DownWest
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Noticed the Sir Richard Montgomery is back in the news (talking of unexploded ordnance) breaking up and risk of masts falling and causing something. We sailed past it a few times in the distant past.
Churchill's ministry of ungentlemanly warfare
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Dave 71
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Its cartoonish (in a sort of Tarrantino-esque violence kind of way) and so OTT it can't be taken seriously, so avoid if you prefer even a dash of accuracy. I don't even think the little thumbnails at the end accurately describe what the real people went on to do, and doesn't even mention that 3 were killed in subsequent missions. I think HMS Belfast stands in for HMS Violet in a couple of scenes, which will probably go unnoticed by most viewers, but just looked daft to me.
Worst Churchill ever.....
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capnsensible
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It's total Guy Ritchie..... no resemblance to reality and delightfully bonkers.
tico
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Fascinating book
Now I know where the phrase 'a load of Gubbins' came from.
Now I know where the phrase 'a load of Gubbins' came from.
Boathook
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Saw the film on prime a while back. An insult to the book imho having read the book first.
DownWest
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I would think it is tricky to put such a book on film, unless is is a very long one. Lots of fascinating bits of info, that would have to be worked into scenes.
By co-incidence, I read the book of 'The Deer Hunter', a few days after seeing the film. It was exactly the same, though it might have been written with a film in mind.
Mrs DW had several friends who served in Vietnam. At the time of the film she was quite shaken by it.