@All - Please disregard this pedantry.
Mike the Pike wrote:Pilots flying in the tropics often flew with canopies open too.
Having crossed the channel (on a ferry) in mid-summer, I can confirm that it is
not tropical. It's fairly warm, but not tropical.
A couple of my own nit-picks.
The RAF used three letter ID codes on the sides of their planes, the planes in Dunkirk only have two characters on their flanks.
The yellow nosecones on Messerschmitts were only used from the Battle of Britain onwards I think. (Prior to that German planes had yellow tags on their tails).
Hardy's plane had no engine. At the end of the movie you can clearly see the propeller attached to a long wooden rod, with an empty space where the engine block should be.
Also I think (but I'm not 100% on this as the film didn't focus on them clearly) that some of the trucks seen behind the beaches are the more common, later models. This is perhaps due to the fact that most of the original, earlier models were... left on the beaches at Dunkirk.
It is a good movie, probably better if you aren't a rivet counter like Pikey or myself.
me_in_japan wrote:I quite fancy seeing Alien:Covenant, mind you, which nobody else seems to want to go near.
The franchise really peaked at the first film. Not to say that Aliens wasn't a good sequel, but the whole acid-drooling chest-poppery hasn't really been done any better despite (does a quick count) er... 7 additions to the story?
The review I heard from some friends who had seen it was roughly 'Random nobodies arrive on a planet, face-hugging happens, everybody dies. If that is your thing, you'll enjoy the movie.'
I think it is hard for the studios to do anything with the series beyond repeating roughly the same formula without alienating (see what I did there?) the fans.
Personally, I find Giger's creations quite disturbing and therefore have never really enjoyed the movies that much, certainly not enough to pay to watch them in a cinema. But as you say, to each their own. I hope that you enjoy it if you get to see it.
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