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indiaciki

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  1. 1. Favorite aviation feature film?

    • The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
      6
    • The Blue Max (1966)
      23
    • Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
      4
    • The Batttle of Britain (1969)
      93
    • The Dawn Patrol (1930)
      0
    • Hells Angels (1930)
      2
    • Wings (1927)
      0
    • Air Force (1943)
      0
    • The Dam Busters (1955)
      5

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indiaciki

indiaciki

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Choose one, please. I know the list isn't complete... feature film not freature, I know

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Siipiorava

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For now, I have to go with Battle of Britain.

I've heard Blue Max is great but I have not yet seen it, since it's impossible to find that movie in my country in DVD form.

Tompa_73

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Voted boB but this one should have been on the list: Dark Blue World

Sadly has this side-story thing or should I say main story thing that just

puts the war as a setting.(like most other war movies), I prefer the ones

that just put the war in center: Hamburger Hill, once we were soldiers etc...

I think war itself has all the drama you need, really no need for a sidestory. :)

 

 

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Lensman

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Dark Blue World would have been more acceptable if its approximation of a flat home counties English airfield didn't look exactly like a mountainous eastern European airfield ... etc.

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indiaciki

indiaciki

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For now, I have to go with Battle of Britain.

I've heard Blue Max is great but I have not yet seen it, since it's impossible to find that movie in my country in DVD form.

 

You HAVE TO watch The Blue Max get it any way possible ;) If you liked Battle of Britain go for The Blue Max...steal it ;)))

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-NW-ChiefRedCloud

-NW-ChiefRedCloud

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Dark Blue World is an excellent movie ...... which unfortunate for me I haven't seen yet .... just parts

 

Chief

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=LD=Hethwill

=LD=Hethwill

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Very close but have to go with Blue Max. The air photography is still the best today.

indiaciki

indiaciki

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Thanks Pes :)))))))

 

Just watching...the best direction and cinematography I've seen i quite some time...czechoslavakian cinema in 1968...absolutely brillant :)))))

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312_OTU_Pes

312_OTU_Pes

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As I said, the best aviation movie of all time...

;)

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II./JG27_Rich

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The Battle of Britain was the first and still is the only film where you get to see some Luftwaffe fighter pilots in a realistic way. VS Redtails for eg.  :) The side plot with Christopher Plummer's personal life sucks and is more boring than a sack of potatos but the stuff to do with ground cotrol and combat are very good....

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Lensman

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What would really fun is a refitted version of 'Battle of Britain' with tracer added (perfectly by cgi) and the general combat scenes enhanced to properly emulate reality. This would allow a cinema and disc re-release. Won't happen of course.

SYN_Mike77

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Where's Memphis Belle? I voted for Blue Max and would have voted for it regardless. But I would put Memphis Belle up there near the top!

Chuck_Owl

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I would have voted for Memphis Belle too. It's an outstanding movie. It truly captures the essence of being trapped in a death crate and fighting your guts out.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXLO34drwbc

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Bearcat

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Out of the ones listed I would say for me 12 O'Clock High.. but DBW should definitely be on that list.

SharpeXB

SharpeXB

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The Blue Max is magnificent. It's been released on Blu-ray Disc now too.

unreasonable

unreasonable

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Voted Dambusters, but would have gone for 633 Squadron if it had been on the list, if only for the music!

79_vRAF_Friendly_flyer

79_vRAF_Friendly_flyer

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Voted boB but this one should have been on the list: Dark Blue World

 

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kissklas

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I want to say Battle of Britain because I love the scenario, but Blue Max is a better film.

Gustaf

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Try this. It ain't a classic, but recent and decent WWII air combat movies are rare as chicken lips. "The Attackers" is a Russian TV miniseries made in 2013 (12 episodes). Give it a “C+” for story line and an “A” for using real Yak-3’s and WWII hardware. Enable closed captions (CC) to view English subtitles.

 

1st Episode:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAX-LeiULIA&t=85s&list=PLhuA9d7RIOdbC-3PXotl5eNRDHd-fNGid

 

Entire Playlist:

http://youtu.be/iAX-LeiULIA?list=PLhuA9d7RIOdbC-3PXotl5eNRDHd-fNGid

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Jade_Monkey

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Please edit the title "Freature"

 

Does Top Gun count???  :P

indiaciki

indiaciki

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I can't edit it... sorry. Top Gun is about aviation???

 

79_vRAF_Friendly_flyer

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Try this. It ain't a classic, but recent and decent WWII air combat movies are rare as chicken lips. "The Attackers" is a Russian TV miniseries made in 2013 (12 episodes). Give it a “C+” for story line and an “A” for using real Yak-3’s and WWII hardware. Enable closed captions (CC) to view English subtitles.

 

 

Thanks for the link!

=LD=Hethwill

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The Attackers is easy going, end is a bit rushed but overall quite good on some of the details.

CorsairHundo

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Blue Max! Great movie. Watched BOB last week...... God the acting was terrible. Was much better when I watched it when I was a youngster

Siipiorava

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I just saw The Blue Max (had to get a foreign copy). I've got to say, although the movie is a product of the times when it comes to acting and storytelling, the aerial scenes were impressive. I especially liked the parts where the camera is on top of the engine cowling between the guns, never got tired of that shot.

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wtornado

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I had watched ''The Attackers'' on Youtube it was good.

 

Memphis Belle, BOB and Dark Blue World for me..

Joao611

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You forgot of Red Tails and Pearl harbor...

 

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5th-GIAP_Sytov

5th-GIAP_Sytov

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"Freature" needs to be edited to say "Feature". 

voncrapenhauser

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Given the choices the BOB


You forgot of Red Tails and Pearl harbor...

 

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

I wish I could forget Pearl Harbour, No 1 on my worst movies of all time, that said some nice flying stuff.  :(

Red tails has great flying sequences but is not a great movie.

Lucas and co wanted to make a 50s a like movie and achieved it.

 

Aces high is another ok ish movie, great flying.

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Joao611

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voncrapenhauser, on 04 Jan 2015 - 12:26, said:

Red tails has great flying sequences but is not a great movie.

 

>great flying sequences

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK4cKzI3-ZY

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jlp2P9iO2I

 

P-FIDDYWON THE WAR, 30MM EXPLOSIVES ARE NOTHING AGAINST FREEDOM

 

Thinking about it, is there any stupid movie about B17's with a subject around the expression of "IT WAS CALLED A FORTRESS FOR A REASON"?

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voncrapenhauser

voncrapenhauser

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Memphis Belle?.

First time I saw it(when it was released) I thought it was a good movie.

Then the more times I see it the more I see how clichéd it is.

Rolling all the instances from multiple raids into one big Raid story.

 

Best bit IMO is when David Strathalan is reading the letters he had written to families of the dead crew members intercut with the original Memphis Belle Documentary footage.

It really brings home the cost of war on a human level.


Thinking about it, is there any stupid movie about B17's with a subject around the expression of "IT WAS CALLED A FORTRESS FOR A REASON"?

Just watched the flying from Red tails from the Links.

I have Red tails on Blu ray, whish I could edit the corny dialogue LOL :lol:  

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voncrapenhauser

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That's a nice movie. Despite old the combat scenes are not ruined be "Star Wars" like CGI sequences as in Flyboys, Red Baron...

I think its the Impossible camera angles in the dogfight sequences that always make CGI dogfights look strange.

EG14_Attila

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One of the best aviatik movies I have ever seen: Der rote Baron (2008)

Excellent dogfightscenes and good actors! The only thing that I don't like is the embedded lovestory!

 

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