Redundancy and fuel efficiency (both particularly useful in naval aviation).

Very complex story for a two hour movie? How about a mini-series……….maybe 4-5 hours long?

That would be acceptable, but you can usually get a bigger budget for movies. It could be up to 3 hours long, though, like A Bridge Too Far.

Also, by cutting out absolutely all the mushy stuff, you can cram more story in. We Were Soldiers was ruined by all the boring crying-wife action.

I liked “Enemy at the Gates”. I think the company I work for gets their employee relations handbook from the Soviet Army of WW2.

I liked that movie too … but it was made much more powerful than it actually was because I went to see it at the cinema after eating a lot of hash. I was terrified!

That could lead to one hell of a conflict escalation in no-time flat… if Israel drops nukes, no matter how low-yeald, over Iran, who could point the finger if Iran launches a few nasty chemical warheads at Israel? They have the missiles for that. Then what would Israel do? Go real nuke over Iran?

And then what would happen?

Well, if the US industry works on it you can count on that. The brits are more reasonable though.

Of course by REASONABLE you mean POOR 😀

I’d buy a ticket for that one. A film version of John Hackett’s The Third World War would draw me to the cinema, there’s already quite a bit of flying in them.

Yeah, me too! I also think Team Yankee would be easily filmable, it’s basically a movie in book form …

I would love a good big-budget history of the Falklands conflict, with Harriers vs. Mirages. You could have the plot follow both the air war, basically dramatizing Andy Woodward and “Sharkey” Ward’s books, and the ground offensive, with a mid-movie climax at Goose Green and then a big finale with the bayonet night-fighting at Mount Tumbledown. I would get either Ridley Scott or Paul Greengrass to direct, they really know how to do realistic-looking action scenes.

That’s like saying a Sicilian is as Tuscan as the people of Firenze. :p

Or the Quebecois are as Ontarian as the people of Toronto!