Posted on 05/28/2014 3:13:51 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
And if so what did everyone think?
#49: Germans bombing Pearl Harbor? Hattip to John Belusi aka Blutarsky.
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Thank you for that clarification. I had always thought he’d used a Springfield until a couple of years ago... it’s all just so complicated!
Agreed, They must have spent more time auditioning the Hitler actors than all the others put together.
OK, so we are sitting around at the office sipping a little bourbon, what with the bourbon Apocalypse and all is cause for concern, discussing this production, which I have not seen. Based on the discussion, I doubt that I will ever see it.
It seemed to be the usual A&E and History Channel production values. Wrong uniforms, wrong weapons, wrong dudes from the Screen Actors Guild reading lines out of Alice in Wonderland. We all agreed that these History Channel dudes could use us - nerds and geeks who actually knew something about uniforms, weapons, history, tactics, and we’d be willing to work cheaply. Our conclusion is that they don’t care. Why spend an extra $500 to make it visually, historically, and tactically accurate when the sponsors will buy their ads no matter how bad the crap is that rolls out of production. Ignorance, incompetence, indifference. Quite a combination. I’m glad that I watched the Royals lose twice to the Astros.
The casting was good...
Many years ago, I saw a review of “The Wind and the Lion” in one of the gun magazines. The reviewer was a military expert and he complemented them on getting the rifles completely correct.
Then some yahoo wrote in and pointed out that some of the Springfields were actually 03A3s. Sometimes you just can’t get it right.
More or less true to history, but I noticed a lot of small things that were not historically accurate. For example Patton riding a tank in WW-I... the tank looks like a WW-II Stuart tank and nothing like the WW-I Renaults. Chamberlain flew to meet with Hitler in a BOAC passenger plane not the Lancaster bomber shown in the movie.
I thought Churchill fancied the Thompson in .45. At least that’s what the ad in the magazines shows!
You would have thought that USAA - the primary sponsor I believe - would have at least had more input. I dunno...maybe they did and we are just being picky.
Kinda like if the golf channel does a documentary on Jack Nicklaus and says he won the 1986 Masters tournament by beating Trevino 3 and 2 in the matchplay final in the rain. At least the young’uns would learn that he won the 1986 Masters...;^)
There is a famous picture of Churchill holding a Tommy Gun but I am not sure he ever owned one. I do know he liked Mauser rifles and he also had a Mauser 1896 Broomhandle which his Mother had given him.
He actually used the Broomhandle in the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 I think. He also was in the Boer war but was a correspondent.
Churchill once invited Eisenhower to a shooting match while Eisenhower was visiting Churchill at his home. Churchill won with a very tight group. Eisenhower’s aide a Lieutenant came very close to tying Churchill’s target but Eisenhower didn’t even hit the target.
The World at War is by far the best WWII documentary ever made. I think its time for TWaW to be updated though. There is a lot of new information that has come to light about WWII that has been declassified and made public that was not known when TWaW was produced. Episodes should be updated to reflect this new info and what it meant for the conduct of the war and the effect it had on WWII’s outcome.
There is plenty of new info and new analysis of the D-Day landings at Omaha, the Bletchley Park code breaking operation, Operation Bodyguard and other operations and aspects of WWII to justify an update.
Since when did a young George Patton ride into battle in WWI on the back of a Stuart light tank/fast reconnaissance vehicle?
Way too many wrong rifles and erroneous aerial film clips with B-17s, P-51s and 47s portraying German aircraft. Though back stories of major characters and battles look solid with not a lot of revisionism.
Overall consensus: B
“Bourbon Aocalypse? Will the 20 or so bottles I have be enough to survive?
It’s funny how standards have changed over the decades. “Victory at Sea” replays on A&E were staples of my youth, and were rife with misplaced and overused footage. Don’t even get me started on a lot of the WWII films (M48s as Panthers/Tigers and Chaffees as Shermans in Battle of the Bulge) and TV shows ( Baa Baa Blacksheep ... ‘nuff said)
I do know they did some updated episodes of TWaW in the 80s with a different narrator.
TONS of misapplied older film in it.....American planes being used for German ones - same for cars, tanks, much more.
Whoever picked the cuts from other films didn’t know squat about the equipment of WWII.......
I thought Winds of War/War and Remembrance were very well done series considering the time they came out. Wouk’s writings were very detailed, and the series did an excellent job of adapting the books.
FROM THE 1980's!!!
Sorry, but that stands out to me.
At least they pointed out that Hitler choose Red because it was the color of Socialism.
But, Young Hitler Sounded French?
Well now I’m primarily watching for fun and to find mistakes :^)
Was that a CWIS on the Japanese Cruiser?
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