Michael,
Mole apparently comes from Latin and is a large mass, usually of stone. I can see the etymology of the word in the same root for molecule or even that weird thing that grows on your back that the MD casts a dim view of! When I looked it up it noted the difference between a mole and a pier is whether or not water flows through at any point. I am guessing that it may be one of those words that eventually disappears as I don't see a difference between a mole and a causeway or breakwater, words which which seems clearer to those non-Latin speakers among us, like me.

Cheers,
Rick

I had to go to five dictionaries; three English, one French and one Spanish.

"Mole: a strong wall built from the land into the sea to protect against waves."

il italian is pretty much the same "Molo",here in frnot of my home we have 2 islands "North Mole" and "South Mole"

Anyway I'm going to wait for the DVD I'm gonna look at during a modeling session

If you lived in NYC, you could have bought a DVD before the movie was released at a bodega or from a street corner hustler for five bucks.

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If you lived in NYC, you could have bought a DVD before the movie was released at a bodega or from a street corner hustler for five bucks.

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Why pay $ 5 if you just look for google "dunkirk movie free streaming" and you have it for free, but i prefere the original DVD for my collection

I found it half good and half disappointing. The sea action, and air to ground action were good, and the sound was good too.

Don't read further if you haven't seen it...

But air-to-air was crap. This movie jumps the shark when one lone Spitfire, out of fuel and only a couple hundred feet above the ground, without feathering it's prop, reverses course and shoots down a Stuka as it's coming out of it's dive.
This was after the same Spitfire downed four 109's and two Heinkel 111's. Granted, the 109 pilots made it easy. No schwarm, rotte, or any form of unit tactics. Only putting themselves in front of his Spitfire and banking back and forth until he shot them down.

Joseph,

Ego sum opus in spanglish!

I admit being an "inlander" I might know a breakwater but would know nothing of "a mole".

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...Fury! (worst War movie ever made).




Have you not seen Pearl Harbor or Red Tails?

I see from reading the comments back an forth that we have the usual conundrum when modelers are talking about war movies. Few can tell the difference between a "movie" and a "documentary".
Producers have a job and that is to make something people will go see. Directors turn that vision into reality. Some have the drive to try for as much accuracy in material and content that is monetarily and physically possible,others,not so much,like my favorite example "Battle of the Bulge".
But the key to a movie is a compelling story. Sometimes that means changing things a bit. If you don't like that you are free to watch all the wildly successful,huge box office documentaries that have been made. Oh wait....

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I see from reading the comments back an forth that we have the usual conundrum when modelers are talking about war movies. Few can tell the difference between a "movie" and a "documentary".
Producers have a job and that is to make something people will go see. Directors turn that vision into reality. Some have the drive to try for as much accuracy in material and content that is monetarily and physically possible,others,not so much,like my favorite example "Battle of the Bulge".
But the key to a movie is a compelling story. Sometimes that means changing things a bit. If you don't like that you are free to watch all the wildly successful,huge box office documentaries that have been made. Oh wait....

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You got that right, brother. Unlike a gaggle of other films of this genre which make liberal use of gratuitous, irrelevant side plots woven into the main storyline, this film focuses on the pertinent events. Take "Dunkirk" for what it is, a well made war film. BTW, so as not to use CGI, most of the troops and vehicles were cardboard cut-out props.

My all-time favorite no nonsense war films are "Battleground", "The Steel Helmet" and "Attack!".