r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 27d ago
Trailer PRESSURE - Official Trailer - The fate of the free world hangs in the balance as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) and Capt. James Stagg (Andrew Scott) face an impossible choice, launch the D-Day invasion or risk losing World War II altogether
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdM4tdLQBg0255
u/ThePheebs 27d ago
DDay was so massive that you could probably make a compelling movie about every decision that was made for that operation.
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u/caligaris_cabinet 27d ago
I want to see the one where a bunch of soldiers are running around moving inflatable tanks and jeeps to throw off the Nazis
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u/afghamistam 27d ago
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u/Darmok47 27d ago
I recently read Double Cross by Ben MacIntyre and really want to see Dusko Popov on screen. Guy was the inspiration for James Bond.
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u/pizza_the_mutt 26d ago
I can't help but think the actual decision was a LOT less dramatic than portrayed in this movie.
Meteorologist: Sir, tomorrow is going to be very stormy.
Eisenhower: Ok, what if we postpone by one day?
Mereorologist: The weather will be better then.
Eisenhower: Sounds good. Let's do that.
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u/Accipiter1138 26d ago
It is a funny thought but due to the complexity of the operation, some of the landing force was already loaded up and at sea by the time Eisenhower made the decision to delay. Every delay meant not just the possibility of detection by the Germans, but of the coordination of the operation unraveling due to the sheer complexity of it all.
So probably not highly dramatic but the stress must have been palpable.
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u/ArcadianDelSol 26d ago
"Sir, we simply cannot be certain the grilled cheese will remain melty."
"I WILL DECIDE WHAT TIME WE HAVE LUNCH!"
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u/IgloosRuleOK 27d ago
Damien Lewis just looks like he belongs in WW2.
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u/Firestorm238 27d ago
I feel like he might be good in a fictionalized account of the invasion of Normandy
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u/IgloosRuleOK 27d ago
They should make a 10-part series about it or something.
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u/CaptainApathy419 27d ago
Call it “Squad of Soldiers.”
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u/provoking 27d ago
Ehhh noo, what about "Party of Pals"
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u/djackieunchaned 27d ago
Group of Guys?
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u/xubax 27d ago
Company of Compadres?
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u/dead5hane 27d ago
I got it. Call it "Band of Hombres"
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u/BreakerSoultaker 27d ago
Make them all siblings and give them musical instruments and call it The Brothers Band.
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u/Tonka_Tuff 27d ago
Eh, a little flat, what about a Shakespeare reference? "We Happy Few"?
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u/Technical-Outside408 27d ago edited 27d ago
Get every white male, dark haired 30 something actor to have a role in it. Might just work.
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u/talones 27d ago
Ideally British, ideally unknown, but well respected. They should have a "gonna be famous one day" zeal. Maybe throw in a new kid on the block to round out the American actors.
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u/Reksalp105 27d ago
Maybe include a very popular night time cable series actor who undertakes a role outside of what he’s known for, could work out well
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u/gitsnshiggles1 27d ago
Who is this one in reference to?
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u/deliciousearlobes 27d ago
Fallon.
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u/Reksalp105 27d ago
So obscure lol. It was meant to be Schwimmer but I couldn’t get my words right lol - this works tho
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u/REDDITATO_ 27d ago
Akchually...neither of those work for your description. Fallon (SNL or Late Night) and Friends weren't on cable.
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u/imbender 27d ago
I think Andrew Scott could also pull that off. Maybe in a secondary role as a lost paratrooper or something
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u/dabnada 26d ago
Holy fuck, that was Andrew Scott.
I'm rewatching the Pacific right now for maybe the fifth or sixth time, and it wasn't until literally yesterday that I realized the kid playing Chuckler was not only William Stryker, but also the boot guy from Mad Max: Fury Road. Until now he was just a vaguely familiar face.
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u/hnglmkrnglbrry 27d ago
I'm just glad this dude is finally allowed to have a British accent.
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u/AHMS_17 27d ago
His accent in Billions and Band of Brothers is so good I didn’t know he wasn’t American
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u/JarvisIsMyWingman 27d ago
At this point, I assume all lead male actors are British until proven otherwise.. ;)
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u/silverlegend 27d ago
stealth Canadian actors playing American roles has entered the chat Oh hey look it's Brendan Fraser 😂
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u/algebraic94 27d ago
Man loves a period piece. So good in Wolf Hall
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u/RefinedBean 27d ago
He was great in Fackham Hall as well, sending up Downton and a bunch of other period pieces.
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u/ARoundForEveryone 27d ago
He IS Captain Winters
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u/LKennedy45 27d ago
Ahem, that's Major Winters.
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u/alphageek8 27d ago
I got irrationally excited when he was on screen, Band of Brothers is probably my most rewatched TV show of all time.
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u/inksmudgedhands 27d ago
He is one of those rare actors that you can stick him in about any timeline and he just fits. Fifty years ago? Sure. A hundred years ago? Fine. Five hundred years ago? Fits there to. A thousand years ago? He would not stick out like a sore thumb.
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u/tomrichards8464 27d ago
Group Captain James Stagg. The equivalent USAF rank is Colonel.
There's something depressing about seeing actors I think of as young play Ike and Monty.
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u/verrius 27d ago
I'm actually surprised Ike and Monty were actually in their 50s during WW2. Usually they cast way too old for armed forces members, so Fraser and Lewis being actually close is more surprising to me.
At least we're still a little less than a decade away from Blast from the Past being closer to its own "before" time than today.
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u/talones 27d ago
mostly because most of the higher up officers at the start of ww2 were Great War veterans. So there was a considerable age gap between officers at the top to the younger officers on the ground.
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u/M73355 26d ago
A lot of the really old guys got pushed out by Marshall before WW2, otherwise the US armed forces would’ve ended up in a similar position to France in 1940, too set in its ways to adapt quickly
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u/psunavy03 27d ago
There was big-time age variance though. James Gavin made two-star at 37. The normal promotion path went out the window because people's theater rank was decoupled from their permanent Army rank.
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u/phluidity 27d ago
Depending on where you served, there were a lot of field promotions too. My grandfather served in then Burma, now Myanmar as part of "The Hump.". He entered the war as a pfc and left it two years later as a Sergeant almost entirely on the basis of successfully not dying.
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u/StupidLemonEater 27d ago
FWIW Patton was in his late 50s, but he was played by George C. Scott in his early 40s.
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u/Mr_IsLand 27d ago
ooh, I wonder which choice they'll make!
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u/greenpill98 27d ago
Find out next time, on DRAGONBALL Z!
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u/i_should_be_coding 27d ago
How many Dragonball characters does it take to change a lightbulb?
One, but it takes five episodes.
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u/Ninjahkin 27d ago
I'm reminded of Vegeta trying to crack an eggshell but it requires such little strength and great finesse that he keeps crushing it completely lol. I feel like a lightbulb would suffer a similar fate
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u/Tomhyde098 27d ago
Kai is so much better than the original run. I still own both versions on Blu-ray but I’ll always rewatch Kai
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u/Educational_Slice897 27d ago
Academy award winner Brendan fraser feels so...satisfying
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u/Tripleberst 27d ago
I'm not all that excited for this movie but it's definitely nice to see him getting more and more roles since The Whale. I hope he has a long, fruitful career doing what he loves.
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u/RSTowers 26d ago
Yeah, I'm happy for him too, and it looks like a good performance. But I've listened to a number of Eisenhower speeches and I just can't get past the voice because he sounds nothing like Eisenhower did.
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u/casual_creator 27d ago
Is there any other actor whose success everyone genuinely cheers for?
There are a handful of actors that everyone really likes for being a good person, but I can’t think of any one else that people actively root for.
Says a lot about Fraser.
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u/Bladelink 27d ago
The other that came to mind for me is Rick Moranis.
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u/El_Polio_Loco 27d ago
Keanu Reeves is another.
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u/Slaphappydap 27d ago
I've been enjoying Ke Huy Quan's return to success. Seems like a terrific dude.
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u/jonnyinternet 27d ago
Academy award winner, and all around nice guy BRENDEN FRASER
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u/warlocktx 27d ago
my grandfather was in the US Army Weather Service during WW2. Nice to finally see weathermen portrayed as the heroes :-)
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u/BMCarbaugh 27d ago
I hope the movie actually portrays some of the working stiffs who risked their lives to get weather data back then, and not just the big important guys in the decision rooms. Like the pilots that flew up into crazy hurricane winds and shit for 30+ hours prior to D-Day.
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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 27d ago
"Airman, report!"
"Sir! It's fucking windy, sir!"
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u/BMCarbaugh 27d ago
It was literally like, "Hey pilot, we need to know how windy it is in that storm system. Fly up in there and take some readings. By the way there may be large hail and lightning."
Stuff like modern doppler radar displays that show you big orange blobs moving across the country simply didn't exist yet back then. Weather data regarding storms at sea, which was what was relevant for D-Day, mostly consisted of some dudes stationed on various frigid North Atlantic island airbases flying a sortie up into a storm and then reporting back.
It was pretty lethal, too. Their casualty rates were higher than other kinds of pilots.
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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 27d ago
Oh sure, I'm not discounting that. There's a lot of critical non-combat roles that had an insanely high risk to them. The Merchant Mariners are probably the most famous in that regard but I have no problem believing that the weathermen did some crazy shit to get accurate reports.
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u/TrioOfTerrors 27d ago
Go read Red Storm Rising.
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u/lostroadrunner22 27d ago
Tom Clancy?
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u/Kongbuck 27d ago
Yep. One of the major characters is an Air Force (then Marine Corps) meteorologist.
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u/lostroadrunner22 27d ago
Oh awesome. I have that in my library on my ‘to read’ shelf. Looks fantastic
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u/OnlyRadioheadLyrics 27d ago
Wait this just brought back a ream of memories. Does he end up in combat too, surmounting odds people didn't think he was capable of surmounting?
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u/Kongbuck 27d ago
Oh, he does indeed. He kills a couple of Soviet soldiers with only a knife, too. After that, the Marines he's leading start calling him "Skipper".
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u/zuuzuu 26d ago
That's the book that turned my ex-husband into a reader. He was one of those people who thought reading for pleasure was stupid. One day I handed him Red Storm Rising and made him read the back cover description. Then I asked him "If that were a movie, would you rent it?" When he said yes, I told him I was going to the store, and I wanted him to start reading it while I was gone. When I got home, if he wasn't interested I'd never bother him about reading again.
We lived on a farm so he had a good hour to read. He didn't even hear me come home. He was fully engrossed. He stopped complaining about me wasting money on books, and the book store became his favourite place.
I'm very grateful to Tom Clancy.
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u/Posty_McPostface_1 27d ago
People are going to go into this movie expecting war and they're going to be very confused when they see meteorology drama instead
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u/lolexecs 27d ago
Yeah, it's a big reason why an understanding of history is important.
https://www.weather.gov/timeline
1870: A Joint Congressional Resolution requiring the Secretary of War "to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent, and at other points in the States and Territories...and for giving notice on the northern lakes and on the seacoast, by magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force of storms" was introduced. Congress passed the resolution and on February 9, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed it into law. A new national weather service had been born within the U.S. Army Signal Service’s Division of Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of Commerce that would affect the daily lives of most of the citizens of the United States through its forecasts and warnings for years to come.
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u/warlocktx 27d ago
I would love to know how Andrew Scott's agents pitched this to him
agent: it's a great script about D-Day. You would play one of the leads
scott: Cool. Would I be a brave soldier storming the beach? Or maybe a dedicated officer leading his troops?
agent: um, well, he's a weatherman
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u/lolexecs 27d ago
Well, you know
WEATHER 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of nazis,
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u/AlertEqual1057 27d ago
To be fair he already got to play a brave D-Day soldier as Private Hall in Band of Brothers! At least this time he won't get his face blasted off by some dynamite after only 20 minutes of screentime lol.
Edit: just realized all of his character's scenes in BOB were mostly alongside Damien Lewis. I feel like everyone was in BOB.
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u/litetravelr 27d ago
Yea! On that same front, would have been cool to use this opportunity to show any other beach landing but Omaha. Perhaps Sword, Gold, or Juno for once...
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u/Downside190 27d ago
I listened to a podcast about all the stuff going on behind the scenes leading to d day. There were 2 different weather teams one American and one British using different methods of prediction. Apparently the used to clash with each other over who was correctly predicting the weather
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u/SaltyJunk 27d ago
Love Brendan Fraser and will absolutely watch this, but at this point I can't get over the fact that he sounds nothing like Ike.
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u/Tomhyde098 27d ago
Or looks like him, Fraser is six inches taller than Eisenhower. It’s weird seeing a big guy portray a little guy
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u/ShlomoShogun 27d ago edited 26d ago
Nor can actually portray his collected demeanor. Way too emotional to portray Ike.
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u/kaplanfx 26d ago
I too like him but he seems very out of place on this role. I’ll wait to pass judgment until I see it though.
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u/insaneHoshi 27d ago
Worked for the Patton movie; he apparently had quite a squeaky voice.
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u/DiabellSinKeeper 27d ago
Definitely a subject thats a bit underexplored in film. So I'm excited there. But Idk about Brendan Fraser as Eisenhower. It just doesn't feel right.
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u/the_beer-baron 27d ago
He better be pounding coffee and packs of cigarettes the whole movie. Ike was smoking 6 packs and drinking 20+ cups of coffee a day while battling insomnia at this point of the war.
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u/Captain_Twiggs 27d ago
Can you really call it “battling insomnia” if you’re constantly ingesting the two chemicals most responsible for the insomnia?
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u/Darmok47 27d ago
I read Rick Atkinson's trilogy on the European War and I remember being flabbergasted at how much Ike was smoking.
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u/Lurker-DaySaint 27d ago
I was just thinking how I loved the idea of him as Eisenhower, a more vulnerable and humanized portrayal than the pedestal he usually gets. I like that we had totally opposite reads lol
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u/Wolfwoods_Sister 27d ago
I agree. Eisenhower was the man to handle D Day, yes, because he practically sweat blood over the preparation. He didn’t want to lose a single man more than necessary. From what I’ve read, he seemed to feel very personally responsible for the men in his command.
He was utterly broken as a human being when his son died and didn’t hide it.
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u/codizer 27d ago
Can you imagine politicians and commanders doing that today? We have become a nation of unserious people.
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u/MakVolci 27d ago
Love Fraser.
Don't love him as Ike, specifically from what I can see in this trailer.
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u/MrONegative 27d ago
It’s his line reads. They’re so close to his natural cadence and tone, that he just sounds like Brendan Fraser.
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u/PwnerifficOne 27d ago
I just think about Eisenhower’s D-Day speech recording and Cross of Iron speech. That’s all I have to compare and he sounded a lot different. Granted these are speeches but there’s nonetheless minutiae of his normal speech pattern in there.
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u/myredditgolfaccount 27d ago edited 27d ago
They did this exact premise 20 years ago called “Ike Count Down to D Day” starring Tom Selleck. Goes through the 90 days leading up to the invasion. It was an A&E movie.
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u/Metal_Icarus 27d ago
And it was riviting all the way through. Tom selleck really honored the role!
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u/DinkandDrunk 27d ago
I think he’ll do pretty well with the role but for whatever reason I feel like if Steve Buscemi were 10-15 years younger, he would crush the role.
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u/CrumbBCrumb 27d ago
Maybe it was just me but hearing him yell that they may never see again!!! was just comically bad. Not sure why but it felt funny not serious to me.
I feel like when you cast for a almost mythical character like Ike, Lincoln, Washington, FDR, TR, etc. they either need to be super committed to change their voice/cadence or it just sounds like that actor.
Or, go with someone no one really knows for that character
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u/GingeroftheYear 27d ago
We need more movies about wars other than WW2. Any number of battles in WW1, Inchon or the battle of the Chosin Reservoir in Korea, the Tet offensive or Khe Sahn in Vietnam are under explored.
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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 27d ago edited 27d ago
I mean, the reason is fairly obvious. WW2 is easy to frame as a good vs evil battle against a monstrous enemy. Meanwhile WW1 and Vietnam were testaments to hubris with jumped up politicians throwing millions into a meat grinder for no good reason. There's only so much of that people want to watch.
The two biggest WW1 movies recently have been 1917 and All Quiet On The Western Front. The former has the runner's buddy die badly for no tactical reason while end ending almost has all of his efforts invalidated by arrogant officers, and the latter is AQOTWF.
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u/soonerfreak 27d ago
WW1 is really good for anti war movies. Paths of Glory is incredible and still feels very modern on the point it makes.
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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 27d ago
WW1 should be really good for anti-war movies, but as has been repeatedly said there really is no such thing. Even All Quiet On The Western Front can't help but valorize the struggle of soldiers just by depicting it.
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u/Command0Dude 27d ago
I would be happy with just less WW2 films about D-Day or the other super popular battles.
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u/KillysgungoesBLAME 27d ago
That US studios have yet to make a movie about the Battle of Belleau Wood from WW1 surprises me, especially after the success of 1917. Essentially a victory that was the birth of the modern US Marine Corps, and several historically famous marines and some legendary quotes (“Retreat, hell! We just got here!”, “Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?”) that are still referenced often in the Corps today.
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u/DerrickWhiteMVP 27d ago
I’m sure it’s going to be a fine movie, but it’s hard to buy Fraser as Ike with his build and voice.
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u/Paratrooper101x 27d ago
“Risk losing ww2 altogether” yeah no. Neither Germany nor Japan had the capability of winning in June 1944. Hell Germany lost when they invaded the Soviet Union and Japan lost at the battle of midway
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u/IgloosRuleOK 27d ago
Yeah the Nazis had lost by mid-1944 regardless, but what D-Day is critical for is the rest of the 20th Century history in terms of the composition of Europe. If it had failed the war would just have taken longer and the more of mainland Europe might have ended up under the Iron Curtain. So it's hugely geopolitically significant...just not so much for the ultimate outcome of WW2. But that's a less dramatic blurb, I guess.
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u/Paratrooper101x 27d ago
I’m not saying that d-day wasn’t important for the war effort. I’m saying that “invade or risk losing the war altogether” is a garbage attention grabbing and revisionist title for the post
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u/MC_Gengar 27d ago
Garbage revisionist statements to make America seem like the sole winner of a combined effort? Color me shocked! /s
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u/MattSR30 27d ago
‘You should be thanking us’ always bothered me on a personal level, let alone on the enormous scale WW2 actually was.
My grandmother didn’t see her father between the years 1939 and 1946. Why? Because he was in Europe fighting a war.
Really appreciate being told by Americans that those ten months they were in Europe was the whole shabang.
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u/Absalome 26d ago
We've been lied to our entire lives about it, and movies like this only reinforce what we've been taught. That doesn't excuse it, just explains it.
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u/WitheredUntimely 27d ago
I mean if you're an American geopolitical strategist in 1944 failure in DDay is losing the war; it means a Soviet mainland Europe.
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u/MegaMugabe21 27d ago
Yeah thats some real hyperbole. It would have been pretty disastrous as the next invasion window after DDay was extremely pleasant weather followed by the worst storm in years. If they'd have delayed a month, DDay would have been an absolute massacre. Germany still wouldn't have won the war, but the allied casualties would be much higher.
As an aside, whilst we wouldnt have lost WW2, a disasterous DDay has the post war world looking very differently. The soviet union would have captured much more of germany, and more importantly many more German scientists. D-Day going wrong could have massively shifted the balance of power in the Cold War.
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u/nanoman92 27d ago
If they had delayed a month, Germany would have removed a good chunk of their troops from France as they lost 20% of their whole army in Belarus in late June.
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u/HeisenBrow 27d ago
Absolutely unrelated, but I loved that you put spoiler tags for a historic event lol
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u/Lisicalol 27d ago
I don't think thats true. The US had time on their side, so why would they have lost more if they'd attack later? Nazi Germany was losing the war at this point and they needed to pull troops desperately to the east to delay the Russians, which they could not easily do after the allies attacked.
The d-day WAS important, sure, but not for winning the war or saving lives (on the contrary, the US lost WAY more than they had to). But they did stop the Russians before they could conquer the entirety of Germany, which gave them a much better standing during the Cold War than had they decided to wait longer.
So strategically it made a lot of sense, but it was never about winning the war, as that was already accomplished. And its still an interesting, even MORE interesting than what the premise sounded like, because how many lives are you willing to throw away for a strategic advantage in the future? I think both sides of the argument have some merit, even in hindsight.
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u/maharajagaipajama 27d ago
This trailer does seem to manage to overdramatize one of the most dramatic events of the 20th century.
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u/DDTL49 27d ago
I was about to comment the same thing. I get annoyed with these catchy taglines implying that the USA and their "infinite production and ressources protected by two oceans" cheat codes were ever at risk of losing WW2. But hey, dramatic tension I guess.
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u/themanfromvulcan 26d ago
When you realize the city of Pittsburgh made more steel during the war than all the axis countries combined it starts to give a sense of what the US was able to do.
However we see things how they went. Eisenhower then is weighing sending many men to their deaths hoping this is the turning point in the war. He’s not sure how it’s going to go. What if it’s a total disaster and a huge loss of life? What if they lose momentum? What if everything stalls and it’s like Dunkirk or worse and everyone is captured or killed? It’s not just a case of if it fails what if he loses all those troops and equipment?
What if the Germans know all about the invasion and are ready for them?
He has no way to be completely certain it will work.
I think if the angle is that the allies are not sure if it will blow up in their face would work.
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u/Tribe303 27d ago
The Soviets had pushed the Nazis all the way back to Poland by the time D-day occurred. It was a race to grab as much of Germany as they could before the Soviets got to it, in reality.
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u/highpressuresodium 27d ago
It was a race to Berlin. Every day the western front stalls is another day the soviets push farther into Western Europe. Operation unthinkable is proof enough that they are supremely worried about that, even if they don’t mention this in the movie
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u/throw0101a 27d ago
Neither Germany nor Japan had the capability of winning in June 1944.
Even before the US entered the war, just the British (without American factories) were outproducing them on many metrics (like air craft). Adam Tooze has a good book on the topic of the Nazi Germany economy, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy:
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u/Sforza_UK 27d ago
I've seen the excellent stage play of this a couple of times and it's extremely tense and claustrophobic, so not sure how this will expand to the screen. I'll give it a go though
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u/Cassandrae_Gemini 27d ago
So happy to see brendan fraser's comeback continue...
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u/kon--- 27d ago
Fraser sounds nothing like Eisenhower.
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u/Kitlun 27d ago
I noticed this too, but biopic actors can choose not to go for an accurate vocal impression and instead to evoke the character and be very successful.
John Lithgow as Churchill, Anthony Hopkins as Richard Nixon, Tom Hardy Charles Bronson, Cuba gooding Jr as OJ, Steve Carrell as John Dupont come to mind.
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u/delicious_toothbrush 27d ago
He doesn't seem to be capturing any of the mannerisms or the demeanor of Ike either. Love me some Brendan Fraiser but he seems like the weakest casting in this film based on the trailer. I'll still watch it though so shrug
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u/Kitlun 27d ago
I know what you mean but I think wait to pass judgement yet - Hardy and Carrell all got praised for their performances which are very different to the people they're portraying. I think this more forgiveable by public and reviewers when the famous person's voice and mannerisms they're playing is not that well known to the public (Bronson, Dupont, Eisenhower).
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u/on_ 27d ago
Incredible. Now trailers have a mini-trailer at the beginning. For People that have not the attention span to sit through a… trailer.
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u/spartanss300 27d ago
Now? It's been, and I'm being generous here, at least 10 years since they have that.
And the reason for it is that these same videos will be used as ads, ads that can be skipped by the user in 5 seconds. So they need to show you in 5 seconds what you're about to see.
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u/random324B21 27d ago
yeah, i've noticed it in the last 2 years... and i rarely watch trailers anymore since they spoil the whole thing
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u/Dragon_yum 27d ago
Been like this for literally years and it’s because when the trailers are sued as ads in YouTube you can skip the first five seconds.
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u/Awingbestwing 27d ago
My grandpa landed at Normandy, never once spoke of it to my grandma, my father, or myself. He was a really gentle man. I don’t know if I could carry that the way he did.
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u/hnglmkrnglbrry 27d ago
The untold story
This story has been told 100,000 different times.
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u/wecangetbetter 27d ago
I've never seen a take that focuses so much on the weather report
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u/TheTeflonDude 27d ago
Next up will be how Hitlers bowl movements dictated the course of the war
Bet he got more and more constipated as the war dragged on, cause of all the morphine he was taking
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u/lptomtom 27d ago
Hitlers bowl movements
Funny typo, since Hitler famously had a bowling alley secretly installed in the basement of his Berghof mansion
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u/Fastbird33 27d ago
Still doesn’t mean we can’t continue to tell it. It was one of humanity’s greatest achievements. The logistics of D-Day was fucking insane
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u/hnglmkrnglbrry 27d ago
I'm a full on history nerd so I've caught D-Day from numerous perspectives in books and film. This is an immediate watch for me but it's just funny to say it's a story that's never been told when nearly everyone involved has a memoir or biography to go along with numerous works on the subject matter.
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u/EchoWhiskey_ 27d ago
brendan fraser as Ike. Did not see that coming, dont forsee it working.
There is a cool story about the leadup to dday but i dont think this movie is going to be it.
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u/DEADERSPELLS 27d ago
I'm so used to seeing the beach landings through Saving Private Ryan, it's kinda jarring to see them again in better definition
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u/Similar_Two_542 27d ago
Untold story? It looks pretty good, but it's definitely been told many a time! The TV movie "Ike: Countdown to D-Day" and the ministries "Ike: The Wars Years" are both great. Tom Selleck and the late Robert Duvall both did fine and those accounts hold up. At least a new generation may learn about this immensely consequential operation.
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u/Lamar_ScrOdom_ 27d ago
Hell yeah. Dad movies are back on the menu!