daskal Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Opens 17th Oct in cinemas - Tiger 131:fIAGWUFo32I I guess tank enthusiast will be able to pick the movie apart how inaccurae it is, but I'm just happy to see something on the Big screen finally. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Hopefully the boys from Bovington didn't need to give her too much TLC between takes.Just love the US film industry - if its not made in Hollywood it didn't exist."First film with a Tiger in it".I'm sure the Germans had a whole bunch. But just in case newsreels / propaganda don't count ...Then the Brits made "Theirs is the Glory" in 1946(?) with Pz III, Pz IV, Panther, Tiger I and Tiger II (admittedly the Tiger II is a wreck - hadn't been removed from Arnhem yet). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 You mean this movie 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 You mean this movie Yep. Panthers: 37mins and beyond (and 44mins +) Pz III and Tiger I: 43mins and beyond Tiger II (on fire): 57mins and beyond Maybe I should send the link to the guy from Fury. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Yep.Panthers: 37mins and beyond (and 44mins +) Pz III and Tiger I: 43mins and beyond Tiger II (on fire): 57mins and beyond Maybe I should send the link to the guy from Fury. Bugger me, a moving panther, I thought those things broke down every 5 mins? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 (edited) Bugger me, a moving panther, I thought those things broke down every 5 mins?Well given the 6 Pdr firing at it from about 20m, I suspect if wont be moving for long (in fact one of them, now knocked out, is shown later as the Paras head for the river and their "little" swim). Edited October 10, 2014 by Gibsonm 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daskal Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 bits and pieces from one of the Tiger vs Sherman fight scenes (might be the only one in the movie?) Tiger 131 looks cool, even in desert camo...Kinda spoiler:PqO368CeY6A 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisenschwein Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 LOL, Hollywood.And I guess at the End this Firefly shoot the Tiger in the Back, LOL !Don´t forget: All Germans are ugly, bad and stupid. All they can do is eating Sauerkraut and Bratwurst the whole day... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grenny Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 LOL, Hollywood.And I guess at the End this Firefly shoot the Tiger in the Back, LOL !Don´t forget: All Germans are ugly, bad and stupid. All they can do is eating Sauerkraut and Bratwurst the whole day...Don't forget our appetite for RULING ZE WORLD 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacbat Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 All they can do is eating Sauerkraut and Bratwurst the whole day... With polka music in the background. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Don't forget our appetite for RULING ZE WORLDNot by military force.You discovered the best way to rule the whole of Europe is simple.Borrow money to most of It . LoL 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Volcano Posted October 10, 2014 Moderators Share Posted October 10, 2014 Don´t forget: All Germans are ugly, bad and stupid. All they can do is eating Sauerkraut and Bratwurst the whole day... Don't forget our appetite for RULING ZE WORLD Well, it is a movie about the 1940s after all. Too bad the Tiger doesn't turn and just sits there waiting to be shot up the rear, though a flank shot from a Firefly would certainly do the trick anyway. :heu: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkLabor Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Cool! Wot the movie...Another item for the crap list. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 I Remember watching a documentary on WW2 tank combat. With a WW2 tanker commenting on how you took on a tiger in a Sherman One section of the platoon charged it head on firing smoke to try and blind it. Or what ever they had available While the other section tried to flank it. On average they lost three tanks to take out one Tiger. The Brits took on the tiger in a similar way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisenschwein Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 And the most killed Tigers on Western Front, were PzKpfw IV´s. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDeath Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Whatever critics you all have, you are all going to see that movie, aren't you? :bigsmile: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDeath Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 LOL, Hollywood.And I guess at the End this Firefly shoot the Tiger in the Back, LOL ! Don´t forget: All Germans are ugly, bad and stupid. All they can do is eating Sauerkraut and Bratwurst the whole day... Done already! www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1eFePf6mWM Anyway, here is the worst WW2 movie i have ever seen : "Company of heroes" where an american squad takes out the whole german army. Notice the "German" Panzer at 1.37 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Done already!That was not a real tiger its a T-34 VismodBut it was done very well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjay Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 With polka music in the background. Who needs an army, airforce and navy when you have polka music? If they had deployed that heavily in 1940, history would have turned out quite differently. :clin: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDeath Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Done already!That was not a real tiger its a T-34 VismodBut it was done very well.Yea i saw it on the wiki page, i watched the movie again and then I noticed the difference.I was refering to this, though"And I guess at the End this Firefly shoot the Tiger in the Back, LOL !" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outontheop Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 LOL, Hollywood.And I guess at the End this Firefly shoot the Tiger in the Back, LOL !Don´t forget: All Germans are ugly, bad and stupid. All they can do is eating Sauerkraut and Bratwurst the whole day...Yes, and at the same time: let me guess, and Tiger I was totally invulnerable to all allied weapons and always destroyed Sherman, right?Sorry, but 76mm-gunned Sherman could kill a Tiger I from any angle, at any reasonable combat distance (1000+ meters with HVAP). The very notion that such tricky maneuvering was even REQUIRED is itself a stupid Hollywood-ism, just as is the notion that Shermans were any more prone to burning than was the German counterparts; statistically, MkIVs burned just as easily as a Sherman, and were easier to perforate, to boot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogwa Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Heeeeere we go ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj.Hans Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Don't forget our appetite for RULING ZE WORLD REICHZEIT! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 I'm in!And the most killed Tigers on Western Front, were PzKpfw IV´s.Yes, every tank was a Tiger. It's understandable because people in 40s had even less knowledge about tanks than people today. The Germans did the same thing with the KV-1 and crappy T-34.Sorry, but 76mm-gunned Sherman could kill a Tiger I from any angle, at any reasonable combat distance (1000+ meters with HVAP).I gotta call you out on this one. I'll even help you out and tell you that the average engagement range was 890 yds in the ETO during WW2. Go look at the numbers. HVAP was rare (only 1-2 rounds were carried during the Battle of the Bulge) and statistically insignificant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDeath Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 I'm in!Yes, every tank was a Tiger. It's understandable because people in 40s had even less knowledge about tanks than people today. The Germans did the same thing with the KV-1 and crappy T-34.I gotta call you out on this one. I'll even help you out and tell you that the average engagement range was 890 yds in the ETO during WW2. Go look at the numbers. HVAP was rare (only 1-2 rounds were carried during the Battle of the Bulge) and statistically insignificant.Plus firefly itself was quite rare on the battlefield (one in 5 shermans?) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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