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Red Tails: My review

Heck, even if it's $10, it's still worth it. Someone spends $100 million to recreate stunningly realistic aerial battles with unprecedented realism on 30-foot-tall screen for two hours, and you're going to let $10, the price of a decent burger meal, keep you from seeing it because of some perceived value judgment? I understand some folks are retired or otherwise on tight budgets, but if you're an aerial combat aficionado, you're nuts if you let the price of a movie ticket keep you from seeing this.

Seriously. It's awesome. It's worth the price of a three-pack of cheap tube socks, people. Sheesh. Just don't buy the ripoff concessions.
 
Last movie me and the missus went to cost $40 between tickets and soda and popcorn. Probably sprung for some overpriced Milk Duds too. Someday I will remember to stop at the Walgreens across the street and smuggle in the Milk Duds. :icon_lol:
 
Trans_23 said:
Someday I will remember to stop at the Walgreens across the street and smuggle in the Milk Duds. :icon_lol:
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That's the move. Tell Mrs. Trans to put the Milk Duds in her handbag. The studio makes money from the films; the theater makes it's money from concessions, which is why they're so high.

JAMES
 
Mr Lucas did more than make just a very good movie. Its my suspicion that he felt the enormity of historical responsibility that is associated with this particular group of men. At the same time that he was producing the movie, he was also producing a documentary called "Double Victory" . At 90 minutes long, its almost a movie within itself. It originally aired not only on the History channel but in several theaters as well. A very nicely done review of the documentary can be fund at http://www.theroot.com/views/double-victory-entertaining-history-lesson

I encourage everyone to take the movie as its offered: a well done piece of historical drama, and watch the documentary "Double Victory" for the reality you seek.. Double Victory is currently scheduled to re-show on the History channel on Febuary 12th.


Pam
 
Yep, I scheduled my DVR to record Double Victory the night it aired. I watched it last week. :) Good show. Fox News also ran a special episode of War Stories with Oliver North on the 99th today. I recorded that as well. Plan to watch it later. :)
 
Inspirational and Powerfull movie. Big screen for me and loved it. What a battle in all ways.

Jim
 
RE: A double thumbs up of a movie

Trans_23 said:
I had a friend post on his Facebook Page last night that Red Tails was the worst movie he has ever seen. Also got a very bad review in a Chicago paper I was reading on the way to work. I am one of those that will wait for the DVD to come out. Theaters are a ripoff so that wasn't probably ever an option for me anyway.
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Trans,....trust me on this,...you'll be doing yourself a disfavor by waiting for the DVD of 'Red Tails' to come out. Even with (I assume) your HD widescreen TV at home,...it won't do proper justice as it's shown at your local theater. You'll get totally immersed within the movie from the moment it begins.
Lucas did a superlative CGI job in creating the atmosphere at these forward fighter airstrips. Which I found more interesting in a certain way than the dogfight scenes. It was wonderful to look down the flight line and see either P-40's or P-51's lined up wing tip to wing tip. There is no way one could tell between the real/or mock fighter in contrast to the CGI ones. It was seamless for the most part. Only the vast armadas of flying B-17's did it appear a bit artificial. But not by much.
And as some of you fellows mentioned,...Lucas kept it to an ol' fashioned movie production (bravo!)...with a wonderful cast of actors. No hidden meanings,...other than the overt indecency of racism which ran deep throughout the military at that time.
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Hats off to the 'Red Tails!'
 
Panther_99FS said:
To para-phrase from the video that FerryVO posted in another thread:

>>Lucas had to fund the film himself since no big/major studio would essentially fund a movie with an all black cast<<
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or maybe that's just hype, intended to sell tix? i mean, if you really believe that, you have to ask yourself: who funded the players club? how about harlem nights? how about coming to america? cooley high? the color purple? boyz n the hood? biker boys (kid rock not withstanding) everything tyler perry ever did. much of spike lee's early stuff has an all black cast. i mean seriously dude. that's alot of great (and not so great) cinema to ignore. none of those movies got made by passing the hat in church.
 
cheezyflier said:
or maybe that's just hype, intended to sell tix? i mean, if you really believe that, you have to ask yourself: who funded the players club? how about harlem nights? how about coming to america? cooley high? the color purple? boyz n the hood? biker boys (kid rock not withstanding) everything tyler perry ever did. much of spike lee's early stuff has an all black cast. i mean seriously dude. that's alot of great (and not so great) cinema to ignore. none of those movies got made by passing the hat in church.
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None of those cost $100M to make,.
 
DennyA said:
None of those cost $100M to make,.
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Denny, you beat me to it. Low-brow comedies are very cheap to produce, unless it's something like the Blues Brothers where the director feels the pressing need to crash a bunch of cars in the middle of a shopping mall. Digital horror movies are even cheaper. I was friends with an indie film-maker, and he insists the industry NEEDS these movies, because it gives the cameramen, sound editors, makeup artists, grips, gaffers, and everyone else who doesn't make Keanu Reeves' salary a paycheck, and a chance the practice their trade. They also give young actors a chance to work. You wouldn't know it watching the Golden Globe Awards, but more of the SAG membership are waiting tables and working other low-paying jobs waiting for a call back than there are walking the red carpet. Jamie Foxx made Booty Call before Ray, and Tom Hanks made Bachelor Party before Saving Private Ryan.

Tyler Perry is a k-billionaire because he saw there was a vast African-American audience who wanted humorous material covering issues they could relate to, with a Christian undertone, not fetishing gangsterism, and felt there was no material being made for them. He started out making stage plays, and then videotaping those plays (again, inexpensive) and moving up to film. Not every critic likes Perry, however. I'll not get into the politics of that issue on an aviation site, though. Here's a link to a contrary opinion of Red Tails given to me by another friend: http://scottwoods.livejournal.com/402639.html

JAMES
 
Trans_23 said:
James, that link takes me to a blank page.
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Yes I see that now, but it work in the message in which I received it. You might try pasting the address into your browser, the website hosting the account may not want linking from other sites, although I don't understand why a service would want less people reading a blog. There's nothing earth-shattering in the review; the writer just thinks Red Tails is a bad movie, and black people shouldn't feel obligated to spend their money on a bad movie just because it has black people starring in it.

JAMES
 
AckAck said:
http://scottwoods.livejournal.com/402639.html

The original link had a bunch of mail stuff in front of it: wlmailhtml:{EB866A32-B661-47D9-8CB1-87D3BF3AE660}mid://00000002/!x-usc:http://scottwoods.livejournal.com/402639.html, which if you cut it down to just the web address, works fine.
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Thanks for that, AckAck. I love a computer-literate forum. I have nothing against the fellow in the link, I just don't agree with him. Goes to show how two different people can look at the same thing and see something very different.

JAMES
 
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