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Red Tails trailer

Considering that the following cgi video was made about 6/7 years ago...I reckon that it's creator,Tochy, could teach Lucas' guys a thing or two when it comes to aviation related cgi....

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I was just thinking about those videos.... Now that is an example of something where someone took their time and did it right..... of course we do not know the amount of time put into something so complex looking that it leaves us drooling and wishing our sims could look like that......
 
For Hollywood.... a good effort.... should they have had an aircraft expert there to tell them how combat planes fly?.... sure.


With the dwindling amount of planes.... CGI is the way to go... the cinematics are awesome I think.

For those of you pointing out Tora! Tora! Tora!... well there is no bigger expert here on that movie or Pearl Harbor. Battleship Row looked cool in the 70's.... but they do look like toy models now compared even with the awwwwwwful Pearl Harbor... and their CGI battlewagons.

Lets see what a historical nut like Bruce McKenna is going to do for CGI in Battle of Midway 3D.

Bet he uses Lucasfilms also... so maybe they learn something from this... and improve the scene where Waldron and Torpedo 8 are skimming the waves and Dick Best comes screaming down on Akagi!
 
I remember a thread similar to this on my Lionel Train forum last year when Unstoppable came out in the theaters. In that movie a veteran locomotive engineer and his rookie conductor attempt to stop a runaway freight train before it crashes in an urban area. It was a real "train geek" festival as everybody blustered about why it was unrealistic, they weren't going to see it, it gave the public a bad impression of real railroads, etc. etc. I felt they should have opened the f-stops on their sphincters a bit and just gone to see the movie, it was a good action flick.

Same thought here with the Red Tails movie. As aviation buffs we want it to be 100% historically accurate or (harumph) we're not gonna go see it. Hollywood wants it to be a fast-action aerial shoot-'em-up featuring an assortment of well-known African-American actors who will hopefully attract viewers across ethnic lines. If it happens to teach a little history while it makes good $$ at the box office, that's fine with Hollywood but $$ is the bottom line. I'm gonna go see the movie in January, if the fleeting glimpses of Luftwaffe markings are inaccurate I'm not gonna have a stroke over it. :icon_lol:
 
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