What do you expect from Michael Bay?

What's next?

Robots on Mars!?

... Oh wait....

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Who's Michael Bey? Is he a Director, and if so, what are the names of some of his movies?

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Thin Red Line gets my vote. I tolerated it . . . for about thirty minutes.

Straight into the darkness. Awe man was it aweful with the MOST terrible Tiger replica I have seen. It also starts out as "Winter 1945". Who made this movie.

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The Thin Red Line was an awesome book. I'm glad i read it before i saw the movie, otherwise i wouldn't have read the movie. As far as movies go, i'd have to agree. The only reason both The Thin Red Line and Pearl Harbor are in my movie collection is some nitwit of a friend thought they would make a good Christmas Present to me!

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I personally thought that Windtalkers was a god awful movie....

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Agreed....Nicholas Cage as a WWII Action Hero...yeah, i'm sorry, worst choice ever. I hate his voice so much. Not to mention scenes were he was firing his Thompson (which was definately pointed towards the ground) though some how managing to kill Japs on a ridge above him. Not to mention how far away they were...

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I agree. Windtalkers would have been much better w/o Francis Ford Coppola's Nephew; being in that film.

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Pearl Harbor and Windtalkers spring to mind immediately. I can't think of any others, though, that were lousy as those two. Still haven't seen The Thin Red Line. I want to see it for curiosity's sake to see how it measures up to all the criticism it has received. Maybe I'll get around to it this weekend.

I actually liked Windtalkers. I don't think it did the Pacific war justice or the Navajo code talkers but a solid war moive none the less. Also a bit Hollywoodized but what isn't these days? Definitely preferred it over Battle of the Bulge with the exception of the acting.

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They Raid by Night with Lyle Talbot is about as low budget as they come.

I thought my eyes were deceiving me when I saw the wrong date displayed. Thank goodness my eyes are ok.

This is a film I actually bought and is one of the biggest purchasing regrets. If i'm honest I only managed to sit through 20 minutes before switching it off.

I have to say I agree re Thin Red Line.

The book was great, the film sucks!!!!!!!

Confusing scenes and too many flash backs!

Mrs. Miniver. The church scene, no roof, aircraft noise. all looking up, and also daddy coming home from Dunkirk after his rough day out.

I looke good and hard but I never ever saw Tiny Tim, saying God bless us everyone, was he in it or not?

There’s a clip that zooms in on two US foot soldiers placing explosives on a German tank cresting a berm. The scene pans back, no explosives. But wait there’s more. BOOM it explodes.

Hahaha I know the scene you are talking about!!

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Same as all of you i don't like Pearl Harbour film because in my opinion the film is too much dramatize.

I prefer watching TORA..TORA..TORA than the Pearl Harbour

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Is that you John Wayne, Full Metal Jacket, an excellent war movie, nice avatar, I think I have one of those hanging in my closet



Enemy at the gates, liked the river crossing and assault but when the political officer showed up it slid downhill from there, snot nosed kid anyone?


Yeah, that was the first war movie I saw with my Dad. It's entertaining and most of the time it's completely cut up on TV(missing parts) The DVD is more enjoyable and the way I remember it was as a kid, uncut. By no means is it a film, but it's fun sometimes, if you don't watch it to death.

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I agree, the TV version does not do the movie justice. The DVD shows it unedited with several deleted scenes included. But the best scene of all is still the Panzerlied scene. I always have the urge to get up and stomp my feet and join in the singing.

U-571 is by far the WORST WWII movie in my book. Just to name a few issues....

1. S-Boats never had the range to travel into the mid-atlantic.
2. It was not an American crew nor an S-Boat that originally captured the enigma and codebooks.
3. It would be completely impossible for an American crew of only six or seven, to come aboard a German U-Boat for the first time, and somehow manage to operate and dive the boat, even with the help of a translator. Type VIIC U-Boats usually had about 50 men on board, and granted not all of them needed to be working at the same time, but a crew of seven Americans on a German sub just can't figure out how to operate a U-Boat in less than 60 seconds.
4. Even if you want to believe they could, it was completely impossible in WWII for two submerged submarines to attack each other. I almost threw up when I watched this part of the movie. There was only one recorded instance of two submarines in WWII attacking each other submerged, but they were both at periscope depth and both could see each other, unlike in U-571.
5. When the destroyer comes onto the scene, this was absolutely unrealistic. German escort vessles rarely left the safety of their harbors, and they never ventured out into the Mid-Atlantic, especially unesorted.
6. When they dive beneath the destroyer, and one of their propeller shafts is sabotaged, the American captain remarks "We'll never make it to allied aircover on one shaft." It would be impossible to make it to allied air cover on two shafts! Submerged, U-Boats generally could not travel more than 80 miles before having to recharge their batteries. If they were in the Mid Atlantic, 80 miles wouldn't bring them much closer!
7. The depth charge attacks are all wrong. Charges exploding that close to the U-Boat would have cracked the pressure hull, but they somehow magically survive.
8. The real U-571 never particpated in any of the events that the movie shows, I have no idea why they picked this boat as the one to depict.
8. This movie is just a piece of Hollywood garbage that was only made for gung-ho Americans who like to see stuff get blown up and have no concern about the historical aspects of what they are wathcing. If your looking for a genuine U-Boat film, Das Boot is defintly what youll want to see. Again, this is just a brief summary of how I feel about U-571, and although I could spend hours writing about its historical innacuracies, lets see if you guys can save me some of the trouble; any thoughts on the movie?

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I doubt very much there will ever be a movie that is 100% historically accurate and there may be some members of the Kriegsmarine that could disect Das Boot as well.

I do agree that U-571 is more fiction than accurate and is made purely for entertainment purposes. Even then, it fails at that. I do agree with your review of this movie which is why it does not grace its presence in my DVD collection but Das Boot does!

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While I agree with GoGators as he had excellent points, I am still going to pick Windtalkers as my worst movie......

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

U571 reminds me of that awful movie which I only saw previews of Knights Tale more Hollywood Garbage

I like Battle of Britain Michael Caine's dog looks like my old one

The staffing run was well done in the beginning just outside of Sedan refreshing not to have CGI all the time like Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor had Kate Beckinsale and Jennifer Garner so I can't complain but it was too over the top and as another chap mentioned It ain't in my collection

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I agree with PzJgrs post abouit U 571. Also, he is correct in that there are Kriegsmarine submariners that could take apart Das Boot, I know because I spent two days with them in Bad Camberg, Germany in 2000. They did completely dismiss U 571, they did not care too much for Das Boot and, amazingly enough, the U Boat vets I talked with, liked: The Enemy Below; as their favorite film of this type.

A few of their reasons for that was that the Kapitan (Curt Jurgens) and the XO (Theodor Bikel) reminded these guys of how their Kapitan: Kurt Freiwald; was. They also appreciated with this film, that the German Submariners, were not depicted as fanatics-having only one member of that crew as being interested in Hitler's policies.

This is what they told me when we discussed these movies.

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