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Red Tails is apparently a more inspirational movie than Contraband
Posted on 1/10/12 at 2:03 pm
Posted on 1/10/12 at 2:03 pm
Discuss
Posted on 1/10/12 at 2:53 pm to PnG Exsanguination
According to the trailer they single handedly won WWII. What could possibly be wrong with that?
Posted on 1/10/12 at 3:09 pm to Cryotiger
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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 on 1/10/12 at 3:14 pm to coloradoBengal
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.
Did you not see Glory?
Besides, black soldiers need this redemption after Spike Lee honored them with that Nightmare at Saint Anna.
Posted on 1/10/12 at 3:53 pm to PnG Exsanguination
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Red Tails
didn't they already make this movie?
I swear it has all the same actors.
Posted on 1/10/12 at 3:57 pm to Zamoro10
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Nightmare at Saint Anna.
Didn't see.
Posted on 1/10/12 at 4:11 pm to PnG Exsanguination
I found a funny audience review on rotten
Todd Dowdy-Sloan
That scathing/thoughtful review is followed by an even more insightful one by movie buff Cody Miller.
Todd Dowdy-Sloan
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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.
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Really cant wait for this one!!!
Posted on 1/10/12 at 4:43 pm to Patrick O Rly
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
He put off the live action star wars TV show to make this pile of turd
Posted on 1/10/12 at 5:07 pm to Tiger Ryno
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.
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 on 1/10/12 at 8:50 pm to PnG Exsanguination
Pretty sure this movie was already made...it's called The Tuskagee Airmen.
Posted on 1/10/12 at 9:04 pm to Zamoro10
quote:god awful film.
Spike Lee honored them with that Nightmare at Saint Anna.
Posted on 1/10/12 at 9:06 pm to Zamoro10
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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 on 1/10/12 at 10:16 pm to PnG Exsanguination
lol thats exactly what i was thinking last night
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