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American torpedo planes on poster! Ha, what a joke of a film!

posted 14 years ago by cbee2
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After watching the trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5iHJDnJcX8
my conclusion was B grade amateur production!!!

Then seeing on the movie poster and dvd / blu-ray cover
American torpedo planes - "Grumman TBF Avenger"
that only were used in the Pacific against the Japanese during World War 2,
made this even more of a joke production.

"Leningrad / Attack on Leningrad" poster
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3429863168/tt0432314

Grumman TBF Avenger
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TBF_Avenger

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TBM-1_waveoff_CVE-93.jpg

They should have put a swarm of German Stuka dive bombers,
or Heinkel HE-111s or other WW2 German bomber aircraft on the cover attacking Leningrad.

[–] collioure_bee 14 years ago

Completely agree, film was a waste of time. Dreadfully inaccurate and just nonsnse. I get the impression some of the reviews were written by people involved in the film.

[–] SteveResin 14 years ago

Appalling film, the acting is bad, the script is shocking, the sub plot involving the blonde British woman is utterly tedious.

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[–] hbokh 14 years ago

Regarding the plane(s) on the movie-poster, did you ever checked out the "Sukhoi Su-2"..?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-2

[–] dominic_alderson 14 years ago

The props apparently didn't rotate either :/

[–] Fig_Neutron 14 years ago

HaHa! No kidding, dominic--the planes on the poster look ready to plunk right down.

[–] Fig_Neutron 14 years ago

"Some Fight. Others Fall." Ker-Plunk

[–] packep 14 years ago

Hard to say but the planes on the posters could be the russian Lavochkin.

[–] cbee2 13 years ago

7 months later I finally watched the movie.
I thought it was OK.
What happened to the Western reporters was actually based on a true story.
This is learn't during the final credits.

About the poster; the "Attack on Leningrad" poster on IMDB is a Western version.

The Ukrainian poster is much more authentic / true;
examples;

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Leningrad-movie-poster/238109

http://blog.interdesign.tv/index.php?id=39

They have German Messerschmitt Bf 110s featured menacing Leningrad.
In the movie though the German planes that attack always seem to be Messerschmitt Bf 109s.

[–] VonLettow 13 years ago

...operating against U-boats with the US Navy and Fleet Air Arm and were probably used on the Arctic Convoys but that's as close as they ever got to Leningrad.

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[–] TrevorAclea 13 years ago

- for cutting and pasting bombers and swastikas on the sleeve for any war movie regardless of where it's set. Metrodome are infamous for their completely misleading DVD sleeves featuring action scenes that aren't in the films. They even tried to sell an East European romance as a biopic of Eva Braun simply because it had a character in it called Eva despite the character being Romanian!

"Security - release the badgers."

[–] aim4 13 years ago

Ummm, the Americans weren't the *only* producer of rotary engine planes during the Second World War, those aren't supposed to be Avengers and you are an idiot.