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The 10 Best Fictional Battles
Popular Mechanics ^ | May 29, 2017 | Joe Pappalardo

Posted on 05/30/2017 10:53:50 AM PDT by C19fan

Endless internet lists examine the most accurate Hollywood battle depictions, ones that adhere to the actual battles they portray. The verdicts are unforgiving, measured with sympathy for filmmakers who bend the truth to tell a story. But what about when moviemakers can craft an entire battle from scratch?

Fictional battles created with realism, logic, and intelligence are hard to come by. The absurd military vehicles and small unit tactics of The Empire Strikes Back are even dumber to behold than the lack of armor on the Spartans of 300. Because of these accurate battles are such a rarity, they deserve a list all their own.

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: battles; movies; tv
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To: Boogieman

“The Battle of Rorke’s Drift from “Zulu””

The category is “fictional battles”.

For a fictional battle I vote for the capture Dunholm fortress in season 2 of The Last Kingdom.


61 posted on 05/30/2017 6:24:06 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: IronJack
Saving Private Ryan ... the opening sequence.

That may be the most realistic battle scenes ever filmed, at least according to a WWII vet who landed on Omaha Beach that I once spoke with. It's among the most horrific things I've ever seen in a movie, and I'm so glad that I never saw this movie in a theater, instead only on the small screen.

This list though, is for "Fictional Battles," which I guess the last battle was. But the D-Day invasion at Omaha Beach was all too real.

Mark

62 posted on 05/30/2017 8:17:59 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: RedStateRocker
Dune was pretty horrific from beginning to end... But then Herbert's writing of the book didn't really lend itself to a movie, given all of the characters' internal discussions.

Battle of Serenity Valley, however.....

Mal: They don't like it when you shoot at 'em!

What else is there to say? :-)

Mark

63 posted on 05/30/2017 8:26:05 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Zathras
The Cylons (original) taught the Stormtroopers how to shoot. and probably how to fall down.

Agreed, for the Original Series. The Cylons in the reboot though... They were bad-a$$es! The robots were tough, and the 7 models... Well, I'd sell out the entire human race to Tricia Helfer and Grace Park.

Mark

64 posted on 05/30/2017 8:30:11 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: doorgunner69
The hill assault in “Hamburger Hill”

That was an incredible movie, but I think that the battles in that movie, as with the incredible battles throughout "We Were Soldiers Once" were non-fictional, so they didn't make the list.

Mark

65 posted on 05/30/2017 8:37:31 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: C19fan
I would have put the opening battle of "Gladiator" on the list.

The first half hour of The Eagle was a good battle between Romans and British Celts. Unfortunately the rest of the movie is a predictable snoozer buddy movie.

66 posted on 05/30/2017 9:59:57 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: C19fan

Oh, Hollywood. I was thinking of a war novel, Red Storm Rising.


67 posted on 05/31/2017 9:14:03 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: aomagrat
The Battle of Clermont from “Kelly’s Heroes”

Nope. The Rail Yard. All...for the Love Of Sunshine....All...for the love of a girl....

68 posted on 05/31/2017 12:04:34 PM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, then eat you.)
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To: TBP
And what strategic lessons can be taken from them?

Peace is a period of cheating between wars, but it's cheaper than fighting them.

69 posted on 05/31/2017 12:07:18 PM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, then eat you.)
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To: C19fan
The American Buckley-class destroyer escort DE-181 USS Haynes, versus a German Kriegsmarine Type IXC U-boat, in the 1957 film The Enemy Below.


70 posted on 05/31/2017 12:20:57 PM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, then eat you.)
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To: Pelham
Hollywood sucks... bunch of out-of-touch liberal elites.” With the exception of Captain Dale Dye whose ‘Warriors, Inc’ consultancy has at least helped give Saving Private Ryan, The Pacific, Band of Brothers and Platoon a look of authenticity.

Brad Pitt and his tank crew in Fury did pretty well without former Captain Dye's assistance. Though it didn't hurt that they had actual WWII tank crewmen and mech infantrymen as on-setr advisers. Likewise the veryknowledgable staff of the British Bovington Tank Museum from which many of the tanks, including several of the Shermans and the too-early Tiger I were sourced were not about to brook stupid mistakes. Director David Ayer was quite picky about the authenticity details.

71 posted on 05/31/2017 12:36:39 PM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, then eat you.)
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To: archy

Saw that (Fury) last night...not bad.


72 posted on 05/31/2017 12:38:02 PM PDT by MarDav
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To: archy

90 yr old set advisers? I suppose so, I know some WWII vets and they recall those days far better than recent events. Didn’t see Fury so wasn’t aware that it was any good.


73 posted on 05/31/2017 12:48:21 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: C19fan
The Marine march from the Tangier Harbor port evolving to a foot charge on the Basha's palace in The Wind and the Lion may heve been fictional, but somewhere, I think President Roosevelt was smiling. Bully! That's the way to handle it!

Fire! Re.....load, CHARGE!


74 posted on 05/31/2017 12:48:34 PM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, then eat you.)
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To: Chgogal

+1 for Gladiator


75 posted on 05/31/2017 12:49:24 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: Pelham
90 yr old set advisers? I suppose so, I know some WWII vets and they recall those days far better than recent events. Didn’t see Fury so wasn’t aware that it was any good.

Check out the Blu-Ray DVD version, which has both interviews, and cast interviews about the advice they got. Including Pitt, whose ego I don't think deals real well with being told how it really was.

76 posted on 05/31/2017 12:50:59 PM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, then eat you.)
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To: Pappy Smear

Only two licks were passed in that fight. The Democrats hit the Republicans and the Republicans hit the ground.


77 posted on 05/31/2017 12:54:20 PM PDT by sport
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To: Calvin Locke
King Kong vs the biplanes?

Giant graboid sandworms versus a couple of good ol' redneck down-and-out oilfield roughnecks, a pair of survivalists, a couple-three locals and a cutie college girl geologist. Them worms never knew how out numbered they were.

Hey, it's a good enough yarn to squeeze 5 films out of the series. The first one's still best, tho, IMHO.


78 posted on 05/31/2017 1:03:08 PM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, then eat you.)
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To: C19fan
Bun-bun at the Battle of Rabun Gap, from John Ringo's Earth-Posleen War book series:

"This is what you get for letting rednecks play with antimatter, boss."

79 posted on 05/31/2017 1:07:43 PM PDT by Jonah Hex
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To: archy

I’ll have to check it out.

I heard some interesting memories from my dad over the years. A bridge in Corsica where an obstinate farmer with a donkey cart was blocking a military convey in a hurry. The lead truck shoved him over the side when he wouldn’t move. The USS Nevada just offshore of the French coast firing broadsides in a prolonged gun fight with a German fort near Toulon harbor. The sky filled horizon to horizon with American bombers headed for Germany. Trying to get a bead on an incoming Luftwaffe plane with their 90mm gun only to realize it was moving too fast- their first encounter with a jet. That’s just a few. It was mostly later in life that he spoke of his memories of WWII. I learned to prod him into telling me what he remembered.


80 posted on 05/31/2017 9:01:20 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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