Dark Blue World question

According to the director’s commentary on the DVD, the first biplane seen, right at the start, with the girl & pilot in, is an airworthy ultralight replica, and was used for the flying sequences.

Geoff.

Time for another emergency ration?

I shamelessly ‘pruned’ this image from a current SY thread on another forum.

What struck me about this image was the facial similarity with a certain female TV Newscaster on BBC Breakfast – Natasha Kaplinski

Moggy I think we may have found the SY replacement for the BoB film re-make. What say you? 🙂

Mark

Damn, there goes my chance of a dirty weekend in some London hotel 🙁

Moggy

Tara Fitzgerald, not a patch on Susannah York, even though the former gets more kit off.

Not a bad movie, but for those of us who know the Weald of Kent and the other southeast locations for BoB airfields, the mountains in the background of the airbase strike an incongruous note, as does the strobe-equipped B25

Moggy

Yep great film considering the budget… and you can sit down and watch it withthe missus and she won’t complain

Dark Blue World = 🙂

Love triangle’s i can cope with but this one springs out of nowhere.

Franta? bails out knocks on her door then within in half an hour…

Top S**ger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

That a side a beautiful film with a beautiful soundtrack (if only it were available on CD:( )

I thought the love triangle bit has shades of Pearl Harbour….totally unnecessary.

The low-level flying of the Spit especially on the train attack was REALLY impressive though.

I enjoyed it. I didn’t look to hard into it. It’s not in the same league as a documentary style movie like BOB but good all the same.

Amazing to think they only used two flying Spitfires in the movie….all the rest were CGI or taxi-ing full-sized models.
That part was good.

Just dunno what those biplanes were ????
:confused:

Pretty disappointing for me but i understand its got quite a loyal following on here. If you want to judge it without bias and then I would say its a bit poor when i you think of what it could have been, the plot goes from moving and interesting to laughable at times, particularly the love triangle which develops within about a minute or so 🙂

I think my biggest problem with this film is that it could have been so much better. The flying sequences and cinematography are beautiful and Ondrej Vetchý delivers a great performance. The splicing of BOB and Memphis Belle footage into the film is rarely seamless and often looks terrible tot he trained eye. My favourite scenes are often those which feature no flying, particularly the early scenes and those where Frantisek is in the labor camp during the ‘modern’ day sections of the film.

Overall its a good film but i just wish they’d either completely cut out the love triangle or extended it so that it meant more. Ive yet to see on the small screen, maybe its worth a retrospective at some point.

I only recently learned of this movie. How would you rate it?

BoB:)

PoC:cool:

or

633 Squadron:(