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11-01-20, 10:09 PM
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1917 film by Sam Mendes
I have just watched 1917. From a Militaria collectors viewpoint it is excellent with authentic looking uniforms and equipment. Plenty of Devonshire and other cap badges and battle patches in evidence and the trench scenes seem totally realistic. Worth seeing!
Tim
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11-01-20, 11:00 PM
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11-01-20, 11:39 PM
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1917
Have just returned from Cinema, and well made thankfully, gruesome in places but depiction of authentic looking scenes in no-mans land, bodies in various stages of decomposing and such, killer Rats! see the film to find out!!!
Don't know if I enjoyed getting in as a Senior (noticed this as handing over ticket) am obviously looking older than I think, or in fact looking my age! but I actually think I am a lot, lot younger in my head!
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12-01-20, 12:22 PM
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Has Taff Gillingham and his crew been involved? Bears their hallmarks of getting it right. If film makers make an effort to make actors move like soldiers, and pretty much look right, good (You know, officers wearing Sam Browne straps over the lapel; WW2/WW1 officers wearing ORs badges in SD sort of thing). I don't fret too much if the leather jerkin's actually/really a WW2 one if it looks the part...
Only wobble I saw in the trailer was having a General addressing a L/Cpl and a Pte. directly. Funny how the chain of command melts away for dramatic purposes (like in A Bridge Too Far, where, to get Caine and Fox together on screen, the Corps Commander directly briefs a battalion commander. Err, Division? Brigade?)
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12-01-20, 02:57 PM
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I'm still waiting to see the film, but I understand that the actors spent six months training before filming to operate authentically as soldiers.
KR, Pete
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15-01-20, 02:42 PM
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But then, as you know "their rats are bigger than ours!"
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13-01-20, 09:21 PM
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What a blast I've had, certainly worth watching, but, if in a tiny digital screen cinema, avoid sitting in the centre of any auditorium where the surround sound system might be at it's most deafening, unless you really like it.
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14-01-20, 12:16 AM
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Might have been advisable to have taken out the sniper with a couple of grenades ?
Also, surely the ink would have run on the letter after the soaking it got ?
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