Lesser known war films
Discussion
ChemicalChaos said:
No one's mentioned The Final Countdown yet?
A very, very 80s attempt at a war film, where the present day USS Nimitz encounters a time vortex and is transported back to 1941, just before Pearl Harbour.
Should the warship with its hindsight knowledge and its fleet of Tomcats obliterate the Japanese attack and change the course of history? Or should it leave things be?
Excellent film. "Splash the Zero's".....A very, very 80s attempt at a war film, where the present day USS Nimitz encounters a time vortex and is transported back to 1941, just before Pearl Harbour.
Should the warship with its hindsight knowledge and its fleet of Tomcats obliterate the Japanese attack and change the course of history? Or should it leave things be?
Tootles the Taxi said:
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"Went The Day Well" - Perhaps a little too mainstream - German infiltrators take over a sleepy English village and get all Nazi on their asses, only for the plucky Brits to fight back and take them down with extreme violence.
Definitely - got this in a box set of Ealing films. It's really good, so much so that Jack Higgins stole the idea and wrote The Eagle has Landed. "Went The Day Well" - Perhaps a little too mainstream - German infiltrators take over a sleepy English village and get all Nazi on their asses, only for the plucky Brits to fight back and take them down with extreme violence.
ChemicalChaos said:
No one's mentioned The Final Countdown yet?
A very, very 80s attempt at a war film, where the present day USS Nimitz encounters a time vortex and is transported back to 1941, just before Pearl Harbour.
Should the warship with its hindsight knowledge and its fleet of Tomcats obliterate the Japanese attack and change the course of history? Or should it leave things be?
I was about to post that myself before seeing your post. I am sure that Top Gun took at look at that when they were planing it.A very, very 80s attempt at a war film, where the present day USS Nimitz encounters a time vortex and is transported back to 1941, just before Pearl Harbour.
Should the warship with its hindsight knowledge and its fleet of Tomcats obliterate the Japanese attack and change the course of history? Or should it leave things be?
ChemicalChaos said:
No one's mentioned The Final Countdown yet?
A very, very 80s attempt at a war film, where the present day USS Nimitz encounters a time vortex and is transported back to 1941, just before Pearl Harbour.
Should the warship with its hindsight knowledge and its fleet of Tomcats obliterate the Japanese attack and change the course of history? Or should it leave things be?
The song is pretty good too. A very, very 80s attempt at a war film, where the present day USS Nimitz encounters a time vortex and is transported back to 1941, just before Pearl Harbour.
Should the warship with its hindsight knowledge and its fleet of Tomcats obliterate the Japanese attack and change the course of history? Or should it leave things be?
Ayahuasca said:
ChemicalChaos said:
No one's mentioned The Final Countdown yet?
A very, very 80s attempt at a war film, where the present day USS Nimitz encounters a time vortex and is transported back to 1941, just before Pearl Harbour.
Should the warship with its hindsight knowledge and its fleet of Tomcats obliterate the Japanese attack and change the course of history? Or should it leave things be?
The song is pretty good too. A very, very 80s attempt at a war film, where the present day USS Nimitz encounters a time vortex and is transported back to 1941, just before Pearl Harbour.
Should the warship with its hindsight knowledge and its fleet of Tomcats obliterate the Japanese attack and change the course of history? Or should it leave things be?
Lotusgone said:
Tootles the Taxi said:
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"Went The Day Well" - Perhaps a little too mainstream - German infiltrators take over a sleepy English village and get all Nazi on their asses, only for the plucky Brits to fight back and take them down with extreme violence.
Definitely - got this in a box set of Ealing films. It's really good, so much so that Jack Higgins stole the idea and wrote The Eagle has Landed. "Went The Day Well" - Perhaps a little too mainstream - German infiltrators take over a sleepy English village and get all Nazi on their asses, only for the plucky Brits to fight back and take them down with extreme violence.
Another time travelling war film I've just remembered - Biggles, Adventures in Time.
It's an objectively terrible film that tramples over and mashes up all the timelines and characters from the books. Then again, what does one expect from a plot badly rewritten at the 11th hour to rip off the success of Back to the Future?
It was the last film to star the great Peter Cushing, I bet he wished he hadn't.....
However, it is good "brain out" entertainment for such incongruous hilarity of a WW1 officer dealing with 1980s hoodlums, and WW1 German trenches being strafed by a JetRanger helicopter.....
It's an objectively terrible film that tramples over and mashes up all the timelines and characters from the books. Then again, what does one expect from a plot badly rewritten at the 11th hour to rip off the success of Back to the Future?
It was the last film to star the great Peter Cushing, I bet he wished he hadn't.....
However, it is good "brain out" entertainment for such incongruous hilarity of a WW1 officer dealing with 1980s hoodlums, and WW1 German trenches being strafed by a JetRanger helicopter.....
I wasn't aware of this until stumbling on it during lockdown, but in 1970 they made a historical account of Napoleon's final defeat at waterloo.
For the battle scenes, the Soviet army donated thousands of troops who were drilled in period battle tactics and then sent off to play war. Some of the film suffers from period problems and it feels dated, but the battle scenes are of a quality you just don't get with todays CGI armies and are worth the watch alone:
https://youtu.be/RsVziFEWLlM?t=89
For the battle scenes, the Soviet army donated thousands of troops who were drilled in period battle tactics and then sent off to play war. Some of the film suffers from period problems and it feels dated, but the battle scenes are of a quality you just don't get with todays CGI armies and are worth the watch alone:
https://youtu.be/RsVziFEWLlM?t=89
richomk6 said:
Come and See 1985. A Russian war movie set in World War Two. A young boy joins a group of partisans fighting the Germans. Not one for faint of heart especially the second half of the movie.There's no hero saving the day all ends well etc in this flick..
Yeah that one is a tough watch. Wacky Racer said:
ChemicalChaos said:
No one's mentioned The Final Countdown yet?
A very, very 80s attempt at a war film, where the present day USS Nimitz encounters a time vortex and is transported back to 1941, just before Pearl Harbour.
Should the warship with its hindsight knowledge and its fleet of Tomcats obliterate the Japanese attack and change the course of history? Or should it leave things be?
Excellent film. "Splash the Zero's".....A very, very 80s attempt at a war film, where the present day USS Nimitz encounters a time vortex and is transported back to 1941, just before Pearl Harbour.
Should the warship with its hindsight knowledge and its fleet of Tomcats obliterate the Japanese attack and change the course of history? Or should it leave things be?
You can see it here:
https://youtu.be/aMarzSNO5RI
All day run on Sony Movies Action today, apart from 'Sink the Bismark' not heard of any of these:
Submarine X-1 (seems to be about sinking the Tirpitz)
Overrun (something in N Africa, involving a 'handful of attractive nurses')
The Battle of the Damned (N Africa again, but Americans)
The Last Escape (rescuing a scientist from Nazi rocket programme)
Shady Lady (B-24 on longest bombing mission (Aus to Jpn?))
Submarine X-1 (seems to be about sinking the Tirpitz)
Overrun (something in N Africa, involving a 'handful of attractive nurses')
The Battle of the Damned (N Africa again, but Americans)
The Last Escape (rescuing a scientist from Nazi rocket programme)
Shady Lady (B-24 on longest bombing mission (Aus to Jpn?))
glazbagun said:
Just found this thread, so I'm sure it's been mentioned, but during the first lockdown I discovered a film called Kajaki, a true story of some British soldiers who find themselves trapped and ill-supported in an abandoned Soviet minefield whilst on tour in Afghanistan.
It starts with a bunch of men sitting around doing nothing and for much of the film it's a bunch of men lying around doing as little as possible, yet it's more tense than a thousand by-the-numbers war movies out there. Recommended if you can find it.
Its on Netflix at the moment, just added it to my watch listIt starts with a bunch of men sitting around doing nothing and for much of the film it's a bunch of men lying around doing as little as possible, yet it's more tense than a thousand by-the-numbers war movies out there. Recommended if you can find it.
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