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Judith Matlock's avatar

I will probably watch MOTA anyway and keep your critique in mind. Just remembering a generation that rose to history's challenges in the way they did touches my heart on the one hand and tears me up on the other as I look around and see what's making our history these days. Onetime US grit has turned to grift and graft.

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Bruce Culver's avatar

Yeah, I am going to take away what stuff they do well, and enjoy that. I personally liked The Pacific, especially the battle sequences, which are stunning in their brutality and attention to detail. As for coherence, I seem to be a Philistine - I loath the end of "FURY" which is a travesty, but the art direction and set dressing of that picture are so good I tend to forget its flagrant fictions of fact (and even probability). The "Memphis Belle" movie's start-up and take-off sequence is one of the best I've seen - all done with just five B-17s., superb editing..... But the hordes of quasi-supersonic fighters zipping around in MOTA is a bit too much - some bright shining day they will learn to look at wartime news reels and gun camera film and go with that.

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TCinLA's avatar

There's news you will also see silver B-17Fs, since the bean counters told them to save money by combining the work on the B-17Fs (in camo) and the later B-17Gs (not in camo).

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