Red tails Movie

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The original "I don't know it all" of aviation.
Showing tonight on the FX channel.
 
It's a true story. But I agree kind of boring except the flying
 
superdad said:
It's a true story. But I agree kind of boring except the flying
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What? It is not a true story, some of it isn't even plausible. Lucas did talk to a lot of Tuskegee Airmen and go through log books of others, but the screenplay and the characters are fictitious.
 
I thought it sucked.

The story was fictional and frankly didn't need to be. Surely somewhere in all of that history there is a compelling story if one was to really dig.

Dialogue, sheesh. George Lucas needs to hire someone that can write some dialogue, maybe Tarrantino. Some of those lines were just painful.

CGI has ruined movies. I've seen better dog fight animations on the history channel. It was so bad in places it looked like Flight Sim.

I think it's a great piece of history that deserved a good film. Argo for example proves that a good film can be made accurate to history and still be exciting and engaging even when the audience knows what happens in the end.
 
Believe it or not there is a pending lawsuit over the film's screenplay which is a little surprising since it hasn't done at that well financially. A lawyer (of all people) currently working for the U.S. Department of Energy claims he wrote a screenplay a number of years ago about the Tuskegee Airman and their remarkable record of achievement and heroism in WWII. He claims that he registered the screenplay and shopped it around for some time in the Hollywood circles with no response. Several years later, the film Red Tails was made and now he claims that the film is so close to his screenplay that some portions of the dialog in the movie are virtually identical to the dialog in his screenplay and the characters and film title are also nearly the same. The court has dismissed his lawsuit once before but he has filed again. I know him fairly well and I can tell you he knows absolutely nothing about flying!:no:
 
A really, truly disappointing movie. It was like the producer, director, writer, actors, were each making a different movie. It didn't know what it wanted to be.

Red Tails and Lincoln came out at the same time, with a lot of discussion about which one would be the more successful movie.

Answer: Neither
 
Guess I must be an oddball. Kind of liked both. Not on top of list, but not on bottom either.
 
Terrible movie.

If you have even the slightest expectation, prepare to be disappointed.
 
I liked the HBO Tuskegee Airmen much more. It's got inaccuracies as well but it's a lot more plausible.
 
Alexb2000 said:
CGI has ruined movies. I've seen better dog fight animations on the history channel. It was so bad in places it looked like Flight Sim.
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Totally agree. I'd rather see models flying than the crap the metrosexual computer geeks in Hollywood display. You can tell they've never seen real WWII era planes fly, or have even been around small planes. Lattes at Starbucks yes, hanging out at airports.......NO.
 
Anthony said:
Totally agree. I'd rather see models flying than the crap the metrosexual computer geeks in Hollywood display. You can tell they've never seen real WWII era planes fly, or have even been around small planes. Lattes at Starbucks yes, hanging out at airports.......NO.
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..lol
 
Red Tails is a 2012 American war film starring Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding, Jr., about the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African-American United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) servicemen during World War II. The characters in the film are fictional, although based on real individuals.
 
Yes, but in interviews with Lucas it appears the "real individuals" weren't all Tuskegee Airmen. It's about as laughable as "Good Morning Vietnam." I actually got to spend an evening sitting next to the real Adrian Cronauer one night. Interesting guy, but he says everybody always asks him how real the movie was. He says the only thing that the movie had in common with reality was that he was in Viet Nam.
 
Alexb2000 said:
...Dialogue, sheesh. George Lucas needs to hire someone that can write some dialogue, maybe Tarrantino. Some of those lines were just painful.
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He probably figured Star Wars turned out OK with terrible dialog, so...

Sir Alex Guiness said making the terrible lines work was the biggest challenge in the SW series. If you watch with his comment in mind, he's right!
 
flyingron said:
Yes, but in interviews with Lucas it appears the "real individuals" weren't all Tuskegee Airmen. It's about as laughable as "Good Morning Vietnam." I actually got to spend an evening sitting next to the real Adrian Cronauer one night. Interesting guy, but he says everybody always asks him how real the movie was. He says the only thing that the movie had in common with reality was that he was in Viet Nam.
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Bob Morgan said pretty much the same thing about the movie "Memphis Belle".

I have no idea why Hollywood feels compelled to embellish stories of air combat in WWII. Do they think it needs to me MORE exciting? lol
 
Jay Honeck said:
Bob Morgan said pretty much the same thing about the movie "Memphis Belle".

I have no idea why Hollywood feels compelled to embellish stories of air combat in WWII. Do they think it needs to me MORE exciting? lol
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Your putting "Memphis Belle" on the same level as "Red Tails"?

Have you seen this move?
 
Alexb2000 said:
Your putting "Memphis Belle" on the same level as "Red Tails"?

Have you seen this move?
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Oh, heck no. Red Tails, as has been noted, took a great and exciting subject and somehow made it boring.

Memphis Belle is at least a good flick. It's just not terribly accurate, according to the good Captain. (He and his wife Linda donated much of the artwork that graces the walls of our Memphis Belle Room. He didn't think much of the movie.)
 
I tried watching Red Tails this weekend. Couldn't make it through it. Terrible movie.
 
Anyone who expects a Hollywood movie to be documentary material deserves to be disappointed.

I didn't hate it but... I kept looking for something more interesting during commercials...

I've seen better and worse acting in indie films.
 
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bnt83 said:
Anyone who expects a Hollywood movie to be documentary material deserves to be disappointed.
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I didn't expect it to be, but I expected it to be at least entertaining, which it wasn't. The HBO docudrama was better done. I only brought up the "authenticity" issues when other people here CLAIMED it was based on a true story (NOT) or on real Tuskegee Airmen (NOT).
 
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