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Flyboys - favorable review by Medved (but panned by others)
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| September 22, 2006
| Michael Medved
Posted on 09/22/2006 4:32:22 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Howlin; onyx; Clemenza; Petronski; GummyIII; SevenofNine; martin_fierro; veronica; EggsAckley; ...
Ok. Let's try this again. :)
To: EveningStar
This movie looks good. I'm a huge fan of WWI.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
To: EveningStar
As a youngster I watched a movie about some young American civilian fliers who sought the excitement of military flying and combat in WW1. I don't know the name but I remember it being quite humorous yet tragic and I've not seen or heard of it since and I'm talking 40+ years. Would love to watch it again. Will definitely have to check this one out.
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posted on
09/22/2006 4:39:35 PM PDT
by
mcshot
("If it ain't broke it doesn't have enough features." paraphrased anon.)
To: EveningStar
Interesting! I enjoy war movies so long as they aren't propaganda (i.e. Platoon) or have a "hero" who's a moonbat (Alec Baldwin RUINED Pearl Harbor for me.)
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posted on
09/22/2006 4:39:54 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
("So what was the price to betray us - Judas?" - SGT Mark Russak to Traitor Murtha)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The only problem is the "based on a true story". I was told that there is a lot of "Hollywood" in this movie, and that some of the characters are either fictional or grossly mischaracterized.
The trailers look good, though.
To: colonel mosby
The only problem is the "based on a true story". I was told that there is a lot of "Hollywood" in this movie, and that some of the characters are either fictional or grossly mischaracterized. That's probably the case with most movies that are "based on a true story".
To: EveningStar
So, why did every pilot get a revolver?
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posted on
09/22/2006 4:47:17 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(A pirate's life for me.)
To: My2Cents
I don't know. Hopefully, someone else here can answer that.
To: EveningStar
"Based on a true story" -- the "true story" being that there was a WWI in which fighter planes were used.
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posted on
09/22/2006 4:52:53 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(A pirate's life for me.)
To: colonel mosby
The thing that immediately looks "wrong" about this flick is that the fliers seem to be played by pouty-lipped pretty boys who exude a certain adolescent quality. This is not what you see when you look at the photos of the real flyers.
One in particular comes to mind of Oswald Boelcke, commander of Germany's Jasta 2 (and who was primarily responsible for starting Baron Manfred von Richthofen, aka the Red Baron, off on his distinguished but very brief career). This haunting photo shows a very young Boelcke (he was killed in a mid-air battle collision when he was only 21 or 22), so very very handsome, and so heartbreakingly young ... but with a depth of age, wisdom, ANYTHING but youth and adolescence, in his eyes and face. I have seen literally dozens of photos of these young flyers, and while many of them are handsome, not a single one is a "pretty boy."
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posted on
09/22/2006 5:02:07 PM PDT
by
Finny
(God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
To: Finny
Unfortunately, a lot of American movies these days are populated by "pretty boys".
To: Finny
and while many of them are handsome, not a single one is a "pretty boy.""Seeing the elephant," even from the air, does that to a young man. Pictures of Civil War soldiers, no matter how young, have that same "no more surprises" look.
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posted on
09/22/2006 5:11:36 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Please pray for Vlad's four top incisors to arrive real soon!)
To: My2Cents
I would venture to say the early pilots didn't get a parachute, no seal sealing fuel tanks and were exposed to incendiary bullets?
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posted on
09/22/2006 5:13:07 PM PDT
by
investigateworld
(Abortion stops a beating heart)
To: EveningStar
Our two Pittsburgh PA papers gave it favorable reviews.
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posted on
09/22/2006 5:14:38 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
(Leaning on the everlasting arms.)
To: EveningStar
My Dad, a WW II vet who had aviation cadet training, would have liked this film.
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posted on
09/22/2006 5:15:21 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
(Leaning on the everlasting arms.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
My husband, who makes his living as a certain kind of WWI aviation historian, was
scandalized when he heard that all the German flyers in this movie are depicted in all-red tri-planes. SCANDALIZED!
"No German flew an all-red triplane except the Red Baron, and it was red with a white cowling," he grumbled. "And even then, Richthofen mostly flew planes that weren't all-red."
He wants to go see the flick anyway, and as his long-suffering wife, I will sit beside him and listen to him gripe about all the historical innacuries with regard to the planes and their markings! *sigh*
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posted on
09/22/2006 5:18:23 PM PDT
by
Finny
(God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
To: Ciexyz
Good for them. I kept seeing one snide remark after another in several reviews, so I stopped looking.
To: Finny
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