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Offline chuckar101

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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2012, 06:26:58 PM »
I thought it was pretty good.  Yeah they added a love story into it.  But got a lot of the historical data correct.  They did jump a few steps and put them from P40's staright to the P-51D.  Disliked the whole evil german pilot thing though.
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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #16 on: February 28, 2012, 10:08:17 PM »
The older version was the Tuskegee Airmen. This marks the second time Cuba Gooding Jr. is in a movie about the same group of pilots. Haven't seen it though, but I also thought the CGI was less than convincing. At least in the first one they used real planes, and no love story...
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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2012, 10:24:13 AM »
So, for a guy who saw the older Tuskegee Airmen movie (with the real planes) and knew one of them personally . . . .

should I go see it, or not?
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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2012, 01:20:16 AM »
Quote from: Mike on March 02, 2012, 10:24:13 AM
So, for a guy who saw the older Tuskegee Airmen movie (with the real planes) and knew one of them personally . . . .

should I go see it, or not?

Sorry chuckar101,  I think they really flubbed the historical data.   As far as I understand the first movie that Mike references above got it right and they aren't even close with what historical data the new movie claims. 

Mike:  I was horribly dissapointed.  They didn't even get the period language right.  Wait for TV if you still want to see it.  As far as seeing how a P-51 flies, they didn't even see how ANY airplane flies. 
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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #19 on: March 03, 2012, 07:46:29 AM »
Sounds Sad...






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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #20 on: March 09, 2012, 02:11:41 PM »
you know what would be cool?

A full lenght Pappy Boyington movie!
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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #21 on: March 09, 2012, 04:16:36 PM »
Quote from: Mike on March 09, 2012, 02:11:41 PM
you know what would be cool?

A full lenght Pappy Boyington movie!

#1.  |:)\  I grew up watching the old TV Series "Baa Baa Black Sheep" with Robert Conrad as Pappy Boyington.  Would love to see THAT on the big screen!   ::drinking::

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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #22 on: March 09, 2012, 09:06:16 PM »
Used to have that video  ;D
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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #23 on: March 10, 2012, 02:24:08 PM »
Quote from: Rooster Cruiser on March 09, 2012, 04:16:36 PM
Quote from: Mike on March 09, 2012, 02:11:41 PM
you know what would be cool?

A full lenght Pappy Boyington movie!

#1.  |:)\  I grew up watching the old TV Series "Baa Baa Black Sheep" with Robert Conrad as Pappy Boyington.  Would love to see THAT on the big screen!   ::drinking::

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AND they used real Corsairs in it! For a TV show! Probably unthinkable nowadays......
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Offline chuckar101

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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #24 on: March 14, 2012, 03:25:34 PM »
Quote from: Baradium on March 03, 2012, 01:20:16 AM
Quote from: Mike on March 02, 2012, 10:24:13 AM
So, for a guy who saw the older Tuskegee Airmen movie (with the real planes) and knew one of them personally . . . .

should I go see it, or not?

Sorry chuckar101,  I think they really flubbed the historical data.   As far as I understand the first movie that Mike references above got it right and they aren't even close with what historical data the new movie claims. 

Mike:  I was horribly dissapointed.  They didn't even get the period language right.  Wait for TV if you still want to see it.  As far as seeing how a P-51 flies, they didn't even see how ANY airplane flies. 


Well I'll agree to disagree on the historical data.  I've seen the old one as well, and it was a great movie.  Unfortunately that movie today wouldn't sell many tickets.  The problem with any historical movie, it still has to make money. 
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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #25 on: March 15, 2012, 02:32:46 PM »
that could be a problem with the Boyington movie as well.

How many people nowadays (and I'm talking the current "Avatar" and "Twilight" watching generation) will even know who Pappy Boyington even was . . .

Unfortunately, the Pacific War is getting forgotten with it's survivors dying out.....
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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #26 on: March 16, 2012, 11:38:27 PM »
That is the course of every war, for better or worse. A generation that will never be able to imagine how it was once possible that you simply could not travel to Austria from Slovakia, when today, you do not even need a passport, is already growing up. The Cold War will be soon just in history, even though today, we all know people who were directly involved, or even we personally were...
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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #27 on: March 20, 2012, 07:34:15 PM »
Just been watching Black Sheep again Mike and noticed they use a lot of aerial shots from Battle of Britain  :)
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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #28 on: March 21, 2012, 03:27:28 AM »
Quote from: Oddball on March 20, 2012, 07:34:15 PM
Just been watching Black Sheep again Mike and noticed they use a lot of aerial shots from Battle of Britain  :)

lost of stock footage there, yes.....

but they filmed it only a couple of miles from KVNY where I work. the strip is still there and I ran into a few people who worked on the show
they had 4 or 5 real Corsairs for the show! 4 real Corsairs for a TV show!!!
those days are gone forever sadly....
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Re: Red Tails Movie. Looks good, maybe a little Hollywood...
« Reply #29 on: March 23, 2012, 12:24:01 AM »
Is that where the M*A*S*H tv series was filmed? hate to say this but....................a lot of the scenery looks similar  ::banghead::
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