Kelly's Heroes

[Larry Reese]

I saw saints and soldiers when it was first released. Don't remember much about it, other than it was a good effort for a really low budget film.

LR

Oh, and yes, the turret being forward on the KH Tigers is one of the key give aways, the proportions are exactly T-34/85. The drive wheels and the treads themselves are another (besides the overall dimensions).

And I'm sure I'll PO a bunch of folks here, but I have to say again, that while I appreciate the effort in Saving Private Ryan, I actually find the movie itself very poor (see other posts on this topic, particularly because there would be no need to try and hold the bridge, and I just can't suspend my disbelief). There are so many true stories worth telling - I just don't understand the need to make something up, and more over, to make up something that is just ****** quality. The same with a movie like Titanic - what a disappointment. Huge budget, lots of reasonably done period pieces and sets, and a vast number of fascinating true stories to tell, and instead they concoct some dumbed down vomitus to put on the screen. I just don't understand this fascination with "the Hollywood writer can make things so much better than real life." Same with "The King's Speech." Nice film, sure. Oscar quality, nowhere close. And far too many liberties with the real history to "make it exciting." More than ten years prior to the speech noted at the height... oh, skip it. You guys can read about it if you want. Particularly the speech he made at the opening of the Australian parliament in the early 30s.

Sorry for the book length post dudes...

LR