Battle of the Bulge-come on,own up! (1 Viewer)

[Rob]

Ok I know this film is full of errors (someone posted a link to the list of them sometime back!)but this film seemed to be on every Christmas when I was a kid,and perhaps for that reason I still enjoy it.And again despite its flaws it is a 'classic war film' isn't it.So how many of you guys actually like this film and ignore the errors?(Bill is going to give me some stick about this!)

Rob

 

[wayne556517]

Ok I know this film is full of errors (someone posted a link to the list of them sometime back!)but this film seemed to be on every Christmas when I was a kid,and perhaps for that reason I still enjoy it.And again despite its flaws it is a 'classic war film' isn't it.So how many of you guys actually like this film and ignore the errors?(Bill is going to give me some stick about this!)

Rob

Love it mate have it on DVD..................

 

[desk11desk12]

Ok I know this film is full of errors (someone posted a link to the list of them sometime back!)but this film seemed to be on every Christmas when I was a kid,and perhaps for that reason I still enjoy it.And again despite its flaws it is a 'classic war film' isn't it.So how many of you guys actually like this film and ignore the errors?(Bill is going to give me some stick about this!)

Rob

Rob:

Despite its incorrect vehicle and armour depiction, it's a real classic in my book. I have it in DVD and now Blu Ray formats.

Carlos

 

[Rob]

Love it mate have it on DVD..................

Me too!.Knew I could rely on you Wayne!.So thats at least two of us who like it .When I switched from vids to dvd's it was one of the first War films I got,along with Longest Day and Bridge too far of course

Rob

 

[Rob]

Rob:

Despite its incorrect vehicle and armour depiction, it's a real classic in my book. I have it in DVD and now Blu Ray formats.

Carlos

Hey Carlos,

I bet its good in Blu Ray isn't it?

Rob

 

[theBaron]

I can watch it and enjoy it, despite the errors. It has a good cast, and a decent-enough script.

There are two war movies that I can't watch, they're just that bad, in my opinion, and they are "Midway" and "Pearl Harbor". Though, I'd rather watch "Midway" than "Pearl Harbor". "Midway" has all the classic stars, and it keeps relatively close to the actual events, at a high level. And even if the stock footage is all wrong, it still shows actual aircraft. But "Pearl Harbor" is a piece of cinematic dreck.

Prost!
Brad

 

[gk5717]

I posted this a while back, I MADE myself watch it thru about a year ago. I remember it being bad, but with the help of several beers I did make it thru.
If someone can name a worse war film I'm open for suggestions! Absolutely the worst I ever saw!
The only redeaming scene was when the German panzer troops sang their song.
Gary

 

[lancer]

This movie is in my top worst war films ever. Couldn't stand the recent Pearl Harbor or Gods and Generals. Midway was bad. BoB was just terrible. Inaccurate everything, from terrain to vehicles, to even the historical facts. Fortunately Fonda was there to do everything and to be everywhere that danger reared it's head. Two BIG thumbs down. -- Al

 

[desk11desk12]

I posted this a while back, I MADE myself watch it thru about a year ago. I remember it being bad, but with the help of several beers I did make it thru.
If someone can name a worse war film I'm open for suggestions! Absolutely the worst I ever saw!
The only redeaming scene was when the German panzer troops sang their song.
Gary

Oh come on Gary, I have a couple of more beers and give it another chance again... LOL

See you at the "Texas Show" in San Antonio next week.

Carlos

 

[desk11desk12]

Hey Carlos,

I bet its good in Blu Ray isn't it?

Rob

Yes it is, Rob. I especially like'd seeing Rober Shaw's eyes pop out again while the gas cans come rolling down the hill. It was truely an explosive sight!


Carlos

 

[desk11desk12]

I can watch it and enjoy it, despite the errors. It has a good cast, and a decent-enough script.

There are two war movies that I can't watch, they're just that bad, in my opinion, and they are "Midway" and "Pearl Harbor". Though, I'd rather watch "Midway" than "Pearl Harbor". "Midway" has all the classic stars, and it keeps relatively close to the actual events, at a high level. And even if the stock footage is all wrong, it still shows actual aircraft. But "Pearl Harbor" is a piece of cinematic dreck.

Prost!
Brad

Loved Midway and hated, I mean hated Pearl Harbor. I guess "to each his own".

Carlos

 

[Rob]

Yes it is, Rob. I especially like'd seeing Rober Shaw's eyes pop out again while the gas cans come rolling down the hill. It was truely an explosive sight!


Carlos

Pearl Harbour is awful isn't it,the effects are very good but the acting is not.There seemed to be scenes in which the nurses did a lot of walking towards the camera in a group whilst looking determined and resolved,I bet the nurses at the real PH had a lot of time to do that sort of thing!

I really like 'Midway' though and have that in my collection,another classic from my childhood packed with big names and action.

Rob

 

[theBaron]

What bothers me in "Midway" is the added story about the son and the Nisei girl, and the bad use of stock footage. Coming so close in time after "Tora! Tora! Tora!", the producers had no real excuse for the shoddy job they did. Actually, some of the footage from "T!T!T!" was recycled-the Japanese launch footage, for example. And the added love story is just lame. The actual details of the battle, and what those men experienced, on both sides, actually, is dramatic and heroic enough. But the performances of the veteran actors is good enough to keep me interested, and they didn't play too loose with the actual battle events, at least as far as Western historians understood them at the time.

But yes, "Pearl Harbor" is awful, simply awful. To quote Leonard Pinth-Garnell, "Bad! Really bad! Exceptionally awful!" It's a Gen-Y'er's idea of those events.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Scott]

Leonard Pinth-Garnell! Great!

Battle of the Bulge has Telly Savalas as the romantic lead. Best song is the Panzerlied.

I looked at my watch a lot during Pearl Harbor. Bad sign for a movie.

 

[binder001]

OK, I'll fess up. Even though "Battle of the Bulge" has nothing in common with real history except for the fact that the Germans mounted a counteroffensive against the Americans, I do own it on DVD and watch it often when it's on TBS. I just like watching the tanks run around. The Spanish Army provided a lot of 40s-50s vehicles and I just enjoy watching them drive around.

"Midway" somehow managed to take on of the great pieces of actual drama in modern warfare and make it moderately dull. I am old enough to remember the original release and the producers were banking on the ir early use of a heavy bass-boost in the sound system. The best acting was Fonda's depiction of Nimitz. To me the bad use of 1945 stock footage wasn't as bad as stealing scenes right out of Tora-Tora-Tora and pasting them in.

"Pearl Harbor" is the absolute dregs for history (OK, they did get it right that there was a Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor - the rest is crap). Because modern movies are aimed at 15 year-old boys, it was amusing that they had to have the Zero vs P40 air fight at Blue Angels' speed. All those zillions of dollars spent to make that movie and the Doolittle launch scene from the 1943 "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" is far more accurate and much more dramatic than the recent one!

Gary B

 

[Scott]

Pearl Harbor was aimed at 15 year old girls.

 

[gk5717]

Oh come on Gary, I have a couple of more beers and give it another chance again... LOL

See you at the "Texas Show" in San Antonio next week.

Carlos

Carlos, Anheuser Busch does not make enough beer for me to watch that movie again!
See you in Texas in a week.
Gary

 

[theBaron]

I like Telly's role in BotB, sort of a mix of Big Joe and Crapgame from "Kelly's Heroes".

 

[Rob]

I like Telly's role in BotB, sort of a mix of Big Joe and Crapgame from "Kelly's Heroes".

I agree,one of his best roles I think.

Rob

 

[Scott]

He's there for the "regular guys" to identify with. That's pretty cool.