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Coming in June with Tom Hanks, called Greyhound. It is apparently based on 'actual events' -  despite it coming from a novel by C.S.Forester, and all the characters and the convoy and the mission are all fictional! It looks all very dramatc and full of exploding things, but I'm not sure it's brought the intensity and shear terror there must have been in the convoys.

 

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2 minutes ago, chrisjpainter said:

Coming in June with Tom Hanks, called Greyhound. It is apparently based on 'actual events' -  despite it coming from a novel by C.S.Forester, and all the characters and the convoy and the mission are all fictional! It looks all very dramatc and full of exploding things, but I'm not sure it's brought the intensity and shear terror there must have been in the convoys.

Always thought HMS Ulysees by A Mclean would make a great war film, this sounds like an americanised version of it.

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Hmmm... Hanks has got history here. He was an airline captain, ditched it. An astronaut, abandoned the mission. An army captain, got shot. A fedex logistics manager, plane crashed and marooned. A bulk container captain, got hijacked. He didn't even get laid in bachelor party!.

 Can this end well?

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28 minutes ago, Pistol p said:

Hmmm... Hanks has got history here. He was an airline captain, ditched it. An astronaut, abandoned the mission. An army captain, got shot. A fedex logistics manager, plane crashed and marooned. A bulk container captain, got hijacked. He didn't even get laid in bachelor party!.

 Can this end well?

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Looks like a typical American war movie, I’ve not seen it but will give it a watch when available, watching the trailer there was not one sequence that showed any Germans, do we see any? think the cat and mouse works better in movies like this if they build it around characters on both sides.

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1 hour ago, old'un said:

Looks like a typical American war movie, I’ve not seen it but will give it a watch when available, watching the trailer there was not one sequence that showed any Germans, do we see any? think the cat and mouse works better in movies like this if they build it around characters on both sides.

This is why Sink the Bismarck!, Tora! Tora! Tora! and the original Midway work so well. you see two sides and two sets of tactics pitted against each other. As to this one, I'm unconvinced...

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