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PMC wrote:
Yet another turkey doing an injustice to a great book or concept.  So far we have

5) U571 - Doesn't strictly belong in this list but the film offended me so deeply it couldn't be ignored.  Hollywood re-wrote history and snubbed the Royal Navy's recovery of the Enigma Machine for a slightly more "audience friendly" plot where the US Navy takes credit.  An insult of the highest order.

And what's often overlooked is that it was a Polish team that actually helped crack the code (IIRC). I bet that wasn't in the film either...

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At the end of the day, its ignorant film making for an ignorant audience (I don't mean the Americans, I mean all the people who watch that kind of tripe)

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blobrana wrote:
Hum,
i believe the germans had the code too...

:roflmao:

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PMC wrote:

Hence the development of electronic computers for code breaking purposes courtesy of Turing et al.

Turing et al? I thought it was Mel Gibson who invented the computer? Oh, no, he was the one who defeated the English at Bannockburn.
It must have been Tom Cruise then, he invented the computer...

Oh, and didn't Tom Hanks single-handedly defeat the Nazis?

/sarky

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I must admit, I think Clint Eastwood rocks.