Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: PTalvela

Not going to pay for this type of BS in any format.

Are there children now working as studio executives?

Or maybe they view the large audience as having the attention span and general interests of small children?
This might be a real possibility, it would in turn open up interesting speculations about the future of our societies as a whole.

Seems the genre is "war horror", evil nazis taunting from the radio and sneak attacking with their U-boats in evil nazi warpaint.

Unbelievable.

Have you read about the Battle of the Atlantic? It was horrible. The Nazis were evil, and were the first to carry out unrestricted submarine warfare, targeting passenger liners and sometimes even hospital ships.
Lord Ha-Ha and Goebbels did taunt the Allies about their losses.
And my father participated in sinking a U-boat that had a big sawfish emblem on the conning tower - warpaint! And he had to help rescue victims of the U-boats: oil covered and often burned or suffering broken bones.

All that does not mean all Germans were evil - not all were Nazis and most were just being loyal to their country when they went to fight. That doesn't matter to the Allied sailors who were targets for their torpedoes and the escort crews whose job was to kill the U-boats. A movie or book written from the Allied side is inevitably going to cast the Axis side as the bad guys.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

I'm looking forward to this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VVHKXPyeV4

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Here she is with her brother. She is wearing a red collar and nothing else . . .

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ORIGINAL: spence

Much like nose art on bombers and fighters the 'art' on U-boat conning towers had little to no official controls on it as to size and color. The "Laughing Swordfish" in green was semi-officially adopted by the 9th Flotilla but apparently it was used by many different U-boats. Apparently it also appeared in red and black on the conning towers of other U-boats.

https://uboat.net/special/emblems/popular.html

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ORIGINAL: spence

Much like nose art on bombers and fighters the 'art' on U-boat conning towers had little to no official controls on it as to size and color. The "Laughing Swordfish" in green was semi-officially adopted by the 9th Flotilla but apparently it was used by many different U-boats. Apparently it also appeared in red and black on the conning towers of other U-boats.

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ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

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ORIGINAL: spence

Much like nose art on bombers and fighters the 'art' on U-boat conning towers had little to no official controls on it as to size and color. The "Laughing Swordfish" in green was semi-officially adopted by the 9th Flotilla but apparently it was used by many different U-boats. Apparently it also appeared in red and black on the conning towers of other U-boats.

but in the movie, it seems as if it was used to taunt enemy, which is kind of absurd in a stealth vessel, same as having a "phone call" with captain Tom Hanks, c'mon!

that said, I will still watch it

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
For now, we'll have to do without the non-CGI grandeur of ...The Lord of the Rings.

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Here she is with her brother. She is wearing a red collar and nothing else . . .

A couple of real cuties, but if those collars don't have stretch sections built in they are on way too tight.

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

You're right. It did have CGI. But in the overall scheme of the movie, the CGI was comparatively small - a lot of the orcs, etc., where actors/extras made up. So the feel of the movie is good.

My boys say that it's weird - that the CGI in the LOTR trilogy (early 2000s) looks much better than the CGI used in the later "prequel" Hobbit trilogy. That seems counterintuitive - that CGI effects have gotten worse with the passage of time? Judging by movies like Midway and Dauntless and (apparently) The Greyhound, I'd agree.

That most recent Mad Max movie is another anomaly. It used a bit of CGI (for that big tornado storm, etc.) but a lot of the dramatic effects for vehicles, explosions, etc. were the real thing.

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ORIGINAL: PTalvela

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ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

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ORIGINAL: spence

Much like nose art on bombers and fighters the 'art' on U-boat conning towers had little to no official controls on it as to size and color. The "Laughing Swordfish" in green was semi-officially adopted by the 9th Flotilla but apparently it was used by many different U-boats. Apparently it also appeared in red and black on the conning towers of other U-boats.

but in the movie, it seems as if it was used to taunt enemy, which is kind of absurd in a stealth vessel, same as having a "phone call" with captain Tom Hanks, c'mon!

that said, I will still watch it

War horror genre, like the film Overlord

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Oh, Chickenboy. The graphics. The graphics. Oh, the humanity!

Tom Hanks is such a great actor. I think he produced or directed this. I wish he had insisted upon realism and hadn't settled for anything less. Oh, for something like D-Day in Saving Private Ryan or Dunkirk in Dunkirk.

In twenty years (if the world still exists), movie audiences will look back on this era of movie-making special effects with horror, as we who grew up in the '70s look back on leisure suits and bell bottoms.

Oh, the humanity.

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I won't watch it.

I understand the rationale of those who will - that it's the best we can hope for in these time. They're right, although I suspect from time to time, somebody will come along and get it right.

For now, we'll have to do without the non-CGI grandeur of Doctor Zhivago, Gettysburg, Schindler's List, and The Lord of the Rings. And wonder if they'll ever be able to make movies like that again, given the labor component of six zillion extras and on-site filming expense.

But we can still enjoy excellently made "small sets" that don't require CGI. I can pop in my DVD of Twelve Angry Men or go back and see Knives Out for a third time.

But I can't sit through video games. I don't know if my way of viewing movies is unique or ubiquitous, but I become immersed in them. I love that feeling. But there's no immersion when the graphics stink to high heaven.

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: PTalvela

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ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

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ORIGINAL: spence

Much like nose art on bombers and fighters the 'art' on U-boat conning towers had little to no official controls on it as to size and color. The "Laughing Swordfish" in green was semi-officially adopted by the 9th Flotilla but apparently it was used by many different U-boats. Apparently it also appeared in red and black on the conning towers of other U-boats.

but in the movie, it seems as if it was used to taunt enemy, which is kind of absurd in a stealth vessel, same as having a "phone call" with captain Tom Hanks, c'mon!

that said, I will still watch it

War horror genre, like the film Overlord

warspite1

I might have read this wrong but are you suggesting Greyhound is in the same category as Overlord? Obviously for the former I can only go on the preview, but I've seen the latter and I do hope that is not what you are suggesting.

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ORIGINAL: castor troy




absolutely agree... looks all wrong and to top the idiocy is that phone call of the German sub captain... omfg what's wrong with all those movie makers?

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ORIGINAL: castor troy

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I won't watch it.

I understand the rationale of those who will - that it's the best we can hope for in these time. They're right, although I suspect from time to time, somebody will come along and get it right.

For now, we'll have to do without the non-CGI grandeur of Doctor Zhivago, Gettysburg, Schindler's List, and The Lord of the Rings. And wonder if they'll ever be able to make movies like that again, given the labor component of six zillion extras and on-site filming expense.

But we can still enjoy excellently made "small sets" that don't require CGI. I can pop in my DVD of Twelve Angry Men or go back and see Knives Out for a third time.

But I can't sit through video games. I don't know if my way of viewing movies is unique or ubiquitous, but I become immersed in them. I love that feeling. But there's no immersion when the graphics stink to high heaven.

absolutely agree... looks all wrong and to top the idiocy is that phone call of the German sub captain... omfg what's wrong with all those movie makers?