French caption:
Largage d'une bombe cylindrique
Looks like a cylinder.
This is also one on my all-time faves. Paul Brickhill was also the author of a novel about escape from a German prison camp - I believe it was called The Vaulting Horse.
good movie
hollywood will ruin it in the remake
I have seen the History Channel program on this. It is amazing. The movie version might get me to the theater...and that doesn't happen often these days.
Yep, H'weird will definitely take liberal license in the remake.
If I remember right, wasn't this the bomb with a surface similar to a golf ball, which allowed the bomb to skip across the water? I think there was a documentary, PBS Nova maybe, about the story. Really interesting stuff.
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Geez, Jackson, enough with the remakes already. Didn't you learn your lesson with King Kong?
Didnt they have those round bombs?
I remember watching that on TV when I was very small.
I'd probably go see it.
French caption:
Largage d'une bombe cylindrique
Looks like a cylinder.
Yah know, ever since the awful Pearl Harbor movie, I've been waiting for some aerial epics to be made or remade, fictional, like Sky Captain, or historical. The CGI aircraft were wonderful!
I have been VERY disappointed.
I am happy to see that Dambusters is being remade, but what about some action-intense movies? WWI, WWII or just plain fiction. Maybe a remake of 633 Squadron?
Something?
As an aside with regard to WWII flicks... I like the Kirk Douglas flick "Heroes of Telemark." I haven't seen it in years... I don't think it is on DVD (at least not here in the States).
Wouldn't mind that one getting a re-do too.
Hollywood is so talented..........They will do another remake!
One of my FAVORITES!I just can't imagine that it could come close to the original?There can't be many Avro Lancaster bombers flyable??I guess computer simulation deals with that???
I always thought"The Dam Busters"could alternately have been called:"Follow The Bouncing Bomb"?
Uh oh.... Last year Peter Jackson's favorite movie as a kid was 'King Kong' and his remake of that one is easily one of the top ten worst movies ever made.
My son and I finally watched 'King Kong' last night and by the end of the second hour - - after watching: 1. a guy hip-check a raptor while running with a bunch of other people beneath a heard of stampeding dinosaurs; 2. a guy with a tommy gun close his eyes and shoot giant bees off another guy; and 3. a girl entertaining King Kong with a juggling act and a Charlie Chaplain routine after miraculously surviving untold physical trauma while grasped in the fist of King Kong as the beast ran through the jungle on all fours and battled attacking tyrannosaurs (etc., etc., etc.) - - we looked around the family room and wondered if we were being "punked". (This COULDN'T be the real movie - - not just because of the terrible acting, but the lack of a coherent story line, and an impossible demand that the audience "suspend reality" beyond any rationality ability to do so. Talk about "jumping the shark! Whew!)
So we turned it off, not even caring what happened next and sorry we couldn't get back the wasted two hours of our lives, although glad that at least we had a lot of laughs. Anyways, with 'Dam Busters' at least Jackson won't be desecrating a classic this time.
(By the way, the LotR trilogy is the best filmmaking I ever saw, so I have no idea what Jackson's been smoking since he made that masterpiece.)