Posted on 05/28/2023 2:36:44 PM PDT by Rummyfan
It's fun and easy to make fun of Hollywood's creative bankruptcy these days, and its reliance on remakes and reboots and retellings of stories it's told many times before. There are, however, some stories worth remaking; Roland Emmerich's recent Midway (2019) was as strident and bombastic as anything made by Michael Bay, but at least it put the 1976 film of the same name, a star-studded but tedious Sensurround epic, deep in the shadows where it belongs.
Like sci-fi, war films are the major beneficiaries of the digital effects revolution. Some taste and restraint are needed, of course, though they're often in short supply; Russia in particular has recently produced dozens of war films (White Tiger, T-34, Tankers, Stalingrad, The Pilot), usually with scripts of a much lower priority to the filmmakers than increasingly outlandish and improbable visual effects – tank shells in Russian pictures travel in slow motion, the camera trailing and spinning around them as they create outsized damage with impossible accuracy.
But when I see the quality and technical sophistication of films like Dunkirk (2017) and 1917 (2019), I can't help but hope that someday someone will take another shot at the story of the Bismarck, the leviathan German battleship that was the most feared ship on the ocean during the early days of World War 2, albeit only for the eight days of her first and only voyage. There is, of course, a perfectly serviceable film about the Bismarck available on streaming services and disc, but to modern eyes it looks like a relic from the days of model boats filmed in swimming pools.
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Between that and The Battle of New Orleans i learned history Johnny Horton style.
That’s it! I had thought it was guided though. Thanks for posting it.
“And yes, Dana Wynter was hot.”
Oh yes I think I have watched that movie many times just for her.
No, that was the HMS Barham. It was sunk by a German radio controlled guided bomb.
You’re correct! I had the wrong ships confused. I knew that there was a radio guided bomb somewhere in the mix. Experimental gyroscope I believe.
The HMS Barham struck a mine. It was the Italian battleship aroma that was hit by a German glide bomb (HS-293, I think).
I just went and checked. Wrong ship again.
Why did HMS Barham explode?
The final moments of the Queen Elizabeth Battleship, HMS Barham, when it was struck by torpedoes from a German submarine during World War II which resulted in a terrifying explosion.
So it wasn’t a radio guided bomb!
Poor Admiral Lütjens. He was just too high-strung.
As I recall the Brits lost contact with the Bismarck. Lutjens broke radio silence and gave up his position. I think the strategy of using battleships as commerce raiders was flawed.
Now, you can learn about the Bismarck and other military history from Sabaton, if you like:
https://youtu.be/oVWEb-At8yc
Poor Admiral Lütjens. He was just too high-strung.
As I recall the Brits lost contact with the Bismarck. Lutjens broke radio silence and gave up his position. I think the strategy of using battleships as commerce raiders was flawed.
Yep, they were loosing oil and broke radio silence to base in France fixing to make a run for it.
It was one of the Queen Elizabeth class battle ships. Not Warspite, not he QE, not Barham and I do not think it was Malaya so the 5th one
You can go on Google Earth, or other mapping services, and see the site of the Tirpitz's sinking. The ship has been scrapped, but huge craters can still be seen at the nearby shoreline, from Tallboy bombs that missed.
I don’t know. I thought the ship was hidden in a cove or something but was spotted and attacked.
Warspite was crippled by a guided bomb, but did not sink. She was never fully repaired, and had one steam turbine and propeller out for the remainder of her service.
--Sink the Bismarck by Homer & Jethro
English girls are among the world's prettiest.
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