Dambusters film

[rscott]

Vocal Minority said:

Halb said:

rscott said:

They aren't. Their Facebook post about this is pretty much full of people complaining that it's going to be edited to appease snowflakes too. Some of them seem desperate for it to be edited so they can be upset about it...

sounds familiar.

Yep - the world of the anti-pc snowflake is a tricky one.

I remember when it was on TV once (it may well be in the contents of this thread somewhere) - and the announcer said 'contains language some may find offensive' - before showing the movie in full, un-edited and unabridged.

So ITV4 basically shoo all the 'snowflakes' away for them and then give them what they want. So the anti-right-on anti-PC brigade were out in force moaning their arses of about the warning.


I just put it down to cross old men being cross that its no longer the fifties and its not like it was when they were young and mostly that they're not young anymore and they are feeling a bit left behind. Which is why I can't take them seriously, in the same way I can't take the people who have been accusing the Israeli Eurovision entry of being racist seriously.

Honestly, they are just as much snowflakes and virtue signalling - its all just the other side of the same coin. Moaning about views that aren't their own and the modern world because they believe there is value in it and want to be seen doing it.

Edited by Vocal Minority on Wednesday 16th May 12:15

There was in interesting discussion on the FB page about this - one person complained that removing/changing the name would make it historically inaccurate but wasn't bothered about the many other factual errors in the movie.

[Halb]

rscott said:

There was in interesting discussion on the FB page about this - one person complained that removing/changing the name would make it historically inaccurate but wasn't bothered about the many other factual errors in the movie.

that's excellent
I've not watched Dunkirk or read the thread
but I heard there was discussion over...seats or something...

[Vocal Minority]

In fact the warning was the very reason this thread started

Reading through again has confirmed that people weren't sure what they were moaning about - they were only sure they wanted to moan

Edited by Vocal Minority on Wednesday 16th May 18:00

[jmorgan]

£17 quid for the cinema.


Will wait for the disc, I assume it is getting a 4K release.

[Ayahuasca]

I hope it focuses on the suffering of the innocent German civilian populations downstream of the dam who were drowned and made homeless, and on the raid's minimal impact on German industrial production, which recovered very shortly after the raids.

(am I doing this right?)

[Russian Troll Bot]

Ayahuasca said:

I hope it focuses on the suffering of the innocent German civilian populations downstream of the dam who were drowned and made homeless, and on the raid's minimal impact on German industrial production, which recovered very shortly after the raids.

(am I doing this right?)

No, you need to be calling for a remake with an all female cast (with Melissa McCarthy in the Guy Gibson role)

[Ayahuasca]

Russian Troll Bot said:

Ayahuasca said:

I hope it focuses on the suffering of the innocent German civilian populations downstream of the dam who were drowned and made homeless, and on the raid's minimal impact on German industrial production, which recovered very shortly after the raids.

(am I doing this right?)

No, you need to be calling for a remake with an all female cast (with Melissa McCarthy in the Guy Gibson role)

There cannot be a character called Guy Gibson. Sooo sexist. It needs to be Gay Gibson or Gal Gibson.

[jmorgan]

Ministry of defence twitter feed is running a feed with events as it happened so to speak.

[williamp]

Ayahuasca said:

Russian Troll Bot said:

Ayahuasca said:

I hope it focuses on the suffering of the innocent German civilian populations downstream of the dam who were drowned and made homeless, and on the raid's minimal impact on German industrial production, which recovered very shortly after the raids.

(am I doing this right?)

No, you need to be calling for a remake with an all female cast (with Melissa McCarthy in the Guy Gibson rlole)

There cannot be a character called Guy Gibson. Sooo sexist. It needs to be Gay Gibson or Gal Gibson.

Gibdaughter of gibperson please

[jmorgan]

https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ

Note. If this ends up on Dave or someone looking back next year, you will have to scroll to todays date to see what the twitter feed is all bout.

[number 46]

It'son Film 4 today at 4.30, if you want to watch.

[Derek Smith]

Ayahuasca said:

There cannot be a character called Guy Gibson. Sooo sexist. It needs to be Gay Gibson or Gal Gibson.

I thought Guy was gender neutral. It was once 'approved' by the powers that wished they were as an acceptable form of address to a group; i.e. 'Hi, guys.'

Did they change it without notifying me again?

[anonymous-user]

Captain Eric is in charge of the dog stuff when it comes to this film

[Eric Mc]

Woof woof

(Down boy)

[Russian Troll Bot]

Derek Smith said:

Ayahuasca said:

There cannot be a character called Guy Gibson. Sooo sexist. It needs to be Gay Gibson or Gal Gibson.

I thought Guy was gender neutral. It was once 'approved' by the powers that wished they were as an acceptable form of address to a group; i.e. 'Hi, guys.'

Did they change it without notifying me again?

Hey, I'm not your guy buddy

[Wacky Racer]

Martin Shaw's excellent documentary:-


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35qsu9HsYos

[Riley Blue]

There's a half hour documentary on BBC iPlayer Radio 4 Extra entitled 'Reel Histories - Dam Busters' about the impact the film of the raid had: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076chn

[Trevatanus]

Sounds like the remake isn’t happening
https://dambustersblog.com/2018/10/23/jacksons-dam...

[Eric Mc]

But his model company, Wingnut Wings, will be producing an amazing 1/32 scale kit of the Lancaster - so something good will have come from his efforts.

[FunkyNige]

Bit of a bump, there's an interview with Peter Jackson in the telegraph today saying it's still going ahead, but I don't have the premium so can't read the whole story

Peter Jackson on history, Mortal Engines, and why his Dam Busters 'will tell the real story

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2018/11/29/peter...