I agree with you on both movies. Thin Red Line was terrible.
I've never regretted sitting through an entire movie more than I did when I watched The Thin Red Line. It was like watching war through the eyes of a high school art fag.
I saw the trailer for “Red Tails” in the theater, and knowing nothing about the airplanes of the era, I wondered if those types of planes would be capable of the speed and maneuvering depicted in the film.
Other than that, it looked pretty terrible.
Too bad, because those men deserve so much better.