vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
...and how!
With Spielberg, there was just so much potential, and it was all wasted.
With Spielberg, there was just so much potential, and it was all wasted.
Red Tails Movie
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michaelmaltby
Colonel
Red Tails was embarrassingly bad ... but it was fun .... the myth of the combattant has always been front and centre in our history. As long as movies motivate young people to consider the military as a career, I'm willing to accept a certain amount of 'dramatization' ... anything for a good plot line.
In life, one always quickly discovers that it isn't "like the movies" ....
MM
In life, one always quickly discovers that it isn't "like the movies" ....
MM
You are right it is a good movie to watch, but it isn't very realistic, or historical accurate
You are right it is a good movie to watch, but it isn't very realistic, or historical accurate
Be thankful Lucas didn't insert some Yt-1300 Falcon into this history timeline and Luke with his lightsaber
if I say anything else about this movie it'll probobly go down in the "could be considered racist" column, so I won't go there I just don't think most of the people posting here are trying to be racist, I like to always reverse the roles that most directors tend to break all the time, if this movie was about an all white band of fighter pilots and the movie itself slandered other pilots about being too gun hoe and glory fame jockeys (of any color or origin) it would be considered "wrong" and we wouldn't be even spending half the time discussing it like we are now.
Do we recal Saving Private Ryan and how outraged everyone was on the gore factor of the movie? (ok non WW2) and Gladiator, which would now be considered "safe" and appropriate movies, Hollywood needs to set in stone what it considers fine for children and what should be above PG-13 and how someone marketing a Historical movie should call that movie if it doesn't stick to the facts and isn't historical (ie it makes more than 5 Historical errors it shouldn't be called a Historical movie), I get called tons of names when I correct people on this movie (Red Tails), for some of the small facts that arn't correct.
If we go by the facts, the movie is bordering on the "comic book" shoot em up, everyone is a bad guy except the main characters. Kind of movie. If you watch it as is, and don't take that much heart into it as the see all flight movie of the year, its a pretty decent movie for a comic book style thing. Its right near the G.I. Joe movie. It could of used a bit less talking, romance and more flying.
I'm not trying to be racist here either just trying to state the facts and share my opinion which might not be shared by all. I think the "Tuskegee Airman" movie was by far better than this current rendition, they should have watches that movie and learned something. I enjoyed watching the older version much more than this new one.
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Did you know that this movie is being shown in classrooms in predominantly Black schools as history? Our educators cannot tell the difference and kids will believe what they see in that environment.
The real Group was featured in a war-time documentary narrated by Capt. Clark Gable. Despite the war-time publicity, today their history, like so much of our past, has been forgotten only to be revived when someone has an agenda.
Anyway, I'm surprised that no one mentioned the train attack. Attacking from astern or head-on? Tactics for train-busting were passed on pretty early and all gun camera photos show the planes knocking out the locomotive first causing it to stop. But I guess that wouldn't make a good flaming train wreck like the one depicted. Boy! That engine's boiler must have been filled with gasoline!
The real Group was featured in a war-time documentary narrated by Capt. Clark Gable. Despite the war-time publicity, today their history, like so much of our past, has been forgotten only to be revived when someone has an agenda.
Anyway, I'm surprised that no one mentioned the train attack. Attacking from astern or head-on? Tactics for train-busting were passed on pretty early and all gun camera photos show the planes knocking out the locomotive first causing it to stop. But I guess that wouldn't make a good flaming train wreck like the one depicted. Boy! That engine's boiler must have been filled with gasoline!
Aye but when your listing a couple errors in a movie, its easy to forget some of the Hollywood wam bam sections
Xjrtaz
Airman
First film godd, this one BAAAAAAADDDDDDDD!
utter cr*p
utter cr*p
Matt308
Glock Perfection
yep
Thorlifter
Captain
Finally watched Red Tails. What a TOTAL CRAP movie. Acting sucked, CGI was average, aerial combat was ridiculous. And just because you shoot something with a machine gun, doesn't mean it's going to blow up. Every bomber they shot the wing spars failed and collapsed. I soooooo need to watch a good, realistic, historically accurate, WWII movie.
Now, where are my copies of Valkyrie and Inglorious Bastards?
Now, where are my copies of Valkyrie and Inglorious Bastards?
Matt308
Glock Perfection
What has been seen, cannot be un-seen.
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
A-Fricken-Men!
Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
I won't look, I won't look, I won't............................
You guys just can't appreciate the historical accuracy and the greatness of this movie because you are racist.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
lol...yeah, I've been told I'm a racist because I didn't vote for a certain person recently, too...
Doesn't matter if this movie was about white men, black men or green people with plaid tattoos...it sucked so bad, the vacuum it left behind shifted the entire universe 2 inches to the left...
I guess I'm going to hell, right?
Doesn't matter if this movie was about white men, black men or green people with plaid tattoos...it sucked so bad, the vacuum it left behind shifted the entire universe 2 inches to the left...
I guess I'm going to hell, right?
Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
Quick! Put "Pearl Harbor" in the DVD player and the world will correct itself!!
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
That's some mighty dangerous territory you're travelling there, Chris!
In order to bring everything back to normal, you should play something along the lines of "Flags Of Our Fathers" in the player...otherwise playing "Pearl Harbor" (especially after watching the crap they call "Redtails") would be like diving Zero by half...there's no telling how much the damage would be!!
However bad and inaccurate it is. I doubt it will correct the issue...
