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Brilliantly showed the detail and consistency of it being applied. Whole scene wasn't much more than a minute and yet it conveyed so much about these guys, their routine and their understanding that getting this right is literally life and death.
Enjoyed the first two episodes, looking forward to the next ones. Reminds me somewhat of the great film “Air Force” made in during the war years. It’s about a B-17 and it’s crew that are transferred to the Pacific theater to bomb Japanese strongholds in the Phillipines.'Masters of the Air' writer John Orloff on bringing the show to life
Masters of the Air writer John Orloff spent 10 years researching and adapting the history of the 100th Bomber Group into television.
"There are things you see in the show that no eyes have seen since 1945."
Just watched E3. Pretty intense. Series is excellent so far.
Greyhound on Apple with Hanks…no Spielberg involvement. Good movie though. And yes, episode 3 was pretty wild. I think the CGI really hit the mark. Very well done.
Didn't care for it. For a military film, it just didn't have much tension or really any climax.
Wow, I’m not sure we watched the same movie. Lol.
I thought it was one of the more tense movies I've ever seen. It was indirectly referenced in episode 2 of Masters of the Air when they talked about the merchant marine ships they were losing and the need to shut down the U-Boats to get supplies.
I thought it was pretty good, maybe one of Hanks best performances in his long career. The battle for the North Atlantic in historical terms has always taken a back seat to the war in the Pacific and rightly so, but the importance in a strategic sense in the early years of WW2 of keeping Great Britain well supplied and free from invasion by Germany was critical to the eventual defeat of the Nazi’s.
I enjoy most war movies, especially WWII, and I've seen probably every one of note (including John Wayne and Audie Murphy turkeys), and many others. This one did pretty much nothing for me, which I found surprising, especially given the context of UBoats owning the shipping lanes. Compare it even to an old flick like Dam Busters, which had in common with Greyhound the Allies trying to solve a problem of significant technical difficulty. Greyhound simply didn't have the gravitas I expected.
My two old time favorites “Air Force” from 1943 and “They Were Expendable” from 1945.
I think a remake of "Sink the Bismarck" is long overdue. It's been 64 years since the original film. With the kind of CGI available, that could be a solid film and even a box-office success. That monster was an absolute terror.
The Bismarck and Tirpitz were bad enough for the North Atlantic, but good for them that the United States kept the Iowa’s in the Pacific where they were needed. The Iowa’s were much larger and had much more armor and fire power. That being said, even the Iowa’s were outgunned by the big Japanese ships Yamato and Mushashi. The United States Navy not be outdone designed and planned to build the giant Montana class (5 were planned), they were designed specifically to destroy those Japanese ships, however just before the keel of the USS Montana was to be laid down at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Battle of Midway demonstrated the importance of aircraft carriers to win the Pacific War, and the Montana’s were cancelled. Actually the keel of the USS Montana became the keel of the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier.
Hollywood would probably destroy it by turning it into some inane love story and making the Swordfish (England’s torpedo bi-plane look like an F-16 performance wise.
My older brother and I were kind of naval geeks, although his interests were wider and broader than mine as I was pretty much just WWII. But I had Revell models of Bismarck, Tirpitz(15 inch guns) , and the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Graf Spee (11 inch guns). Also had a model of Yamato (18 inch guns). Those were fun to build, as were US cruisers, like Helena, and destroyers like the Farragut. Aircraft carriers were kinda boring in comparison!
That would be a pretty good campaign to focus on. Some tough days for the US Navy. The Sullivan Brothers could be a big part of it.
The Juneau was only a part of it. The US Navy lost many destroyers off Guadalcanal with heavy loss of life, the battleship South Dakota was heavily damaged, as was Admiral Daniel Callaghan’s flagship San Francisco. Callaghan and Admiral Norman Scott were both killed in the Guadalcanal naval battles. Japanese Admiral Hiroaki Abe has taken much historical criticism for ordering his ships to leave the area before the US Navy had a chance to regroup. The US Navy ships had radar, the Japanese Ships did not, but held an advantage with far superior night optics and night battle tactics and training. If Hanks and Spielberg wanted to produce a series about the Guadalcanal Naval battles, they could not ignore the attack on Pearl Harbor in the first couple of episodes, or Midway, or even Wake Island.
Oh, i know. But the story of the Sullivans still resonates. If I were to produce a series about this part of the war, this event would be the centerpiece. It brought home the cost of war and the huge sacrifice that would be necessary to defeat the Axis powers. By the way, you know your stuff. Props!
