Also, for an added bonus, watch for Shea Labeouf's missing and magically reappearing tooth.
Now that sounds like a drinking game if I ever heard of one!
Also, for an added bonus, watch for Shea Labeouf's missing and magically reappearing tooth.
I don't know if he really did it, but I saw him on a talk show and he said he had a good healthy tooth removed for the role.
Actually, I hope he wasn't that stupid.
He seems to have some big psychological issues in real life!
See it. It stands on par with Saving Private Ryan and in some ways I think almost surpasses it.
I am reminded of an interview on History Channel or Frontline with an American tank commander from the first Iraq war. His tank squadron was sent out across the desert at night to find an Iraqi tank group. The were hauling ass across the darkened desert in their M1 Abrams tanks looking for the Iraqis, watching ahead with nightvision devices, over sand dune after sand dune. He said they were screaming across the desert at full throttle and crested a dune and there they were, a bunch of Iraqi tanks. He said he didn't even get the word to "Fire!" out of his mouth when all the M1 Abrams opened up full blast on the Iraqis, boom, boom, boom boom! Contact and direct fire were instantaneous. He said within seconds the Iraqi group was reduced to rubble without ever knowing what hit them. Cool!
Two older films that had realistic uniforms, hardware, and weapons were "Battleground" and "The Longest Day". Both were a lot better than later movies such as "Patton" which were pretty terrible when it comes to authenticity, especially armor.
The British film, Theirs Is the Glory, which is about the 1st Airborne Division's defense of the Grave and Nijmegen bridges, also used original equipment. I read somewhere that, until Fury, it was the only movie to use an actual tiger tank. I believe a lot of the extras in Theirs Is the Glory were also actual paras who fought during Operation Market Garden.
It is interesting that it took nearly 50 years before some actual WWII hardware started being used in WWII films. When it comes to the accuracy of costumes and props and vehicles, films made in the last 20 years seem to do a better job of it. I suspect that this is a budget issue, a good deal more money is being spent these days and in the last 20 years or so less of it, proportionally, has been spent on stars. I love seeing a real Tiger or what could easily pass for one.
The British film, Theirs Is the Glory, which is about the 1st Airborne Division's defense of the Grave and Nijmegen bridges, also used original equipment. I read somewhere that, until Fury, it was the only movie to use an actual tiger tank. I believe a lot of the extras in Theirs Is the Glory were also actual paras who fought during Operation Market Garden.