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Discuss: The Best War Movies of All Time {Cinematical}
Mar 9th 2007 9:09PM One that was fun but ridiculous was "Braveheart." William Wallace was an educated gentleman, not an uncouth Highlander living in a sod hut. He was a Lowlander, and probably never wore a kilt in his life. Th battle of Stirling Bridge,in which his tactics won a brilliant victory, bore no resemblance whatever to the film's version, which completely left out the bridge itself, the key to Wallace's victory. And his hinted romance with the princess in the last part of the film is absurd; in real life she was a small child growing up in France at the time of Wallace's death.
Discuss: The Best War Movies of All Time {Cinematical}
Mar 9th 2007 9:01PM Amazing that neither the compilers of the list nor any of the commenters came up with The Dawn Patrol. Though there was some hokey material in it, it expressed the desperation and fatalism of World War I combat pilots, who knew that no matter how good they were, they were almost certain to go down in flames eventually.
The scenes of newly trained pilots with no more than a dozen hours of flying time being sent into combat because every plane that could be put into the air was needed to stop an enemy offensive was dead accurate; that's the way it really was in World War I. I thought that Errol Flynn, David Niven, and Basil Rathbone all gave the performances of their lives in this one.
And "12 O'Clock High" was the World War II equivalent. It was taken from the book by Beirne Lay, Jr. and Sy Bartlett, who both served in the 8th Air Force; some of the scenes in it came right from Col. Lay's own experiences as a command pilot. The Gregory Peck character was based on General Frank Armstrong, a combat veteran who was sent in to take over a "bad luck" B-17 bomber group, exactly as Gen. Frank Savage, Gregory Peck's character, does in the film. As a WW2 bomber veteran myself, I was really gripped by this one.
Another soul-shaking film that few people remember is "The Bridge," about a group of Hitler Youth kids ordered to hold a bridge to the last man in the last days of World War II. They come up against a U.S. armored unit whose men see that they're up against children and try in vain to talk them out of fighting to the end, but who finally have no choice but to wipe them out.
The QSST, A Concorde For The Next Generation {Luxist}
Sep 4th 2006 3:03PM To answer Sondra, no, Mach 1.8 will have no effect on the human body. Acceleration affects the body; speed per se has no effect. The aircraft is moving at Mach 1.8, but you are part of that system. Relative to the airplane, you're sitting still; your relative velocity is zero.
Al
