Re: Anyone seen the movie Battle of the Bulge?
 

Ok to begin with, those arent tigers in the movie, they were rare then, and there rare now. Next the reason why they abandoned the tanks, if you were listening, was because they ran out of gas, you cant run a tank without gas, especially gas guzzlers like KT's. The song is the Panzerlied, a timeless classic, and the reason why they seem to be in a snowless land is because they are on an arid plateau in the final battle, the snow is either gone or jsut frost by that time of the day, ITS STILL COLD.

Anyway you cant possibly a classic movie from 30 years ago to a modern movie, we have computer generated special effects, they buried (small) explosives in the ground to simulate explosions. Thats just an iddiodic comparison.

Re: Anyone seen the movie Battle of the Bulge?
 

But u look at films like The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far. They must be at least (or approaching) 30 years old, and they're far superior to BotB. It just looks cheap and half arsed all the way through.
Harry

Re: Anyone seen the movie Battle of the Bulge?
 

The most comic bit was when they used Pattons [for memory] as King Tigers.

The best bit in an otherwise dreadful movie was "panzer lied" being sung :)

Re: Anyone seen the movie Battle of the Bulge?
 

Im sure the people of the day (not sure when the movie was made) had no clue what a King Tiger or Tiger looked like. But obviously they gave the illusion that the american 'shermans' got destroyed rather quick. Although we would like to see a real KT be used but can you just think how much money it would be just to use one and get a crew to actually learn to drive it.

I can only imagine what those Americans musta went through.

"Hey Joe what the hell is that thing???"
"Holy *************!!!!!!!"

Is about the only thing I could think when they first saw a King Tiger and watch there shots just bounce off.

Re: Anyone seen the movie Battle of the Bulge?
 

Longest day is made in 1962 and A bridge too far is made in 1977

Re: Anyone seen the movie Battle of the Bulge?
 

BotB was filmed in 1965 and apparently was a Dino Delaurentis movie. Thats all the reason I need as to why it is inaccurate and overdramatic.

Re: Anyone seen the movie Battle of the Bulge?
 

if I remember correctly, Iron Cross is set to 43, before introduction of T34/85! And it is my guess that the same batch of T34/85 was used in Stalingrad in the attempted russian break in in the kettle.

Re: Anyone seen the movie Battle of the Bulge?
 

:lol: Roger that!!