Red Tails- Movie

[Melvin]

Click Me!

 

4 rofls

 

[oakranger]

 

[Seanaldinho]

Click Me!

That is awesome in some many ways...

[Tordon22]

I hope that didn't come off too mean, no offense raptor. I didn't know either, so I clicked it after I made it. 

[F22RaptorDude]

  THATS AWESOME, both what you did and the fact they shot em down 

[EskimoJoe]

If I wanted historical accuracy I would watch a documentary on the Tuskegee airmen.

It's about the story to me, not how real it can get.

I'd still watch it even if it was a cartoon.

[mtnman]

You need to start a thread with some pictures of your birds! I know I've mentioned to you before I would love nothing more than to be in a spot in life where I had the time to start working with raptors, so pictures are all I have to go on for now .

I know Redtails are great hunters in their own right, but I always get taken back to a story of the second Redtail my father ever got his hands on. It had been neglected by the previous handler and not flown in quite some time and they really struggled to get her to fly again. She still could fly of course, she wasn't injured or anything, just refused to. It got as bad as my Dad finding a steep hill with the wind howling down over it, and having a friend release her about 300 yards down the hill into the wind. She flew up and did a few circles around the friends head, saw the glove with the treat and immediatley landed and hopped up the entire hill. Flying again only to go from the ground to the glove! I laugh every time .

And with the help of a much more experienced falconer they were able to get her into hunting shape and released much later.

Maybe I'll start a thread and post a few.  I'm not sure it would be appropriate place to post a lot of them though.  I have some that just show the birds without kills, etc, that I suppose I could post.

[mtnman]

If I wanted historical accuracy I would watch a documentary on the Tuskegee airmen.

It's about the story to me, not how real it can get.

I'd still watch it even if it was a cartoon.

I can see that, and I'll go see it for the story and the planes.  I'm ok with a movie that has no value beyond the story.

But when they portray factual events and/or characters, I really wish they'd make more of an effort to do it "right".  The Tuskegee Airmen all on their own is a great story.  And with all the effort put forth for a movie like this, I'm always left wondering why they couldn't have just done a bit more research or kept to the facts.

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

Please understand, most of the reason bombers and fighters do not bare common or accurate numbers is on purpose.
Imagine seeing the bomber that 8 men lost there lives on,and one of them happens to be your father,or your grand father.


This is not a history documentation, it is a movie based on something In history.



The last thing any of you would want for your family members is some 13 year old net nerd looking up your family members bomber number so he can find out who died in that "HELLA COOL EXPLOSION WHERE THE WING RIPS OFF AND YOU CAN HEAR THE GUY SCREAM ALL THE WAY DOWN TILL HE HITS THE GROUND!"


get it?  


Some things are just to close to home guys.

[Shane]

Apparently they did...

http://clem.mscd.edu/~christib/wprof/sharedinfo/FieldTripWIA/Tuskegee%20Airmen%20Facts.doc

I'm still not sure about that claim of never losing a bomber...

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

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[stealth]

Hey I already posted a topic about this though.

[jolly22]

I can see that, and I'll go see it for the story and the planes.  I'm ok with a movie that has no value beyond the story.

But when they portray factual events and/or characters, I really wish they'd make more of an effort to do it "right".  The Tuskegee Airmen all on their own is a great story.  And with all the effort put forth for a movie like this, I'm always left wondering why they couldn't have just done a bit more research or kept to the facts.

They've been doing research for this movie since 1988, I have a feeling its going to be pretty dang accurate in the battles and the way they trained. They've even brought in a few of the actualy tuskegee airmen in the late 1990s i believe. But you don't see too many air to air WW2 movies, so I'm very excited to see this.

[mtnman]

Hey I already posted a topic about this though.

I think I've seen 3-4 threads on this same topic.

[HighGTrn]

I watched several trailers for the new Lucas movie coming to theaters on 20 Jan 12. Looks like its gonna be pretty good. I hope it wont be a disappointment.

There's a part in the trailer where it shows a Pony taking to the vertical, pulling hard into an almost stall then flipping its nose around for a shot landing hits on a 109. Pretty cool affects.