Does the WWII movie exist?

Mitch Connor

OK, this has been bugging me for a while.

I 'remember' seeing a World War II movie when i was kid, but no one else seems to, so i think i may have made it up.

Anywho, what i remember is this:

Movie takes place aboard a fighter/bomber plane. The crew of the plane do their mission but get absolutely battered. During one of the battles, the plane takes damage that means the rookie kid on the plane gets trapped in the gun turret under the plane, and also, the planes wheel on one side is shot off, or broken, or something. On the flight back, the kid in the turret doodles away to pass the time and keep his mind off things and he draws the plane with a cartoony wheel replacing the broken one. he ends up falling asleep on the way back, and when the plane goes to land (and killing the kid cause he would have been crushed) the cartoony wheel appears and they land the plane on it. they pull the kid out of the plane without waking him and the 'wheel' remains intact til they get clear.

So, did i make this movie up?

The Bollox

kinda rings a bell. I recall a film like the one mentioned: abord a bomber plane and there were about 5 / 6 gun turrets about the plane not unlike the ones on the Millenium Falcon *pushes glasses up to the sweaty bridge of my nose*. do they destroy bomb factory at the end?

Mitch Connor

can't remember - i'm not sure if i have made that bit up yet...

Seriously, all i can remember is the bits i have described above.

Its the bit with the imaginary wheel that i really think i may have made up...

Josey Wales

You didn't make this up. It was an episode of Steven Speilberg's Amazing Stories tv series from 1985. This particular episode was called The Mission.

For more info. see - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0511124/

TheIrishGrover

Josey Wales wrote: »

You didn't make this up. It was an episode of Steven Speilberg's Amazing Stories tv series from 1985. This particular episode was called The Mission.

For more info. see - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0511124/

DAMN YOU!!!!!!!! I thought I was gonna be so smart knowing that one. Remember it. Very strange. Riiiiiiiight up until the Roger Rabbit type wheel it was actually a pretty good episode. Very tense. Kevin Costner and Kiefer Sutherland (While he was still making films ) were in it. For a television series.The whole series had big name actors and writers and directors. Watch the episode and, depending on what you want: Close your eyes and ears and leave the room for the last 5 mins or watch incredulously. Well remembered OP and Jose.

Latchy

Looking at the thread title thought it as a topic about WW2 movies but intrestingly enough somthing that was on my mind recently, was that when i was growing up, a lot of WW 2 movies gave a whole romantic view of that conflict, and then there was the reality ........

TheIrishGrover

latchyco wrote: »

Looking at the thread title thought it as a topic about WW2 movies but intrestingly enough somthing that was on my mind recently, was that when i was growing up, a lot of WW 2 movies gave a whole romantic view of that conflict, and then there was the reality ........

Just to go briefly off topic: I know what you are on about. Was all Stiff upper lip and jet's give the jerrys what for what what. whereas Vietnam films were all "War is hell mannnnnnn". it was always a case of : man, Vietnam was hell. At least the guys in WWII weren't fighting a high tech, killing machine war like WE are. Those guys had it easy. Then Saving Private Ryan came out: 1st 15 mins or so showed the truth: Brutal, sudden, unobserved, mass produced random deaths. no "Dirty Dozen escapades and glamorous missions of heroic importance/value/whatever" THEN the rest of the entire film undermines that. MUCH preferred the Band Of Brothers series. No glamour. No "Us versus the EVIL guys" the St. Crispin's Day Speech from which the title came was spoken by a German to his troops in the series. But yeah, it's about time that quality films and series were made about WWII. Looking forward to the Band Of Brothers follow on series. No name yet but set in the Pacific theatre. Obviously will focus on the US but should incorporate the ANZACs too. They had it tough.


Phew

Anyway...... If only they had animated bombs huh?

Latchy

Was a great fan of band of brothers when it as shown on bbc 2 a few years ago , when it as initally ment to be shown on prime time saturday bbc 1 , the action scenes are as real as you will get (to the real thing imo ) and you previous poster echo my sentiments perfectly ......well said .

jonny72

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

Just to go briefly off topic: I know what you are on about. Was all Stiff upper lip and jet's give the jerrys what for what what. whereas Vietnam films were all "War is hell mannnnnnn". it was always a case of : man, Vietnam was hell. At least the guys in WWII weren't fighting a high tech, killing machine war like WE are. Those guys had it easy. Then Saving Private Ryan came out: 1st 15 mins or so showed the truth: Brutal, sudden, unobserved, mass produced random deaths. no "Dirty Dozen escapades and glamorous missions of heroic importance/value/whatever" THEN the rest of the entire film undermines that. MUCH preferred the Band Of Brothers series. No glamour. No "Us versus the EVIL guys" the St. Crispin's Day Speech from which the title came was spoken by a German to his troops in the series. But yeah, it's about time that quality films and series were made about WWII. Looking forward to the Band Of Brothers follow on series. No name yet but set in the Pacific theatre. Obviously will focus on the US but should incorporate the ANZACs too. They had it tough.


Phew

Anyway...... If only they had animated bombs huh?

I think you are leaving out Das Boot and The Downfall, but yeah as war blockbusters go, they are all very much in the same vein. The good guys bad guys propaganda still continues to this day but I look forward to when they start making more war films about the 'other side', the NVA, Russians, Iraqis, etc.

Otacon

I think this is what you're looking for

http://imdb.com/title/tt0100133/

Memphis Belle. Good film actually.

TerrorFirmer

I thought Memphis Belle but eh, is there a scene involving a cartoon wheel in that movie? I don't think so..

Josey Wales

Otacon wrote: »

I think this is what you're looking for

http://imdb.com/title/tt0100133/

Memphis Belle. Good film actually.

I don't mean to be smart but I already gave the answer. Memphis Belle is a similar film alright but it did not have a cartoon wheel. It was firmly set in reality.

The second poster in this thread may have been referring to Memphis Belle though.

TheIrishGrover

jonny72 wrote: »

I think you are leaving out Das Boot and The Downfall, but yeah as war blockbusters go, they are all very much in the same vein. The good guys bad guys propaganda still continues to this day but I look forward to when they start making more war films about the 'other side', the NVA, Russians, Iraqis, etc.

Well, yeah, I left them out alright. Two GREAT shows (Das Boot one of my all time fave films. Especially the extended version. Bloody tense.) Isn't it curious that two of the best films about WWII came from Germany?

Karl Hungus

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

Well, yeah, I left them out alright. Two GREAT shows (Das Boot one of my all time fave films. Especially the extended version. Bloody tense.) Isn't it curious that two of the best films about WWII came from Germany?

At this juncture I think it's worth mentioning Cross of Iron. Brilliant film.

TheIrishGrover

Karl Hungus wrote: »

At this juncture I think it's worth mentioning Cross of Iron. Brilliant film.

Good call KH. Forgot completely abut that. (Not a huge Peckinpah fan) Good show that.

TerrorFirmer

You also forgot Stalingrad , one of the greatest war movies ever

Mitch Connor

latchyco wrote: »

Was a great fan of band of brothers when it as shown on bbc 2 a few years ago , when it as initally ment to be shown on prime time saturday bbc 1 , the action scenes are as real as you will get (to the real thing imo ) and you previous poster echo my sentiments perfectly ......well said .

the episode with the concentration camps is possible the best hour or so of TV I have ever seen. Superbly acted and handled. Very, very powerful.

TerrorFirmer

Sorry to perhaps somewhat derail the thread but did no-one else think that Band of Brothers, in direct opposition to SPR, had a bit of a 60's macho feel to it in spots? The episode where the column is ambushed approaching a village in particular was very poor in my opinion, with the traditional 'germans are mown down in vast numbers' formula even when facing about the same number of adversaries. It happens in other episodes, too, though not as severe.

mike65

Nothing wrong with macho 60s war flicks, nearly all my favs were made in that decade.

Band of brothers was well made, apart from those dodgy matts in the opening episode (the parachute drops) and its US-centric plotting/attitudes.

Mike.