I never did. But I still know that you don't fly back 3 feet when you get hit by primitive machine gun fire. Or .50 cal fire. Or 12 gauge shotgun fire. Honestly even a 203 grenade to the chest wouldn't do what the guns did to people in this movie. I mean no other movie in existence does that anymore. EVEN WINDTALKERS wasn't that cheesy. Why do I feel like I could make a more legitimate Canadian film than this garbage?
shareI don't think it was clear what was throwing people around. I mean it could have been mortars for all we know.....it was chaos so it was hard to tell....
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If you feel that you can do better, by all means go ahead. Let us all watch it and we'll let you know whether or not it's better than "Passchendaele". Good luck.
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I agree with your urbanana, I think it is much more difficult to make a movie than it looks. Besides I don't really like ripping on things that are so close to some people. Like this story and this movie was like 12 years in the making, obviously it meant a lot to Paul Gross. It was also very personal because his grandfather fought in the war, and that alone would merit a lot of emotion. But yeah, i haven't done any research on how far someone could get thrown by mortars, which is very compelling to do right now! hahah
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geary, how do you know those things? You sound awfully confident and I doubt you've been shot by any of those.
shareare you kidding? machine gun fire does not blow you back. it was in the opening scene, no explosions or any other explanation. the machine gun fire picked the guy up off the ground and threw him in the air. I dont need to get shot to know this does not happen.
shareYou are such a tard. Everything portrayed was exacly as described in WWI and WTF is the difference between primitive machine gun fire and modern machine gun fire other than the fact that weapons used in the past were generaly a higher caliber?
shareI would imagine that, in the heat of battle, a soldier could well be hit by fire from more than one weapon at once. Guns, mortars, etc. It's not a "take your turn" thing.
shareIt could be just an artistic license to add dramatism. Please, stop looking for accuracy in movies, specially in war movies.
shareIn reality people don't get thrown around by bullets, they just drop. But this is a film and stuff like that happens in films because it looks more dramatic. It's not something movies are likely to stop doing any time soon either, because it's expected by the audience.
shareYou are such a tard. Everything portrayed was exacly as described in WWI and WTF is the difference between primitive machine gun fire and modern machine gun fire other than the fact that weapons used in the past were generaly a higher caliber?