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Enemy at the Gates ---- True story!!

prangleprangle Member Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited December 2001 in General Discussion
I'm watching it now and just happened to see the documentary on the History Channel a fewdays ago. I recommend it to all Gun nuts!!Well the ending was not historicaly correctand too much love story but a good movie nonethe less!![This message has been edited by prangle (edited 12-02-2001).]
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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    It is a good show, really shows the difference in attitude the leaders of the USSR took towards the troops. The every other man gets a gun thing was something else. I didn't buy into a couple of parts of it, though. In particular, intentionally reflecting the broken glass in the German sniper's eyes at precicely the correct moment...I just don't think so.
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah. Hollywood strikes again. They took a very straightforward story and made an epic out of it. Most of the movie was extraneous filler.Mudge the movie critic
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    You want to know the weird thing, though?Essentially, sniper rifles havent gotten significantly more accurate or rugged since since then. The same characteristics that were important then are still important now.I myself would kill for a mint condition WWII-era Mauser Gewehr 98, Mosin-Nagant 38, Springfield M1903, or Lee-Enfield MkIII (used by German, Russian, American, and British snipers, respectively).
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  • Mark IIMark II Member Posts: 247 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saw the movie in the theater, bought it last week, and watched it last night. Now my wife is telling me to buy a Nagant rifle to go with my Mauser. I'll do it too, because ya'll know that it isn't too often that we are told to buy guns!
    "To meet with ill fortune is to meet with good fortune. To meet with submission is to meet an enemy."
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bullzeye....I'm asking this because I don't know, not to be a smart *.If the rifles you covet had been used by snipers in WWII, how could they be mint?What "use" marks can be on a weapon and still have it classified as mint?Mudge the apprentice
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • mlincolnmlincoln Member Posts: 5,039 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I saw the movie as well and thought the opening was fantastic, a few scenes thereafter were good, and the rest of it sucked eggs. I mean, really now. Interestingly, the whole premise of the movie, the famed sniper duel, may not have really occured. Read Anthony Beevor's Stalingrad and you'll see what I mean. The book the movie was based on, War of the Rats, is awful and you shouldn't waste your time. A much better movie about Stalingrad is Stalingrad, a German movie that came out some years ago. Look for it on ebay or Amazon.
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