Memorial Day is a great movie. But I don't understand why one would spend all that money on a movie and make a bonehead mistake like having the airborne troops ride in a halftrack on the way to the Grave Bridge. They parachuted in and walked to the bridge...no halftracks.
shareThat's what got me too - it's just basic research and really took the wind out of that first dramatic scene. They could have staged a 'Kussin ambush' of that Kubelwagen (like the 1st British Airborne historically did to the town commandant of Arnhem in what became a pretty famous - and grisly - photograph). Why did they go barrelling down the road in freaking TRUCKS and worse HALF-TRACKS?? Did they have really, really big parachutes to drop those things in? Did anyone have the sense to load them on JEEPS which probably would have cost less than bloody half-tracks.
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Here's a guess - the re-enactors brought them along!
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I figured that scene was after they had linked up with infantry and armor and so had the half-tracks and trucks. But if not then yeah, a bit of an error in the story line but no big deal for the overall story/scene IMO.
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