Red Tails

[Skii]

Apart from some OTT CGI and 'Hollywood' treatment, looks watchable..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P90ZJ_cNm5I&fea...

[Eric Mc]

Looks good to me.

[Simpo Two]

Thought so before I clicked the link - it's a remake of The Tuskegee Airmen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvYvQcppaU4

Very good, and no computer-game CGI.

[Eric Mc]

The squadron still exists - although they currently fly something a it more mundane than a P-40 or P-51.



Picture taken by me at the 2008 Fanborough Air Show.

[Streetrod]

Its interesting that Cuba Gooding Jr has appeared in both films. I really liked the first one and am looking forward to the second

[TheHeretic]

Already been done. Seems very "yeehaw" overly patriotic stuff.

[Eric Mc]

A bit.

But I think it will be enjoyable in a "lads" kind of way.

I can see my model club mates being interested in a group outing.

[Brigand]

It does look pretty good, one to watch in the cinema to fully enjoy the action, but it will be full of cheesy "Go America!" dialogue just like the dire Battle Los Angeles.

It's a shame its such a CGI fest, but lets be honest, you'd never get more than a handful of genuine WW2 aircraft to use these days, and you'd never be able to film the huge bomber formations without having a couple of real planes, with blatantly obvious CGI planes all around them.

Gone are the days of Battle of Britain where we still had a lot of WW2 aircraft around, (or made mock-ups to blow up) IIRC they 'borrowed' the Luftwaffe aircraft from the Spanish Airforce who where still using them at the time.

[Eric Mc]

There are more airworthhy Spitfires and Hurricanes NOW than there were when the film "Battle of Britain" was made.

[CurvaParabolica]

Brigand said:

It does look pretty good, one to watch in the cinema to fully enjoy the action, but it will be full of cheesy "Go America!" dialogue just like the dire Battle Los Angeles.

George Lucas was on Jon Stewart's Daily Show last night and made no bones about it being a very patriotic film. Also, he had to fund the whole thing himself as no major distributor would touch a movie with an all-black cast

[TheHeretic]

CurvaParabolica said:

George Lucas was on Jon Stewart's Daily Show last night and made no bones about it being a very patriotic film. Also, he had to fund the whole thing himself as no major distributor would touch a movie with an all-black cast

I don't believe that for a moment. Plenty of films have all black casts, (not that this film has an all black cast).

[CurvaParabolica]

TheHeretic said:

I don't believe that for a moment. Plenty of films have all black casts, (not that this film has an all black cast).

Well that's what GL was bumping his gums about on the show last night.

[TheHeretic]

CurvaParabolica said:

Well that's what GL was bumping his gums about on the show last night.

Sound like a nice little PR tag line. Come and see the film the racists tried to stop!

[CurvaParabolica]

TheHeretic said:

Sound like a nice little PR tag line. Come and see the film the racists tried to stop!

Just sayin'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/george-lu...

[TheHeretic]

Well, many, many all black films have been made. Sort of makes his point either bullst, and a PR tag line, or Hollywood has suddenly become racist. Which is more likely?