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Yep.
It was a film that didn't need making.

Am I alone in not wanting to see Toby Jones in everything?

None of the characters remotely resemble the tv series.

The TV series is still on 50 years after it was made, Can't imagine this film being repeated in 50 years time.

Every actor in the original Dads Army, were born to play the part.
It was and still is a masterpiece.

The chap who played Godfrey in the original Dads Army, use to sit along by my friend at the emirates stadium, i think hes got a season ticket

Arnold Ridley, who played Private Godfrey in the original Dads Army, passed away in 1984. RIP

I managed 90 seconds and turned off. Ridiculous to even attempt a remake.

Aug 28, 2018 -- 4:37PM, li wrote:

Arnold Ridley, who played Private Godfrey in the original Dads Army, passed away in 1984. RIP

Most of the cast was of the generations that served in one or both world wars but Arnold Ridley's record is worth a read.

C&P from Wikipedia:

He saw active service in the war, sustaining several serious injuries: his left hand was left virtually useless by injuries sustained on the Somme; his legs were riddled with shrapnel; he was bayonetted in the groin; and the legacy of a blow to the head by a German soldier's rifle butt left him prone to blackouts. He was medically discharged from the army with the rank of Lance Corporal.

Then he re-enlisted for the sequel in 1939, and ended the war in the Home Guard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Ridley#Military_service

What Wikipedia does not point out is that to be hit by a German soldier's rifle butt means you'd gone "over the top" and were hand-to-hand fighting in the German trenches.

The Telegraph:
A lot of the battalion was wiped out by machine gunfire, but Ridley and the other survivors simply had to make their way through the trench armed with bayonets and lobbing bombs. He was hit on the head with a rifle butt [which fractured his skull] and fell to the ground.

The German soldier than lunged a bayonet at him, but he managed to save his own life by directing it into his groin rather than his stomach.

He was unconscious for a while but did recover. Then a soldier lunged a bayonet up his hand and through his wrist. He passed out again.

"We can only assume that the German soldier was killed at around the same time because Ridley obviously survived."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2461831/Dads-Army-stars-First-World-War-heroics.html

Remakes of rv and film classics just doesn`t work.

What a true hero and brave man Godfrey was. He was also a writer and he wrote the classic comedy The Ghost Train starring Arthur Askey.

Amazing Arnold Ridley, he's neice is the actress Daisy Ridley

The chap who played Godfrey in the original Dads Army, use to sit along by my friend at the emirates stadium, i think hes got a season ticket

Arnold Ridley, who played Private Godfrey in the original Dads Army, passed away in 1984. RIP

Quite possible that both statements are true given the lifeless support at Arsenal's home games

I didn't read it and it may have been a parody but there was an article in some godforsaken right-on publication recently criticising Dad's Army for not having enough 'women of colour' in the character line up.
Lord preserve us.

Yes, because there were millions of them in the Sussex and kentish villages during the war..
The gullible Left, don't you just luv em'..

no no no  us liberal types nose, their were loads of black guys from 1943 onwards  - you silly knuckledraggers

the yanks came and saved us from the evil mr hilter

I nose
I reed the guardian

I now hold the morale high ground

don't you all feel small now !!!

well from up hear you look small ho ho

I am become a wit or something

The irony is the Americans who saved us fought in a racially-segregated army. There was controversy because Britain refused to recognise the American colour bars and insisted everyone was equal. Winston Churchill was the Jeremy Corbyn of his day.

i went to theatre to see dads army and it was very good

different actors, (original scripts) but it seemed everybody enjoyed it,


film was a shocker, but cant say too much as switched it off after 30 mins

is it worse than recent remake of the sweeney ?

I watched about 15 minutes on and off (channel flicking). Indeed, 'twas awful.

Part of the problem for me was that the actors didn't seem to know whether they were meant to be replicating the original cast member's interpretation of the character, or do their own interpretation. Bill Paterson, for example, seemed to be trying to mimic the original Fraser as close as he could, but Toby Jones's Mainwaring (from what little I saw) seemed a completely character... very quiet, none of the jumped up, pretendy-authority that Lowe did to make his comeuppances funny.

morpteh mackem • August 31, 2018 3:17 PM BST
is it worse than recent remake of the sweeney ?

That was Dire..No cop series has ever come close to the Sweeney apart from perhaps, Life on Mars.
I reckon if The Sweeney was on prime time TV as oppose to 10.30am on Itv4, it'd still get more viewers than the other stations.

ITV4 weekdays ATM

2.50pm Minder
3.55pm Sweeney
5.00pm Avengers

All preceded by Countdown on Ch4 naturally

KC.......showing the new avengers on true entertainment channel

I'm probably swimming against the tide here but I never really liked nor got into Dad's Army, I found it quite puerile personally.

I’m sorry slippy blue that must be the silliest thing anyone has ever said in the history of the world

or ever will say

I did say I was swimming against the tide! It just wasn't a comedy series that I particular enjoyed, horses for courses and all that eh.

It might be the greatest programne ( of any kind )ever produced on tv

No that’s true sb , you won’t be alone I’m sure
Everyone has their own tastes , but it’s like a mathematical formula

It doesn’t matter what people think

when the German pilot bailed out over England  and he asked the farm worker who came across him “ are you going to shoot me ?

And he replied “ no , but you can have a cup of tea if you want “ : )

Little gems in the writing like that

It was subtle and clever  ( describing the difference between England and Germany and why the war was fought in that one line ?  , whatever )  it was funny

i loved Godfrey in an episode called ''Don't fence me in''.
Mainwaring gets to the gates of the Italian POW camp and sees an Italian skulking across the grounds and calls out..

Mainwaring ..''I say there, come here ( The POW walks over with an apple dribbling out of hes mouth)  Who's in charge here''?.
The italian can't speak English and looks at Mainwaring ,

Mainwaring ..''Can anybody speak Italian?''.

Godfrey... ''I can speak a little sir''.

Mainwaring..''Speak to him Godfrey''.(Godfrey waffles off in Italian) The Italian looks at him in shock !!!

Mainwaring..''That seems to have done the trick Godfrey, what did you say''?.

Godfrey..''Your tiny little hand is frozen, and blue with the cold''.

Mainwaring..''Why on earth did you say that'' ?.

Godfrey..''Its the only Italian i know sir, its from an opera''..

in this film I didn't see any chemistry between Wilson and Mainwaring .....the script in this film didn't help.......I saw about an hour ......it was dreadful