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imdb.com said:
Plot Outline: True story of how the British attacked German dams in WW2 by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective
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as opposed to blowing the shit out of everything which is in common use today


"effective bombing" ...wow how innovative is that?


ok so the plot doesnt seem like much but it'll be interesting to see jackson take on something besides fantasy movies
 
CptStern said:
as opposed to blowing the shit out of everything which is in common use today


"effective bombing" ...wow how innovative is that?


ok so the plot doesnt seem like much but it'll be interesting to see jackson take on something besides fantasy movies
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Do you ever get off your high horse and think "perhaps i can just enjoy this one thing and reinsert the large pole up my arse afterwards".

Peter Jackson is planning to produce a remake of one of the all time great ww2 movies and all you can say is some stupid cynical remark.. :hmph:
 
no reason to get your panties in a knot; I was being sarcastic ..perhaps you should try to be a little less defensive

the big red one, the bridge over river kwai, the great escape, all along the western front: classics ...dambusters ..not so sure. But I guess it's a regional thing ..anyways not every post I make is a vindictive attack against the military stop interpreting it that way
 
Wait wait... dambusters. I've never heard of that movie.

But I did hear of the pilots in the war who used gigantic bouncing bombs, that they sort of unleashed and had them bounce/skid across the water to slam into dams.

Is that what the movie was about? If so... it was a genious bombing technique...
 
Raziaar said:
Wait wait... dambusters. I've never heard of that movie.

But I did hear of the pilots in the war who used gigantic bouncing bombs, that they sort of unleashed and had them bounce/skid across the water to slam into dams.

Is that what the movie was about? If so... it was a genious bombing technique...
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Yep, they used cylinder shaped bombs that they spun before they dropped em, they bounced on the water, hit the dam wall, sunk to a pre- determined depth and then they blew.

This movie has AWESOME potential.
 
Raziaar said:
Wait wait... dambusters. I've never heard of that movie
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Whaaaaaaaaat? Maybe it is a regional thing...

This is going to be awesome. Seriously awesome. I bet they'll have to change the name of the squadron's pet dog though (if youve seen the original, you'll know what I mean).
 
gick said:
Whaaaaaaaaat? Maybe it is a regional thing...

This is going to be awesome. Seriously awesome. I bet they'll have to change the name of the squadron's pet dog though (if youve seen the original, you'll know what I mean).
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I hope not, i hope that people can look at it and realise it was a completely different time back then and anyway, the dogs name "******" wasn't used to be derogatory towards anyone and it's a word that is extremely common in popular culture today anyway.

And the original is most probably only a classic to British people, but it's still a great, so yes it might be a regional thing...perhaps he can also do Battle Of Britain as well :D. Both are absolute classic movies that deserve their place alongside movies like We Were Soldiers, A Bridge Too Far, Saving Private Ryan, Band Of Brothers, etc, when war movies were war movies and not some political rubbish.
 
I love Peter Jackson's movies. Hopefully this one will be good too :)
 
It surely will be interesting to see how Peter Jackson does a war movie. I dont doubt it will be very good.

What was the dog's name?
 
CptStern said:
ok so the plot doesnt seem like much but it'll be interesting to see jackson take on something besides fantasy movies
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You realize Jackson has done movies that AREN'T LOTR and King Kong, right?
 
yes I do ..they just werent as commercially viable as the two mentioned and he hasnt directed anything "serious" in over 10 years
 
yes because that's exactly what I said "Jackson isnt serious about Lotr" ..it's not even remotely what I said


it's a fantasy about happy little elves ..not what I would exactly call a "serious" film
 
Firstly, what you said was that he hasnt made a serious film in over 10 years. The LOTR trilogy was made in the past 10 years... so is it not acceptable to assume that you meant to say his LOTR trilogy wasnt a serious film? If that isnt what you meant to say... perhaps you should rephrase that statement because it is very misleading.

Secondly, there was meaning in the LOTR films beyond "happy little elves." In fact it has very little to do with elves at all. Perhaps you have never seen or read the books?
 
EDIT: Kyrnn, I can see where you're coming from, but I think he meant serious as in something that really happened, is real, etc, like The Dambusters is. I thihk, anyway? Whutevur.

The real-life videos of the bouncing bombs are excellent. Theres one where one of them narrowly misses one of the cameramen. Freightning stuff.

This should be pretty cool. I liked that movie. I did a history report on the bloke that made them in my first school, too. Forgot his name now.
 
Krynn72 said:
Firstly, what you said was that he hasnt made a serious film in over 10 years. The LOTR trilogy was made in the past 10 years... so is it not acceptable to assume that you meant to say his LOTR trilogy wasnt a serious film? If that isnt what you meant to say... perhaps you should rephrase that statement because it is very misleading.
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perhaps it's misleading to you ..other people seem to have understood: serious as in "non-fiction, non-fantasy"

Krynn72 said:
Secondly, there was meaning in the LOTR films beyond "happy little elves." In fact it has very little to do with elves at all. Perhaps you have never seen or read the books?
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dont assume, yes I've read them, probably before you were born (amongst hundreds of other books in the same/similiar genre) ..doesnt change the fact that as a fantasy full of "happy little elves" it's fairly one dimensional ..good vs evil and not much else.
 
If you truly read the book stern, youd know the elves were anything but happy, it was the goddamn hobbits who were happy all the time....
 
I'll have to throw in that although good an evil are indeed very clearly defined in the movies, theres not shortage of deep topics in those stories.
 
brink's said:
If you truly read the book stern, youd know the elves were anything but happy, it was the goddamn hobbits who were happy all the time....
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yes yes, I've also read the hobbit ..the happy little elves is a reference from the simpsons (maggie's favourite show)
 
Krynn72 said:
It surely will be interesting to see how Peter Jackson does a war movie. I dont doubt it will be very good.

What was the dog's name?
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S****** without the S.

Edit: Wow, that's filtered? What if I actually want to use it in a normal sentence? :-/

Racist term for a black person.
 
Good movie. Hopefully he doesn't overdo it as he did with King Kong.

Also, I wasn't aware Peter Jackson had ever done a non-fiction film (and by that, I'm assuming you mean only based on fact, rather than a straight doco).
 
This film will include at least one scene with an exceptionally slow type-writer.
 
/me hums the theme from The Great Escape

SimonomiS said:
Edit: Wow, that's filtered? What if I actually want to use it in a normal sentence? :-/
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I always want to use that word and it's very annoying that it's filtered along with nigga. You just have to workaround.
 
kupoartist said:
This film will include at least one scene with an exceptionally slow type-writer.
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And at least 2 shots with one character walking past another character while looking over their shoulder at them with a "something is amiss" look on their face...in slow motion, of course.
 
And when the dam is destroyed, there will be a huge pan-around of the destruction. Although with the effects Jackson uses, I'm sure it will be a very nice explosion with some nice destruction, so that won't be so bad.
 
Bad^Hat said:
Also, I wasn't aware Peter Jackson had ever done a non-fiction film (and by that, I'm assuming you mean only based on fact, rather than a straight doco).
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Heavenly Creatures was based pretty closely on a true story, and its a bloody good movie.
 
No no, Bad Taste and Braindead ftw! Those were so funny i still watch em once in a while.
Brilliant director :p
 
It's sad that ww2 only exist for people today as hollywood tinted american shaped nuggets.

Barnes Wallis' bomb design was genius, and the Dambuster missions were some of the most famous covert ops in the war - they were a deciding factor in the outcome. Like Telemark, secret operations like this have been overlooked in favour of more gung-ho american exploits as the latter make for better cinema.

About time a brit ww2 blockbuster was made, and if weta digital are involved in bringing the old Lancaster to life again this film will be a corker.

Jolly-what ho, chaps.
 
ya but america saved your ass during ww2 ..and his ass, and their ass, and that guy over there ...a lot of asses were saved by the americans

thanks america


if you think you're under represented in movies about ww2 we're (canada) practically ignored ...despite being involved far longer than most.
 
That's ok, Canada wins ww3 --> FACT


As far as i'm concerned merca can keep my ass in a jar next to it's bed. Mcdonalds broke my liver.
 
CR0M said:
That's ok, Canada wins ww3 --> FACT
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that's only cuz being the only ones not involved with ww3 we're all that's left ..to die a slow painful death from the effects of said war


thanks america :E
 
yup it is kinda bad luck that one of the most beautiful places on the planet is right next door to an epicentre waiting to happen. I suggest emigrating to New Zealand or painting yourself white and crouching under a sturdy table or doorframe.
 
CptStern said:
that's only cuz being the only ones not involved with ww3 we're all that's left ..to die a slow painful death from the effects of said war


thanks america :E
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I love how you blame america for a nuclear war that hasn't even happened. You're awesome dude. You're out there, way out there. Like... the cutting edge of criticism.
 
пожалуйста! (pazhAlusta!)
 
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