O'farrell, not sure the mans first name but my grandfather was wounded 17 times and survived we have all the medals to this day, and the hat that had been shot through and shot his pinky off while he was holding young O' farrell in his arms, i hold this close to my heart
my grandfather who fought in the irish regiment, John O'Regan was shot 17 times at the brim of germany he survived by only the alcohol poured on his wounds during the time of battle, our family has a letter from king david during the period commiserating the duty that grandfather had done during the war, we also have in our possession a flask of one of the soldiers that died in my grandfathers arms that was in graved into the canteen with the words
Yea dude they all look like they just shaved and had a haircut and got their uniforms back from the drycleaners and just got new stuff and they're eating and drinking and look fat and happy omg I want to go fight in some trench warfare hehe ^_^
@arcticwarrior09 Well, the other side had trenches too. Generally, it's difficult to shoot people when they're in trenches, which is why they have them.
What I don't get about this film is that the commander talks about them being in Montabaun (the objective) easily, which means these men attacked in the south where in fact all the objectives were indeed taken on the first day and it was a major success, with minimal casualties and the bombardment had worked. It was in the north and in the centre that things fell apart, around Serre, Beaumont Hamel, Thiepval, La Boiselle etc. Plus, the soil would have been white/chalky from the shelling.
White people love to glorify past wars, brutality, etc Thanks to the 75 million Europeans killed in the wars of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, homosexuality, "career women", etc. You're all well on your way to extinction. Then we can begin the process of healing the earth and ending war forever.
@Titaan359 And there were no wars between black people, ever, I suppose, in e..g Africa? Ever heard of the Zulus? Ever heard of the slave trade, where African chiefs sold slaves they STOLE in WARS to white traders? Ever heard of Ghenghis Khan? Ever heard of what the Aztecs did to people? Wars are part of human nature, the strong will fight the weak, regardless of colour.
Absolutely right. Nonwhites are all so gentle and peaceloving,as we saw in the peaceful loving union of the hutus and tutsis, and the peaceful utopia of Pol Pots regime in Cambodia.
You are correct in all of your statements about trench warfare attacks. This movie, is however, inaccurate in one detail: the soldiers would be running at full speed across the open ground of no-man's-land.
I'm not sure if I really believe this film. I mean, I know it has historic truth, but didn't the soldiers have the sense to run and sorta keep low, and maybe move side to side? I cannot believe they just walked so slow and strait forward without ever even firing one shot at least.
The trench warfare manual of 1916 mentions that advancement during assault should be frontal, moderately paced and under no circumstances rushed, also mentions a displacement of about 2 yards per man. So I suppose there's a bit of truth in this depiction.
I'm not saying it's not stupid - it is. But I suppose that's just how things were considered back then.
Just senseless slaughter, sent to their deaths by fucking politicians, incompetent generals who were more concerned with saving face or "making a good show" than their men.
@baghend It's the way it will always be. There's aggressors everywhere and there will always be. One way or another either to invade or defend yourself, war will happen. It's just part of life.
Why not keep down and have the entire unit crawl foward under cover of darkness. Less casualties... and you might even take a few of the enemy soldiers with you.
@Earthman99999 I asked this a friend who was a member of the norwegian armed forces, and he just said, "Do you know how loud a crawling man is? Or even a sneaking one?" He said they once "killed" a scout during an exercise and he never knew where they were, he was 50 meters away, and my friend said you could hear him from more than 400 metres away, in a Forest! It's alsow as Monopolystory said, they didn't know better, also it's easier to conserve the unit cohesion when walking.
When someone charged a enemy trench position they didn't just walk they started walking then jogging then finally running once they were close and there was no grass in no-mans land lol its unreal , but still an ok movie
@jordanrockscool believed it was gallantry/intimidation to walk towards the enemy as a team even if they were gunned down and they weren't allowed to shoot until they were IN the trenches. I don't know why but the brits were more or less the ones who had this mind set of walking to their death. Sounds silly but back then it was pretty menacing
Thanks goodness our modern military has the brains to figure out that sending thousands of boys on a stroll through a maching gun infested field is a bad idea.
Thanks for posting this; now I don't need to bother seeing the film. Banal, artless, cheap and inaccurate piece of film-making. All that money wasted.
The Somme was a "quiet" sector until this time. look at Jeffery Malin's footage shot in the vicinity of the Hawthorne mine, the troops are advancing (you can actually see some falling to fire) across pasture land as seen in this movie. Showing a moonscape would be unrealistic in this case.
@TheLuom sorry mate i went to watch the edl march today and the police stopped the coach and battered this guy with truncheons its on youtube somewhere for nothing and the edl marched and even though leftwingers abused them spat at them and the police wanting the edl to retaliate but they did,nt,there was no arrests but the media are not happy the edl behaved so are using todays date next to last years photoes it fucking stinks and sorry i made mistake to you.
WW1 tactic was stupid they should of run zig zag and shit to confuse the machine gunners. They did a test on this. There where 8 britsh soldier carry Same equipment as they had in WW1 and all of them got slaughtered. Then they did a second test where the had less equipment and ran zig zag and out of those 8. 1 died
@MyLostKauz yes that's true but you must remember your looking at this with hindsight no one was prepared for modern war, especially the ageing generals who were stuck in an age before machine guns
@danuisortiz ok two things first of all The battle of the somme was preceded by a two week long barrage by nearly every gun in the British royal artillery, as their intention was to destroy the wire and the huge mine the crater of which can still be seen today. and this is two years into the great war this isnt 1914 at mons. You should spend less time on youtube and go read some books
@jamesb0551 True the grass is unrealistic in this battle, but the whole of the war wasn't just mud, grass still was present, especially in the Somme sector (but only before the bombardment) as the Somme was a "quiet" sector.
@TRUExSIGHTS yes but your missing the point this video is meant to be depicting the battle of the somme after the bombardment, there wasn't even one crater on the video never mind the countless there would have been
@jamesb0551 Yes it is highly innacurate, but they also missed out the wire of the enemy trenches (there's only a bit in the top of the video and even then it's nowhere near the amount it should be. I guess a low budget constrained it seriously.
@jamesb0551 It was the German side who were being shelled there.
Also, I'll just you give one quotation: "Britain, a nation used to relying on its naval muscle and its native pluck, entered the age of modern warfare on the green fields of the Somme."
@punipunipunisher The point i was making was that there's not even one shell hole. For a quiet sector yes that's believable. For a sector that had pre bombardment, not so much. That's all. Yes it wasn't just mud and mud everywhere, that's a few battles, but there was still some land scaring there, none of which is present in this video. The German lines (although not shown in this video) should atleast have some shell damage, though no battlefield was totally unscathed by 1916
@punipunipunisher Will admit I've not seen that video. However, they don't even show any battle damage to where the German lines are supposed to be infront of them. The artillery also isn't 100% accurate, especially in those times, so short rounds would have occurred.
@TRUExSIGHTS German lines were separated by several hundreds of meters, and during WW2 machine guns were actually being used for indirect fire. And the Bris were taking very heavy casaulties before they even reached their forward trenches, because they were advancing from their reserve trenches! This scene could be very well such a situation.
@punipunipunisher I do know you meant WW1. Yes the Vickers was used for indicet fire (it was the Maxim for Germany, but the same gun really). A few hundred metres doesn't really change the scenery that much. Shells can fall a few hundred feet short, or a few hundred feet too far. Depends on the skill of the gunners, and there were thousands present at the Somme. You are still right though, it may just be "out of shot" essentially from the idea of the producers.
@jamesb0551 that and the fat guy, and how clean they are, and how they dont run they just walk, and their pearly white teeth, and the chinese/ arabic music, and the fact that the officer has a revolver, but other than that its really realistic
The terrain fought over during the Somme campaign actually was actually largely grassy hills and fields. It doesn't quite look right though, does it? Given that we're so used to seeing the cratered moonscape of No Man's Land in WWI movies.
I don't understand. The film might have been low budget, but why did they use this particularly exemplary, well manicured field for no-man's land? I've seen more mud on a public footpath or around a farm gate, never mind something so theoretically bombed the fuck out of.
@snack881 I could be wrong here, but it could be that they are recreating the battle of somme. The soldiers are moving forward at walking pace as they did during that battle. Also, the fields of the somme where relatively untouched and pure up until the time the battle began. Just a guess.
@DominionOfTheSword That's the worst scouse accents in the history of scouse accents and Daniel Craig may have been born and raised in Cheshire, but no way does he talk like that in real life., if he did every scouser in the world would take the piss out of him. His real accent is a sort of cockney/welsh/brummie combination with a hint of broad yorkshire/geordie/west country?
@DominionOfTheSword no its not his accent he speaks like a londoner his family lives in queens park in london and i new him before he played the priest in elizabeth and i asked him if the trench made him realize what they went through in ww1 he said no you can,t just on film and it looks different in front of the camera,he is just a bloke he is not up his own arse.
This movie is quite inaccurate because back in ww1 the conditions were much worse. Especially towards 1918 when the war was raging at it's worst.
But in reality these soldiers would have been covered with mud and dirt,80% would be coughing and spluttering and the trench itself would have been knee deep in mud and dirt.
Paschendale has a much better reference to history and the conditions are much more realistic.
@ZekeMagnum Strict orders not to, not to mention that in the actual war they were burdened with *everything*. All of their supplies and shit. Funnily enough when the few parts of the line where British soldiers dumped all their gear beforehand and rushed the German lines they actually managed to take them, but were forced to fall back because the rest of the line hadn't done the same.
What if creative assembly made a WW1 game, I bet it would be called Europe Total Trenches, featuring 22/7 intense warfare of taking cover from artillery fires for hours and an improved diplomacy where no country gives a fuck about peace, and a combat AI that charges at you in the most unnecessary times. There will be a bonus unit that wears new shoes, only if you pre-order it.
@DinodudeEpic They probably would have been running in a normal charge. Not sure why they were walking here, unless it was to preserve a line so that when they reach the opposite trenches, they can press in from all sides equally
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2008Sameoldfitup 5 hours ago
let the Regan legacy live on, from birmingham michigan with pride
1594simonsays 8 hours ago
O'farrell, not sure the mans first name but my grandfather was wounded 17 times and survived we have all the medals to this day, and the hat that had been shot through and shot his pinky off while he was holding young O' farrell in his arms, i hold this close to my heart
1594simonsays 8 hours ago
my grandfather who fought in the irish regiment, John O'Regan was shot 17 times at the brim of germany he survived by only the alcohol poured on his wounds during the time of battle, our family has a letter from king david during the period commiserating the duty that grandfather had done during the war, we also have in our possession a flask of one of the soldiers that died in my grandfathers arms that was in graved into the canteen with the words
1594simonsays 8 hours ago
From 7:55 a bit like a napoleonic age charge looking at the many wounded.
Imperator071 17 hours ago
8:47 Sucks too be that guy.
Imperator071 17 hours ago
Atleast nice music what kinda fids from 8:40.
Imperator071 17 hours ago
Lol the green grassy fields of the Valhalla for warriors of trench warfare. That's what this one was. Geeeeeeeeeez
wilde1 20 hours ago
Yea dude they all look like they just shaved and had a haircut and got their uniforms back from the drycleaners and just got new stuff and they're eating and drinking and look fat and happy omg I want to go fight in some trench warfare hehe ^_^
wilde1 20 hours ago
This is crap. As awokendemon said the soldiers are too clean.
Also the lovely green grass between them doesn't look like the battlefield it should be. There would have been craters everywhere.
thebluemantis 2 days ago
Not enough mustaches!
slayer4103 2 days ago
The most brutal battle in British history was the Battle of Flanders Feilds in WWI, the british lost 500,000 troops in 1 day
ODST316 2 days ago
@ODST316 Not that many.
thebluemantis 2 days ago
@thebluemantis Yes, I've been a historian for 3 years, dont doubt me :)
ODST316 1 day ago
@ODST316 going back..it looks very silly ....
ollilim 15 hours ago
the Trench is a real bad movie :/
ice558 5 days ago 2
"Come on Billy, for fuck's sake."
CSAmerican 6 days ago
Why couldn`t they have shoot from the trenches instead of marching through?I though they had the lewis guns.
arcticwarrior09 6 days ago
@arcticwarrior09 Well, the other side had trenches too. Generally, it's difficult to shoot people when they're in trenches, which is why they have them.
EvansRowan123 3 days ago
guys, when will this film release in the cinema?
MRa11480 1 week ago
I never knew trenches had studio lighting, this is an awful attempt at recreation and danny luv a duck dyer is in it too! hahaha bollox!
NUTWAVE 1 week ago
pretty funny
pillutimati 1 week ago
I wish they would charge the front lines!!! Not slowly walk as the snipers pick you off one by one.
Hooty5379 1 week ago
this is one of the most unrealistic war films i have ever seen
Hornetman777 1 week ago
@Hornetman777 You need to see more than 2.
punipunipunisher 1 week ago
Have sniper scopes? Ya know
zuto96 1 week ago
These people r so dumb when u go over the top ur gona get massacred y don't they just a
zuto96 1 week ago
thse soldiers are too clean, they should be caked in mud piss and feces by then.
AwokenDemon 1 week ago 15
@AwokenDemon - I'd be caked in my own feces walking into a machine gun
oscarwildeghost 1 week ago
@AwokenDemon You would be wrong,The British army had high hygiene standards.
merseynational 5 days ago
What I don't get about this film is that the commander talks about them being in Montabaun (the objective) easily, which means these men attacked in the south where in fact all the objectives were indeed taken on the first day and it was a major success, with minimal casualties and the bombardment had worked. It was in the north and in the centre that things fell apart, around Serre, Beaumont Hamel, Thiepval, La Boiselle etc. Plus, the soil would have been white/chalky from the shelling.
THthefirst 1 week ago
Some of these guys went on to be famous actors.
burd1234 1 week ago
Wow... Yea green fields with rolling hills
TheLandFerry 2 weeks ago
White people love to glorify past wars, brutality, etc Thanks to the 75 million Europeans killed in the wars of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, homosexuality, "career women", etc. You're all well on your way to extinction. Then we can begin the process of healing the earth and ending war forever.
Titaan359 2 weeks ago
@Titaan359 wow really? like Asians, africa and india never had there own wars? go read some books.
mindadventurer 2 weeks ago
@Titaan359 And there were no wars between black people, ever, I suppose, in e..g Africa? Ever heard of the Zulus? Ever heard of the slave trade, where African chiefs sold slaves they STOLE in WARS to white traders? Ever heard of Ghenghis Khan? Ever heard of what the Aztecs did to people? Wars are part of human nature, the strong will fight the weak, regardless of colour.
THthefirst 1 week ago
@THthefirst Europe , and especially modern europe has been the mosdt vicious expansionist civilisation to date
olliephelan 1 week ago
@Titaan359
Absolutely right. Nonwhites are all so gentle and peaceloving,as we saw in the peaceful loving union of the hutus and tutsis, and the peaceful utopia of Pol Pots regime in Cambodia.
gunninlinguist 1 week ago
WTF!!! Genral Haig should have also suffered the same fate as his soldiers!!
ROMAN138 2 weeks ago
Why does every WW1 movie I've ever seen suck? (excluding war horse)
kylekadduide 2 weeks ago
@kylekadduide The Lost Battalion wasn't half bad. Is the best I've seen.
nurglesrot 2 weeks ago
@nurglesrot The portrayal of the German storm troops was completely ridicalous.
punipunipunisher 1 week ago
@kylekadduide Try "Gallipoli". I enjoyed that movie.
TheLoyalOfficer 1 week ago
@kylekadduide check out the series 'Anzacs' its probably my favourite.
SanctumStudios 1 week ago
@kylekadduide They "suck" because they dont have any real propaganda purposes.
therefore they dont get huge budgets
olliephelan 1 week ago
Wow, did all these soldiers had bathroom near their bunk and a Gillette shaver?!
plKleczek 2 weeks ago
i h8 sad endings!
123DwyaneWade456 2 weeks ago
didn't Gallipoli kind of end the same way?
BossHossGT500 2 weeks ago
@goyroyni
You are correct in all of your statements about trench warfare attacks. This movie, is however, inaccurate in one detail: the soldiers would be running at full speed across the open ground of no-man's-land.
Bossnessization 2 weeks ago
I'm not sure if I really believe this film. I mean, I know it has historic truth, but didn't the soldiers have the sense to run and sorta keep low, and maybe move side to side? I cannot believe they just walked so slow and strait forward without ever even firing one shot at least.
YambidiBlamBlam 2 weeks ago
@YambidiBlamBlam
The trench warfare manual of 1916 mentions that advancement during assault should be frontal, moderately paced and under no circumstances rushed, also mentions a displacement of about 2 yards per man. So I suppose there's a bit of truth in this depiction.
I'm not saying it's not stupid - it is. But I suppose that's just how things were considered back then.
goyroyni 2 weeks ago
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VoorbijDeRegenboog 2 weeks ago
brilliant. Horrible.
Just senseless slaughter, sent to their deaths by fucking politicians, incompetent generals who were more concerned with saving face or "making a good show" than their men.
A waste of beautiful human beings, on all sides.
All for fucking what?
baghend 2 weeks ago
@baghend It's the way it will always be. There's aggressors everywhere and there will always be. One way or another either to invade or defend yourself, war will happen. It's just part of life.
ikilledAeris 2 weeks ago
Ah yes, the "nonchalantly walk to the enemy's trench" tactic. They never knew what hit 'em.
cooljoe494 2 weeks ago 17
@cooljoe494 bro history is filled with stupid things that made sense then
jakjak503 2 weeks ago
@cooljoe494 Yes, a crafty move it is...you see all the whistles confuse them
cipher88101 1 week ago 6
Did the jews cause this war too?
SWEJEHTKCUF 2 weeks ago
@SWEJEHTKCUF Yes.... I also blame loose women and moonshine.
niteowlification 2 weeks ago
@SWEJEHTKCUF jews had nothing to do with Ww1
123DwyaneWade456 2 weeks ago
@123DwyaneWade456 JEWs had something to do with every war in the world look it up
SWEJEHTKCUF 2 weeks ago
Was this a B movie?
InvalidArguement 2 weeks ago
They're all very clean ??
62heinkel 2 weeks ago
is that the guy from defiance?
TheTERM1000 3 weeks ago
@TheTERM1000
yes, but i thought most people would recognise him as the new james bond ha
schoolterrorist 2 weeks ago
@schoolterrorist im 14 so i dont atch james bond
TheTERM1000 2 weeks ago
Is that James Bond?
Grandtemplar1191 3 weeks ago
why the fuck are they walking?!?! not runing
reaperq88 3 weeks ago
@earthman99999 it was 1916 and they were still using napolionic tactics.. they didn't know any better but just to send a ton of men forward
monopolystory 3 weeks ago
Why not keep down and have the entire unit crawl foward under cover of darkness. Less casualties... and you might even take a few of the enemy soldiers with you.
Earthman99999 3 weeks ago
@Earthman99999 I asked this a friend who was a member of the norwegian armed forces, and he just said, "Do you know how loud a crawling man is? Or even a sneaking one?" He said they once "killed" a scout during an exercise and he never knew where they were, he was 50 meters away, and my friend said you could hear him from more than 400 metres away, in a Forest! It's alsow as Monopolystory said, they didn't know better, also it's easier to conserve the unit cohesion when walking.
LupusAries 3 weeks ago
one of the great world war 1 films they really should make more their are so many on wwII
Beatlesluvanumber9 3 weeks ago
gimme the whole bottle, mate
pacoloco729 3 weeks ago
Lol how'd that one fatso get into the army? Even in world war 1 they had minimum level of fitness standards
underwateroutfitter 3 weeks ago
TALAGETO
yuki792 3 weeks ago
Would've been a good idea to run, instead if just walking in a group...though...
Silver77cyn 3 weeks ago
@Silver77cyn they had to cover a grea distance .If u ran , u woulod have run out of breath before u got to there enemy line
WONDERDRUGG 3 weeks ago
When someone charged a enemy trench position they didn't just walk they started walking then jogging then finally running once they were close and there was no grass in no-mans land lol its unreal , but still an ok movie
CaptainGhetto 3 weeks ago
These poor fuckers didn't die of gunshot wounds, they got digitally scrambled to death.
Lex5576 3 weeks ago
wait...so what's the strategy here...? :S
jordanrockscool 3 weeks ago
@jordanrockscool believed it was gallantry/intimidation to walk towards the enemy as a team even if they were gunned down and they weren't allowed to shoot until they were IN the trenches. I don't know why but the brits were more or less the ones who had this mind set of walking to their death. Sounds silly but back then it was pretty menacing
iseaall1205 3 weeks ago
Hugh Laurie 2:23
BossHossGT500 3 weeks ago
Thanks goodness our modern military has the brains to figure out that sending thousands of boys on a stroll through a maching gun infested field is a bad idea.
harmagician1 3 weeks ago
Why are they walking ? This movie looks like shit !
Russyo1992 3 weeks ago
Thanks for posting this; now I don't need to bother seeing the film. Banal, artless, cheap and inaccurate piece of film-making. All that money wasted.
1978ajax 3 weeks ago
Lambs to the slaughter
MrMontrose1967 3 weeks ago
The Somme was a "quiet" sector until this time. look at Jeffery Malin's footage shot in the vicinity of the Hawthorne mine, the troops are advancing (you can actually see some falling to fire) across pasture land as seen in this movie. Showing a moonscape would be unrealistic in this case.
balexwogel 1 month ago
how come they're just walking?
leoarguello2 1 month ago
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leoarguello2 1 month ago
@TheLuom no probs mate
september7891 1 month ago
@TheLuom sorry mate i went to watch the edl march today and the police stopped the coach and battered this guy with truncheons its on youtube somewhere for nothing and the edl marched and even though leftwingers abused them spat at them and the police wanting the edl to retaliate but they did,nt,there was no arrests but the media are not happy the edl behaved so are using todays date next to last years photoes it fucking stinks and sorry i made mistake to you.
september7891 1 month ago
Wit movie is this?
Tutorialso 1 month ago
WW1 tactic was stupid they should of run zig zag and shit to confuse the machine gunners. They did a test on this. There where 8 britsh soldier carry Same equipment as they had in WW1 and all of them got slaughtered. Then they did a second test where the had less equipment and ran zig zag and out of those 8. 1 died
MyLostKauz 1 month ago
@MyLostKauz yes that's true but you must remember your looking at this with hindsight no one was prepared for modern war, especially the ageing generals who were stuck in an age before machine guns
jamesb0551 1 month ago
Why are they so clean?
Dizzypotatoman 1 month ago
@Dizzypotatoman they are so clean cos its a movie and not real you idiot.
september7891 1 month ago in playlist THE TRENCH - MOVIE
@september7891
lololol im an idiot? it was a joke. lighten up man, we dont all have to be as depressed as you are :)
Dizzypotatoman 1 month ago
Needs more lice
flyinghippos102 1 month ago
Is this movie based off of the book All Quiet On the Western Front
nikkir0930 1 month ago
@nikkir0930 no. THere is a movie for that already.
danuisortiz 1 month ago
Let's go for a stroll boys.
sharklord 1 month ago
lol! the grass just destroys any realism
jamesb0551 1 month ago 29
@jamesb0551 lol yeah, I love how no mans land is like a beautiful pasture in this movie haha
Jayman135861 1 month ago
@Jayman135861 because it was. It's this battle that fucked it over.
danuisortiz 1 month ago
@jamesb0551 The somme won't be black until this battle. THIS is when the fields get fucked up, not before.
danuisortiz 1 month ago
@danuisortiz ok two things first of all The battle of the somme was preceded by a two week long barrage by nearly every gun in the British royal artillery, as their intention was to destroy the wire and the huge mine the crater of which can still be seen today. and this is two years into the great war this isnt 1914 at mons. You should spend less time on youtube and go read some books
jamesb0551 1 month ago
@jamesb0551 True the grass is unrealistic in this battle, but the whole of the war wasn't just mud, grass still was present, especially in the Somme sector (but only before the bombardment) as the Somme was a "quiet" sector.
TRUExSIGHTS 1 month ago
@TRUExSIGHTS yes but your missing the point this video is meant to be depicting the battle of the somme after the bombardment, there wasn't even one crater on the video never mind the countless there would have been
jamesb0551 4 weeks ago
@jamesb0551 Yes it is highly innacurate, but they also missed out the wire of the enemy trenches (there's only a bit in the top of the video and even then it's nowhere near the amount it should be. I guess a low budget constrained it seriously.
TRUExSIGHTS 4 weeks ago
@jamesb0551 It was the German side who were being shelled there.
Also, I'll just you give one quotation: "Britain, a nation used to relying on its naval muscle and its native pluck, entered the age of modern warfare on the green fields of the Somme."
punipunipunisher 1 week ago
@TRUExSIGHTS It's realistic.
punipunipunisher 1 week ago
@punipunipunisher The point i was making was that there's not even one shell hole. For a quiet sector yes that's believable. For a sector that had pre bombardment, not so much. That's all. Yes it wasn't just mud and mud everywhere, that's a few battles, but there was still some land scaring there, none of which is present in this video. The German lines (although not shown in this video) should atleast have some shell damage, though no battlefield was totally unscathed by 1916
TRUExSIGHTS 1 week ago
@TRUExSIGHTS They were bombarding the German lines, not the ground in between.
There's a famous photo of the soldiers leaving the trench on that day, you can see the lush green and unscarred terrain.
punipunipunisher 1 week ago
@punipunipunisher Will admit I've not seen that video. However, they don't even show any battle damage to where the German lines are supposed to be infront of them. The artillery also isn't 100% accurate, especially in those times, so short rounds would have occurred.
TRUExSIGHTS 1 week ago
@TRUExSIGHTS German lines were separated by several hundreds of meters, and during WW2 machine guns were actually being used for indirect fire. And the Bris were taking very heavy casaulties before they even reached their forward trenches, because they were advancing from their reserve trenches! This scene could be very well such a situation.
punipunipunisher 1 week ago
@punipunipunisher I do know you meant WW1. Yes the Vickers was used for indicet fire (it was the Maxim for Germany, but the same gun really). A few hundred metres doesn't really change the scenery that much. Shells can fall a few hundred feet short, or a few hundred feet too far. Depends on the skill of the gunners, and there were thousands present at the Somme. You are still right though, it may just be "out of shot" essentially from the idea of the producers.
TRUExSIGHTS 1 week ago
@TRUExSIGHTS I meant WW1.
punipunipunisher 1 week ago
@jamesb0551 So did the perfectly clean trench and uniforms, along with the missing rats and knee deap water.
GTX470sc 3 weeks ago
@jamesb0551 9:46
iseaall1205 3 weeks ago
@jamesb0551
maybe those are fresh trenches and somehow they managed to attract shelling to some other point
EdTheBadass 3 weeks ago
@jamesb0551 remember this was the FIRST battle of the somme
CrypticWatcher 3 weeks ago
@jamesb0551 maybe it is a brand new battlefield
kejos 3 weeks ago
@jamesb0551 That and the lack of barbed wire.
catsareweapons 2 weeks ago
@jamesb0551 that and the fat guy, and how clean they are, and how they dont run they just walk, and their pearly white teeth, and the chinese/ arabic music, and the fact that the officer has a revolver, but other than that its really realistic
SpecialBrowny74 2 weeks ago
@jamesb0551
The terrain fought over during the Somme campaign actually was actually largely grassy hills and fields. It doesn't quite look right though, does it? Given that we're so used to seeing the cratered moonscape of No Man's Land in WWI movies.
mco119 2 weeks ago
@jamesb0551 maybe it was supposed to be a testament to the beginning of the battle of the Somme ;o
chidoriookami 2 weeks ago
I don't understand. The film might have been low budget, but why did they use this particularly exemplary, well manicured field for no-man's land? I've seen more mud on a public footpath or around a farm gate, never mind something so theoretically bombed the fuck out of.
snack881 1 month ago
@snack881 I could be wrong here, but it could be that they are recreating the battle of somme. The soldiers are moving forward at walking pace as they did during that battle. Also, the fields of the somme where relatively untouched and pure up until the time the battle began. Just a guess.
nascar9and88 1 month ago
@snack881 Because there was no mud on that day in that place, a place which was not "so theoretically bombed the fuck out of".
Go and read a book, then talk.
punipunipunisher 1 week ago
The soldiers should be commended. That is easily the cleanest, and driest trench of the entire war.
Razgovory 1 month ago
@Razgovory Another "expert".
punipunipunisher 1 week ago
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walking into green hills and being shot from no where
CrackStuntMan7 1 month ago
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CrackStuntMan7 1 month ago
the scenes in the trenches are retarded, i doubt ww1 trenches were more quite than my bathroom.
gettincrazywithit 1 month ago
@gettincrazywithit They were. Brit ones especially, dandy clean buggers with not much to do.
danuisortiz 1 month ago
@HeavyMetalSocialist In 1916 between the lines was lawn like this? nonsense... the battle did not on the new ground...
deabajo 1 month ago
@deabajo It would had been more wild, but still green. A few holes, but not mud and craters. This battle marks the start of that.
danuisortiz 1 month ago
@deabajo Another fucking "expert". Read a book sometime.
punipunipunisher 1 week ago
That's Craig's actual accent. He uses RP in interviews and the like, but it is his actual accent
DominionOfTheSword 1 month ago
@DominionOfTheSword That's the worst scouse accents in the history of scouse accents and Daniel Craig may have been born and raised in Cheshire, but no way does he talk like that in real life., if he did every scouser in the world would take the piss out of him. His real accent is a sort of cockney/welsh/brummie combination with a hint of broad yorkshire/geordie/west country?
simroy 1 month ago
@simroy "cockney/welsh/brummie combination with a hint of broad yorkshire/geordie/west country" - oh yeah that's Cheshire, yeah...
:-?
DominionOfTheSword 1 month ago
@DominionOfTheSword no its not his accent he speaks like a londoner his family lives in queens park in london and i new him before he played the priest in elizabeth and i asked him if the trench made him realize what they went through in ww1 he said no you can,t just on film and it looks different in front of the camera,he is just a bloke he is not up his own arse.
september7891 1 month ago
Actually WWI was worse.Mud and dirt everywhere from constant bombings.
jgtdaw 1 month ago
@jgtdaw Bombing hasn't started in full.
danuisortiz 1 month ago
This movie is quite inaccurate because back in ww1 the conditions were much worse. Especially towards 1918 when the war was raging at it's worst.
But in reality these soldiers would have been covered with mud and dirt,80% would be coughing and spluttering and the trench itself would have been knee deep in mud and dirt.
Paschendale has a much better reference to history and the conditions are much more realistic.
TheProlaps97 1 month ago
@TheProlaps97 This is somme, not 1918. This battle, basically, marks the end of green in the no mans land.
danuisortiz 1 month ago
@TheProlaps97 Paschendale not about the first day on the Somme.
OK, I'm done with reading you retards.
punipunipunisher 1 week ago
Yeah Germany should of won WWI....... Go do some research before you make a statement like that.
kmorton65 1 month ago
If only germany won ww1 there wouldnt be this mess today.
deathbger 1 month ago
Still don't understand why they don't run.. were the sprint button not invented?
ZekeMagnum 1 month ago
@ZekeMagnum
It was so they all went into the trench at the same time.
So they could stand a chance against dozens of Germans with bayonets.
spudnick3490 1 month ago
@ZekeMagnum Strict orders not to, not to mention that in the actual war they were burdened with *everything*. All of their supplies and shit. Funnily enough when the few parts of the line where British soldiers dumped all their gear beforehand and rushed the German lines they actually managed to take them, but were forced to fall back because the rest of the line hadn't done the same.
TheXand19 1 month ago
Australian diggers did it better, just watch Galipoli
aussiedownunderman 1 month ago
A few years ago I visited the site of the Battle of the Somme on a school trip. It was so eerie knowing how many people had died there.
AcrossTheStars97 1 month ago
this looks really fucking stupid. they way they are walking on green hills 4 years into trench warfare...
Disseased 1 month ago
@Disseased You are "really fucking stupid".
punipunipunisher 1 week ago
What if creative assembly made a WW1 game, I bet it would be called Europe Total Trenches, featuring 22/7 intense warfare of taking cover from artillery fires for hours and an improved diplomacy where no country gives a fuck about peace, and a combat AI that charges at you in the most unnecessary times. There will be a bonus unit that wears new shoes, only if you pre-order it.
Jake4595 1 month ago 53
@Jake4595 Nah World at Total War :)
TheSirRoberto 1 month ago
@Jake4595 I thank the same thing ;)
hugovelocity 3 weeks ago 6
fatty takes up hald f the trench :)
nicolombo96 1 month ago
Was that Jude Law?
ContinentalPatriot 1 month ago
@ContinentalPatriot Daniel Craig
sizzle224 1 month ago
this is better than the movie war horse
joeythekangaroo1000 1 month ago
@joeythekangaroo1000 war horse was good too.
Ericman2043 1 month ago
@joeythekangaroo1000 yeah i suppose so
joeythekangaroo1000 1 month ago
@joeythekangaroo1000 I tell you war horse its about the horse and not about the war!
bf2lm1 1 month ago
@bf2lm1 cool i belive you i shall watch it ..it looks a nice movie dosent it? :)
joeythekangaroo1000 1 month ago
@joeythekangaroo1000 YES! =D
bf2lm1 1 month ago
@bf2lm1 =D
joeythekangaroo1000 1 month ago
I honestly still don't know why they weren't even running. (Or crouching either.)
I know it's world war 1, but at least run when throwing a bayonet charge.
DinodudeEpic 1 month ago
@DinodudeEpic Sorry if I sound unsympathetic to the soldiers though. Just noticing a really stupid tactical flaw.
DinodudeEpic 1 month ago
@DinodudeEpic They probably would have been running in a normal charge. Not sure why they were walking here, unless it was to preserve a line so that when they reach the opposite trenches, they can press in from all sides equally