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Offline minke

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The red baron
« on: October 06, 2009, 02:53:10 PM »
just finished watching it on dvd. Some of the acting was as wooden as the aircraft,but never the less it was still impressive.
Not sure how accurate the air combat was,but -
highlights included ganging,picking and vulching.

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Re: The red baron
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2009, 03:02:20 PM »
highlights included ganging,picking and vulching.

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Re: The red baron
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2009, 04:04:27 PM »
highlights included ganging,picking and vulching.

Filmed on location in the DA?
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Re: The red baron
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2009, 04:25:41 PM »
Filmed on location in the DA?

without the head ons,guess the movie had a better collision model

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Re: The red baron
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2009, 04:54:04 PM »
I hear they added a completely fictional cheesy romance to spice up the film.  Von Richthofen was a rather serious and wooden man himself.  His brother Lothar is supposed to have been much more colorful.
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Re: The red baron
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2009, 04:58:14 PM »
Looking at his plane, Lothar was indeed more colorful.  :lol

Seriously though, I don't give much for that film, but getting to know Lothar's son is one of the highlights of my life so far.

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Re: The red baron
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2009, 06:29:28 AM »
Were all the germans flying red Triplanes, but the main bad guy flying a green/black one who bought it with a single revolver shot to the head?

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Re: The red baron
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2009, 08:11:23 AM »
...who bought it with a single revolver shot to the head?

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I think that's based on an actual incident.
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Re: The red baron
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2009, 08:46:33 AM »
I think that's based on an actual incident.

Yeh, somebody did get shot in the head once with a revolver. That's the troof.
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Re: The red baron
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2009, 09:26:05 AM »
Yeh, somebody did get shot in the head once with a revolver. That's the troof.

I meant the pilot of one fighter shooting the pilot of another fighter while in flight, wiseguy.
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Re: The red baron
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2009, 12:20:24 PM »
 I had hopes for that film but it was badly made. Bad script. Much like the other recent WW1 movie. We haven't had a good WW1 movie since The Blue Max. (1966)

                                     

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Re: The red baron
« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2009, 01:13:54 PM »
I meant the pilot of one fighter shooting the pilot of another fighter while in flight, wiseguy.
Are you thinking of "Flyboys?"   Another squandered opportunity to make a good, CGI flying movie. 
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Re: The red baron
« Reply #12 on: October 07, 2009, 02:00:08 PM »
Oddly enough, I just saw a trailer on TV for the DVD. It was enough to put me off buying or even watching it. It has to be said CGI is simply not mature enough for flying movies yet. It simply doesn't look real, you cannot suspend belief if you know you're looking at CGI. Plus they make the aircraft fly like F16s. You only have to look at flying sequences in the Blue Max and VonRichtofen and Brown to see the difference.

Of course I'm biased as both movies were made near where I grew up. Can you imagine being blase about seeing formations of British and German biplanes passing overhead, not to mention casual about seeing dogfights? Well except for one particular dogfight, which I attribute to my interest in becoming a pilot. On the deck it was a duel between two pilots, so close I could see their faces. No airshow has ever come close.

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Re: The red baron
« Reply #13 on: October 07, 2009, 02:04:42 PM »
Were all the germans flying red Triplanes, but the main bad guy flying a green/black one who bought it with a single revolver shot to the head?

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Re: The red baron
« Reply #14 on: October 07, 2009, 03:13:09 PM »
 Flyboys thats the name of that POS movie.