No need to preface a statement like that Philip. No one ever should be subjected to a Hollywood gem like "Pearl Harbor." I think we'd all agree, Hollywood and WWII do not a good film make.

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I even forgot I saw that film until today. It was a great film!

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For what it was, I think it was a great film and I still enjoy it. A great cast and it did bring a WWII battle to the public's eye. I will keep watching it.

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Ouistreham perhaps?

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I agree. I like 'A Bridge Too Far' for what it is ( which Urquhart described as 'a reasonably accurate spectacular'..). Agreed it struggles to tell the overall story and things were made up/altered/oversimplified to 'fit' the script but some of the individual scenes and characterizations were very good.

And as PzJgr quite rightly says, it raised the profile of the Battle which resulted in many books of research and memoirs finding publishers and adding to our knowledge of the event.

And let's face it, raising the huge budget in Hollywood for a film which shows the bad guys winning cannot have been an easy task......

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I wanted to give you a ding on the scales up there on the right, but I have to spread the love around a bit more before can I come back to you. Somebody help him on this one.

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ding.

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'Preciate it Otto and I hope Martin does too.

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One of the things that bothered me was the "doctor scene." James Cann[sp?] was written off the script after it. When he drove up to the MP asking where his injured pal was, he went right for him. The MP gave a general direction of where he was and he went straight for him.

That's it! The-almost-360º take is one of the finest camera sequences ever done!

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

It was eye-catching and done without computers

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Unfortunately, they don't seem to know how to do anything without that CGI crap thesedays. That is what ruined it for me when watching 300. The actors and fighting and such was really good but, I hated those CG images--such as that supposed ""wolf"" that that teenaged Spartan ""killed.""

Thank God, for the many dozens of thousands of pre-computerized movied that were made. I might never watch a new movie again.

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

That's why I like epoch-films... fancy Baroque costumes can't be made with computers! (though I hope that did, have you ever worn one? Chinese torture-like!)

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun