Aggie_Journalist said:

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To make it all about the weather report seems like a really narrow telling of a much wider and more interesting story.

They drew up fake plans showing the invasion would happen elsewhere and put them on a corpse dressed as an officer which they dumped at sea knowing that when it washed up on a Spanish beach, the Spanish would share what they'd found with Hitler, all in the hope that it would convince him the invasion would happen elsewhere.

They built a fake army with inflatable tanks in east Britain and deployed Patton there as a decoy.

They turned a number of German spies into double agents to feed fake reports back to Berlin.

All to make the Germans think the invasion would land elsewhere.

The weather report seems kind of small and boring compared to the whole larger picture of deception that went into making DDay a success.

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OldArmy71 said:

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I am a big fan of WWII movies and I wanted to see this, but the trailer does nothing to entice me.

I was born when Truman was president but I actually remember Eisenhower quite well. I remember what he looked like and sounded like. And of course I have seen interviews with him that he did after his presidency, for the 20th anniversary of D-Day, for example.


I just can't get past this: Brendan Fraser is a good actor, but he is terribly miscast. He looks and sounds nothing like Ike. He does not have the gravitas for this role.

I'll wait for it to appear on TV.

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bonfarr said:

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I like Fraser but don't buy him as DDE.

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Agree. Ya'll will maybe think I'm crazy but I think Woody Harrelson would pass as pretty fair likeness for a movie.

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