Looking forward to the movie.
I’d rather see the new Black Panther movie.
It likely has fewer white people to trash.
https://www.pluggedin.com/movie-reviews/devotion-2022/
I’m pretty burned out on black hero/white racists movies. Maybe someone who has seen it has a different take. I’d be nice to be wrong.
My s-i-l, a friend of his, and I plan to see it when it comes to Carlisle, PA. (That theater has truly reclining seats).
The trailer turned me right off. I don’t know what the movie is really like, but the trailer made me think it was about a brave and perfect black man who is just better than all the white people, and the white people are (of course) prejudiced and at first fail to see how brave and perfect the black man is, but he shows them the error of their ways.
And, you know, I’ve seen that movie before. Several times.
Hollywood only makes about one good movie every 10 years this one isn’t one of them.
Funny...my Dad never told me that the success of the Korean War rested on the shoulders of black aviators. //Sarc
I am not denigrating the contributions of any person who serves/ed our nation in war time. Nor am I suggesting that black aviators did not face a whole lot of hardships to get where they were. All of that is true. I am grateful that our nation has progressed in the past 70+ years.
I am sure its a good story.
I am just tired of the entertainment business trying to make me feel guilty for something I never did.
But I am sure this time...its different.
Korean war? I saw the trailer and saw a lot of Vought F4U Corsairs and some Grumman F6F Hellcats. I assumed the movie was about WWII...though they did see action in Korea.
I was aware of this movie but hadn’t focused on it. Given the criticisms here, now I’ll have to watch it. My interest level isn’t especially high so I don’t know when I’ll get around to it, but I am trying to be mindful of my New Year’s resolution to try to actually see a film before I trash it (or praise it, as the case may be).
Harry Truman integrated the armed services. Good for Harry Truman. I have plenty of criticisms of the man, but that was a big thing, and Truman did the right thing.
It is an interesting question to consider what might have happened had Woodrow Wilson not been elected, but that’s another story. The self-righteous, arrogant prig from Virginia by way of Princeton was a catastrophe. Harding and Coolidge didn’t do enough to reverse Wilson’s institutionalized racism, and FDR let the issue drift. Truman finally manned up, and I think Eisenhower would have done it if Truman hadn’t.
That’s the backstory I’d like to see Hollywood explore. Given the nature of filmmaking, most of this would have to be backgrounded in a movie that would probably be a tightly focused character drama, but it could be done. A handful of well-placed lines in scenes that are expansive enough to let the context breathe could go a long way. That could make a terrific movie.
Or the film could be a hack, woke propaganda job. That’s what I’ll have in mind when I watch it. It depends on whether the characters are real given the context of their time, and that can get pretty subtle.
I’m like a number of people that have become very tainted in our attitude towards modern movies. The last movie I saw was “They Shall not Grow Old” four years ago.
I’ll probably go see it once just because it’s a war movie. But from the trailer it looks fake with all that CGI... like when they remade Battle of Midway...