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Offline Jackal1

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« on: September 05, 2006, 10:36:05 AM »




Well .............I was getting all pumped up when I saw the first previews of this movie. I thought this one might just be the one worth going to see.
Then I found this......................... ...................



Someone please , please tell me that this movie is not going the way of Pearl Harbor with all the boring touchy/feely BS as being the biisest part of it.
Release date Sept. 22
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Offline Yeager

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« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2006, 12:05:20 PM »
I saw the trailer last night.  Yeah, the air combat looked hoaky as hell and seemed like it was happeing at Ninja light speed, sort of like a billion Sopwith pups attacking the giant deathstar.

Im guessng this one is going to be a clunky flunker (say that one three times fast) :cry
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Offline Gh0stFT

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« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2006, 03:14:12 PM »
WW1 fly movies are so rare, you HAVE to watch everything is released ;)
I didnt see the trailer yet, but i'm sure to visit this movie in the theatre,
especialy 22 Sept. is my birthday ;*p
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« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2006, 03:21:03 PM »
saw the preveiws, and im really looking forward to this movie.
hopefully it wont turn out to be a touchy feely chick flick ala pearl harbor.

the fight scenes i saw looked good. i KNOW they have to use cgi since the real planes are hard to find and nobody in there right mind would let em be used in such a way.
hokey or not im still looking forward to it. one day (soon i hope) the CGI stuff will be advanced enough that you wont be able to tell it from the real thing
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« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2006, 03:38:00 PM »
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Originally posted by WilldCrd
the fight scenes i saw looked good. i KNOW they have to use cgi since the real planes are hard to find and nobody in there right mind would let em be used in such a way.
hokey or not im still looking forward to it. one day (soon i hope) the CGI stuff will be advanced enough that you wont be able to tell it from the real thing
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Now, what to do for airplanes? The producers did not want to use CGI since they felt the images are not realistic so they contracted with Robert Baslee's AirDrome Airplanes in Holden, Missouri, to build four replica full-size Nieuport 17s. Trouble was, they had to do it in a short time. Robert and his crew got busy and the Nieuports were built in just 52 days! Power is supplied via a Volkswagen VW 2180cc engine swinging a Culver 96x60 propeller. Empty weight is just 532-lbs. The completed aircraft were shipped to Britain where they will be assembled, test flown, and painted in period markings.


I read elsewhere that they grounded the planes and replaced 'em with CGI because of an accident, but I can't substantiate it yet.
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« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2006, 03:45:48 PM »
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454824/trailers-screenplay-E28469-6-3


Upon second review of the trailer, I am now convinced this movie is going to SUCK!...I think the director saw Top Gun one to many times, and is now convinced that all fighter pilot's are "mavericks".....I'll prolly still see the movie though...Hell, it cant be worse then "Stealth"
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Offline Tarmac

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« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2006, 03:50:06 PM »
As much as I'd love to see a WWI flying movie, this has "pearl harbor" written all over it.  It will be a ****.  Maybe a **** with some pretty parts, but still a ****.
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« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2006, 03:51:51 PM »
See Rule #7
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« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2006, 03:58:07 PM »
are there any nude scenes?
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« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2006, 04:11:23 PM »
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Offline Mustaine

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« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2006, 04:19:17 PM »
See Rule #2, #7
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« Reply #11 on: September 05, 2006, 05:38:53 PM »
I guess Ill ask what no one dares ask about the clip I saw....did we really have black pilots in the air corp back then?

Or has Hollywood added that?

Just curious...I didnt think the first black air corpsmen made it into WW1

If Im wrong, please corect me
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« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2006, 05:50:05 PM »
At least one black American flew with a French unit.
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« Reply #13 on: September 05, 2006, 06:02:29 PM »
Eugene J. Bullard
he was kicked out of the lafeyette escadrille (too black or a discipline issue depending on who's story you believe), but has previously flown with a french squadron in SPADs & before that was on the line for a couple years, wounded at Verdun, Croix de Guerre & a bunch of other things that imresses me when i read a biography "the Black Swallow of Death”



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CAPTION --  THE MEDALS OF Eugene Bullard, the first American black combat pilot, were donated to the United States Air Force Museum and later turned up missing.
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« Reply #14 on: September 05, 2006, 06:08:43 PM »
Chairboy, if you're interesed there is an EAA group based at either Salem (SLE) or Independece (7S5)
that has formed "The Noon Patrol" based around about a dozen replica Nieuport 11 Bebes
http://www.eaa292.org/noonpatrol.html






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