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Missing Gallipoli (Peter Weir - 1981) I went to Uni with a mature age guy who was one of the extras for the army. If I remember correctly he was ADF reserves at the time.
Without the draft getting 5000 extras for your film would be way too expensive.
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Surely you have to draw a line somewhere, though? Adolf Hitler was a painter and Kim Il-Jong directed movies. Neither of them was any good, but if they had been, would it really make sense to judge their art in isolation, without the slightest mention of the authors’ tyranny and mass murder? Griffith made movies that he fully intended as Ku Klux Klan propaganda. That is not in doubt. At the same time these movies are…
How about a space battle scene with and without CGI? Compare "The Dam Busters" from 1955 with propeller airplanes to "A New Hope" with X-wings, title says 1977 but I think this is one of the enhanced editions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M
WW2 fighters in space has always seemed really weird scifi to me. If we ever fight wars in space it will be done by computers trying to out maneuver eachother over millions of miles.
How about a space battle scene with and without CGI? Compare "The Dam Busters" from 1955 with propeller airplanes to "A New Hope" with X-wings, title says 1977 but I think this is one of the enhanced editions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M
WW2 fighters in space has always seemed really weird scifi to me. If we ever fight wars in space it will be done by computers trying to out maneuver eachother over millions of miles.
It's entertainment. Dogfights in space with pew-pew lasers are entertaining and make intuitive, if not technical, sense to people who understand how aircraft work. Drones making slight corrective maneuvers and sniping each other at light-second distances isn't entertaining.
How about a space battle scene with and without CGI? Compare "The Dam Busters" from 1955 with propeller airplanes to "A New Hope" with X-wings, title says 1977 but I think this is one of the enhanced editions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M
WW2 fighters in space has always seemed really weird scifi to me. If we ever fight wars in space it will be done by computers trying to out maneuver eachother over millions of miles.