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'Red Tails' New WW2 movie coming out ;)
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
check out the trailer , sweeeeeeeet CGI air battles :) P51's , B17's , Me262's , 109's all featured in the trailer , yew! January 2012. The only scary thing is George Lucas may be behind it. Uh oh...... http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3239156761/ |
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George Lucas went haywire long time ago as seen on his kiddytale Star Wars new episodes. After seeing the trailer of this WW2 film = not gonna touch it with a long pole. Same as would fire up Wings of Prey :rolleyes: Another Pearl Harbor style shoot'em up movie..Should have made a better tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen who served their country during those times. |
we had a post about this movie months ago...
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I expect the movie will trivialise and cheapen the real life deeds of the Tuskegee airmen.
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Just seeing the clip of the P-51 doing an Su27 style backflip is enough for me to leave well alone.
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What ever movie they can produce about WW2 allied pilots will not get the feeling. German Aces where fighting 4 straight years over all europe and africa continent THERE IS THE PILOTS REAL FEELING. Especially the last desperate years when 100 GAF pilots where opposing 1000 well fed napped and fair treated American pilots in their shiny new P51s. 100 war dogs which usually bit the odds and returned back home with 2-3 kills and obliged to take off back again in 10 mins the most. Maaan that's is a feeling of a pilot. |
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LOL, I thought this was another new starwars episode, they seem to have the same guy sorting out the physics of flight and Cgi for both. I would rather watch my old collection of black&white war movies and watch model planes sliding down a just visible wire guide than see more of this politically corrected
Cgi crap! Hopefully Peter Jackson's new dam busters is better, at least he has a genuine interest in aviation! Craig |
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I'm starting to feel that nothing will come of Dambusters, he is too distracted by making TinTin and Hobbit movies. |
Heinz Knoke was dodging 5 P47 for about an hour (only to escape)
bit that fear. Tuskegee airmen where very good only because they had racial issues. They forced to prove things that days, just for the American society. |
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What this isnt realistic? The Ai do this kind of stuff all the time .....:) |
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Let's not forget this is a film about race pride set in a WW2 context, not an aviation film per se.. but anyway, I would give it a shot and see what it's like, although I find this race card thing a bit of a cliché at times if not played correctly.. we already have a movie about the Tuskegee Airmen, then there's the movie Miracle at St. Anna..
I wish Hollywood had some guts or there was someone crazy enough to invest in telling the stories of other pilots, like the long serving German aces or the Japanese ones.. something comparable to Das Boot in terms of epic story. |
Problem there Stern is that the Americans for the most part have no interest in stories that aren't their own, hence why the film about the capture of the enigma was 'americanised', or the next Battle of Britain movie was set to feature 'Billy Fiske' saving europe, may as well suggest making a movie glorifying Osama Bin Laden....it will have as much of a chance, it's not like the Tuskeege airmen were the first black combat pilots, the comonwealth forces had them and many others from other ethnic groups.
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The silly over done flight manoeuvres are just too annoying. Realistic tactics and flight physics would have made a great movie anyway...
I would like to see a film about Galland and JV44 rising in a hand full of me262 to meet massed allied bomber formations defended by hundreds of escort fighters. There is a tragic courage to these elite pilots defending their country, facing impossible odds while also flying the most advanced jets and with such high level of experience and skill. "If measured by the accumulated victories of its pilots the Jagdverband 44 was the most elite fighter squadron in the history of military aviation" wikipedia Also JG7 "On 18 March 1945, 37 Me 262s of JG 7 intercepted a force of 1,221 bombers and 632 escorting fighters. They shot down 12 bombers and one fighter for the loss of three Me 262s"wikipedia That's just about he coolest thing that ever happened... |
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Beyond the war propaganda American pilots had not much
to fight for over Europe! That's why the American Aces were made over Pacific. |
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Has Hollywood made a good/realistic WWII film? A lot of people say that Saving Private Ryan was perfect, but I found it to be Spielberg's typical "Heavy-Handed" tripe. The effects were amazing, and good choreography, but every 5 minutes I found myself pulled out of the experience by some manner of glaring error, or stupid thematic device (like having every German soldier a skinhead).
Yes Mr. Spielberg, we didn't forget that the Holocaust happened, but skinheads were an invention of the 70's/80's. I'm really glad that they didn't make that Battle of Britain movie since this is 100% how it would have happened. . . :cool:"Hey you useless Brits, I'm an American and I'm going to show you cowards how to really shoot down Nazi planes! Boooyah! That's my 50th kill this week! Oh, lost another lame Brit wingman. Good thing I brought my American Made P-51 D to this battle that takes place Summer-Fall 1940. Oh did I mention that I happen to also fire explosive rounds from this? It's a special top-secret round that improves movie cinematics. Oh no! We're up against an SS wing of ME-262's They specifically target Jewish pilots. . . I'm 1/2 Jewish! Better get in an 1 on 1 battle with the head SS pilot. At the end I'll appear to be just about to lose, and when he dives to deliver his death-blow on my damaged P-51 I'll do some manner of Physics-Defying maneuver that will result in him being destroyed and I delivering a really awesome "One Liner" before I fly back to marry that British Girl who can never go back to regular Brit men after being with a real man!" Did I manage to get all the Hollywood WWII Cliches into it? |
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Never heard that before, there were still a lot of aces pilots on the western front. |
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Then again, I don't know why people get into the "which nation's pilots are better" arguments. |
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Good one Speculum J,That was solid gold mate, spot on ;)
The closest I can come up with as a reasonable modern WWII hollywood movie is probably Memphis bell! Cheers Craig |
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It would be funnier if it was not true... |
I found it very funny and very true...
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There's all kinds of stuff I never knew that I'm just learning now on this forum! :) EDIT: It pays to check other threads here. From what I can deduce, surviving Luftwaffe veteran airmen were no doubt crushed by a rash of toppling locomotives caused by those pesky strafing P-47's and Tyffies! |
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Is just a movie to entertain people, just that, worst than this movie are the dogfights series by history channel , self called documentary channel
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Twelve o'clock high Part one of full film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G01O8qM1Xvo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgX1WBf2SjE Not from Hollywood, but nevertheless a good one: Ice cold in Alex |
12 o'clock high would definately be one of the best war movies made.
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The Big Red One was one war cliche after another.
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Yeah, I'd rather see this movie actually! |
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I just love how U.S. pilots (actually all Allied pilots) contributions in WWII are continually trivialized by those fans of the Luftwaffe. Tell me, what was the better strategy? Flying high scoring Aces until they dropped or continually turning over your forces so you had combat trained instructors teaching those who followed? It obviously wasn't just loads of pilots and planes that turned the tide for the Allies. Remember the Russians had scads of both in 1941. It didn't do them much good, did it?
When the Americans first started combat over Europe, the Luftwaffe still enjoyed local air superiority most days. Also, there weren't a thousand P-51s concentrated in one area of Germany at any given time. By most accounts I've read, all the USAAF fighter groups were staggered while they performed their escort duties. One group would escort a given part of a bomber stream until relieved by a fresher group. So the idea that a mere 100 Germans stood in the face of a thousand P-51s is BS. They might have faced a 1000 bombers in any given mission, but those were also strung out of a 100 mile long line. |
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The best pilots of the war were in the pacific. Fighting in much more difficult weather conditions over far larger distances, most of it being water( any one who has actually piloted a small craft over nothing but water can imagine the difficulty faced by pilots who were engaged in combat,disoreinted, low on fuel maybe wounded and needed to find your aircraft carrier with the navigational equipment used in the 1940's) . Landing and taking off of a carrier in good weather during daylight hours takes more skill than anything the Luftwaffe ever faced. Than try it in poor weather at night with little or no fuel as was the case for the USN in a number of engagements. This is to say nothing of the navigational skill needed a bit more challenging than flying barely past the border of your own country. Where if you bailed out there was a good chance you would rejoin your own unit by morning. In the Pacific , if you left your aircraft you more than likely were not seen from again. |
this was so sentimental - you almost made me cry.
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I get the impression that some would think reenactors are ever justified in donning SS uniforms as well. Also I find it... Curious, shall we say, that a film that has an obvious civil rights and equality message is being derided for that very same message. The action scenes are the flashy sideshow, not the raison d'etre of the film. |
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F^k yeah baby, these trailers have me pumped just like your momma!!
This is my most anticipated movie release by a long shot. I can remember reading an article about George Lucas researching WWII footage for the flight attack flight sequences in Star Wars against the Death Star and thinking to myself, just imagine if this guy ever did a WWII movie!! Oh yeah baby it's happening right now!!! @Bearcat, this must be of interest you right? When I first saw your sig all those years ago @ UBI, I didn't even know what the Red Tails was in your sig! Between then and now... man do I get it... Salute and also thank you again for being a friend and comrade with MM!! CS. :) |
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Some of you boys need to loosen up a bit. It's a movie for christ sake, its about being entertained. If its got warbirds flyin around, I'll be there.;)
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All good here mate. CS. :) |
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Inferior machines stern? Woah, stop the presses, nerf the luftwaffe! For years we've had the mechanical superiority/numerical inferiority of the luftwaffe rammed down our throats and now you say it is a lie!
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if tou can see the surface you wouldnt fly IFR
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Quality-wise there surely was a gap between American and German planes, the main differences being in the availability of materials for industrial production (the Mustang itself was made of at least 40 different kinds of alloys), but technology-wise stuff like the kommandgerat and the jet fighters put the Luftwaffe years ahead. |
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David is using a classic aviation annecdote..... |
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Tactically the Germans had every advantage. They never had to worry about landing in enemy territory or running out of fuel. They had the initiative whenever they attacked, and could run away when they lost the initiative. They could land, rearm, and get back into the fight. They did not have to deal with the fatigue of flying long distances before getting into combat.
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So hey, how about that Red Tails huh? Looks like a typical Hollywood flag waver flick, but could be fun. I'll check the reviews and if it gets a decent enough rating, I'll check it out.
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I still think you don't fully realise the odds here. |
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I'll give you one thing, the Luftwaffe fans are definitely better at coming up with excuses. Quote:
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The Germans had a huge tactical advantage. That's why many of then had such high kill numbers. It had nothing to do with their pilots being superior. |
Anyway....werent carriers equipped with DF (huffduff) in the latter parts of the war? that certainly makes finding home easier.
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And for the record, this is the last answer I give you here, if you want to continue this conversation and make a buffoon out of yourself, feel free to start a thread in the off topic forum. Now, back to Red Tails.. |
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I don't understand... What the meaning of "superior pilot"?
Why are you arguing about that? I thought the problem was Hollywood. |
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but the CGI looks awesome and i all my favorite aircraft are in it (Wheres the FW 190??) so i am happy there is a movie coming out that can represent air battles like never before...love CGI. I would hope to see at least something interesting and respectable like the germans using engergy tactics... *Edit* I just looked at the trailer again and the movment is ok....just the backflip thing is odd and obviously put in for show... |
Oh and there better not be any love story attached to try and make this movie more relatable to "people"....bah
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George Lucas is famous for what?
Star wars... The red tails will just be more of the same, different setting and characters. I wonder, if there is a wookie? Anyway, don't get up tight. It's just entertainment. Gotta have spectacular stunts, which certainly will not be as "off world" as Transformers, iron man, x-men, etc. I'll go see it for the air combat action, can't get enough of that. I wouldn't care if the Simpsons were starring in it, if the air combat action is good. |
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I wonder why my grandmother had(or was supposed) to donate all brass, copper and other rare metals her household could spare to the government. edit: Quote:
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Ultimately the movie has to show a profit at the box office, so the script & cast are designed to appeal to as many consumers as possible. Discerning aviation nuts such as ourselves, including real pilots, air combat historians, air force veterans, etc. etc. don't exist in sufficient numbers to rake in the huge receipts needed just to break even. Lucasfilms knows we'll still go, anyway, and hold our noses at the arcade/romance/social message bits while enjoying the more credible air action sequences. Tommy can still bring Suzie Rottencrotch to a date 'n grope movie in the back seats, while Mom 'n Dad can also bring the kids (dunno what the movie rating will be). Meanwhile, Tiefighter Georgie Lucas will be able to pay off the backers and talent and still have enough left over for his 401K's (yeah, like that's a concern! LOL). |
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My brain hurts, I'm out.
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And I have no idea what Romania has to do with this. I didn't bring it up. |
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I am not suprised at all. lol |
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Geez, guys, what is the point of all this? I guarantee there's no audience watching this side show and cheering for anyone. All anyone here is doing is showing off how much of a jerk they can be.
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Damn, Bongo beat me to it...
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In these trailers, there's something shocking me about red tails characters, they're speaking,moving and and other ... like they were living after the twenty first century !!!
I've got some big doubt regarding the acting abilities of who's played these roles, and what they worked on .... (Uniforms maybe ?). Edit : The only thing the film seems to focus is the black/white relationship during WW2. |
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The one area they lacked in was, oil...fuel...petrol products. |
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Someone here said to lighten it up a bit. I think that's a good plan. I'm sure we've all read accounts of the air war, and from the perspectives of combatants on different fronts and different sides. They were all desperate to live, and many died anyway. I recall reading about the other air battle; RAF night bombers versus German night fighters. The Brits had something to be avoided like the plague. It was the tag of "low moral fiber" given to an airman who's nerves might be shot. Unthinkable today. Americans called it being "yellow" as in cowardice. But from what I've read, everyone was scared of not doing their duty. On the Eastern front, German pilots expected a death sentence when having to bail out over enemy territory.
We may talk about making realistic movies, and about those that are not. But we are only talking about movies. I don't think there are many in this thread that have actually walked the walk of air combat in real life. Me included. That means there are many who can only offer up opinions, but not real life air combat experiences. I don't believe the Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber to fighters, and I personally know one of those airmen, and he does not believe it either. I do believe him when he says he returned and had to ride in the back of the train so German prisoners could sit up front. I saw it in his face. So for all the glory of heroic American war movies, there was that aspect of real life hidden from the eyes of the world. Black Americans were still be lynched into the 60s. So remember. We're "talking" about a movie here. Not walking the walk. 10 whole pages of this? Flyby out |
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American pilots had to cover a huge stream of bombers, which was up to 100 km long, typically one Bomb Group of approx. 64 planes would be covered by one fighter Group of approx. 32 planes. (1943 and early '44 would see smaller numbers of USAAF fighters, Groups put up 16 planes most of the time) The Germans would not intercept the whole stream, they would concentrate on one small section. Typical intercept numbers for the Germans were in Gruppe size, (approx. 30-50 planes) and quite often two or more Gruppes would hit the same Bomb Group, the German controllers would do everything they could to concentrate attacks. If another USAAF fighter Group was closeby, it would try to intervene, but typically the Luftwaffe made one quick pass, and then dove away. Thus it was quite common to see the USAAF fighter pilots outnumbered. Of course, the Germans focus was on attacking the bombers, but they more often than not had temporary numbers advantage in fighters at the point of attack. |
64 + 32(16)< 50(30).
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Not to mention that german fighter schools were at the edge of disbanding in '44.
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Do we really need this completely out-dated, last-century-type "my nation is better" style discussion here in 21st century?
@flyby: good post! I just can imagine how your friend has felt when he had to sit in the back of the train to make place for the enemy. Let's see about the movie (the air battle seems look as ridiculous as those on the history channel) and the story. My fear is that it will be very Hollywoodian. Very cliche ladden with huge drama. I have doubts that it can reach the level of the other movie on the Tuskegee men which was quite a good movie. |
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