Just watched it and really enjoyed it was even more impressed when I learnt it was made on a shoestring it really felt big budget
I would love to see what the makers could do if given a big budget
I'm just an ordinary guy unconnected with this movie in any way, I have read the reviews suggesting there's a lot of fake reviews about this movie
Don't know about that but what I do know is my opinion is mine and mine alone I have been an IMDb user for many years I haven't just appeared as this movie has, this was a great movie that moved along nicely I highly recommend it well done to everyone involved
Reviews
6 Reviews
Aces High
(1976)
Did anyone pick up on..........
17 November 2016
the homosexual undercurrent coming from Sinclair towards Croft in the lakeside scene?,
Love this film OK so there were a few inaccuracies it's called artistic licence but i don't think to many liberties were taken, For instance Parachutes were not available to pilots of the RFC nor were they used by the RAF during the First World War – although the Calthrop Guardian Angel parachute (1916 model) was officially adopted just as the war ended.
By this time parachutes had been used by balloonists for three years, Overall i thought it portrayed pretty well the RFC at that time still very much in it's infancy and the mood of the time and place Only one niggle Leeds i live in Leeds and its a lovely place
We must never forget the sacrifice these young pilots made
Lest we forget
My God, It's full of stars
Love this film OK so there were a few inaccuracies it's called artistic licence but i don't think to many liberties were taken, For instance Parachutes were not available to pilots of the RFC nor were they used by the RAF during the First World War – although the Calthrop Guardian Angel parachute (1916 model) was officially adopted just as the war ended.
By this time parachutes had been used by balloonists for three years, Overall i thought it portrayed pretty well the RFC at that time still very much in it's infancy and the mood of the time and place Only one niggle Leeds i live in Leeds and its a lovely place
We must never forget the sacrifice these young pilots made
Lest we forget
My God, It's full of stars
Oh! What a Lovely War
(1969)
Brighton Pier "World War One"
11 November 2016
Point of interest At the beginning of the film we see a sign on Brighton Pier with World War One above an entrance, of course this was artistic licence by the film makers the term was not used at all throughout that awful conflict
It's hard to pinpoint precisely when the term World War I first arose During World War I, of course, nobody knew that a second global conflict would follow closely on the heels of the first, so there was no need to distinguish it as the first of its kind. After initially referring to the "European War," U.S. newspapers adopted "World War" once America entered the confrontation in 1917. On the other side of the Atlantic, meanwhile, Britons preferred "Great War" until the 1940s—with the notable exception of Winston Churchill, who reminisced about the "World War" in the 1927 volume of his memoir "The World Crisis."
This is one of my Favourite Anti-War films I disagree with a previous poster saying the first "Act" of the film was boring and unnecessary and was on the heavy side
I think the opposite it sets the film up it gives us the information we need to set the movie in context and as for using heavyweights like Gieguld,Richardson,More,Holm,Hawkins,Olivier,Redgrave,Mills, again it sets the perfect tone the correct amount of light and dark
It's hard to pinpoint precisely when the term World War I first arose During World War I, of course, nobody knew that a second global conflict would follow closely on the heels of the first, so there was no need to distinguish it as the first of its kind. After initially referring to the "European War," U.S. newspapers adopted "World War" once America entered the confrontation in 1917. On the other side of the Atlantic, meanwhile, Britons preferred "Great War" until the 1940s—with the notable exception of Winston Churchill, who reminisced about the "World War" in the 1927 volume of his memoir "The World Crisis."
This is one of my Favourite Anti-War films I disagree with a previous poster saying the first "Act" of the film was boring and unnecessary and was on the heavy side
I think the opposite it sets the film up it gives us the information we need to set the movie in context and as for using heavyweights like Gieguld,Richardson,More,Holm,Hawkins,Olivier,Redgrave,Mills, again it sets the perfect tone the correct amount of light and dark
100 Years On-Lest We Forget
8 November 2016
Yes some of these scenes were "Re-Enacted" for Propaganda/Enlistment purposes but let's not forget that every single soldier in this Movie, Documentary call it what you will are now dead, Most probably died at that time in that place or in later battles. Much footage was cut from the public version, as the War Office wanted the film to contain images that would support the war effort and raise morale.
It still manages to portray the horrors of war and its utter futility, did we learn our lesson
No,no we didn't
This is a remarkable piece of Cinema that has now passed from living memory
Lest We Forget
It still manages to portray the horrors of war and its utter futility, did we learn our lesson
No,no we didn't
This is a remarkable piece of Cinema that has now passed from living memory
Lest We Forget
Svengali
(2013)
Disappointing
28 October 2016
I waited with eager anticipation of this film, I myself have been a MOD for 40+ years and the build up surrounding this film it was being likened to Quadrophenia it was nowhere near
How disappointed i was, the main character 'Dixie'although wearing a Parka and MOD T-Shirt and telling us he was a MOD resembled no genuine MOD i have ever seen scruffy unkempt hair and walking around thru out the whole film with a tatty Tesco shopping Bag
OK to the film the plot was very thin Scruffy Mod comes to big city to manage a band any band don't matter that its not a MOD band again hard to believe
I could not connect with any of the characters there was nothing to them very superficial i couldn't empathise with any of them sorry 4/10 for me
How disappointed i was, the main character 'Dixie'although wearing a Parka and MOD T-Shirt and telling us he was a MOD resembled no genuine MOD i have ever seen scruffy unkempt hair and walking around thru out the whole film with a tatty Tesco shopping Bag
OK to the film the plot was very thin Scruffy Mod comes to big city to manage a band any band don't matter that its not a MOD band again hard to believe
I could not connect with any of the characters there was nothing to them very superficial i couldn't empathise with any of them sorry 4/10 for me
Psycho Note for Note
26 October 2016
Just watched these episodes screened as a full movie, Wasn't impressed at all Ian McShane certainly the only standout performance really, and that was tepid at best,
Of course the main issue for me was that i only heard the start of the movies music from my kitchen so i walked into my lounge fully expecting to see Janet Leigh taking flight, Only to be confronted by this dross, How the hell did they manage to pretty much note for note lift this from Psycho!!!!
Bernard Herrmann will be turning in his grave
Beggars belief it really does
Of course the main issue for me was that i only heard the start of the movies music from my kitchen so i walked into my lounge fully expecting to see Janet Leigh taking flight, Only to be confronted by this dross, How the hell did they manage to pretty much note for note lift this from Psycho!!!!
Bernard Herrmann will be turning in his grave
Beggars belief it really does
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