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Baldeagle wrote:Opinion piece in today's Washington Post
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mustangdriver wrote:I ended up seeing it again with another friend. Just like I say about Pearl Harbor, if it gets veterans attention, then great. If it teaches a younger generation about a subject that they have never heard about, then awesome. It served it's purpose. I will more than likely get it on DVD as my daughter who is 7 loves the red tails. She hasn't seen the movie (I think she is just a bit young for it yet), but she has been told stories and has a diecst red tail in her room. She also has a Corsair after I told her about the Blacksheep. Take that barbie!
The other side of the coin is this. Those saying that the folks that didn't like it are just rivet counting are missing what the others mean. Sure paint jobs and such are off, however outside of P-51's with red tails and black pilots, there really isn't any history in it. The acting was rough, very rough.
Now there are those that compare it to Pearl Harbor. Here is where Pearl Harbor was a much better movie. First off folks watching PH learned of folks named Doris Miller, Jimmy Doolittle, ADM Yamamoto, ADM Nimitz, Captain Mervyn Bennion who refused to leave the bridge and died in Miller's arms, and Lt. Miller who helped the Doolittle pilots. These are all real people that folks can look up and read about after seeing the movie. That is a huge tie in for learning. Watch the movie, then read about the real guy. There isn't one person that you can do that with in Red Tails.
Pearl Harbor used the wrong variant airplanes. That is very true. However they were real airplanes. Real P-40's and Zeros. Real B-25's and they even launched three of them from an aircraft carrier. CGI was used to enhance things, but not as the main focus. Red tails used the wrong type of planes at times, and they were all mainly CGI. Was the story cheesy? Yes during the love story, however they were attempting to show that people had lives and the war got in the way of all of that.
In closing my opinion is that Yes this movie is a good entertaining film. yes it is doing good things for veterans and introducing a story that was never known to more. Good to go and watch on the big screen. Where it missed the mark is to have ANY tie to the actual veterans. How can you tell the Tuskegee story without a character of B.O. Davis., Roscoe Brown, Lee Archer. People they can google after they get home to continue the learning.
The last thing is the comparison of this to Flying Tigers that starred John Wayne. Remember that John Wayne actually had the chance to meet and drink with some of the real Flying Tigers. He apologized to them about the movie.
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Randy Haskin wrote:the movie probably doesn't portray them professional enough in the cockpit
Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:35 am
From Sicily and the mainland of Italy, they went to southern France and knocked out the German radar stations that supported the Normandy beaches. Without the success of this, there would not have been a D-Day.