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Offline Waffle

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Flyboys, the movie... Oct 13
« on: May 23, 2006, 11:25:14 AM »
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Nope, not the ww2 book made into a movie, but a ww1 flick. Done by the dude from Independence Day (so some cg) as well as lot of live action footage.

looks interesting.
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« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2006, 11:41:51 AM »
I predict "Pearl Harbor with BiPlanes"  
at first it looked like it might be good, until I read the casting list.  Jean Reno is the only one there I like and would watch.   I'll probably end up seeing it just for the planes :lol

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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2006, 12:02:22 PM »
lol - funny - just looked at this months Air & Space smithsonian magazine and there's an article in there. One thing I did notice is that they didn't want to use CG for planes, so they've got around  5  Nieuport 17s, some are ultra light fabrications, 2 fokker DR-1s,  a Sopwith 1-/2 strutter, Bleriot XI, Bristol F-2, and a SE-5a. They did say they will use some cg for putting together some of  the actual dogfighting.

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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2006, 01:29:34 PM »
wtf, you need a password to view the trailer?

At least there are no big names in it, so maybe it won't totally suck.

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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2006, 01:58:29 PM »
read it in Air & Space also ..
amazing they could build 3 Nieuports in less than 60 days ..
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« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2006, 10:13:56 PM »
I was just thinking (dangerous, I know) it would probably be cheaper to build some of those old stick and cloth kites than it would be to CGI them. But, I'm sure a corporate insurance company guy was worried about losing some precious profit and bonuses.
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Re: Flyboys, the movie... Oct 13
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2006, 02:10:31 AM »
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Nope, not the ww2 book made into a movie...


That book was so intense, I really hope no one in Hollywood gets a wild hair up thier you-know-what and tries to write a screenplay based on it.


Man, that was some morbid, morbid **** in that book.
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« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2006, 07:31:01 PM »
flyboys would make an interesting movie.

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« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2006, 11:00:55 PM »
Just in time for the movie.

Someone is making a WWI flight sim using the IL-2 engine.

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« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2006, 12:17:33 AM »
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read it in Air & Space also ..
amazing they could build 3 Nieuports in less than 60 days ..


there are plenty of Nieuports available...The Noon Patrol