Favourite War films

[Tim Marlow]

As Tim says but with one little thing. I could not get into BoB - Pacific as much as i did the first ETO series. I just couldn't connect with the characters as much.

Agreed about the pacific series. It Just didn’t work for me.

[Tim Marlow]

Cracking thread Tim :smiling3:
My favourite 5,in no particular order....
"Light up the sky".... An unusual insight into a fairly forgotten about group of people...... A cast including Ian Carmichael,Benny Hill, Johnny Briggs and Tommy Steele.... And it's SERIOUS!!
"Enemy at the gates", largely because of the opening half an hour!!
"The Battle of Britain",Edward Fox,Ian Mcshane.... Etc,I just LOVE the flying sequences .... "DACKA DACKA DACKA"!!
"Assembly" a bit obscure one about a band of Chinese 139th liberation army fending off hoardes of the National Revolutionary Army in 1948,it IS subtitled,but I definitely recommend it
And finally.....
...... "Apocalypse Now".... Loadsa reasons,but main one.... I just LOVE Hueys!!
Andy

Just looked up “Light up the sky”, apparently it had Dick Emery in it as well!

[AlanG]

"Spring chicken to sh1tehawk in one easy lesson. Tacka, tacka, tacka tacka"

Have to say that the musical score for the Battle of Britain film is fantastic.

[Tim Marlow]

"Spring chicken to sh1tehawk in one easy lesson. Tacka, tacka, tacka tacka"

Have to say that the musical score for the Battle of Britain film is fantastic.

Agreed ref. The music. Walton’s sequence for the aerial battle is just sublime, and worth the entry fee alone!

[The Smythe Meister]

Agreed ref. The music. Walton’s sequence for the aerial battle is just sublime, and worth the entry fee alone!

Yeah,
It's like an Aerial ballet with that music
Andy

[AlanG]

Yeah,
It's like an Aerial ballet with that music:smiling3:
Andy

One of my favourite music scores of all time. So right for the fighting scene

[Steve Jones]

Reference the Pacific HBO series, I too could not get into it as much as BoB. However third time I watched Pacific, I did it on Blue ray with the history timeline added and found it much more engrossing as I was able to track the events and have historical information on the characters. I have seen it five times now and although BoB is the ultimate series, Pacific is a worthy successor.

[Mini Me]

Thank you Mr. Jones......I was just getting to that and you "niggled" in ahead of me. Well done Sir! :thumb2: Rick H.

[AlanG]

Reference the Pacific HBO series, I too could not get into it as much as BoB. However third time I watched I did it on Blue ray with the history timeline added and found it much more engrossing as I was able to track the events and have historical information on the characters. I have seen it five times now and although BoB is the ultimate series, Pacific is a worthy successor.

Maybe it's just that i'm not a PTO type of person. That part of the war has never gripped me. I really do stick to ETO and have only recently, delved into the eastern front battles. So i guess i should try and watch it again at some point.

[Neil Merryweather]

I found the same problem with Pacific, I couldn't even tell the characters apart for starters. BUT I read the books they were based on, by Sledge and Leckie and Wukovitz and it came alive. Clearly a script editing or directorial issue

[Neil Merryweather]

Reference the Pacific HBO series, I too could not get into it as much as BoB. However third time I watched I did it on Blue ray with the history timeline added and found it much more engrossing as I was able to track the events and have historical information on the characters. I have seen it five times now and although BoB is the ultimate series, Pacific is a worthy successor.

I didn't need a timeline with BoB, they were just great characters that you cared about

[Tim Marlow]

One of my favourite music scores of all time. So right for the fighting scene

Thanks for that Alan, sublime isn’t it. I wonder what the rest of his score was like? Ron Godwin’s score was good, but we only get a short taste of Walton’s genius in this section.

[AlanG]

If you have Spotify then you can hear what other pieces Walton did

[Tim Marlow]

I haven’t got Spotify, but I’ve got quite a lot of Walton in other forms, including Spitfire prelude. This was an expansion of his score for The first of the few, which I think we’ve omitted from here.. Apparently Olivier told the producer that if they cut that part of the score from the film they could cut him out as well

[Steve-the-Duck]

Thanks for that Alan, sublime isn’t it. I wonder what the rest of his score was like? Ron Godwin’s score was good, but we only get a short taste of Walton’s genius in this section.

Walton never completed the full score, and his theme tune is very much in a ''fifties film' style - I've got the soundtrack CD with an 'alternate take' of Battle in the Air, and the special edition DVD you can play the whole film with what there is of Walton's work - albeit they put the piece called 'Young Siegfrieds' over one of the RAF bases rather than the Luftwaffe. Oddly, the Walton score makes the film 'feel' older. The Ju52 fly in sequence is just weird with the old theme!