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Nowadays, Hollywood cannot be trusted... to show anything historically correct--
1 posted on 01/19/2012 6:24:00 AM PST by Bender2
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Was going to see this next Monday... but I'll go see Haywire instead--

If I may paraphrase the reviewer... this film gives 'whitewash' a totally new meaning!

2 posted on 01/19/2012 6:25:27 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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I heard Lucas in an interview about this film and he was quite honest: (summary) “this is for the 10-year-old in me: it is about fast planes and cool dogfights. Yes, the racism story is interesting but I just use it as a platform for the fun stuff.”

Remember folks, Han shot first...


4 posted on 01/19/2012 6:28:53 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
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The anticipated low interest level for this material overseas is cited as a major reason the project took so long to get off the ground.

What? I thought every country loved watching movies about how racist white people are!

5 posted on 01/19/2012 6:33:49 AM PST by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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Any movies about the brave men who fought in the Korean War?


6 posted on 01/19/2012 6:34:29 AM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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I will see any WWII movie that comes out. I even went to see "The Thin Red Line" and wanted that particular two hours of my life back.

I think I'll miss this one. Unless the reviews change my opinion, it appears to me that the only thing that this movie has in common with history is the actors were black.

Honestly, I think that it looks pretty disrespectful to the *real* Tuskeegee Airmen.

7 posted on 01/19/2012 6:34:29 AM PST by wbill
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Another movie about evil white racists....

I gotta say, I just don’t care anymore. Seriously. I’m burned out on it. Take your little racism theme I’m supposed to feel guilty about and shove it.

And after watching the RedLetterMedia reviews of Star Wars, I won’t ever knowingly step within a block of any movie theater screening a Lucas project. The man’s an epic moron.

Very successful....but amazingly stupid.


9 posted on 01/19/2012 6:35:45 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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“Yes, the racism story is interesting..”

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Yes, whites just adore being beaten over the head daily with the “racism” sledgehammer.

Its a gas.


11 posted on 01/19/2012 6:38:10 AM PST by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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Sounds to me like if you treat this like you would watching your typical 80’s action film with Arnold or Bruce Willis in it, you’ll like it.


17 posted on 01/19/2012 6:42:33 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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Why, with the timing of this movie, you’d almost suspect we had a black Democrat running for re-election.


22 posted on 01/19/2012 6:51:04 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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It looks like a full length version of the History Channel’s “Dogfights”. I wonder if they will portray the Germans as 20 yr. olds with about 40 hrs of flying time? Would they have survived against Hartmann?


23 posted on 01/19/2012 6:51:30 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft ( WHO YOU ELECT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WHO THEY APPOINT!)
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EVERY REVIEW of this film should include at least a nod to the following troubling event.

A few months after Obama usurped the Office, he ordered a terror attack by Air Force One upon downtown Manhattan.

The purpose? Almost certainly it was related to this film.

See comment from "mm" at Althouse blog: May 10, 2009

26 posted on 01/19/2012 6:54:33 AM PST by bvw
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A key signal of how much you can trust any contemporary movie about either of the 20th century's world wars is how, and even if, it depicts smoking; if, like this one, it buckles to current fashion and scarcely depicts soldiers smoking at all in a period when cigarettes were part of ration kits, then it's frankly not to be trusted in any other respect either.

The writer has a valid point.
29 posted on 01/19/2012 7:03:41 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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I knew this movie was BS when they had the trailer showing the P-51 Mustangs flying around the B-17s shooting at the Luftwaffe planes. The escort pilots learned quickly that the gunners in the B-17s would shoot at anything so the escorts never went into the actual bomber formations.


31 posted on 01/19/2012 7:06:43 AM PST by C19fan
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Is it a hollywood movie produced to generate revenue or a documentary?


33 posted on 01/19/2012 7:08:05 AM PST by stuartcr ("In this election year of 12, how deep into their closets will we delve?")
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You have to understand- Lucas is the King of PC. He is also a perpetual 10 year old, mentally, albeit one with billions. The man is pathologically immature and is surrounded by ‘yes’ men . He WON’T grow up and he’s pushing 70. Adult maturity is foreign to him- adult themes are ‘icky’. At least he didn’t WRITE any of this film, did he? If so- it’s doomed.
Oh- Lucas also announced hes retiring from filmmaking. Thank the Maker- hopefully he won’t trash the SW universe anymore!


34 posted on 01/19/2012 7:08:59 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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I’ll probably wait for the movie to come to Netflix, but the Hollywood Reporter’s issues with historical correctness seem rather nitpicky to me.

There is smoking, but not enough and the wrong kind of smoking? If that is worst historical inaccuracy in the film, it is probably the most accurate film in history.


37 posted on 01/19/2012 7:14:58 AM PST by Above My Pay Grade
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It can’t possibly be as bad as U-571, I mean Jon Bon Jovi???? Really?!?!?!


43 posted on 01/19/2012 7:17:54 AM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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The trailer for the movie that I see on TV has killed the movie for me.

According to the trailer, the only people fighting were the Red Tails. They saved America.

Their actual contributions were great, but this movie appears to be a travesty.


47 posted on 01/19/2012 7:23:31 AM PST by Venturer
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I saw Red Tails recently and came away disappointed. A film about the Tuskgee Airmen should be serious. It seemed like it was a made for television movie and aimed at kids. The CGI and actng seemed bad. The characters seemed cartoonish. The article is correct about the reply of combat footage in the movie and a number of other things.

One promo on Fox Movie Channel I saw had Terrance Howard saying something to the effect that it was like Star Wars. The orginial version of Star Wars that was released in the 1970s is a light years better.


61 posted on 01/19/2012 7:51:00 AM PST by moviefan8
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I always suspected that the Tuskegee airmen were the decisive factor in the defeat of the Reich.



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88 posted on 01/19/2012 1:19:38 PM PST by Jay Santos CP ("Idiocracy"... It's no longer just a movie.)
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