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Genghis the Engineer
8th Jun 2012, 22:49
I've just dragged Mrs.G off to see Red Tails - the Lucasfilm take on the Tuskegee airmen story. And....
... I was pretty damned impressed. I'm sure a lot of it was CGI, but from the number of pilots in the credits clearly not all of it - and the merge was pretty seamless. Some really very impressive flying scenes, a reasonable stab at historical accuracy, and a more than reasonable stab at a decent storyline and some pretty good acting. Most of the aeronautics was about right too.
Not quite Battle of Britain but, to be frank, not very far behind and the best new aviation movie I can remember seeing since Apollo 13.
What has anybody else made of it?
G
diginagain
8th Jun 2012, 23:12
A long time in the making, rather one-dimensional characters, not all that close to being historically accurate - although according to some reviews, cinema audiences believed it to be a documentary.
The only saving grace for me was the involvement of one G. Lucas and company.
juliet india mike
9th Jun 2012, 01:24
Flying bits excellent, lots of good detail. However....
Dialogue and acting wooden and cliched. Ludicrous romantic sub plot. Could have been so much better as a film but will go down as a turkey. Makes Pearl Harbor look good.
Dan Winterland
9th Jun 2012, 05:00
I've just dragged Mrs.G off to see Red Tails
Lucky lady. I hope she likes aeroplanes!
aviate1138
9th Jun 2012, 08:08
Some 'impossible' CGI flying shots. Why do they have to add dynamics that would pull the genuine article's wings off? Impossible CGI shots tell any viewer that the scene is unreal.
The trailer [2:15 - near the end] shot of the P-51 turning/colliding with an Me is a classic example of an impossible sequence.
Spoils it for me.
Also trailers that are recut to show action that doesn't appear that way in the movie should be scrapped IMHO.
Genghis the Engineer
9th Jun 2012, 08:29
Just me who liked it then.
Ah well.
G
diginagain
10th Jun 2012, 01:10
Makes Pearl Harbor look good. That takes some doing.
twochai
10th Jun 2012, 03:34
Ghengis:
Stand up, take a bow and tell them all to piss off. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
Twochai
BEagle
10th Jun 2012, 10:03
If the movie is as bad as the dismal CGI trailer, it won't be as good as the low budget HBO movie The Tuskegee Airmen, which was excellent.
Red Tails seems to be getting, shall we just say, 'mixed reviews'....
Noyade
10th Jun 2012, 10:15
Thread drift, but I saw these on the shelves of the local DVD hire shop recently, any good or leave them there?...
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/5510/mv5bodcwmji4otg2nv5bml5.jpg (http://img208.imageshack.us/i/mv5bodcwmji4otg2nv5bml5.jpg/)
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/7058/19886383.jpg (http://img152.imageshack.us/i/19886383.jpg/)
oxenos
10th Jun 2012, 11:30
And it does not contain Section Officer Whatsername. You know the one I mean. Cue picture.
Jarvy
10th Jun 2012, 12:41
Watched Redtails a couple of weeks ago and thought it was over the top Hollywood. I have also spoken with one of the original Tuskagee airman who said the characters are based on real people and alot of the events did take place but it is a lot of Hollywood most of the time.
Genghis the Engineer
10th Jun 2012, 20:55
From http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/george-lucas-red-tails.html?pagewanted=all
(Talking about young black Americans).
“They have a right to have their history just like anybody else does,” Lucas said. “And they have a right to have it kind of Hollywood-ized and aggrandized and made corny and wonderful just like anybody else does. Even if that’s not the fashion right now.”
Seems like most of the criticism, may be of GL achieving what he set out to achieve
G
JEM60
11th Jun 2012, 08:07
OXENOS. Section Officer Harvey, played by the gorgeous, and sadly no longer with us, Susannah Yorke. Picture PLEASE
BEagle
11th Jun 2012, 11:21
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/SY05.jpg
RIP
India Four Two
11th Jun 2012, 11:29
Come on, Beags. A very nice picture of the delectable Miss Yorke, but it's not THE picture!
BEagle
11th Jun 2012, 11:39
This one?
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/SOH.jpg
"Don't you yell at me........."
treadigraph
11th Jun 2012, 12:09
That looks more like the "He isn't dead, Maggie, he's going to be alright" scene with Kenny More to me BEags...
JEM60
11th Jun 2012, 21:05
BEAGS. Many thanks. Aaaaaahhhhhh. A natural beauty.
BEagle
11th Jun 2012, 22:08
She certainly did have a natural beauty:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/sy_d.jpg
:ok:
pigboat
11th Jun 2012, 23:44
Nice feet.
Yorkie as Harvey always made us all titter - all the 1960's hair & make-up... They wouldn't have stood for all those curly locks at the time, but yes, she was a real cutie...:)