#4509678 - 03/06/20 05:12 AM
Re: Greyhound: another WW2 film with beautiful CGI and... Tom Hanks!! It's not a WW2 film if it doesn't stars Tom Hanks!!
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This looks like it might be interesting. It certainly will be good, Tom Hank's hasn't made crap since Joe vs. The Volcano but I am going to bet it will take some liberties with history, especially accuracy.
Still trying to figure out how they are going to explain Hanks as a Lt. Commander in 1942. The guy is 63 years old. Halsey was younger at the same point in the war. He would have been too old to draft and he would have been mandatory retired from the Navy long before the start of WW2. He could have been a merchant captain that volunteered but I don't know the age restrictions in 1942. The story has him out as a first time destroyer commander on his first combat mission.
I think the average age of a Lt. Commander during WW2 was probably under 35, even early on. I don't know, maybe they will CGI the s**t out of him which is fine as long as he doesn't look like a character from Polar Express.
And I know the selection of WW2 era destroyers is limited but there were very few Fletcher class DDs in 1942. The first ones weren't commissioned until June of 1942 and almost all of them immediately made for the Pacific. If anything they should have taken the USS Kidd and CGI altered it to look like a prewar Mahan or Porter class, something relatively new but not at the same level as a Fletcher. They certainly wouldn't turn one over to a 60 year old probable reserve officer who has never had a combat patrol of any kind, even in 1942. More than likely he would start out with an older four stacker and worked his way toward the newer ships when they came on line.
But these are early nitpicks. I am hoping it is good. We need good WW2 movies, especially ones with talent like Tom Hanks. He is getting too old for these roles but maybe he will inspire others start picking up more of the slack. Midway was ok but a little too hokey for modern times. I rolled my eyes at it as much as I enjoyed other parts.
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#4509680 - 03/06/20 05:50 AM
Re: Greyhound: another WW2 film with beautiful CGI and... Tom Hanks!! It's not a WW2 film if it doesn't stars Tom Hanks!!
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Looks awesome to me, but I loved The Enemy Below and have wanted a movie like that for a long time. I’ll take a great movie with less than cutting edge cgi over top notch cgi and a crappy movie any day.
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#4509683 - 03/06/20 06:54 AM
Re: Greyhound: another WW2 film with beautiful CGI and... Tom Hanks!! It's not a WW2 film if it doesn't stars Tom Hanks!!
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Thx for sharing, had not heard of this one yet! Probably loosely inspired by the true story behind Convoys HX 229 and SC 122. Way too much cgi to my taste but will give it a go anyway.
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#4509697 - 03/06/20 11:32 AM
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Still trying to figure out how they are going to explain Hanks as a Lt. Commander in 1942. The guy is 63 years old.
The same way it was explained how Lee Marvin could portray a US Army Sergeant as a 56 year old in the "Big Red One" in 1980?
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#4509699 - 03/06/20 11:35 AM
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And I know the selection of WW2 era destroyers is limited but there were very few Fletcher class DDs in 1942. The first ones weren't commissioned until June of 1942 and almost all of them immediately made for the Pacific. If anything they should have taken the USS Kidd and CGI altered it to look like a prewar Mahan or Porter class, something relatively new but not at the same level as a Fletcher. They certainly wouldn't turn one over to a 60 year old probable reserve officer who has never had a combat patrol of any kind, even in 1942. More than likely he would start out with an older four stacker and worked his way toward the newer ships when they came on line.
For history geeks like us at SimHQ this is some awesome analysis but let's be honest here, probably about 95% of the mainstream audience who will go see this movie won't even notice these errors.
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#4509726 - 03/06/20 01:56 PM
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Based on 1955 novel The Good Shepherd it looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Shepherd_(novel)
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#4509735 - 03/06/20 02:18 PM
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As for Tom’s age, he’s an actor. Doesn’t matter his own age. At 63 today he looks like a guy in his 40’s back then, so it isn’t a conflict. Halsey was barely 60 but looked over 80 by today’s standards. So many movies these days like to unrealistically show 20-somethings as teenagers, as if teenagers are fully grown adults. This time Hollywood actually did it right, having someone older but actually properly physically fits the look of the role.
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#4509738 - 03/06/20 02:28 PM
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As for Tom’s age, he’s an actor. Doesn’t matter his own age. At 63 today he looks like a guy in his 40’s back then, so it isn’t a conflict. Halsey was barely 60 but looked over 80 by today’s standards. . It must have been all of that tobacco smoking and 3 Martini lunches that aged men a lot back in the 40's. nah, its the hormones they put in our chicken to make our frogs gay
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#4509740 - 03/06/20 02:29 PM
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Yep. The good ole days! When pulling some scotch out of your desk and lighting up a still-healthy cig for a meeting wouldn’t get you sent to rehab or fired.
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#4509748 - 03/06/20 02:54 PM
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Looks very pew pew, should be fun on the big screen.
In other words, you can tell right away it's a Hollywood film. Stuff like "Gallipoli" and "The Lighthorsemen" would be snooze-fests for an American audience.
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#4509807 - 03/06/20 10:52 PM
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The captain in the novel was older than other destroyer skippers. He had been passed over for promotion and figured his navy career was over. But then, the war broke out and destroyer captains were badly needed. He finally got his command. But he was full of doubts about himself and wether he had what it takes. Was the navy right in not promoting him? Was he not good enough? Did he only get his command because the navy was desperate. All of these questions are tearing at him as he sets out to sea. On the cover of that book, you can see that the illustrator showed him with grey hair.
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#4509812 - 03/06/20 11:33 PM
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Everyone complains about CGI and it's not perfect by any means, but I see nothing in this trailer that is as bad as the butt-ugly Buchons that stood in for real Bf-109E's in the otherwise fabulous 1969 movie "Battle of Britain" or the M-48's pretending to be Panzers in the 1970 classic "Patton".
Visuals do not make, nor break, a well written movie.
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