303 Squadron. A true story.

[Sokol1]

Polish movie (WiP). CGI looks better than in "Hurricane" movie.

 

 

Edited September 1, 2018 by Sokol1

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3 minutes ago, Sokol1 said:

Polish movie (WiP). CGI looks better than in "Hurricane" movie.

 

 

er….that is the "hurricane" movie. 

[SCG_ItsDrifter]

Yea, thats the "Hurricane" movie, just with Polish captions, lol.

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

Another movie about best squadron (best K/D ratio) during battle of England

This movie supposedly have better CGI than Hurricane and is packed with more air action.

 

 

Edited September 1, 2018 by 307_Tomcat

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2 minutes ago, 307_Tomcat said:

Another movie about best squadron (best K/D ratio) during battle of England

This movie supposedly have better CGI than Hurricane and is packed with more air action.

 

 

In fairness to Sokol I think this is the one he meant to link originally. 

[InProgress]

Today I was in cinema at squadron 303. (Not the hurricane one) 

It was actually quite nice, I mean cgi was meh and fights not very realistic, sometimes even weird and I don't think they really cared about realism. Germans were flying in straight line, ignoring RAF so they could shot them down easly and often they were showing 1 german plane flying alone for some reason. But it was still cool, wish there was more movies about air combat but with dunkirk level of details. Realistic, no cgi (at least little just to make fire and crashes).

 

But what I liked most, in the end they played like a minute long compilation of battle of Britain footage. Actual airfights, gun cam, stuff like this in good quality and color. It was epic. I really want to see something like this on big screen. Colored ww2 footage maybe even with commentary.

[Danziger]

Unfortunately it's become cheaper/safer/less hassle for a movie studio to use CGI than to use real planes. Especially if they don't have a twenty billion dollar Hollywood budget behind them.

[Sokol1]

An Japanese guy -Toshy or Tohsibaishi... have been done convincent CGI of Pacific WW2 aerial battles, but movie industry see follow Star Wars recipe, planes ziping around and big - unrealistic fire and explosions (what I compare with "War thunder"). ?

 

 

 

Edited September 5, 2018 by Sokol1

[von_Tom]

 

Any flying film relies on the quality of the flying scenes to really "sell" the film.  That is why despite the nasty Buchons the Battle of Britain will still be better than anything like this.  Also why Dunkirk had more of an impact (ignoring all the silliness like a single He111 escorted by 2 fighters flying close formation, and a Spitfire that can glide for HOURS etc etc etc).

 

To be perfectly frank, Hurricane looks like a badly acted movie with bad CGI/effects.  And to me that is a real shame because the story is one that is worthy of being told properly, just like Redtails and we all know how that turned out.

 

von Tom

 

ps the Hurricane is ugly, but that doesn't mean the film has to be ugly too.

 

[=362nd_FS=Hiromachi]

I've watched both movies. The foreign one and "true" one. First was 2/10 and second ... well, I had to seriously force myself to sit through. While some aspects were nice, overall execution and creation, particularly in second case are horrendously bad. It shows very well that it's a polish war movie (I dont know how, but somehow you can resemble polish war movies with the way camera shots are taken, acting and scene spacing) as it's awfully similar to what we usually make, since most dont seem to be crafted by a skilled person and cast. Frankly, the last good movie that had war (though more as a background) was "Wolyn" from 2016 where someone managed to pour some quality into it. And before that definitely "Miasto 44". But most like the one about Westerplatte, Battle of 1920 and dozen others are pain to watch.

 

I was hoping that for once our script writers and directors can rise and match Dark Blue World which is 17 years old now, yet seems it didnt age almost at all:

 

But I was greatly disappointed yet again.

[Feathered_IV]

5 hours ago, Sokol1 said:

An Japanese guy -Toshy or Tohsibaishi... have been done convincent CGI of Pacific WW2 aerial battles, but movie industry see follow Star Wars recipe, planes ziping around and big - unrealistic fire and explosions (what I compare with "War thunder"). ?

 

 

 

 

Tochy's is amazing.  It shows that CGI can be very satisfying, even on a small budget if the vision is there.  Unfortunately it also proves that the other CGI makers who do aviation films are cretins. 

[InProgress]

I find it funnt that even star wars episode 4 looks better and more realistic than CGI in some movies today xD

19 hours ago, von_Tom said:

silliness like a single He111 escorted by 2 fighters flying close formation, and a Spitfire that can glide for HOURS etc etc etc

I don't think it was "silliness" to  show alone he111. It was bombing ships, why would there be dozens of them to destroy one ships? I read about ju87 that attacked ship alone, no escort, no other stukas. He was there alone and they shot him down of course but he did sink that ship. It's from "one of the few" by Kent if i remember correctly. So i don't think he111 with 2 fighters is something silly, it's not level bombing airfield. And it glide for like 1min at best

[von_Tom]

 

Nah, it was silly.  109s didn't provide close escort at the time, nor did the LW send single He111s on an attack with 2 109s as escort.  I can understand stragglers etc but not how it was portrayed.

 

The Spit may have glided for 1 minute in film time, but in that 1 minute the sun dropped and the long lines of soldiers got picked up.  I also do not know of anyone ditching a Spit on what was effectively enemy territory wheels down on a surface that might have treacherous soft spots, then starting the fire and just watching.

 

Silly and a real shame as the opening shot of the Spitfire vic was epic.  Why the hell didn't they remove the MkVb cannon stubs in post production though.

 

von Tom