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Russia Nominates WWII Movie ‘Stalingrad’ for Oscars


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Thanks for the reminder. I want to see this movie.

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Hmmm, that trailer suggests the director's been playing a lot of Call of Duty.... No?

 

The ooh, aaah its in 3D framing of the shots is distracting also, the depth of field effects, the fluttering bits of paper. Of course it's only a trailer :)

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.... the fluttering bits of paper....

What is it with Stalingrad and fluttering bits of paper?  There's paper everywhere in RO2.  Will we have to battle through storms of it in BoS?

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Lots of propaganda pamphlets?

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Looks like a typical slow-motion pew-pew over the top action flick.

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Don't they know the academy only gives oscars to foreign films that are intellectual and 3+ hours long?

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Don't they know the academy only gives oscars to foreign films that are intellectual and 3+ hours long?

ROFL

 

I think this is nice (war) movie, has all neccessary ingredients it seems,

Last one I watched (on this theme was Enemy at the gates, also a nice movie.

Will watch it. :cool:

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I hope this comes West. IMDB only mentions a Russia release, October 10th. Nice timing for BOS~

Edited by FlyingNutcase
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..Made by the son of Sergei Bondarchuk no less... Sergei did some incredible "big set" movies, including "War and Peace" and "Waterloo" in the seventies...

 

Final scene in the trailer, ten burning men jumping up and attacking the Germans, seems an over-the-top reference to the famous case in Stalingrad of a Russian soldier whose molotov cocktail had gone off in his hands throwing himself at a German tank... - Seems the rest of the movie is similarly over-the-top, which shouldn't really be necessary with a subject such as Stalingrad!

 

The best Stalingrad movie will probably remain this one from 1993: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/

 

Hopefully the new movie will give a bit of free PR to BoS. :-)

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Eh, I think I'll stick with Das Boot for depressing foreign WWII movies.

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Oh, yeah.  I remember checking this out, they used a Siebel 204 as a basis for a wrecked 111.  I would really love to have a Siebel ...

 

 

They did a fair job on the panzer IVs, although they used the yet to be developed skirts to hide the T55 road wheels.  It might be worth checking out.

 

 

PS.  The greatest battle in history? 

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any battle that 'saves a nation' is bound to be called that...especially in that nation

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Don't they know the academy only gives oscars to foreign films that are intellectual and 3+ hours long?

Except when they don't.

 

Unless you define "intellectual" simply as "not dumb" there is hardly any basis for that stereotype anymore, even if there was some truth to it in the 70s.

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You take me so seriously! ;)

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Judged by the trailer and PzIV Ausf H in it, I wish good luck to the producers.

PzIV Ausf H was manufactured in 1943 so couldn't be in Stalingrad in 1942.

I expect to see more of "historical facts" in the movie and will see it eventually, hopefully to be pleasantly surprised.

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The Oscars put much weight in the proper Ausf models. 

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Check out the mortar man in 2:00. In real life he would soon be one-handed.

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Check out the mortar man in 2:00. In real life he would soon be one-handed.

 

:biggrin:

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What is it with Stalingrad and fluttering bits of paper?  There's paper everywhere in RO2.  Will we have to battle through storms of it in BoS?

No, no plans for unexplainable bits of matter foating in the air in BOS

 

Lots of propaganda pamphlets?

Could be, nice guess

 

Looks like a typical slow-motion pew-pew over the top action flick.

Yep, our film makers are still trying to shot a blockbuster. Making a WWII themed movie initially gives it a bonus for patriotism

 

Don't they know the academy only gives oscars to foreign films that are intellectual and 3+ hours long?

As for me there haven't been decent Ru candidates in this field for 10 years already

 

..Made by the son of Sergei Bondarchuk no less... Sergei did some incredible "big set" movies, including "War and Peace" and "Waterloo" in the seventies...

Fyodor/Theodor (that's the name) did a pretty good work at "9th Company". It's war movie as well, it's about soviet troops in A-stan (IMDB). We'll see if "Stalingrad" is better..

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Is that our friend Freycinet having a cuddle at 1:36?

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The Russian Stalingrad seems like it would have a lot of flag waving Russian jingoism/nationalism/patriotism. For a good example watch Taras Bulba financed by Putin money like I like to joke. We have Cossacks yelling "long live the (moscow) Czar" what in hades? Cossacks were freedom loving and hated centralized authority. Yes I read the book, the movie was way over the top.

 

The german Stalingrad was a subversion of war films, and one of my favourites. Depressing though.

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Cossacks were freedom loving and hated centralized authority. Yes I read the book, the movie was way over the top.

Good point about the cossacks, just let's keep the forum free from political discussion.

 

About the movies - here's a fresh fan-made music video made of previously released IL2BOS gameplay footage

 

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