t be serious. This was a actually a very good movie. Yes, it was a fictionalized account of the early days of WW2 (PTO) following Pearl Harbor, but it was a good movie. It captured the look and feel of those days and my father said so and he was there. No way should this be on the worst list.
I agree with you. In Harms Way was excellent.
bump for Thanksgiving!
Battle of the Bulge has an excellent musical score by Benjamin Frankel.
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