Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

swjg Want to see what real 1940's dogfighting was about - this is it. Read the history to understand the key tactical moments. The apparently disjointed plot and timeline become clearer if you understand the battle really was the messy and drawn out affair portrayed here.Big name stars portray key characters or composites of real fighter leaders - battling with their problems of leadership, aircraft maintenance and the real shortage - "the few" - the polyglot multinational pilots on the British side - experience getting eroded by constant dog-fights and the inexperienced replacements dying while trying to survive.With no digital effects - real pilots "went up" day after day through the summer of 1968 flying the real stars - the aircraft. Begged borrowed or re-built for the movie - suspend your beliefs regarding certain marks or engine variants - these are real planes recreating real dogfights behind a camera plane. Freeze frame the climactic "Battle in the Air" sequence - count them - I made it over 27 on screen at once - with the others that had just flown off and others that flew in moments later - in 1968 the film makers had the 11th largest air force in the world! This movie was the genesis of the modern "Warbird" movement. This pixel sharp widescreen DVD release shows the film as really intended.You think Private Ryan and Band of Brothers are good? Sure they are - but after you have suspended special effects belief Battle of Britain does a great job of showing what it was like to fight with your backs to the wall - not "surprised" by what was coming next thanks to radar, but fearing your dwindling pilot resources would leave you "outgunned". A real tribute to the few, orchestrated by those who were really there and survived. Watch it for them and, more importantly, for those who fell.

torgulsmith-225-355486 So everyone else's comments, yes. But how about the funny bits? "Repeat please?" "Private polish chit chat", and "thanks awfully, old man", oh, and "get your hands up you Nazi bastard"Then there's the special effects. Obviously there's the explosions apparently achieved by scratching the negative. And of course the fishing line on the Stuka crashing into the chain home station. But my two favorites are the attack on the French airfield and the he 111 with the dangling string. In the airfield sequence, there's a strafing sequence when one Me comes straight at the camera, hurricane explodes, another me goes right to left, but the charges meant to show staging fire are reversed, so as the approaching me fires, the crossing charges fire, and so on.Then there's the he 111 with the tether. So they got a great shot of the large scale model 111 plunging into the channel, but the tether is still attached to the model for some reason? So they add in a shot of "control cables" snapping, to explain!

kenbarr-ny "Battle of Britain," which is now available on DVD, has two changes to the theatrical release. The first is the finale theme, which was a reprise of the German's theme followed by a triumphant RAF theme. The second does the movie no good, replacing the famous Churchill "never have so many owed so much to so few" quote with a quote from after the victory of El Alamein, "This is not the end or the beginning of the end. It is the end of the beginning." The Battle of Britain was actually the first check of German military power. They would go on to conquer Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete while the British were desperately holding on in North Africa. Therefore, using the Alamein quote has no historical significance here.The movie itself rather successfully portrays the desperate defense of the British skies by the RAF against the then undefeated German Luftwaffe. They were severely outnumbered (4 to 1 according the Air Marshall Dowding, portrayed by Laurence Olivier) with pilots that were inadequately trained. Yet, they had certain tactical, technological and organizational advantages, which the movie explains in great detail. The human stories are also interesting, with Christopher Plummer and Susanna York portraying a married couple who are separated by their duties, he a pilot and she a member of the ground staff. The Germans are portrayed as over-confident, which set in the context of their conquering Western Europe in six weeks is understandable. Goering comes across as boastful, arrogant and a tactical blunderer. Indeed, his guarantee that the Luftwaffe could first prevent the Dunkirk evacuation and then drive the RAF from the skies over Southern England were key to the British preventing an all out invasion. Trevor Howard's portrayal of Marshall Park reveals his frustration with tactics which exposed his group's airfields to attacks. The scene with Park arguing with colleague Leigh-Mallory describes the division of opinion within Fighter Command as to how best to take on the German attacks. Michael Caine and Robert Shaw portray Squadron commanders who have to face round the clock attacks with woefully unprepared pilots, Ian McShane and Edward Fox are two pilots who have a little bit more experience and are relied on to lead the greener lads. In short, despite the flaws in the movie, Battle of Britain does portray the spirit and courage of those who fought against impossible odds to save their country.

Sjhm This is one of the large all-star international cast war movies of the 60s and as such it's a worthy entrant. The majority of the budget went into the aircraft and it shows. The flying sequences are some of the best shot in film. Unquestionably, whilst the sense of period is brilliantly captured in the battle sequences, the behind the scenes moments are less successful. Unfortunately the weak links are mainly the sequences between Maggie and Colin Harvey. Susannah York is simply too modern, and the attention to detail slipped a little in costume and hair styling. The chemistry between Miss York and Mr Plummer is also somewhat lacking. That said, on balance, this film is a fine tribute to "The Few".