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Rate This Movie... Battle Of The Bulge
5 Stars 17%  17%  [ 4 ]
4 Stars 25%  25%  [ 6 ]
3 Stars 17%  17%  [ 4 ]
2 stars 13%  13%  [ 3 ]
1 star 25%  25%  [ 6 ]
Haven't seen it 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
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Today's movie is Battle Of The Bulge. Please vote in the poll and reply to this threads with your thoughts about the movie. What you loved... or hated about it. Thanks.

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Been years since I've seen it, but IIRC, it has an L-19 as an L-4.
Im pretty sure the tanks were wrong as well.

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Pretty much a huge can of corn in CINERAMA formating, they even had to run a disclaimer in the credits they admitted they had taken things out of context and altered other facts.
I loved the Waffen M-60A-1's, the wrong topography, little to no snow, 'but other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?' Good thing there isn't 'Smellovision'

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:37 pm 
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It was ghastly and I'm not just talking about the Telly Savalas love scene. Pretty sure they were M47's not M60A1's.

I still enjoy watching it.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:56 pm 
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I remember watching this film during some Memorial Day TBS marathon in the 80s with my grandfather, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a captain in a tank destroyer battalion. A little bit into the movie he got out of his lazy-boy, said "tssssk, what a joke this is", mixed himself a drink, and went and sat outside on the patio for the rest of the evening.


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PinecastleAAF wrote:
Pretty sure they were M47's not M60A1's..


Might be better to try and pick the WW2 era vehicles that were in it ... :wink:

http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=58947

As for a rating, well they did sing die panzerlied, even if it was the same verse over and over and over again and .....

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Enjoyable film. Though not historically accurate.


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