had it in my hands but put it down. read reviews later that the plot is a bit poor, and the effects, especially the AAA are not good, and you can tell when models are used...
other than that, what y'all think of it?
Craig
One of my favorite films from when I was a kid. "The Long Ships" is supposed to bad as well, but I like that one too. First rule of movies: Ignore ALL movie reviewers!.
-John
I bought it on DVD and recently watched it. I enjoyed it in the context of a
60's era Saturday matinee movie.Jeff The eagle has landed
It's a pretty lame movie but the sequences with the Mosquitoes makes it all up. The scenes in which they are burnt are devastating though; they torched actual Mosquitoes in the making of this movie. Not mock ups!
I recommend watching it, especially the beginning when the Mosquitoes are tearing up the field, with the volume up. Very fun.
I liked them both. Considering that I read "The Long Ships" first It was a fun movie. There was only a faint relationship to the book but then I've never seen a "Last of the Mohicans" movie that followed the plot line of the book.
Bill Banaszak, MFE
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny!
You just gotta apply some reverse psychology here. If the reviewer doesn't like it, you know you probably will. The idiot who reviews in my local paper is an "Art House Film Freak" at heart, whenever he says a movie "Has no message" I know I will probably like it. He can't seem to understand that normal people go to the movies to be entertained, not preached to. If I want preaching, I'll go to church.
Bill Shuey
whenever he says a movie "Has no message" I know I will probably like it. He can't seem to understand that normal people go to the movies to be entertained, not preached to. If I want preaching, I'll go to church.<
I believe it was Louis B. Maher who stated when told his movies need a message: "If I wanted to send a message I would have used Western Union!"
CB
It was fairly cheap, so I bought it along with "Mosquito Squadron", both are sixties family films with some flying scenes in them, the are quality like "The Battle of Brittain" to me. Gives me a chance of seeing nice airplanes and hearing 24 RR Merlins at the same time without the family grumbling too much. The plot is a bit thin in both, but deacent. The Germans even speak german and the mosquitoes are in fact flying Mosquito B Mk 35 masqurading as FB Mk VI. So who cares, the only "but" is that most of the flying scenes are identical, even down to the actually flyable Mosquito that they "land" and let rool while retracting the undercarriage and letting it burn!!!!!
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I have always liked 633 Squadron. Yes real Mossies were used and destroyed! Always loved the fjord scene even if you could tell they were models. I have read a few 633 Squadron novels and like them as well. Cheers, Max Bryant
Except the ones that say that "Gods and Generals" is an awful ,bloated P.O.S.
-I wish I had read the reviews before I bought that DVD. Ecch! It's worse than "MIDWAY"!
Midway.....first they're SBD's, then Hellcats, then SBD's again then TBF's. A nightmare of misused stock footage. Cobble it all together and, Hey, you have a dogfight sequence. Ed Wood would have LOVED this movie!
-John
That old John Wayne groaner, "Flying Leathernecks" was just about as bad.
Bill Shuey
Between 633 Squadron and Dambusters, you can see where George Lucas got his inspiration for the Death Star/ X wing fighter attack sequence in Star Wars.
Gene DiGennaro Baltimore, MD USA
I like the bit where Mike Baldwin, the Coronation Street flies in to the rock - You would have to be English to understand!
Some good real mossie scenes though!
Gordon Upton.
On 8/8/03 1:46 pm, in article >
I heard a story (which may be an urban legend) that when they were planning the effects shots for Star Wars, Lucas actually edited together footage from
633 Squadron and a couple of other movies (For some reason Hell in the Pacific sticks in my mind, but that may well be old age...) to get the timings and angles, and rotoscoped (drew over) them for animatics (animated storyboards)...Best regards, Matt
Both bits interchangable especially Mossies hitting bowsers.
The music has been used in a recent playing of a film about some ship blocking a dock in occupied land but this does not beat an African soap centred around a hotel. Who'd have thought the 633 Squadron sound track would suffice ?
Richard.
Richard.
Also, maybe the last time real aircraft were used. Now we have to cringe when documentaries use CGI!
Richard.
In article , Matt Bacon writes
Much of the dialogue from the Death Star attack in Star Wars is word for word or very similar to that in The Dam Busters.
German AAA gunner gets Gibson in his sights and says: "The force is strong in this one!"
With his Lanc hit several times by AAA, Gibson orders: "R2, can you do something back there?"
(Sorry, I was in a funny mood when I read your comments :-P)
Jimi
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