Author Topic: 100 Greatest movies. (Read 25715 times)

M0T · « **Reply #50 on:** 2001-11-28 14:28:00 »

Th problem with U-571 was that it wasnt loosely based around a historical event, it was an actual historical event which was made into a film where the British were substituted by Americans.
This is basicaally what angered quite a few people, it seems as though Hollywood tries to portray the US as singlehandedly winning the second world war. The next thing we'll see is the US navy winning the battle of Againcourt!!

Jedimark · « **Reply #51 on:** 2001-11-28 16:19:00 »

Or the Germans winning World War II

Sephiroth 3D · « **Reply #52 on:** 2001-11-28 18:24:00 »

Even though I'm an American, I definatly see you guy's point. However, did you think that maybe they were telling about the American efforts? It's not exactly like we stood back and watched...

Even though (I almost said if... :laugh: Sorry.) you cracked it first, we did do a lot of work towards the goal of breaking that code...

This is just an American's view...

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ficedula · « **Reply #53 on:** 2001-11-28 19:17:00 »

Well, the codebook used to break Enigma was captured by a British submarine, and IIRC the work done to break it was all done at Bletchley Park (hence why I actually remember the name; it's kinda famous now round here).

I'm sure there could have been Americans involved on the team (though I believe it was mostly European personnel) but to present it as a solely American effort would be just as wrong as claiming D-Day was a solely British effort - completely incorrect.

Yes, Hollywood does interpret (and plain rewrite...) the facts just to sell more movies, but that doesn't make it ok...

Darkness · « **Reply #54 on:** 2001-11-28 21:28:00 »

does d-day really mean "The Day?" I heard that somewhere.

Jedimark · « **Reply #55 on:** 2001-11-28 21:47:00 »

I remember the Allies code name for D-Day was "Overlord" but I'm not sure what the D stands for.

ficedula · « **Reply #56 on:** 2001-11-28 22:42:00 »

Yes, D-Day was operation Overlord, but I don't know why "D-Day" either.

chowderhead · « **Reply #57 on:** 2001-11-29 01:14:00 »

This is what I found in a local website:

The "D" in D- Day means simply the "day" of a planned attack. Military commanders would calibrate their calendars to the D-day (and the H-hour) of an operation so everyone would work from the same reference point.

For example, "D-3" would mean three days before D-day. "H + 75" would mean 75 minutes after the attack.

The term dates at least as far back as World War I, when an army officer wrote in an American Expeditionary Forces order on Sept 7, 1918: "The First Army will attack at H hour on D day with the object of forcing the evacuation of the St. Mihiel Salient."

"D-Day" eventually became synonymous with June 6, 1944, the day of the allies' famous invasion of Normandy that proved to be a turning point in the war.

If you're interested, here's the link.
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Darkness · « **Reply #58 on:** 2001-11-29 03:02:00 »

interesting...... and somewhat pointless. shouldda called it 'd'

mirex · « **Reply #59 on:** 2001-11-30 11:37:00 »

We are speaking about those things like this: 'The day with big d'. Thats something like D-day.
That special day.

Sephiroth 3D · « **Reply #60 on:** 2001-12-01 21:37:00 »

Hey, if we had another World War, there would definatly be another D-day.

It's all relative...

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M0T · « **Reply #61 on:** 2001-12-02 22:04:00 »

Unless we didn't win it, in which case it would be called something else

Darkness · « **Reply #62 on:** 2001-12-02 22:19:00 »

hehe it would probably be called D(eath)-Day. or it wouldnt be called anything at all, because wed all be dead.

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DLPB_ · « **Reply #64 on:** 2010-05-17 09:33:10 »

The Good The Bad and The Ugly should be the greatest

titeguy3 · « **Reply #65 on:** 2010-05-17 10:40:28 »

Necroposting spambots FTL

nikfrozty · « **Reply #66 on:** 2010-05-17 11:43:58 »

This is the worst necroposting I've ever seen in these forums. Damn that's evil.

BlitzNCS · « **Reply #67 on:** 2010-05-17 12:08:12 »

...Wow...That's close to 10 years. That's the worst necroposting I've ever seen ever.

nfitc1 · « **Reply #68 on:** 2010-05-17 13:10:58 »

Blew my mind when I saw the date was 2001! I was wondering how I could have missed a three page topic....

DLPB_ · « **Reply #69 on:** 2010-05-17 13:39:15 »

It was a good resurrection

obesebear · « **Reply #70 on:** 2010-05-17 15:29:18 »

Damn, it figures it would be a spambot. I think the record held for necroposting by a human is still 5 years

Covarr · « **Reply #71 on:** 2010-05-17 18:22:53 »

I knew something was up when I saw ficedula posted in this thread o_O

Author Topic: 100 Greatest movies. (Read 25715 times)

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