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The Battle Of the Bulge

  • 23-02-2006 9:39am
    #1
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭


    Did anyone see this last night on tg4? Fantastic movie. Started watching it last night whilst in bed, ended up watching the entire thing. It looks like it was made in the late sixties/very early seventies, budget must have been high with no end to the explosions, dozens of tanks wheeling about the place, towns being bombarded, and all the works you'd expect in an enjoyable war movie.

    The only thing that niggled me was the tanks on both sides looked very little like the real counterparts of the times (the german tanks looked more like russian tanks actually), but that said, still a great movie with great performances.

    It's a real pity they don't seem to make movies of this kind so much anymore...:)


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  • #2
    pearsquasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭pearsquasher


    Yep.. same here. Cought the film before off to bed and got hooked. TG4 are great like that.

    Plus with Robert Shaw and Charles Bronson you can't go wrong in a WW2 movie. Some serious amount of SFX there.

    Time to wikipedia the real Battle of the Bulge


  • #3
    maquiladora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Of course the real Battle Of The Bulge is about wearing tight pants while dancing at a french nurses hen party / mud wrestling match....

    quagmire.jpg


  • #4
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    pearsquasher wrote:
    with Robert Shaw and Charles Bronson you can't go wrong in a WW2 movie

    How can you neglect to mention the magnificence that is Henry Fonda? I just love Charles Bronson too but find it hard to take him seriously since Death Wish 9 on The Simpsons ("I wish I was dead"). Both are amazing in Once Upon A Time in The West. Only saw that film recently and can't stop jabbering about it. Sorry, I'm veering off the point... Battle of the Bulge is great.


  • #5
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    You could'nt make films like Bulge theses days without using alot of CGI in which case it would be pants.

    Mike.


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