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In Harm's Way - 1965

https://www.flickr.com/photos/142209609 ... 3217686302

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Zero Surprise!!...

No CGI there, but some pretty cool models.

Kirk Douglas thought the battle scenes with the models were amateurish. He complained to the Director Otto Preminger and offered to re-shoot the scenes with a special effects crew he had worked with before, at his own expense.

I saw In Harms Way when I was in grade school and thought the models used were some of the worst I had ever seen in a movie. All these decades later they haven't gotten any better,

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Had God intended for man to fly behind inline engines, Pratt & Whitney would have made them.

CB

http://www.angelfire.com/dc/jinxx1/Desrt_Wings.html

Agreed. The models were horrible and the explosions on them even more horrible.

But in some cases they did use real ships. Like the early scenes just after the Pearl Harbor attack.

Those are still cool pictures though.

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Better is the enemy of Good.

One of the issues of realism is the severe lack of details on the models they built. The ones in Tora Tora Torea were amazing compared to the pieces of crap built for "In Harm's Way"

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"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."

Once, watched it once. Struck me as an overwrought soap opera with bad models (Change my mind!) Now compare the modeling of "In Harm's Way" pictured above with the modeling of "Tora Tora Tora". A different universe.
http://www.daveswarbirds.com/tora/ships.htm