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Old 30th May 2003, 03:36
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Tiger_ Moth
 
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I have Dark Blue World on DVD, it's good but not great.

Haven't seen Those Magnificent Men..... is it a bit like an English Waldo Pepper? Is it good? Who's in it?

Reach for the sky is good.

Battle of Britain is just not an entertaining film, it takes too broad a view, although , obviously, some of the flying sequences are good.

Tora Tora Tora is a disgustingly boring film. Theres about 3 hours of putrid political ramblings before you get to the attack.

Pearl Harbour is pretty stupid but there are a few good flying scenes (I thought the Battle of Britain one was good) although sometimes it seems to disregard reality in the way the planes zoom up quickly and turn impossibly etc...

I think Waldo Pepper and the Blue Max are jointly the best flying films ever.

If you're interested the Blue Max is out on DVD sometime in July/August and I'd recommend you all rsuh out and buy it, especially if you haven't seen it yet.
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