My problem with war movies is how old the actors are. Being over 25 in the Army is considered old when the average age of a soldier is around 21 or so. Very few war films get this right.
@randallturner90946 ай бұрын
That’s a tough fix tho. Let’s face it, most really young actors aren’t good yet.
@fredcollins89195 ай бұрын
18-23
@Stvnpetersen5 ай бұрын
Yeah, like John Wayne in The Longest Day playing a character half his age!
@fredcollins89195 ай бұрын
@@Stvnpetersen yep. Exactly although it came out in glory years 1962 (he was old by then) & imo we had a far superior performance from a (fortunately) somewhat younger John Wayne in epic "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1947) where he wasnt yet too old to pull it off. By 1962 you could def tell & see all the wear & tear on both him & most of that superb cast. Cheers! (Solutions start finally using Younger, younger looking & more believable quality actors (new or seasoned, whatever) in ALL US & Foreign (European, Latin American, Russian) war films & "Go for the GOLD". Don't see any other way around it.
@JohnGalt999995 ай бұрын
Agreed. I saw this ridiclous movie with Tom Berenger as a Majot. I swear he was 70 and he looked it.
@PEH9996 ай бұрын
How about a written list of these movie titles! PLEASE
@davidguardado47394 ай бұрын
Arctic Convoy looks good 👍🍻
@Indylimburg5 ай бұрын
Similar to "Escape from Germany", my Grandfather was a missionary in the Netherlands when the war broke out. He was put in charge of coordinating evacuation of all the missionaries out of Holland before the Germans invaded. He caught the last possible train out of the area only after ensuring everyone else got out. The director of "Escape from Germany" lives in my Aunt's neighborhood, so i can't help but wonder if he'd heard my Grandpa's story and used it as inspiration.
@alistairmills76086 ай бұрын
Thankyou for your video. Could have been very beneficial if you could have listed 1) to 10) of the mentioned movies
@whya2ndaccount6 ай бұрын
"One Life" isn't a "war movie". It covers the period before the Second World War.
@jbrown74035 ай бұрын
One Life is a wonderful movie!! 👍
@seegurke935 ай бұрын
1:15 not only CGI but also parts from other movies. This is obviously taken from Batte of Britain since it is a CASA spanish build Heinkel from after the war, since they used actual spanish air force planes back in the day to make the movie. A shame that they did not edit the correct optics of the Heinkel 111s engines.
@jdw1746 ай бұрын
Out of your list, I wouldn't walk across the street to watch any of them. However, I did watch two of them. I was really looking forward to seeing them both and was very disappointed. Shamrock Spitfire was just OK, but I wouldn't bother watching it a second time. The biggest disappointment was Masters of the Air. While the battle scenes were good, the largest percentage of the entire series was on the ground. It was, for the most part....boring. I expected far better after Band of Brothers and The Pacific.
@robertlong70336 ай бұрын
I subscribed to Apple TV just to watch "Masters" but it was a big disappointment . It was so severely budget constrained so cheapened down that it was a chore just to watch it.
@chrispacer42316 ай бұрын
YES, it was terrible…. Couldn’t get into the characters, story line Nothing……
@randallturner90946 ай бұрын
The main problem with the series is it just doesn’t tell the right story. The air war wasn’t about b-17s.. it was about the destruction of the Luftwaffe in 1944 by USAAF fighters. And that was WW2 - T-34s didn’t matter. Until you understand that, you don’t understand the war.
@stevenhattrick94956 ай бұрын
I disagree. T-34s were actually quite critical to the war effort, even if their individual performance is less than the mythical status some people believe. And the luftwaffe was not really destroyed, it just ran out of fuel and pilots. The former in part due to bomber raids.
@adammackenzie6 ай бұрын
I liked it.. not band of brothers, but ok
@mfdyer6 ай бұрын
I am grateful that you true military experts are available to critique programs like Masters of the Air.
@slimeydon6 ай бұрын
Can’t see any of them, I don’t pay for streaming services and the 4 theaters near me only play dumb comic book or Pixar movies.
@richardmardis24926 ай бұрын
You sound like me😲
@VivianTsu-pf4tg5 ай бұрын
I be seein' no problem, matey!
@Mikedadof26 ай бұрын
Link of the list of movies
@dannoneyabiz12775 ай бұрын
Masters of the Air was not on the same level of Band of Brothers or Pacific. The actors were just not believable
@bobmcrae57516 ай бұрын
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is everything that is wrong with modern war movies. The good guys are more like super heroes than real soldiers and the plot is farcical. It's a pale imitation of the great Guns of Navarone.
@LMFNinja6 ай бұрын
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is absolute rubbish that belongs in the trash bin. I turned it off after 15 minutes.
@robertmorrison14936 ай бұрын
THE TRUE STORIES THEMSELVES ARE AMAZING, WHY FICTIONALIZE ? JUST READ HISTORY. MATT URBAN DESERVES A FILM. TRULY AN AMAZING FELLOW. PADDY MAYNELEGENDARY SAS HERO, DOUBLE VC WINNER NZ SOLDIER CHARLES UPHAM, LEO MAJOR CDN ARMY LIBERATED A TOWN IN HOLLAND BY HIMSELF. THESE FELLOWS DO NOT NEED EMBELLISHMENT
@anthonywatson77355 ай бұрын
From the trailers/reviews, etc, that I've seen, I VERY much doubt I'll be watching 'Ministry'! I've read several books on the subject, and also the Small Scale Raiding Force. They should have just stuck to the facts, but as usual Ritchie goes OTT and ruins a perfectly good true story of an outstanding 'coup de main' operation. I've heard several mentions of a film being made about Anders Lassen, and I hope to god this was NOT the film in question!
@georgewashington33934 ай бұрын
Yup, trash film.
@pumpkinkoot865Ай бұрын
I went into it knowing it was supposed to be OTT and not a serious film.. Like Inglorius Basterds. Was it accurate? No, but it was fun if you just sat down and enjoyed the Tarantinoesque film
@3-2bravo495 ай бұрын
Although the one with henry caville is heavily fictionalized. The soe would be damn proud of his mustache.
@ElsinoreRacer5 ай бұрын
I found Masters of the Air unwatchable. I am not all that picky, but I am in my 60s, I am a pilot, and have read about the 8th AF all my life. Just from watching the promos it was obvious they had jacked it all up for visuals that wow the ignorant and make it too painful for anyone knowledgeable.
@PREPFORIT4 ай бұрын
A movie where Germany is the bad guy ? Wow, that is SOooooo Original !! I have never seen that before! YAWN to ALL...
@mikepette44226 ай бұрын
what the world doesn't need is more movies about the holocaust i think we've seen a few too many. how about a movie about the desert war thats something we haven't seen in a while
@juliamulligan87186 ай бұрын
Never forget, or we are doomed to repeat history! This is horrible that humanity refuses to learn its own history!
@juliamulligan87186 ай бұрын
I respectively disagree with your viewpoint and will stand up for your right to disagree!!
@kurtcoolson90546 ай бұрын
@mikepette4422 Definitely with you on the desert campaign - I'm thinking something in the visual style of the opening scenes of Valkyrie.
@lythalls5 ай бұрын
Seriously your comment is pathetic , they’re are at least 6 million holocaust stories every one as important as the last , now sit did and study a bit of history.
@Camishere20404 ай бұрын
Agreed, maybe in some years we can have another but what about the stories and people who fought to liberate these people? You aren't saying to never make holocaust movies again. It's just they have been commonly released and the last good desert ww2 film I can recall if from the 80s. People who disagree are just woke and are taking your comment in the wrong way.
@dannoneyabiz12775 ай бұрын
Shamrock Spitfire was terrible, the actor that played a 21 year old Paddy was 31 at the time and looked all of 31 if not more
@Phalanx116 ай бұрын
There wasn't a single movie I would watch.
@TheMawso3 ай бұрын
surprising that you don't mention The Tattooist of Auschwitz
@keltus_warrior64915 ай бұрын
"Shamrock Spitfire": Wonderful movie!!
@stop-the-greed5 ай бұрын
Nope , paddy is a derogatory name .
@JorgeRodriguez-qx9kj6 ай бұрын
What about the miniseries The Tattoist of Auschwitz ? It is based on a real story too.
@skipper_hates_jerries6 ай бұрын
Enjoying that 👍
@docshelley19696 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@RaimoHöft5 ай бұрын
Movies 😤 ... I'll just wait for the real thing. 😑
@esswords4 ай бұрын
Masters of the Air is appalling. Heavy use of obvious CGI. Relentlessly takes the piss out of the Brits. Don't waste your time.
@tomsimmons6192Ай бұрын
your an idiot....
@tomsimmons6192Ай бұрын
your thinking they should have used 100's of real B-17's? Only 4 can fly now
@TheSticlizard6 ай бұрын
😢
@iantobanter95466 ай бұрын
Looking forward to Convoi. as my dad served in PQ18. THe best war films are Russian in recent years. Check out The Pilot, Iron Fury/T34 and Panfilov's 28.
@garryreeve8246 ай бұрын
Also 'Come and see'
@LMFNinja6 ай бұрын
Agree 100% Russian WW2 movies are excellent especially compared to the rubbish that emanates from Hollywood these days.
@teawaruaedwards2746 ай бұрын
Russians SHOULD BE good at making Patriotic WAR Movies. THEY LOVE to portray their LOVE and RIGHTEOUSNESS to wage War. They are STILL in a War THEY CREATED🙄 SO their psychology to create DRAMATIC Death and Violence wrapped in Patriotism makes them LEGENDARY....and very human.
@rudithedog75346 ай бұрын
Modern woke war movies are crap there hasn't been a decent war movie since Fury........Hollywood has fallen
@boholde27575 ай бұрын
A “woke” war movie? Are you drunk on “Fox Kool Aide”? (That lame term “woke” spiraled down the toilet along with the DeSantis campaign.)