Dave,
I’m sure if look around this web site you’ll find my previously expressed views on sub standard work hiding behind the facade of entertainment.
Sadly, poor work remains just that, and good entertainment stands alone for what it is.

Having said that, this film hasn’t been made yet so I accept that we don’t know.

The bottom line for me is this, I don’t give a monkey’s about Mum’s and four year olds being entertained. Just DON’T insult the people who were there by making cr*p.
Recent examples include Pearl Harbo(u)r and Flyboys.

People died, so other people could make cr*p ‘entertainment’ about them–that’s what we’re saying here, is it?
Oh and I forgot, making a fast Buck too.

I once read a review of the original Dambusters and it used the word sympathetic. That’s a quality I doubt modern film makers even begin to grasp.

Andy

Andy

Gotta choice haven’t ya?….don’t watch it, and you won’t be ‘offended’ .

Dave

I probably won’t!
But, it’s not me that should be offended, it won’t insult me.

A.

Perhaps he’d borrowed someone else’s dentures.

I blame the wardrobe department. Your time shall come, Herr Jones.

Strangely Damien, I thought I’d suffered at your hands on numerous previous occasions. 🙂 🙂 😮

At 36 he’s still too old.

HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!! Be interesting to know where these UNFOUNDED
rumours start from!!!!

Oi! Fluffy,
Well you’ve been sold, now you’re moving.
What next do ya reckon??

Sponsorship, move to front line status, excommunication, elevation to the sainthood???

You heard it here first folks.

A.

You are correct, there were some disgruntled mumblings from France about Leefe Robinson winning the VC, where it was said people ‘won’ it everyday.

And yes, as a ‘reward’ for his Zepp hunting achievements, as well as the VC, he was given a flight in 48 Sqn, which was off to France with its new Bristol F2.A’s.
On their first trip over the lines they ran into Jasta 11 which was the Richthofen mob and suffered four out of six aircraft shot down.
This was mainly because the crews of the Bristols flew them in a tight two seater like, defensive formation instead of using them as a fighter with an extra sting in the tail.
Leefe Robinson was taken POW and it is said was particularly badly treated by the Germans because of who he was.
He was I believe quite an ill man when finally released and died of influenza shortly after the end of the war.

Cheers
Andy

Well…blow me down! Had me totally fooled, old chap. Seriously….thank you for bringing some much needed light relief to this thread last night. Can we all go to bed now please? And another thing….its been so noisy these last few nights. The sound of so many rattles being thrown out of so many prams has been quite deafening. Funny though, I’ll kind of miss it if its all over! Andy Saunders 🙂

You can always start another thread you know.
Plenty of contentious subjects out there.
Andy