Simviation Forum - My all time favorite WW2 Movies

Reply #30 - Jun 15^th, 2007 at 5:18pm

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dcunning30 wrote on Jun 15^th, 2007 at 5:16pm:

PsychoDiablo wrote on Jun 15^th, 2007 at 5:14pm:

"Thirty seconds over Tokyo" Real old movie, but still good. Also "12 o clock High", also really old but good.

You're reaching way back. Wink

Along those lines, who can forget the classic, stalag 17? That movie hold up well, even to today's standards.

That was also a real good movie

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Reply #31 - Jun 16^th, 2007 at 1:23pm

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Mmm, interesting...

I have a view personal favourites, and without repeating other people's choices, I can offer:

"Went the Day Well" - basically, the storyline of "The Eagle has Landed", only better, and made 30 years beforehand.

"One of our Aircraft is Missing" - another classic.

Of course, how could I not include "Dad's Army - The Movie"!

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Reply #32 - Jun 17^th, 2007 at 1:53pm

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I was watching "One of Our Aircraft" the other night oddly enough Charlie!
Mind you if you start on Dads Army then we have to go into matters like Ain't Half Hot Mum and 'Allo 'Allo Grin

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Reply #33 - Jun 17^th, 2007 at 3:03pm

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That's mine Grin

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Reply #34 - Jun 17^th, 2007 at 10:38pm

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waspiflab wrote on Jun 17^th, 2007 at 3:03pm:

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Awesome!!!! I totally forgot about that movie! Hillarious!

I can see that agin! Cheesy

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Reply #35 - Jun 18^th, 2007 at 4:59am

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top secret was hilarious, but i always thought it was post ww2... (cold war 60's?) doesnt he visit soviet controlled "East Germany"? this would not have existed until after ww2

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Reply #36 - Jun 18^th, 2007 at 12:11pm

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I have to many to list but, here are a few!!

1) Kelly's Heros
2) Midway
3) Tora, Tora, Tora

And so on!!

Also, I don't know if you count this one but some of it took place in WWII " The Final Countdown " It's a great movie!!

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Reply #37 - Jun 18^th, 2007 at 4:59pm

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Has anyone see the film, Operation Daybreak. Saw it many years ago. Good one as I seem to remember.

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Reply #38 - Jun 19^th, 2007 at 10:50am

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Willit Run wrote on Jun 18^th, 2007 at 12:11pm:

I have to many to list but, here are a few!!

1) Kelly's Heros
2) Midway
3) Tora, Tora, Tora

And so on!!

Also, I don't know if you count this one but some of it took place in WWII " The Final Countdown " It's a great movie!!

Cory

Here's the deal about Midway, which torques me! Midway was originally released as a fairly long movie. It had included the Battle of Coral Sea as well. Coral Sea totally affected how Midway developed. Since the original release, a long long time ago, somehow someway, the studio decided they didn't need the Coral Sea portion of the movie. They totally cut it out. Several years ago, I bought Midway on VHS, and lo and behold, Coral Sea wasn't included. I think the running time of Midway without Coral Sea was 202 minutes. If I can find Midway with Coral Sea, I'd buy it again. Otherwise, that won't be a DVD that I would add to my collection.

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Reply #39 - Jun 22^nd, 2007 at 3:29am

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Hmmm does "Final countdown" count as a ww2 movie? Grin

in a way i guess it does.... in an off beat way out in left field kinda way

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Reply #40 - Jun 22^nd, 2007 at 1:20pm

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expat wrote on Jun 18^th, 2007 at 4:59pm:

Has anyone see the film, Operation Daybreak. Saw it many years ago. Good one as I seem to remember.

Matt

It is indeed. The original book "Seven Men at Daybreak" (IIRC) is very good too of course, as it is a completely true story depicting the assasination of Reinhard Heydrich. Even has (a young) Martin Shaw to keep the ladies happy...

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Reply #41 - Jun 22^nd, 2007 at 10:07pm

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The Great Escape has my vote. I saw it for about the 4,000th time today.

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Reply #42 - Jun 29^th, 2007 at 8:28am

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Enemy at the Gates

Das Boot

Memphis Belle

Battle of Britain

Tora Tora (As far as I can remember it (Long long time ago))

Der Untergang

U-571 wasn´t too bad either.

But about Der Untergang, it was the only movie I have yet seen where people sat in the cinema 2-5 minutes after the movie, just thinking. No one went out when the movie was actually over.

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Reply #43 - Jun 29^th, 2007 at 11:01am

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U-571 was a fantasy movie. I enjoyed it, but it took serious detours from history. I saw an interview of one of the people involved in creating it. He saw this cool sub and wanted to create a movie surrounding the sub, and there you have it. Cheesy

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Reply #44 - Jun 29^th, 2007 at 6:30pm

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dcunning30 wrote on Jun 29^th, 2007 at 11:01am:

U-571 was a fantasy movie. I enjoyed it, but it took serious detours from history. I saw an interview of one of the people involved in creating it. He saw this cool sub and wanted to create a movie surrounding the sub, and there you have it. Cheesy

Couldn't he have rented "Das Boot"? I admit, amongst those with an appreciation of history on this side of the pond (and that is preposterously few), "U-571" wasn't warmly welcomed. Sadly it was akin to remaking the "Dam Busters" with a Sqn of B-17s, Tom Cruise as Lt Col G P Gibson MoH, Silver Star* and Bette Midler as the proprieter of "Petwood's", the crew's regular evening haunt...

*Admittedly, Wg Cdr Guy Penrose Gibson VC etc, was one of few (if not one) who was permitted to wear USAAF wings along with his RAF ones. They were presented to him on a US lecture tour in the year after the Dams raid, before his death...

"Memphis Belle" however, is the perfect example of how to tell a true story using semi-ficticious events and characters.

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