Dark Blue World

[Rjel]

Originally Posted by DoolittleRaider

What a completely fabricated statement!!! You couldn't have possibly been more wrong in your claim, and you certainly can not claim to have ever seen the movie yourself. The fact is: There is not a single female actor (previously known as Actresses) in the movie "Twelve O'Clock High"...and having been produced/released in the 'pre-modern' era in 1946, there is also not even the slightest hint of a gay male-male love story. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041996/fullcredits
Ohhhh...Also, the movie is 2Hrs 12Mins long...much longer than most movies of the 21st century. So your claim that only 18 minutes of the movie does not involve a "Love Story" is even more ludicrous.

Now, I will give you a break....It is true that "Twelve O'Clock High" is a Thinking Man's War Movie....and it is likely that only 18 minutes is of "Aerial Combat Action", whether dramatized or in the form of WWII combat footage. The movie is about leadership and the demands of Command Responsibility on senior Military Commanders.

Most importantly, as evidence of that, the movie is used in the USAF officer training programs as a means of discussing and developing military leadership and management skills.

That might be the best argument I've ever read for what makes a great movie. Especially aviation movies. Any movie needs strong story development to be good. Even if it is a love interest. It needs character development so the viewer feels some involvement with the people on the screen. Just having booming and zooming airplanes doesn't make a movie. It might make a good documentary, but it doesn't make good entertainment.