cerveloguy wrote:
ThisIsIt wrote:
Honestly I have to say I was disappointed, I went in with expectations too high. It was good but I guess
I was hoping for something more akin to Saving Private Ryan in terms of kick ass battle scenes along with a decent film. I found it odd that they always referred to the Germans as the "enemy" and I think they may never have named them specifically (?) nor did they show any Germans.
Guess the Brits could have used John Wayne or some other American hero to save the day. Heck, Chuck Norris could have turned it into a British victory. :-)
In 1963, United Artists released the movie "The Great Escape", based on the escape of 76 RAF aircrew members from Stalag Luft III in 1944. No Americans were in the camp at that time. (The few who had ever been held in Stalag Luft III had been moved to other camps seven months earlier.)
The actors included Richard Attenborough and David McCallum. However, Steve McQueen (jumping a motorcycle over barbed wire) and James Garner received top billing. Also included were Charles Bronson and James Coburn.
I wonder if someone had the thought when they were putting "Dunkirk" together, "Do you think we should get Ben Affleck to play an American flying Spitfires in the RAF? Maybe Bruce Willis as a wisecracking US Army general on loan to the British Army?"
"Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; Knowledge without compassion is inhuman." Victor Weisskopf.