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Red Tails is apparently a more inspirational movie than Contraband

Posted on 1/10/12 at 2:03 pm
Posted by PnG Exsanguination
About 5 miles from Tiger Stadium
Member since Jul 2008
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Posted on 1/10/12 at 2:03 pm
Discuss
Posted by coloradoBengal
Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 1/10/12 at 2:05 pm to
Posted by iAmBatman
The Batcave
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Posted on 1/10/12 at 2:17 pm to
Posted by Cryotiger
Member since Aug 2008
559 posts
Posted on 1/10/12 at 2:53 pm to
According to the trailer they single handedly won WWII. What could possibly be wrong with that?
Posted by coloradoBengal
Member since Sep 2007
32608 posts
Posted on 1/10/12 at 3:09 pm to
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According to the trailer they single handedly won WWII. What could possibly be wrong with that?


The inevitable overdoing it.

"Let's correct the historical oversight of the contribution of black soldiers/pilots, by making a movie that, instead of showing them to be like everyone else... we paint them as some kind of super unit that were braver and better than any other unit before them."
Posted by Zamoro10
Member since Jul 2008
14743 posts
Posted on 1/10/12 at 3:14 pm to
Why are you getting all pissy?

Did you not see Glory?

Besides, black soldiers need this redemption after Spike Lee honored them with that Nightmare at Saint Anna.
Posted by Slinger16
Not Louisiana
Member since Jun 2007
21876 posts
Posted on 1/10/12 at 3:53 pm to
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Red Tails


didn't they already make this movie?

I swear it has all the same actors.
Posted by coloradoBengal
Member since Sep 2007
32608 posts
Posted on 1/10/12 at 3:57 pm to
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Nightmare at Saint Anna.


Didn't see.
Posted by Patrick O Rly
y u do dis?
Member since Aug 2011
41187 posts
Posted on 1/10/12 at 4:11 pm to
I found a funny audience review on rotten

Todd Dowdy-Sloan


quote:

I had a chance to see a screening of the film last night. I will say this. I'm sure that the film will do well with George Lucas behind it, and I hope someone gets "Something" out of this film. But it was one of the worst adaptations of historical events i've ever seen. This film was terrible in that, it doesn't even give real reference to what happen...in fact it doesn't even mention actual events from the history of these men. The film had to be titled "Red Tails (which is the only correct reference) because it doesn't tell the story of what they actually faced. If weren't for first lady Eleanor Roosevelt demanding that they be sent from Tuskegee to North Africa to actually fight and stop doing simple training exercises, they more than likely wouldn't even have a story, and that was never mentioned or even brushed on. To my understanding, these were intelligent college men...and when Ne-Yo, who I hold in high regard as someone who is a singer trying to really make a go at acting, started strumming a GEE-TAR and chewing tobacco like some plantation reject, all that went out the window! The person who led the squadron was a drunk (but you never saw him drunk), and one was an amazing pilot who does what he want's, has no regard for the service...honestly the film is a bad joke and an insult to who these men were. The acting is extremely week, the script was poorly written and again...the film gives no real reference to any actual events that made the story of the Tuskegee Airmen such an important part of not just african american history, but american history period. Shame on whoever put this crap together!


That scathing/thoughtful review is followed by an even more insightful one by movie buff Cody Miller.



quote:

Really cant wait for this one!!!



Posted by Tiger Ryno
#WoF
Member since Feb 2007
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Posted on 1/10/12 at 4:43 pm to
what did anyone expect with George Lucas behind this?

He put off the live action star wars TV show to make this pile of turd
Posted by tigerspin
Member since Dec 2008
1734 posts
Posted on 1/10/12 at 5:07 pm to
I saw in an interview that Lucas said the movie was written and shot more in the style of a 1940s propaganda war film, which puts all the horrible cheesy lines in the trailer into better perspective. So I guess Lucas wasn't exactly going for historical accuracy as far as the tuskegee airmen go, more "rah-rah, America!"

I'm intrigued by this movie but I suspect if I see it I'll get burned like I always do with movies that I know look bad but still intrigue me.
Posted by HeadyMurphey
Los Santos
Member since Jan 2008
17223 posts
Posted on 1/10/12 at 6:13 pm to
Posted by The Sundance Kid
Park City, Utah
Member since Jan 2010
685 posts
Posted on 1/10/12 at 8:50 pm to
Pretty sure this movie was already made...it's called The Tuskagee Airmen.
Posted by JBeam
Guns,Germs & Steel
Member since Jan 2011
68377 posts
Posted on 1/10/12 at 9:04 pm to
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Spike Lee honored them with that Nightmare at Saint Anna.

god awful film.
Posted by ChewyDante
Member since Jan 2007
16981 posts
Posted on 1/10/12 at 9:06 pm to
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Besides, black soldiers need this redemption after Spike Lee honored them with that Nightmare at Saint Anna.


And you think that abortion of a movie called Red Tails is that redemption?
Posted by Macintosh
Leveraging Salaries University
Member since Sep 2011
53217 posts
Posted on 1/10/12 at 10:16 pm to
lol thats exactly what i was thinking last night
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