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There has been a lot of Facebook chatter recently about a full (or nearly so) size replica R/C B17 seen on the ground at an airfield in England which is apparently connected to this series. The setting for the series is Thorpe Abbotts which was an airfield of the 8th AF and the home field of 'The Bloody 100th'. Filming is taking place near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. | |||
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Now Tom Hanks has won WW2 on the land, sea & Air ______________________________________________ Life is short. It’s shorter with the wrong gun… | |||
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Hound Dog; check out WW2 film "Hacksaw Ridge", also by Mel Gibson. | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
You definitely should see it. There's very little fluff--only the flashback scenes with Hanks and Shue. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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(Almost)full size replicas at Abingdon Airfield yesterday:   | |||
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Ok, yes, I did see that one, and I really enjoyed it. Vince Vaughn as the Sgt/Drill instructor was a bad casting choice, but other than that, it was good. Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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Regarding Greyhound. What was the point of the scenes with Elizabeth Shue? To explain how he got his slippers? It was like he was paying her back a favor by putting her scenes in. They had no point. We get to see him shot down by his “love” interest? More like a tepid like interest. I’ve never made a movie but even I know they could/should have cut those scenes. | |||
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You and I might want to see more obscure parts of history, but we aren't the target market. That is the hundreds of thousands who don't know much more about WWII than it had Nazis in it, and the Americans and British beat them. And Pearl Harbor and nukes in Japan. They have to draw that crew in. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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How is this book? Anyone read it? _____________________________________________________________________ “Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again." - Will Durant | |||
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Interview with the author. Release date of the series and a documentary should be in 2022. | |||
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I hope its a decent flick, since I have done a lot of reading on the 8th AF in WWII. But it will have to be heavily CGI. And bad CGI is not just bad, its awful. I watched a Spectrum Original series called Joe Pickett that a cringe worthy CGI Elk herd! I hope its all done right and pays tribute to the 8th AF. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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It's based on the book The Good Shepherd whose protagonist (also named Krause) had his wife leave him due to his devotion to duty. I think in Greyhound it's to show she was uncertain he'd survive the Atlantic crossing. As I recall, in addition to the slippers, did she not also give him a little wind-up toy destroyer? Pretty good flick. I enjoyed it. _______________________________ The artist formerly known as AllenInWV | |||
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This has all the cast members, and I do not recognize one single name or face: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2640044/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1 For me that's a good thing, it's easier to think of it as "real." When BOB came out all those actors were unknowns to me, I prefer that. | |||
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I have what is probably a dumb question, but can you watch Apple TV+ on a PC with Win 10? Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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I've read a fair amount on the Mighty Eighth, and I'd love for this to be done well. At this point, I'll try to be cuatiously optimistic. | |||
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