When the hell are they going to make an awesome British War movie?

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The last one was probably 'a bridge to far' In 1979! We have to put up with american propoganda movies but lets see an awesome big budget movie about how f**king awesome our armed forces are. And a few less romantic comedies with Hugh Grant. How about some ideas folks?

Master and commander i did forget about. It was USA financed but i did feel proud especially the scene where they are talking about one of our greatest national heroes - nelson.

Note to 7th assassin: Your comment about only being brutal to less civilsed societies is somewhat ignorant. What about that little thing called the second world war. Thank god we didn't have to many folk like you around then.

There were some good older war movies but looking at them now they seem a bit c**p. Firstly people never seem to swear, were people that polite even when someone was throwing hand grenades at them. To look for realism you would look no further than 'saving private ryan'. Yea i know its american but the characters seem like real people and not like actors like the old films.

Answer 1

"A Bridge Too Far" is one of the DVD's I own, and watch it monthly...

1981's "Gallipoli" ? British EMPIRE film... (same director as "Master & Commander")

Don't forget "Bravo Two Zero" a fine film from 1998 about the SAS Patrol from the Gulf War.

Perhaps you all need to have the SAS kidnap Steven Spielberg to direct a fine British War film...

OH WAIT !! Dambusters is a war film to be produced by Peter Jackson and directed by first-time director Christian Rivers. It is a remake of the 1954 film The Dam Busters, telling the story of No. 617 Squadron RAF and the Operation Chastise attack on German dams on 17 May 1943 in World War II using bouncing bombs. It will be distributed by Universal Pictures and StudioCanal.

Answer 2

A Bridge Too Far was an American propoganda exercise and anti-British in the extreme. Montgomery wanted to leap frog over the front line of the German Army, capture some territory in Holland and then use it as a base to supply the Allies from such as Rotterdam or A-Dam ports. It was a brave and good plan but one which failed and the failure was caused by poor communications and the fact that the British Army was unable to push up the road leading to the drop zone used by the Paras.

When I joined the Brit. Army in 1957, I had a troop sergeant who had been at Arnhem - he told me all about it. The Paras did a magnificent job, many were captured but hundreds escaped with the aid of MI9 [Military Intelligence section number Nine - responsible for aiding the escape of prisoners of war].

The British have made some really good war movies. Problem is they're mostly all in black and white and actually made towards the end of WW2 or immediatley thereafter so that the cast often have people in it who took part in actions shown in the movie.

One of the most famous British war movies, again in B&W and titled "I'll Met by Moonlight" was made in the 1950s. The cast had in it two former British Intelligence Officers, Dirk Bogard and Christopher Lee. At the time of release of the movie, it was said to be a fiction. In reality it is based on actual events which took place on the Island of Crete. A force comprising Greek Army Officers and members of the SAS succeeded in capturing a German general and smuggling him out to Cairo. It's a brilliant movie and it's all about the Brits and the Cretans together in war - you'll love it. Also get hold of a copy of the book by the same title which came out a couple of years ago after the fifty year secret thing.

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Yeh, they could make one about the British SAS soldiers in Iraq who fought there way to the border with Syria even though they were completely out numbered. The Royal Marines in Afghanistan that did the rescue of there comrad behind enemy lines. The battle of Britain because as we all know that would be a hell of a lot better than Pearl Harbour. A movies about Tumbledown Mountain in the Falklands would be good ( one of the Scots Guards greatest battle honours ). Britain has many many real heroic moments in recent history which would need little enhancment if they were made into a film unlike the Americans who are well known to overexagerate to epic porpotions.

I for one would love to see a British War film and i believe we have enough actors capable of the gritty performances we need. Danny Dyer for one would make a great soldier because he would represent alot of soldiers that are in the army now. It should be a completely british run film aswell and if the yanks dont want to see it the thats there loss. Im sure plenty of people around the world would love to see how the British fight wars instead of the fairys in the US movies.

Great Question

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I am not sure but I hope soon for your sake. I am American, and I think you all are some of the best, bravest fighters in the world. An amazing military history, so powerful. My Uncle served in Iraq, and Afghanistan, and I was so curious about the Brits he met and fought side by side with. I think I talked on about it so long his eyes glazed over...ha ha. Anyways, he said you all were some of the best trained on earth, and without a doubt would rather no one else in the world fighting next to him looking out for each others interests. I know the current war is very controversial, and most folks are questioning why we are there, but I don't blame any soldier. They were just doing there job. And I give them the utmost respect. It's Bush and his pack of buffoons that we all should have the issues with.

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I thought there had been some since 1979, but was shocked to search the IMBD site and find nothing.

Oh, and Hugh Grant is icky. I'd so rather watch a war film than to watch him goof his way around a romance.

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Answer 7

I think there is one coming out this year. It is called Atonement, It was filmed around the North east in the middle of last year.
Something to do with Dunkirk I think

Answer 8

good question the blunt British directness and the poor quality of our filming should give us one hell of an edge over American rubbish with battle weary marines drinking trendy lager and wearing stay pressed uniforms without a hair out of place and making going to the toilet look heroic !

lets have some pissed off SAS commandos go AWOL and beat the sh*t out of somebody with nothing but pure unadulterated violence instead of gold plated machine guns .

Answer 9

i agree but you see in order for a all british cast is kinda impossible as most british films dont make the cinema unless hollywood's finest actors are in the film itself which is totally gay as there are loads of brill british actors out there but no one wants them

Answer 10

Modern British only wars of note only involved slaughtering primitive natives. Most of their big involvements took outside assistance. Great plotters in terms of colonizing, horrible fighters.