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05-15-2008, 08:51 AM
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The series "A Piece of Cake" was alright too... available on DVD from Amazon
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05-19-2008, 11:25 AM
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But did you notice they only had 5 Spits (not Hurri's as Derek Robinson's book portrayed - especially noticeable in BoF), and of those 5 Spits, they were 3x MkII's and 2x MkV's? Overall a great story, loosely based on the real events in BoF and BoB...
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05-19-2008, 01:17 PM
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Great movie. The love-affair is a bit misplaced IMHO, but of course for a modern movie it's ok. Makes it a good movie to watch with your girlfriend...
The best aviation movie? No. Not even the best war movie, IMHO. This is a list of my prefered movies, each one of them great to watch and mostly without that hollywood-crap (with a certain exception of Das Boot maybe, which is as much based on a true story as TopGun and Firefox  .....):Tora!Tora!Tora! Aces High! Das Boot A Bridge too Far The longest Day Memphis Belle
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05-19-2008, 08:32 PM
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Dark Blue World is a nice movie, and I enjoyed it. There are some great aerial scenes including cut-outs from the '69 Battle of Britain and RC models, improved by computer generated graphics; I personally find that the love story cripples a little the aviation plot, and viceversa. I didn't have that disturbing feeling of continuous cross-interference with other great movies such as Midway or the Longest Day.
On the technical side, the Messerschmitt used for the film (and cloned with CGI afaik) is a Bouchon, while in the BoB scenes some of the Spits appear as later series than the ones used in BoB, if I'm right. A curiosity: one of the 10 movie's pilots was the late Ray Hanna, the first leader of the UK display team "the Red Arrows", who was involved in many WWII and WWI movies such as Flyboys, Empire of the Sun, Memphis Belle - as 109 pilot, the mini-serie Piece of Cake etc., and whose son Mark died in the crash of a Buchon in Spain. They founded and owned the Old Flying Machine Company. Regards, Insuber Regards, Insuber Last edited by Insuber; 05-19-2008 at 08:37 PM.
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05-19-2008, 08:44 PM
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Hello!
I find always funny that as usual nobody really remarked the movie was primarily about Czech pilots in the RAF and what happened to them once the war was over...the love triangle was a lot better dealt with than in PH for instance, and the friendship story I considered to be one of the most beautiful ever filmed... Considering the means engaged which were not inconsiderable by the way especially for a Czech movie compared to a Hollywood one, the aerial sequences were quite excellent! A very enjoyable movie to watch witch leaves you with a lasting impression (at least for people watching the movie...not just waiting for the first airplane appearance and going back to sleep after the last one  )JVM
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05-23-2008, 12:31 PM
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I wanted to see this movie in the theater when it was released but it never showed in my area. Bought it on DVD and realy enjoyed it. The story is good and the flying scenes are exellent. Very ballanced and good continuity. Worth
owning in my opinion. Good date film to get your other half interested in aviation.
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08-26-2008, 03:26 AM
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This is one of the few war movies I've persuaded my gf to sit through, and she was in tears by the end. It's an outstanding example of how Europe just does cinema better than Hollywood, and if people can't appreciate DBW, they should stick to picking over Dogfights.
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08-29-2008, 08:31 AM
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Well I think people on a flight sim forum will tend to talk mainly about the flying because that is what will encourage the other readers of a flight forum to see the movie. On a different forum you might talk about the politics of teh Eastern Bloc or the romance or the interesting portrayal of British society in the war years. By the way not all Czech pilots accepted the hand over to Germany as peacefully as in the movie Dark Blue World. At least one incident involving an attack on invading ground troops (the pilot then fleeing to Poland) was reported. Personally .... rewatching the movie recently encouraged me to finish an early war Czech/Slovak skin pack based on the Gladiator/J8A that I started some time back. Unfortunately the actual aircraft used (Avia B534, BK534 biplanes and the BU121 trainers from the movie) are not available in-game so the gladiator has been substituted. Mission 4 Today: http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...etails&id=4306 Flying Legends: http://www.flying-legends.net/php/do...ad.php?id=7329 These skins were intended for missions covering the period from the Munich crisis through to 1940 on the new Slovakia map. I am writing a campaign. This is B534-149 "V4", No. 2 Air Regiment, 51st Fighter Flight, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia, May 1937 - March 1939.  B534-165 "D5" No. 4 Air Regiment,  The next photo is the same plane from the other side .... but in the background is B534-158 Aircraft of No. 3 Air Regiment. (This regiment used geometric shapes to identify its aircraft rather than numbers and letters)  ... and finally B534-158 of No. 3 Air Regiment repainted with Slovak Republic insignia after dissolution. Note the Balkencruz as secondary insignia. The old geometric flight ID of No. 3 Air Regiment can still be seen under the new paint. 
Last edited by WTE_Galway; 08-30-2008 at 01:08 PM. Reason: linked to newer version with corrected insignia
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