Nazi Germany had a lot of very successful battles with great tactics, bravery, and forceful attacks. That's what kept them going this long. Battle of the Bulge was one such long battle. Germany was already properly defeated and were totally outnumbered. The Allies had total air superiority meaning that by then the plan was just to walk into Germany and take it with minimal resistance. At least the higher ups had this plan. Similar to what they did in Operation Market Garden which also was a giant fiasco. Just full attack because "Germans are already defeated". Of course these plans only work in perfect conditions. Here the Germans were mounting one final attack on the Allied forces with huge success. Unbelievable success for this stage of the war. Attack full force and break thin Allied lines during a cold winter where transportation of tanks and fuel was hard. Basically, Allies took too much ground and had too few men and too few tanks to hold it.. In perfect weather that would be just about possible. Instead a heavy fog made it possible for Germans to attack where they wanted. Of course once the weather improved Allied could bomb the Germans to hell. But again, you have to wait for it. And this movie is about this wait.
A unit settles down in a forest. Digs holes and just tries to not let any Germans through. We see them being punched about for one and a half hour. Many die or get injured as this actually happened. The dialogue is amazing. Instead of modernized gloomy dialogue we get real military talk. Plenty of insider jokes, clever statements, mocking, silly gags, men talking about women and Paris. The dialogue is the movie - amazing. You really can't compare any modern TV show or movie to this. They all get it wrong today. It needs to be this kinda joke or weird event where everyone feels lost and weird. War is not an action movie and is not an event where everything turns grey or black either. Modern movies get it completely wrong. Soldiers are young men. Young men are silly beings.
So it's real war and a great war movie for men about men. But there are some bad points to it. Not having color is a huge issue as it's set in a forest. So you kinda feel like you are in a set. At times the scenes feel real, but color could have added depth to everything and made it feel like a real event. The acting was also wooded in many aspects as you'd expect from this period in Hollywood. And then they couldn't show sex, kissing, bad guys winning. Especially them not being able to show proper romantic relationships breaks a few scenes. There is an attractive French speaking mom who one soldier is flirting with. But it's so badly done. We never quite understand where he is getting as they can't show them being a couple or even directly flirting. So it becomes this weird fake flirting that feels out of place. The violence, as always with Hollywood, is of course on point. I did miss bigger sets and more tanks and trucks. They at times shows real WW2 shots of battle scenes when they needed to show large events. And you could feel that the budget and technology didn't really allow for great tank battles or huge sets which is a shame. But the movie does what it needs to do to still feel real enough despite the lack of colors, small sets, wooden acting, and some things they can't show.
Great movie! But as it is realistic is lacks a proper protagonist and clear story. You feel like you didn't miss anything which doesn't really make you want to rewatch it. It's just war shown in a proper way. And this is a real event so you know what happened which makes it extra fascinating.
A unit settles down in a forest. Digs holes and just tries to not let any Germans through. We see them being punched about for one and a half hour. Many die or get injured as this actually happened. The dialogue is amazing. Instead of modernized gloomy dialogue we get real military talk. Plenty of insider jokes, clever statements, mocking, silly gags, men talking about women and Paris. The dialogue is the movie - amazing. You really can't compare any modern TV show or movie to this. They all get it wrong today. It needs to be this kinda joke or weird event where everyone feels lost and weird. War is not an action movie and is not an event where everything turns grey or black either. Modern movies get it completely wrong. Soldiers are young men. Young men are silly beings.
So it's real war and a great war movie for men about men. But there are some bad points to it. Not having color is a huge issue as it's set in a forest. So you kinda feel like you are in a set. At times the scenes feel real, but color could have added depth to everything and made it feel like a real event. The acting was also wooded in many aspects as you'd expect from this period in Hollywood. And then they couldn't show sex, kissing, bad guys winning. Especially them not being able to show proper romantic relationships breaks a few scenes. There is an attractive French speaking mom who one soldier is flirting with. But it's so badly done. We never quite understand where he is getting as they can't show them being a couple or even directly flirting. So it becomes this weird fake flirting that feels out of place. The violence, as always with Hollywood, is of course on point. I did miss bigger sets and more tanks and trucks. They at times shows real WW2 shots of battle scenes when they needed to show large events. And you could feel that the budget and technology didn't really allow for great tank battles or huge sets which is a shame. But the movie does what it needs to do to still feel real enough despite the lack of colors, small sets, wooden acting, and some things they can't show.
Great movie! But as it is realistic is lacks a proper protagonist and clear story. You feel like you didn't miss anything which doesn't really make you want to rewatch it. It's just war shown in a proper way. And this is a real event so you know what happened which makes it extra fascinating.