Ol-Skool-Perv
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Bloody excellent stuff!!
The battle sequences are just plain amazing.
I am a stickler for detail and realism, hence before Saving Private Ryan and BoB, I'd always been left wanting.
The BoB scene where the men are about to advance on the town is a prime example of this exquisite combat filming. When the krauts open up on their position with LMG fire, the array of bullet richochet, deflection, and contact sounds is bloody captivating. There's so many different pitches and sounds being created by the walls of lead being fired their way...jaw dropping.
What the makers of SPR and BoB don't do is why I love them so much. Unlike all the shit action movies and cartoon war movies out there, in SPR and BoB you'll not see...
The Dance of the Bullet Riddled Victim - we've all seen this too many times before. The shot shows the unlucky bad guy, or good guy, being hit by automatic small arms fire. As the multiple rounds slam into his torso one after the other in stylised blood packet squibs, he remains standing in place, arms flapping about, legs quivering, doing the funky chicken. Only after the last bullet rips through his body does the "actor" fall to the ground...or my favorite...falls over a railing or out of a window.
In BoB, death is quick and sudden. From standing and alive to lying in a dead heap in mere seconds. When the dude pops the fleeing Nazi in the back from distance, the target drops hard to his final resting place, a puff of smoke on his back and DOWN. For me, perfect realism.
The Magazine That Never Empties - on average, most automatic weapons fire ten bullets per second. The Thompson and the MP-40 were a bit slower methinks, but not by much. Call me crazy but when I watch a movie and some kind of automatic weapon firing gets going, I start counting. All too often the firing continues long past real life re-load time. Watch the final bank robbing sequence in HEAT. I can't stand it. 30 round clips that go on and on and on and on. No one trained to use these weapons properly would ever fire such long bursts. So many movies have this unrealistic gunplay. That's Hollywood? Fuck Hollywood!
In BoB, the "PINGs" of the empty clips popping out of the M1 Garand rifles are numerous and realistic. The soldiers fire bursts, they re-load and they get killed while trying to do so. No one squeezes the trigger for 6 seconds and takes out 4 bad guys from an open, standing position. Thank god!
I'm probably alone on this one but for me, today's stylised, sensationalised gunplay seen in "action" movies sucks shit. Throw in some slow motion bullshit and I'm really about to hurl. SPR and BoB brought me to combat paradise and satisfying me more would take quite an effort. Oh yeah, the BoB storyline was amazing too. Ya wanted more combat, but in the end the ballance portrayed was like real war .
The battle sequences are just plain amazing.
I am a stickler for detail and realism, hence before Saving Private Ryan and BoB, I'd always been left wanting.
The BoB scene where the men are about to advance on the town is a prime example of this exquisite combat filming. When the krauts open up on their position with LMG fire, the array of bullet richochet, deflection, and contact sounds is bloody captivating. There's so many different pitches and sounds being created by the walls of lead being fired their way...jaw dropping.
What the makers of SPR and BoB don't do is why I love them so much. Unlike all the shit action movies and cartoon war movies out there, in SPR and BoB you'll not see...
The Dance of the Bullet Riddled Victim - we've all seen this too many times before. The shot shows the unlucky bad guy, or good guy, being hit by automatic small arms fire. As the multiple rounds slam into his torso one after the other in stylised blood packet squibs, he remains standing in place, arms flapping about, legs quivering, doing the funky chicken. Only after the last bullet rips through his body does the "actor" fall to the ground...or my favorite...falls over a railing or out of a window.
In BoB, death is quick and sudden. From standing and alive to lying in a dead heap in mere seconds. When the dude pops the fleeing Nazi in the back from distance, the target drops hard to his final resting place, a puff of smoke on his back and DOWN. For me, perfect realism.
The Magazine That Never Empties - on average, most automatic weapons fire ten bullets per second. The Thompson and the MP-40 were a bit slower methinks, but not by much. Call me crazy but when I watch a movie and some kind of automatic weapon firing gets going, I start counting. All too often the firing continues long past real life re-load time. Watch the final bank robbing sequence in HEAT. I can't stand it. 30 round clips that go on and on and on and on. No one trained to use these weapons properly would ever fire such long bursts. So many movies have this unrealistic gunplay. That's Hollywood? Fuck Hollywood!
In BoB, the "PINGs" of the empty clips popping out of the M1 Garand rifles are numerous and realistic. The soldiers fire bursts, they re-load and they get killed while trying to do so. No one squeezes the trigger for 6 seconds and takes out 4 bad guys from an open, standing position. Thank god!
I'm probably alone on this one but for me, today's stylised, sensationalised gunplay seen in "action" movies sucks shit. Throw in some slow motion bullshit and I'm really about to hurl. SPR and BoB brought me to combat paradise and satisfying me more would take quite an effort. Oh yeah, the BoB storyline was amazing too. Ya wanted more combat, but in the end the ballance portrayed was like real war .
