The Dambusters
Posted by: JWM on 03 September 2007
Just to flag that TOMORROW, 4th SEPTEMBER there is a one-off chance to see the newly restored print of this classic 1954 film at Cinemas up and down the Country. This is part of the British Summer of Film festival. And the universal starting time seems to be 18.30hrs.
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Posted on: 03 September 2007 by Derek Wright
I believe it is also a digital projection rather than film projection showing.
Home theatre writ large.
Home theatre writ large.
Posted on: 03 September 2007 by Chris Kelly
With any luck a DVD version will be released in due course. Apparently the name of Gibson's dog has not been edited in this version, which is good.
Posted on: 03 September 2007 by JWM
quote:Originally posted by Derek Wright:
I believe it is also a digital projection rather than film projection showing.
Home theatre writ large.
Oh is it?
But I'll enjoy the biggish screen rather than the usual portable...Posted on: 03 September 2007 by Derek Wright
AT the Portsmouth Vue the KO is 8:20pm
I saw The Dambusters first time in 1955 when the film first came out on the day before I went to the big school, there was a great cheer in the cinema as the planes flew past Lincoln Cathedral - why? the cinema was within 1 mile of the Cathedral and there was a great local feeling about the RAF and the many RAF stations in the countryside.
I saw The Dambusters first time in 1955 when the film first came out on the day before I went to the big school, there was a great cheer in the cinema as the planes flew past Lincoln Cathedral - why? the cinema was within 1 mile of the Cathedral and there was a great local feeling about the RAF and the many RAF stations in the countryside.
Posted on: 04 September 2007 by Steve Bull
Get in there quick before the Hollywood re-make, with the Americans making the raid...
Posted on: 04 September 2007 by JWM
Have just got back from the 6.30pm screening at Bury St Edmund's. Almost full, mostly under-30s.
Digital or no, SIMPLY SUPERB!
That film that we all know so well is tranformed by being on the big screen. The place was absolutely hushed. It was almost as we were watching it for the first time.
The detail! The quality of the shots, especially the framed long shots! The appreciation of acting nuances and - I have to say - no hiss on the soundtrack, clear unjumbled dialogue, and the silence going round the empty rooms of the dead flyers at the end! It is simply stunning.
And the anti-war aspect of the film comes across more than ever, "...I've got some letters to write first..."
James
Digital or no, SIMPLY SUPERB!
That film that we all know so well is tranformed by being on the big screen. The place was absolutely hushed. It was almost as we were watching it for the first time.
The detail! The quality of the shots, especially the framed long shots! The appreciation of acting nuances and - I have to say - no hiss on the soundtrack, clear unjumbled dialogue, and the silence going round the empty rooms of the dead flyers at the end! It is simply stunning.
And the anti-war aspect of the film comes across more than ever, "...I've got some letters to write first..."
James
Posted on: 04 September 2007 by Derek Wright
James - It started on the big screen, it is how I first saw it - not s some postage stamp sized gray mass in the corner of the room <g>
However the image quality of the Sound of Music trailor was not very good, but the B&W Dambusters was in the main very clear there was the odd uunsharp shot and it was easy to see the way that some of the shots had been made up by double printing the background (view thru the window) with the subject inside the rtoom, the image interface crawled or moved.
Some of the shots of the water from the planes were noticeably combined either back projection - or double printed.
I believe that the overall war benefit was not as great as Barnes Wallis hoped for.
However well worth venturing out after dark to see the film (DVD)
However the image quality of the Sound of Music trailor was not very good, but the B&W Dambusters was in the main very clear there was the odd uunsharp shot and it was easy to see the way that some of the shots had been made up by double printing the background (view thru the window) with the subject inside the rtoom, the image interface crawled or moved.
Some of the shots of the water from the planes were noticeably combined either back projection - or double printed.
I believe that the overall war benefit was not as great as Barnes Wallis hoped for.
However well worth venturing out after dark to see the film (DVD)
Posted on: 05 September 2007 by acad tsunami
I had wanted to see this and take a neighbour who flew Wellingtons during the war but sadly neither of us could make it. He is in his late 80s and still flies having just taken his PPL.
Posted on: 06 September 2007 by Rico
"hollywood remake"??? Errr, that'll be Wellywood, mate.
Peter Jackson Talks About "Dambusters"
Peter Jackson and Quint discuss THE DAMBUSTERS remake
"...what I liked about the original film and the true life events, something that we won't be changing with our telling of the story, is the way that this scientist, Barnes Wallis, had to convince the government of this crazy idea to develop what seemed like an impossible thing; a bomb that weighed something like 9 tons, I think it was, that could bounce on the surface of a lake."
Peter Jackson Talks About "Dambusters"
Peter Jackson and Quint discuss THE DAMBUSTERS remake
"...what I liked about the original film and the true life events, something that we won't be changing with our telling of the story, is the way that this scientist, Barnes Wallis, had to convince the government of this crazy idea to develop what seemed like an impossible thing; a bomb that weighed something like 9 tons, I think it was, that could bounce on the surface of a lake."
Posted on: 06 September 2007 by BigH47
Can't they just leave things alone. I find it hard to imagine a better version. OK the visuals may be SOTA but does any one think they can re-create the emotional side of the '54 version. I think not.
Can PJ and others not use there considerable talents doing new projects? There must be 10s of thousands of books and stories already out there that are worthy of filming.
Howard
Can PJ and others not use there considerable talents doing new projects? There must be 10s of thousands of books and stories already out there that are worthy of filming.
Howard
Posted on: 06 September 2007 by Deane F
I'm interested to see how the considerable talents will name the dog. Will they stick with the original's "Nigger"....?
Posted on: 06 September 2007 by ianmacd
quote:Originally posted by Deane F:
I'm interested to see how the considerable talents will name the dog. Will they stick with the original's "Nigger"....?
I really hope so. It doesn't offend me in the slightest. In fact, they should give the dog a bigger role in the film!
I love black labradors - total, unconditional affection. If only we humans could be the same....
Can you imagine the producers/studio insisting on a different name for the dog and the successful breach of the dams, what the hell would they call it?
Ian
Posted on: 06 September 2007 by Tony Lockhart
My father in-law, keen as mustard on military history, assures me that they are changing the dog's name for the remake.
Tony
Tony
Posted on: 07 September 2007 by Rockingdoc
I remeber seeing this in the cinema with my father in about 1960. I also clearly remember him telling me then that using "Nigger" was offensive.
So what's changed?
So what's changed?
Posted on: 07 September 2007 by domfjbrown
quote:Originally posted by BigH47:
There must be 10s of thousands of books and stories already out there that are worthy of filming.
"The last of the really great whangdoodles" by Julie Edwards springs instantly to mind; a trippier-than-"Charlie and the chocolate factory" kids' book that could work on adult levels too. For one thing, that book always taught me to "look up"...