What in your opinion is the best war movie ever made?
Poll - Total Votes: 52
Platoon
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
Your choice please
Full Metal Jacket
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braveheart21 · 61-69, M
beckyromero · 36-40, F
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Many things wrong with "Sink the Bismarck."
Admiral Lutjens wasn't an ardent Nazi, for one. In fact, he refused to give the Nazi salute. And in 1938 he was one of a mere handful of naval flag officers who protested in writing to the Commander-in-Chief of the navy, Admiral Raeder, of the anti-Jewish Kristallnacht pogroms.
The Bismarck didn't sink any British destoyers during those atatcks.
The Bismarck [i]did[/i] fire on HMS [i]Sheffield[/i], when the shadowing cruiser got in too close.
Captain Jonathan Shepard, the RN officer who planned the tracking down and destruction of the Bismarck (played by Kenneth More), is a fictional character.
There are plenty more errors in the film, both inaccuracies and omissions.
The cruisers [i]Norfolk[/i] and [i]Suffolk[/i], as well as the damaged battleship [i]Prince of Wales[/i], continued to shadow [i]Bismarck[/i] to the end. In fact, [i]Norfolk[/i] was brought into the final battle.
There's a lot that the film got right, too. And it certainly captured the determination of the British to track down and "Sink the Bismarck" in the aftermath of [i]Hood[/i]'s sinking.
It would be nice to see a remake that corrects the errors, portrays Lutjens correctly and includes a few things that weren't known at the time when the film was produced (such as that an American was in the Catalina - we were neutral at the time) and how the British had broken the German naval code.
Many things wrong with "Sink the Bismarck."
Admiral Lutjens wasn't an ardent Nazi, for one. In fact, he refused to give the Nazi salute. And in 1938 he was one of a mere handful of naval flag officers who protested in writing to the Commander-in-Chief of the navy, Admiral Raeder, of the anti-Jewish Kristallnacht pogroms.
The Bismarck didn't sink any British destoyers during those atatcks.
The Bismarck [i]did[/i] fire on HMS [i]Sheffield[/i], when the shadowing cruiser got in too close.
Captain Jonathan Shepard, the RN officer who planned the tracking down and destruction of the Bismarck (played by Kenneth More), is a fictional character.
There are plenty more errors in the film, both inaccuracies and omissions.
The cruisers [i]Norfolk[/i] and [i]Suffolk[/i], as well as the damaged battleship [i]Prince of Wales[/i], continued to shadow [i]Bismarck[/i] to the end. In fact, [i]Norfolk[/i] was brought into the final battle.
There's a lot that the film got right, too. And it certainly captured the determination of the British to track down and "Sink the Bismarck" in the aftermath of [i]Hood[/i]'s sinking.
It would be nice to see a remake that corrects the errors, portrays Lutjens correctly and includes a few things that weren't known at the time when the film was produced (such as that an American was in the Catalina - we were neutral at the time) and how the British had broken the German naval code.