Hi Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan were very successful and centred on Normandy. If you could have Steven Speilberg and Tom Hanks to make a WW11 movie of your choice what theatre, campaign wouuld it be? Remake of bridge too far? North Africa, Hollywood version of Stalingrad, Battle of Britain, Fall of France maybe? Give me your suggestions! I personally would like to do something on Italy, Monte Cassino! Or Fall of Berlin!
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Speilberg has so many personal bias against Germans in that era I wouldn't want him making a movie about the Eastern Front.
Bias against the Germans? Maybe because they were the bad guys? 'Das Reich' division, which would burn 600 people alive in a church at Oradour-sur-Glane? By the way, Steven Spielberg is producing and Clint Eastwood will direct a re-make of "Flags of our Fathers", the battle for Iwo-Jima.
another land based movie..........good grief ! how about an air to air combat like Schweinfurth or and evening raid like Nürnberg. I could think of others and with the high teech graphics availble these days............heck I'll wait since it will come in time. why was the Oradour item brought up I wonder ? S.S. of course is biased he is Jewish, but so what..........he is a talented artist
Probably a movie on naval combat, in the Pacific for a change. There haven't been any good movies on the pacific out recently. The last one i remember was Pearl Harbor, and that was a sore disapointment.
I think one on Bataan and the aftermath would be interesting and cover all of subjects. POWs, fall of Philipines, and could finish with the Rangers rescue at the end of the war. What do you think? From a naval point of view what about the battle for Midway?
From the standpoint of a naval movie, I think I would like to see a movie about the naval battles that took place in and around the Slot, during the Guadalcanal operation. A close second would be a movie about the actions surrounding Leyte Gulf.
its kind of hard to include BoB in on this because well.. that for the most part happend, umm but if i could make a movie on anything it would have to be on Bocage, and the breakout from normandy, and just rolling through france - post d day pre battle of the bulge, you never really hear much of that when it comes to movies.
How about invasion of Japan...the one that never happened in real life. No A-bomb then... OOps...what a blood bath?!
Crete. With me as Von Der Heydte... And Tom Selleck as Freyburg! Its a moustache thing! Get Spielburg to direct and I am sure we could fit Hanks in somewhere... I am sure Hollywood could find a way to have an American turn up!
The 'pre-Bulge' was covered in "When Trumpets Fade"...Hurtgen forest.Spelling? Good movie IMO. How about a movie on Stalingrad? Enemy at Gates was about the dueling snipers more or less and a bit dis-appointing.
umm how about the movie 'Stalingrad'? its a good movie check it out on ebay (may be able to find a copy) when trumpets fade was... ok not the best but eh, what can you expect out of Dwight Yoakam? hehe good singer bad actor , and if you can tell me what kind of tanks those are supposed to be in that movie you are Gott lol, also the 88's look good just uh... 88=recoil... when trumpets fade 88's =.... no recoil
