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'Take that you beeeeeeaast...'


Best line of the film?

Or what about:

"Well done the Royal" (ding-ding!) after zapping Graf Spee.

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I also like the one when Harwood says "We might as well be throwing snowballs" so he orders them in closer.

But my real favourite, that I put in the Quotes section, was:

[on board a badly shot up HMNZS Achilles]
Gunnery Officer: Captain, sir.
Capt. Parry, HMNZS Achilles: Yes, guns?
Gunnery Officer: We've fired nearly 1200 rounds sir. About one third of the arsenal only remaining.
Capt. Parry: Thank you. Are you all right?
Gunnery Officer: A few new ventilation gaps here, sir. A bit draughty, but otherwise all right.
[Capt. Parry turns to look at gunnery control position full of shell holes]

Steve

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Actually, "Well done, the Royals" is spoken while guns are being loaded before Ajax's first broadside. Apparently the Royal Marines manned X turret and were the first to have both guns loaded.

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I liked:

Captured British naval officer:I wonder what made us put our caps on?
Other British naval officer: Added protection?

Also: urgency over rides security.

Away with the manners of withered virgins

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"Look at us! A knight of the bar and a companion of the bar and we don't have a bathtub between us!"
*switches to a shot of the trashed officers quarters*

Opinions are just onions with pi in them.

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A knight of the bath and a companion of the bath.

They were made members of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_bath)

That makes it even funnier that they didn't have a working bath

Steve

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Best bit of the movie (IMO) is the comedy interlude of the 'clear' phone call to the British Ambassador in BA.


"Someone has been tampering with Hank's memories."

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