Movie "The Forgotten Battle" (Slag om de Schelde)

[Peter Phillips]

Seen this last night and was very impressed at the quality of the video and details put into this movie. And it was nice to see Canadian troops having more than an honorable mention like most WW2 movies do

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Thanks for the photos, Jordan.

I think it is a very good movie. The objective was to make a war movie about three young people and how they experienced the war. The Battle of the Scheldt is the context for the three story lines. Don’t expect a Bridge Too Far like movie portraying a historic battle.

I was particularly pleased to see my son as an extra in this movie. There are a couple of scenes where he can be seen. The one with the CO entering a hangar for the briefing shows him in a frontal view - the pilot with the white sweater sitting on the left when the CO enters and the shot pans to the right.

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[Mike Gurr]

I saw this last night on Netflix, so nice to see a film based on Canadian / British rather than the usual American and very good to see the accurate use of vehicles. Only slip I noticed was poor continuity at times. Look to see how often the Glider pilots rifle swaps from being a No4 to an SMLE and back again throughout the film!!

[Lynn Eades]

Seen around the world. My wife and I watched it last night as well.

[Ed Storey]

"The Forgotten Battle" falls in line with other motion pictures of the same genre such as Fury, Dunkirk and 1917; namely lots of kit and equipment, great European settings, numerous technical errors and a nonsensical screenplay. Another waste of resources and sadly a project which had the potential to be ground-breaking. I chock this one up to another two hours of my life that I will never get back. Unfortunately this is a movie best forgotten as it was so bad that even my wife who only has a passing interest in historical details could easily find the holes in the plot.

[Michael Dorosh]

I had hoped for more but suspected as much. The Walcheren Causeway is the "signature" battle of the Calgary Highlanders in the Second World War. The trailer made it look like at least they got the setting right - even the telephone poles looked like the actual battlefield, which I've walked. Ah well.

Originally Posted by edstorey

"The Forgotten Battle" falls in line with other motion pictures of the same genre such as Fury, Dunkirk and 1917; namely lots of kit and equipment, great European settings, numerous technical errors and a nonsensical screenplay. Another waste of resources and sadly a project which had the potential to be ground-breaking. I chock this one up to another two hours of my life that I will never get back. Unfortunately this is a movie best forgotten as it was so bad that even my wife who only has a passing interest in historical details could easily find the holes in the plot.

[Mike Cecil]

Just completed watching this movie. Some nice imagery, lots of good kit and vehicles, but some woeful continuity (the No.4/No.1 Mk.3* SMLE rifles swapping back and forth, as mentioned before) and obvious technical flaws such as an MG42 being loaded with a belt from the right side, then not cocked, and so on.

Were Canadians in Europe even using the No.1 Mk.3* rifle by late 1944?

Despite the stretch in credibility, I mostly enjoyed the story line and filming, but the overall could have easily been improved by the director taking note of some sound technical advice.

Mike