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goteamnick Mar 24, 2026 +309

I've read quite a bit about this, and I'm sceptical there's a whole movie in it.

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piercedmfootonaspike Mar 24, 2026 +192

A desperate attempt at making meteorological data interesting. The trailer made me laugh out loud. Watch it if you haven't, it's hilarious. "THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN WITH FAMILIES THAT THEY MAY NEVER SEE AGAIN!!!"

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MuscleCuse Mar 24, 2026 +112

I lol'd at that too. I assume the conversation went more like "Hey do you have that weather report for me?"

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TheWatersOfMars Mar 24, 2026 +54

I don't know, seems plausible to me. But every time I open my weather app I scream at my phone THE COURSE OF DOZENS OF RELAXING HOURS THIS WEEK MAY BE DECIDED BY YOUR LITTLE RAIN ICONS, so I might be biased.

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piercedmfootonaspike Mar 24, 2026 +42

That's exactly it. This whole movie is based on events that were almost certainly a series of dry, professional telegrams and letters, not explosive face to face meetings. The work the meteorologists did was important, but this is ridiculous.

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Purpleater54 Mar 24, 2026 +17

Don't get me wrong, the weather, and predicting the weather ,was a huge factor in the invasion of Normandy. They did delay the invasion a day, and if they had to postpone it a second time they might not have been able to invade for like another month, but yeah I dont think there's a whole movie here and im skeptical it was as dramatic as this will make it seem

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YsoL8 Mar 24, 2026 +3

I mean I assume there was tension in the HQ but its hardly 6 countries being overrun in weeks or the UK facing the prospect of losing its entire professional army within days or the Gemans being in sight of Moscow. For the UK by this point in the war the situation was practically comfortable compared with a couple of years before, the country was positively swarming with defences.

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Vince_Clortho042 Mar 24, 2026 +33

Barring the fact that Fraser is *completely* wrong to play Eisenhower (even with the balding hairdo), this line and the shot of Maverick Meteorologist Andrew Scott standing defiantly outside in a rainstorm (complete with his fists balled with determination) really highlight how much they're over-dramatizing a decision that was very important, but also probably pretty boring and matter-of-fact. Damien Lewis almost looks like he's impersonating Terry-Thomas with his snooty "oh what does a WEATHER MAN know?" RP accent too. There's a more interesting, probably better movie about the decoy army that was invented to distract Germany into thinking the invasion was happening somewhere else, and the other lengths the Allies went to to keep D-Day's date and location a secret. Operation Mincemeat covers the deception behind the invasion of Sicily, but I don't know if anyone's

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piercedmfootonaspike Mar 24, 2026 +22

I expect the movie to summarized thusly: Soldier: we need you to do a task only you can do, because you're the best of the best. Weatherman: it's going to be inclement weather when you wanna do the thing Soldier: lol, what do you know? I'm a soldier! I'm going to completely ignore your results, despite asking for them Weatherman: you don't understand! Soldier: we're doing the thing! Weatherman: you don't understand! Soldier: totally doing the thing now! Weatherman: you don't understand! Soldier: mother of god... You were right! I'm totally humbled Weatherman: told you so!

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piercedmfootonaspike Mar 24, 2026 +6

Oh, and r/RedditSniper

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Potore5 Mar 24, 2026 +2

>There's a more interesting, probably better movie about the decoy army that was invented to distract Germany into thinking the invasion was happening somewhere else Oh great! Now I wanna see THAT movie!

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YsoL8 Mar 24, 2026 +2

Someone really should do a ww2 MI6 movie After the war it was discovered that MI6 had taken or turned every last agent Germany sent and in the process destroyed Hitlers confidence in his intelligence and generals, which set up their spiral into total military dysfunction.

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WorthPlease Mar 24, 2026 +1

I would guess the decoy army would be part of this movie. It's a pretty big part of the invasion and planning which the movie seems to revolve around.

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SomeScientist Mar 24, 2026 +3

When I watched the trailer and it showed the soldiers screaming on the beach I couldn't help but hear them yell out, "IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE RAINING!!!!"

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ZenBreaking Mar 24, 2026 +3

I watched the trailer and at the start I assumed it was the yanks version of the Churchill movies for oscar bait and then half way through they start showing balloons and meteorology reports , i was like what the actual f*** ha ha

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piercedmfootonaspike Mar 24, 2026 +3

Produced by the people behind "the darkest hour", so...

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TrillDough Mar 24, 2026 +4

I love BF but his yelling voice is pretty absurd. It sounds like a fat uncle yelling out at his nieces and nephews playing too loud in his brother’s backyard while he’s sipping beers watching the game while thanksgiving dinner is still getting prepared.

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DimensionMediocre439 Mar 24, 2026 +60

They made a whole ass movie about sorting mail during the war. Any boring subject can be turned into a movie, just have it take place during ww2.

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nhSnork Mar 24, 2026 +13

Other settings work as well, even fantasy. We weebs remember when Spice & Wolf first descended upon us and made *economics* fun.

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epicfail1994 Mar 24, 2026 +9

I mean that’s more cuz Holo is adorable

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N8CCRG Mar 24, 2026 +4

And boring dads keep buying tickets to every stupid WW2 movie, so it works. I cannot stomach the genre anymore and don't know why the rest of the public hasn't gotten tired of it yet. WW1 is more interesting, and much less explored by Hollywood, if they want something along those lines.

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arandomguy111 Mar 25, 2026 +1

WW1 has a non clear cut "evil" antagonist side and the American presence was much smaller, which is why it's less explored by Hollywood.

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N8CCRG Mar 25, 2026 +1

Two more reasons why it's a much better avenue for new and more interesting stories!

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s101c Mar 24, 2026 +1

They also made a movie about delivering mail during the war (1917) and it is one of the best movies in its genre.

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gellatintastegood Mar 24, 2026

That movie was actually somewhat watchable and it led to those veterans getting real recognition by the gov!

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DimensionMediocre439 Mar 24, 2026 +5

Nah, I'm sorry but that one was so boring and don't get me started on the General. Quite insulting even when they reduced characters to such stereotypes.

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gellatintastegood Mar 24, 2026 -1

I didnt say it was good.. some of us can still enjoy a shit movie every now and then.

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karateema Mar 24, 2026 +1

Title?

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gellatintastegood Mar 24, 2026 +2

The Six Triple Eight

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yumdumpster Mar 24, 2026 +7

I would imagine that they are going to focus more on the buildup to the invasion rather than just report for the 5th of June.

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FiveFingeredKing Mar 24, 2026 +7

You would think that but the play it’s based on is riveting. As long as they don’t try to juice the runtime and stick to the original tight premise, it’s actually has the potential to be great.

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Rodinsprogeny Mar 24, 2026 +5

It already exists as a play. It's good.

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Lord0fHats Mar 24, 2026 +2

There already is a movie about it called Ike: Countdown to D-Day or something like that. It's an okay movie. I guess.

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HanSoloHeadBeg Mar 24, 2026 +2

There's a better movie to be made about Ike in general. The more interesting aspect of his personality during war was that whilst he was not the most gifted military man of all time, he excelled at man management and making sure British and US interests were aligned. He had an excellent relationship with Churchill, which probably gave him OVERLORD.

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CaptainAssPlunderer Mar 24, 2026 +2

We are so far down the WW2 movies list we are getting stories about the weather forecasts and delivering the mail. Important jobs to be done no doubt, but do I need a full 2 hours of drama dedicated to it?

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Mrchristopherrr Mar 24, 2026 +1

We have Oppenheimer at home

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badwolf1013 Mar 24, 2026 +1

There was a 2004 made-for-TV movie called *Ike: Countdown to D-Day* starring Tom Selleck as Eisenhower that covered this very event, and . . . it was pretty compelling, actually. If anything, it made me wish I knew more about the men in the room making the decision, so — with fleshing out a bit of the backstories — I think that there's potentially a two-hour movie here.

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Kibouhou Mar 24, 2026

My first reaction to this was "More WW2 slop?" lol

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crypticbru Mar 24, 2026 +164

Just when you thought Hollywood couldn’t milk WW2 anymore… behold a movie on the weather guy Next idea: Can Rosy the riveter crank out her 100th widget of the day? The fate of civilization depends on it. …A riveting saga…

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TravelingHomeless Mar 24, 2026 +34

i'm kinda surprised we haven't had a big budget film on the Falklands War or British experience in Korea.

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DimensionMediocre439 Mar 24, 2026 +18

Plenty of movies about Korea but the Falklands is kind of a boring conflict that was never really a problem for the British.

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DoomguyFemboi Mar 24, 2026 +10

Plus it's a weirdly touchy subject. Even though we smashed it, there's a lot of animosity over how soldiers were treated afterwards, especially those hurt. I'm a touch too young for it, but it had the feeling of the start of the decline of affection for the armed forces.

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DimensionMediocre439 Mar 24, 2026 +3

You Brits weren't even bothered with the Troubles. Really strange time to be a soldier.

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YsoL8 Mar 24, 2026 +2

I'm old enough to remember the final years of the troubles in the 90s, mostly the reaction wasn't horror or anything, attacks were treated like there had been a small riot somewhere and now some idiots were going to spend their time at her majesty's pleasure.

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DoomguyFemboi Mar 25, 2026 +1

Yeah the papers were overwhelmingly on the side of the government, so information to us plebs about how horrific it was was non-existent unless you had Irish family. It was always "aww some poor squaddie got tooled up" and not because it was retribution to some heinous shit they'd done. And of course not to say every act done to em was "justified", it was a messy time. But I'm never gonna side with an occupying force. Another travesty of our imperial government. Gotta give it to em, they sure knew how to be total and utter bastards lol

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Audrey_spino Mar 24, 2026 +9

Also always acting like this one action changed the course of this war, as if Germany and the rest of the Axis powers didn't already sign their death warrant by declaring war against the Soviet Union and essentially getting sandwiched between two fronts.

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joey-jo_jo-jr Mar 24, 2026 +13

Yeah, the whole "risk losing the war" line is so stupid. Even if D-Day had failed completely and tens or even hundreds of thousands of Allied troops were slaughtered, the Nazis still would have had zero chance of winning the war.

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FirstDukeofAnkh Mar 24, 2026 +3

D-Day shortened the war and the death toll for the Allies. Hitler in the Ardennes hastened it further.

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YsoL8 Mar 24, 2026 +2

There are two ww2 events I think would be interesting, the time the British sank the French Navy out of fear the Germans were going to seize it and turn it on them, and the time the US tried to properly enter the war for the first time expecting to be treated as heros and got their naive arses handed to them by a French colony.

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bottomofleith Mar 24, 2026 -3

What an embarrassingly terrible take. You clearly have no concept of the importance of the events of this movie.

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crypticbru Mar 24, 2026 +2

Not embarrassed at all. Event was important. Quit milking it.

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tvcneverdie Mar 24, 2026 +1

> Quit milking the greatest conflict in world history that still shapes global policy and society 80+ years later Not gonna happen, chief.

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crypticbru Mar 24, 2026 +1

Not with that attitude

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bottomofleith Mar 24, 2026 -3

Quit **milking** WW2?! Another solid take.

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paintp_ Mar 24, 2026 +47

Hmmmm wonder what's their decision

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SortOfSpaceDuck Mar 24, 2026 +13

Idk the story has never been told before.

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DoomguyFemboi Mar 24, 2026 +8

Aquaman cameo, calling it now.

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27Yosh Mar 24, 2026 +8

"Can we do the invasion today?" "I don't know, looks kinda rainy. How about tomorrow instead?" "Alright that works for me" Movie ends

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mcbeardsauce Mar 24, 2026 +31

I audibly laughed when they were yelling about the weather in the trailer. And the serious one liners they were trying to come up with for it. Idk why I know it was a key decision for the invasion but to make a whole movie around a meteorologist for this event is pretty funny.

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Drinking-Printer-Ink Mar 24, 2026 +21

It’s even funnier that they’ve decided to lie about what actually happened, in his own book Stagg said he was surprised how easy convincing the Americans about the weather was and when he asked if they needed more proof the US was like “no we’re good, we’ll attack another day” Shit was insanely boring

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mcbeardsauce Mar 24, 2026 +4

Makes this movie even more unlikeable.

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tvcneverdie Mar 24, 2026 +2

You haven't seen the movie to know whether it's unlikeable or not lol

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bottomofleith Mar 24, 2026 +2

> I know it was a key decision for the invasion That's why!

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Drinking-Printer-Ink Mar 24, 2026 +62

I’d be quite interested in seeing what logic they try to use for “losing the war” since by 1944 the allies were already guaranteed to win the war and everyone, Stagg and Eisenhower included knew that

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pickleparty16 Mar 24, 2026 +47

There was no way Germany was going to win but if operation overlord failed then the end of the war could have looked much different, and with it its impact on the rest of the 20th century.

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Galahad_the_Ranger Mar 24, 2026 +14

It wouldn’t cost a victory, but failure at D-day would mean a whole loss of men and materiel, specially for the airborne troops that would be stranded behind enemy lines. And it might be enough to give Germany leverage to sue for terms instead of surrendering unconditionally

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kbuva19 Mar 24, 2026 +12

Not to mention by 1944 the British and American forces were starting to get very worried about Stalin. Any delay in liberating Western Europe gave Stalin the upper hand to “liberate” more German territory

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Pippin1505 Mar 24, 2026 +5

I posted it in another comment, but there's a fun little (French) comic with that exact premise called *"Paris, Soviet Sector"*. Basically, Overlord was a disaster due to weather, and it's the Red Army that liberates all of Germany and northern France. The story itself is a classic spy vs spy set in 1951, except it's Paris instead of Berlin.

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OopsWeKilledGod Mar 24, 2026 +2

The Soviet Union was already steam rolling Germany and it's hard to imagine any realistic scenario in which the Soviets have to accept a negotiated peace. After all, if the US and the British Commonwealth were defeated in Normandy, they can both continue to ravage German industry and pressure the Germans in Italy. Such a defeat would have been bad but nothing on par with the Fall of France or basically every battle on the eastern front in 1941.

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Empros Mar 24, 2026 +16

American movies have helped keep the invincible wermacht myth alive. Many German officers at the time knew it was over before dday. You can read reports to high command spelling out how desperate and exhausted the wermacht was by this point. Just baffling.

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joey-jo_jo-jr Mar 24, 2026 +8

I mean, the German generals literally tried to blow up Hitler because they knew the war was unwinnable lol

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YsoL8 Mar 24, 2026 +2

The thing that fascinates me in a dark way is the number of Germans who were still fanatically devoted even as the allies were moving through Gemany in the last 6 months of the war. Accounts of SS people who'd shoot civilians for trying to leave or surrender, moving people out of concentration camps just to keep the final solution going a few months longer, the 'government' that ended up meeting in a school sports hall that thought it was going to run post war Germany on nazi lines. If you look that one up you can actually find a photo of the german government being arrested and taken away in June 1945, the exact moment Nazism passed into history.

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joey-jo_jo-jr Mar 24, 2026 +1

For a lot of officers it wasn't even devotion to Nazism but devotion to the idea that they didn't really lose WW1. They truly believed that the army could have kept going in WW1 if they hadn't been betrayed by commies and Jews and they were going to prove it by fighting to the bitter end in the second war and really losing. It's why so many of them killed themselves when they eventually did surrender.

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EdinburghPerson Mar 24, 2026 +4

It’s not like it was a walk over though. And the allies suffered further setbacks (Market Garden)

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Purpleater54 Mar 24, 2026 +2

By the end of the war, the definition had shifted to winning and lossing against the USSR basically. Germany was always going to lose, but in the mind of many in the United States the enemy was already turning into the Soviets instead. I doubt that's the direction they'll go with though lol

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HArbey_RIna Mar 24, 2026 +17

The 72 hour framing is smart cause the real weather window was genuinely that narrow

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dani3po Mar 24, 2026 +14

It couldn't look any more boring, even if they tried.

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YsoL8 Mar 24, 2026 +2

A boring ww2 movie is really quite an achievement

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crapusername47 Mar 24, 2026 +11

I’ve been seeing trailers for this already, despite the September release date, which is a little odd given that it’s not Dune: Part Three or Spider-Man. The gap between the US and UK theatrical releases is odd too, seeing as it’s a British film.

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Rescuepets777 Mar 24, 2026 +5

I believe that it has a May 29 release date in the U.S. The September release date is in the U.K.

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crapusername47 Mar 24, 2026 +3

Yes, that’s my point. The gap is odd because it’s a British film.

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Rescuepets777 Mar 24, 2026 +2

I completely missed your last paragraph. 😣

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DoomguyFemboi Mar 24, 2026 +4

The gap is odd as a whole because I thought we stopped doing that.

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Purpleater54 Mar 24, 2026 +1

Look, im not saying Im an expert in when to optimally release movies and all thay, but if you are releasing it may 29th, why not wait a week later and do the 5th and get the weekend that is the anniversary of d-day?

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joey-jo_jo-jr Mar 24, 2026 +2

Why would you not release this movie on June 6th lol

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Royd Mar 24, 2026 +4

Major Winters on another side of D Day

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hockeyhead037 Mar 24, 2026 +1

Was looking for this comment the whole time

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ButteryApplePie Mar 24, 2026 +3

Box office flop of the year. WW2 nuts will know its bullshit and everyone else won't care.

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RonaldoAngelim Mar 24, 2026 +3

I know the end of this one

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Kherus1 Mar 24, 2026 +3

Ike:Countdown to D-day handled this really well. If Pressure ends up just hitting the same beats I’ll be a bit disappointed.

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Competitive-Bike-277 Mar 24, 2026 +3

This isn't coming out until September? I thought it would be May or June with all the trailers they're running.

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Brick_Mason_ Mar 24, 2026 +5

This movie will be released on 9/9, **Indignant Germans Day.**

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MrMindGame Mar 24, 2026 +2

Spoiler alert: they go through with D-Day.

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yakushi12345 Mar 24, 2026 +2

Frasier as Eisenhower seems like such a strange choice.

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iforgotmypasswordhl Mar 24, 2026 +2

Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here looking for new world war 2 stories to tell.

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Beyondthebarracade Mar 24, 2026 +2

I am so happy about Brendan Fraser’s resurgence.

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TheRainStopped Mar 24, 2026 +2

tl;dw: Iz gonna rain! No. Yes!! Ugh, fine. THE END

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KarlKarlsson Mar 24, 2026 +2

"Listen up! The channel coast is socked in with rain and fog. High winds in the drop zone. NO JUMP TONIGHT! The invasion has been postponed. We're on a 24-hour stand-down."

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YsoL8 Mar 24, 2026 +2

The theme music better be "Blame it on the weatherman" by Bew\*tched

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Lawdoc1 Mar 24, 2026 +2

I am going to see this simply to see Damian Lewis play British General Bernard Montgomery. It is such a cool juxtaposition after Lewis's iconic portrayal of Captain D*** Winters in Band of Brothers. Hell, I would totally watch a stand alone film with Lewis playing General Montgomery.

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AHomicidalTelevision Mar 24, 2026 +2

i love brendan, but what we saw of him in the trailer did not inspire confidence in me. hopefully it will be better in the full movie.

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mrtuna Mar 24, 2026 +3

If not doing it results in losing the war anyway, why would you not do it?

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Thrusthamster Mar 24, 2026 +2

We've exhausted WW2 movie material to the point of making a movie about a weather report now

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joey-jo_jo-jr Mar 24, 2026 +4

I mean, there's a lot more WW2 material Hollywood could delve into, but they insist on rehashing the same battles/campaigns in Western Europe again and again.

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LCKLCKLCK Mar 24, 2026 +1

Is this worth a watch or another mediocre WW2 film?

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Timformation Mar 24, 2026 +1

Me when I have something outdoors to do tomorrow.

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DoaneGarage Mar 24, 2026 +1

Pushing down on me. Pressing down on you

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braedan51 Mar 24, 2026 +1

when George of the Jungle tells you to get in the Higgins boat, you get in the Higgins boat.

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Pippin1505 Mar 24, 2026 +1

There's a fun series of french comics called "Jour J" (i.e. D Day) that explore several "What If" scenarios with more or less credibility. Tome 2 is called "Paris, Soviet Sector" and the premise is simply that Overlord was a disaster due to bad weather forecast, setting back the Allied invasion for several months. In that timeline, the Red Army took complete control of Germany and "liberated" Northern France. Basically the Communist block is much larger with North France / South France instead of West Germany/East Germany.

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Gwendychick Mar 24, 2026 +1

Saw the trailer. Yes the weather changes from day to day. Is Damien Lewis playing Monty???

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DavidDPerlmutter Mar 25, 2026 +1

Tom Selleck played Dwight D. Eisenhower in the TV movie *Ike: Countdown to D-Day* (2004). He did a very good job. I mean, non-resemblance aside he had Ike's mannerisms and Midwestern straightforwardness. There was drama about the weather and deciding when to go and all that. That story was told in the big epic *The Longest Day* as well. As I recall, it took about 10 minutes of those movies. That seemed about right. This was not the breaking of the enigma code. They got weather reports, and they reported the weather. A very important job, but stretching it out to two hours?

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DCS30 Mar 24, 2026 +1

it'll be highly fictionalized and made to be ultra-american, like pretty much all US made war movies.

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filefool Mar 24, 2026 +5

Mate, the movie is from the UK.

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DCS30 Mar 24, 2026 +2

...well, then. i thought it was a US movie. i guess i'll just see myself out then.

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Wide_Okra_7028 Mar 24, 2026 +1

Please don’t spoil the ending. I can’t wait to see which side will win D-Day.

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roverragit Mar 24, 2026 +1

Hotel Mumbai was harrowing. Anthony Maras is a talented filmmaker. This should be good

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letsburn00 Mar 24, 2026 -1

I suspect this is an attempt to make a D day movie and have a plot, but also have lots of D day action. I mean, I'd love to see a new Version of the longest day. Show how Saving Private Ryan made it look way easier than it was. I recently read a book about it. Omaha basically was saved only because the Destroyer captains said F it, we'll risk being beached and did point blank fire. In one case a solitary tank would make weak fire on a pillbox and then the destroyers would shell it.

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bottomofleith Mar 24, 2026

If you're thinking of posting a comment along the lines of "hur hur cant beleeve their talking about the wether", just don't. Other idiots have beaten you to it.

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KennethHaight Mar 24, 2026

Hooray, American war propaganda

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Official Posters for Anthony Maras's “Pressure” - In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) and Captain James Stagg (Andrew Scott) face an impossible choice--launch the most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.

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