I watched the preview and didn’t realize that’s who Fraser was playing! Yeah, totally wrong for that role (and I think Brendan Fraser is a great actor)
I expect that a movie that appears to be entirely about the days prior to D-Day isn’t going to spend a whole lot of time on the previous four years. Why should it?
I’m very curious how the story will be told.
There has to be a lot more than James Stagg handing Ike a weather report. 
That’s a five minute scene.
I vaguely remember there was a small window of time in June. Otherwise the invasion would be postponed to July.
I expect that point will be a big part of the movie’s drama.
From the trailer, it looks like it includes the botched landing rehearsals in Devon that cost the lives of 749 servicemen.
They needed an early morning high tide for the landing and a full moon for the parachute drop. As of about June 4th the troops, airmen and sailors involved were quarantined from their bases and ready to go. The number of people who knew about the location and plan for the invasion went from a relatively small few to thousands. If it were delayed there was no way to keep all those troops quarantined. Also impossible to keep them from talking for a month. Either the plan would have to be scrapped or risk the chance for the Germans to know exactly where it was going.
The early high tide was absolutely mandatory. The full moon was a “very nice to have”, and there was some thought to dropping the paratroops on a moonless night that had the right tides if necessary (e.g. two weeks later) - but given how much of a Charlie-Foxtrot the paradrops were with a full moon, it’s painful to contemplate how bad they would have gone with dark skies.
Looks pretty good. Thanks
That’s a whole story in itself. Exercise Tiger was a rehearsal for the American forces tasked with landing on Utah Beach that turned into an absolute disaster. Communication problems meant that many of the troops on landing craft were killed by “friendly” fire. Then they were attacked by German E-boats in Lyme Bay, who had seen something going on and come to investigate.
The Forgotten Dead: The true story of Exercise Tiger, the disastrous rehearsal for D-Day Paperback – 28 Jun. 2018
Ken Small & Mark Rogerson
We just saw PRESSURE
Brendan Fraser as General Eisenhower, really? Well he pulls it off.
Really well done. Recommended. IMHO
Date Day! (Not D-Day; not date night)
I believe you mean “quarantined in their bases,” no?
I don’t think I’d ever heard of Tiger before seeing it mentioned in the movie.
Even today, radar isn’t really used for weather forecasting more than 6 hours out. It’s a great indication of what’s happening right now, a decent indication of what might be happening in a few hours, and mostly useless beyond that. Forecasting is based on barometric pressure, temperature, humidity, wind, solar radiation.
No. It is my understanding they were moved from their bases and put into staging areas. At their bases they had access to the surrounding area and had some interactions with the local population. The staging areas were crowded and isolated and only suited to have a large amount of troops for a limited time.
And history: The knowledge of what happened previously when similar patterns occurred.
Looks good from the previews.
Aha! They were segregated away from their bases. That makes sense!
They started moving them from their bases all over Great Britain to the staging areas at the end of May. There were 160,000 soldiers hitting the beaches or being dropped, there’s no way they could have all stayed at their bases until the day before the invasion - not enough transport to move them all at once, time needed to board the ships, etc.
My understanding from the movie is that, yes many units were pre-staged, but one key aspect is that Ike had to give the Go order approx 48 hours before H Hour. So, still with everyone pre-staged, it takes 48 hours to get everything rolling in order to hit the beaches in a prepped and coordinated manner.
Saw it, did not care for it.
I know a bit about D-Day and Eisenhower, but I’m not expert. That said, I have a hard time believing all the drama depicted in the film. Ike was certainly known to have a temper, but I seriously doubt he behaved as shown. I think Stagg was portrayed quite two-dimensionally, as was his American counterpart. Overall, it struck me as being presented at about the 5th-grade level. Played for drama, and rather simplistically at that.
I’m reminded of a scene in Thirteen Days in which we see Robert McNamara and a Navy admiral shouting at each other over tactics during the blockade of Cuba. When you actually read about it you find the people involved said nothing of the sort actually occurred beyond a bespoke disagreement. I suspect much the same from Pressure.
This is the second film I’ve really looked forward to recently that let me down, the other being Disclosure Day. Maybe I’m getting grumpier, but it sure seems like a lot of movies aren’t hitting the mark lately.
The trailers made me think both Fraser and Lewis were woefully miscast as Ike and Monty respectively; do you concur?