Warbird Information Exchange

If it changes anything for you they wanted to end the movie by dropping the A-bomb, but Japan said that they were offended, and felt as if they were being painted in a "bad light".

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

Oh, and why did they use Alec Baldwin as Doolittle. That was some p*ss poor casting. They should have used Ed Harris who not only more closely resembles him, but is also a better actor. Also they portrayed Doolittle all wrong. Everyone who knows anything about Doolittle knows he wasn't some "crusty ol' LtCol" as portrayed in the movie. Doolittle was well liked because of his inspiring demeanor.

I'm sure they were looking at the overseas sales forecasts when they dumped that idea.

I'm sorry but as the son of one of those 800,000; I beg to differ. Literary license may be acceptable in fiction, but to the men who served it is a disgrace. I was fine in a work of fiction such as SPR, to adapt and adjust , but it was an insult to do it to the real man regardless of their unit.

My grandfather was a vet of WWII, my uncles all were and my great uncle who I never met died in the PTO. My uncles server in Vietnam. So I am with you here. I can't tell if we are disagreeing or agreeing here. When I say fiction I am talking about fictional characters. You say you are OK with SPR which is the movie I am describing as the right way to do it. You seem to not like Pearl Harbor which I am saying is a disgraceful use of literary license. I think you have misunderstood what I wrote.

I have a prediction, and yes its only a prediction.

I believe that 12 O'clock High will be remade. I mean c'mon. Who the hell guessed that somebody would redo Flight of the Phoniex?

We will continue to see movies that are inacurate to come out. Though we will also see more and more authentic movies being created as time progresses. And sooner or later, hopefully, these two worlds of history and hollywood collide with positive results.

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Chris.

What was irreverent was using Alec Baldwin to play Jimmy Doolittle !

True!

Who i think would have been more suited to play the part would be Bob Hoskins, who i believe looks more like Doolittle.

Who may remember him from such films as "Enemy at the Gates" and "Who framed Roger Rabbit?"

I thought you were speaking of Band of Brothers ! I took umbridge at that in reference to them(BoB) being another ordinary outfit in a random group of 800,000. As far as SPR I have no problem with the use of fictional characters and devices. It helped to awaken a new generation to the history. I mistook you statement as an interpretation of my charactyers being mixed in BOB.

We are on the same page as you would say!

Any remember "Battle Hymn"?

Great P-51 aerials, great close-ups, beautiful colour, great air to ground sequences............ and a Birdog...........

TX ANG Mustangs and C-119s too !!

My choice would've been, and still is (if they ever do a Doolittle Bio),
Stanley Tucci.
He looks more like Doolittle than Ed Harris or Bob Hoskins and could pull off the job with ease.
Jerry

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I am going to hate myself for this, but I forgot the name of the movie about a B-17 Crew caught in the fight when the war broke out. It was an early '17 and George Lucas used it as a template for some action sequences in Star Wars.

I remember them cutting out the tail cone on the plane and mounting a machine gun back there.

Anyone?

A few of my favorites, that I don't think have been mentioned yet,

Thin Red Line
Destination Gobi
Bataan
Das Boot
Run Silent Run Deep
All Quiet on the Western Front
Kelly's Hero's
Dr StrangeLove
Big Red One
All of the Richard Burton Classics

Then there were all of those crappy Vietnam movies made in the 80's that I liked,
Company C
MoPic
Hamburger Hill

But my all time fave of one of those was the one with Wings Hauser and the Gunny....I don't even remember the name, but it was so bad it was good.

And, there is the best movie ever made, Dawn of the Dead, (the new one). Killin Zombies is war too....

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Deep Thoughts,
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Hey O.P. Is it Firebase Gloria?

The Bridge on the River Kwai
Midway
The Final Countdown
Gallipoli
No Man's Land
Empire of the Sun

Air Forc eis the name of that movie buddy. It featured the B-17C "Marry-Ann" It was a cool flick. I wish I could find it on DVD.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager