re: Red Tails is apparently a more inspirational movie than Contraband

I found a funny audience review on rotten

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!

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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!!!

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