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Your Favourite British Films Name your favourite British film or make a case for an underrated classic.


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Old 05-09-2007, 01:47 PM
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The story of the Lancs that were used, piloted by Lincoln crews, is interesting in itself.
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If anyone wants to see a real Lanc there is one on exhibition down the road from me at the Raf museum in Hendon.
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It might also be only 196 pages because he was dead at 24....
Or they could have used very small type!!!
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Old 05-09-2007, 02:25 PM
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Old 05-09-2007, 02:28 PM
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I've joined this forum to express my sheer delight at finally seeing my all-time favourite war movie - The Dam Busters - on the big screen...
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Old 05-09-2007, 02:48 PM
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I've joined this forum to express my sheer delight at finally seeing my all-time favourite war movie - The Dam Busters - on the big screen again last night at Cineworld in Aberdeen, an event which was - to the amazement of the management - packed to capacity.

Having watched it repeatedly since I was a child, the experience of seeing (and hearing) it up there was like seeing it for the first time. Being in the second row, the effect of seeing REAL Lancasters thundering towards the screen at genuinely low level was simply awesome, and the sound of those Merlin engines through a cinema sound system was incredible.

Interesting point to make, though . . . .

The cinema was mostly full of youngsters, and I had expected them to denigrade the movie and perhaps snigger (HEY! A new and politically-correct name for Gibson's dog, perhaps?) at a lot of it, especially the special effects - but not a bit of it.

These young people - many who obviously had never seen the film before, laughed at the parts that we may have forgotten were amusing ("my 'ens lay premature eggs that fall off the perch and mess up the floor") and were genuinely awed by the sight and sounds.

What really struck me, however, was their reaction during the classic scene near the end, when the camera silently pans through the empty rooms of the missing aircrews - you could have heard a pin drop in the cinema.

Another interesting fact was that the Lancasters cavorting at low level over the lakes in the movie were obviously real and were obviously REALLY flying that low. There is no amount of cgi (am I wrong?) that could replicate such an incredible sight, especially when the bombers filled the screen and almost flew right out of it.

So, I say praise God that such an awesome, powerful, poignant, magnificent movie masterpiece was once again shown where it truly belongs - on the big screen, and thanks also to all those youngsters in the cinema in Aberdeen, who showed respect for a legend and who, I really believe, became fans of the movie too.
That experience was replicated at Bolton too; a full cinema, a good sprinkling of teenagers (including my 15 years old), no stupidity and dead silence at that moment you point out cooleyn. Wonderful.

About 30 years ago, my brother-in-law, then in the RAF, invited me to watch as the new Station Commander took the Battle of Britain's Flight's Lancaster up for a spin. Watching it take off and being flung about the skies was one thing, but then having it come barreling in over one of the hangers at probably 80-100 feet above my head was quite another. It's a sound the film couldn't hope to replicate!
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Old 05-09-2007, 03:56 PM
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It's a sound the film couldn't hope to replicate!
There have been attempts to include subsonics or even seat vibrations in cinemas. But they went the same way as ideas like Smell-O-Vision

Anyway, subsonics can be dangerous. They can loosen the bowels and have other effects on some people

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Old 05-09-2007, 04:38 PM
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Anyway, subsonics can be dangerous. They can loosen the bowels and have other effects on some people...
lol - Spoken like somebody who doesn't watch 'Mythbusters' on cable
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Old 05-09-2007, 04:58 PM
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lol - Spoken like somebody who doesn't watch 'Mythbusters' on cable
I would say more like "spoken like a scientist and engineer who watches it quite often and finds it entertaining, but far from rigorous - they don't always get it right"

I said "They can ... on some people", not that they always do for all people

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I would say more like "spoken like a scientist and engineer who watches it quite often and finds it entertaining, but far from rigorous...
Have you investigated this rigorously as a Scientist and Engineer then?

I'm only aware of the 'Mythbusters' investigation... it may not be rigorous, but as far as I am aware, its all we have to go on (pun intended). I may well be wrong... and will be happy to be shown my error.

Scientists and Engineers often get it wrong also... History is littered with examples.
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Scientists and Engineers often get it wrong also... History is littered with examples.
Thank God Barnes Wallis wasn't one of them!

I started my adult working career as a research chemist, fresh out of University. That was a long time ago and I've had several career changes since then, but my scientific training has at least taught me to be both sceptical and very careful when forming conclusions or making judgments.
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hear hear....a great illustration of how a film from that era can still captivate and find a new audience, and no CGI, just real flying sequences with real Lancasters, brilliantly done. I think the flying sequences in 633 squadron are pretty good too and even in The blue Max. What makes them good is that they are done for real. I love films about flying and love those types of films and the reason I was dissapointed with a contemporary film like "The Aviator" was the sheer unreality of the CGI flying sequences.
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...but my scientific training has at least taught me to be both sceptical and very careful when forming conclusions or making judgments.
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I'm sure I watched a version the other week where everyone called the dog 'Boy', just as Patrick McGoohan did. It seemed to work quite well and made a modicum of sense.

How odd that they should leave the dog as
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but change the code-word.........

I wonder how many versions are out there? They could do a boxed set of all the variations........

If this is the same version was the ending changed as well? The original has Richard Todd walking a small way and then turning right into a building to write the letters. But in this one they let him walk straight on into the distance. I seem to remember him actually saying in an interview that that was the only thing in the original he would have changed. It seems that the backroom boys carried out his wish.

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