Shadow Wolf 07
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Have any of you seen the film yet? What are your reviews? I liked the Me 262 segments best. 
I'd give the film an A minus as war stories go.
I'd give the film an A minus as war stories go.
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Good morning,
I saw it on Friday the 20th, the day it came out. I enjoyed multiple scenes in this movie...my favorite scene was the Anzio landing dogfight and the trailing of the Messerschmitt back to his base, though the train attack sequence was nice as well. The notion of "hand-me-down" P-40s was also realistic, and most of the actors were portrayed relatively well. However, I like the African-American actors in the HBO version from 1995 a little better.
The Messerschmitt dogfights were also done very well. I also give the movie that same range, a B+ or an A-, depending on my mood at the time.
This is my favorite scene from the original, the speech by Benjamin O. Davis, especially the comment about Joe Louis and "when the mood suits you":
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Good morning,
I saw it on Friday the 20th, the day it came out. I enjoyed multiple scenes in this movie...my favorite scene was the Anzio landing dogfight and the trailing of the Messerschmitt back to his base, though the train attack sequence was nice as well. The notion of "hand-me-down" P-40s was also realistic, and most of the actors were portrayed relatively well. However, I like the African-American actors in the HBO version from 1995 a little better.
The Messerschmitt dogfights were also done very well. I also give the movie that same range, a B+ or an A-, depending on my mood at the time.
This is my favorite scene from the original, the speech by Benjamin O. Davis, especially the comment about Joe Louis and "when the mood suits you":
[YOUTUBE]<object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZOjIV_eKVqs?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZOjIV_eKVqs?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object>[/YOUTUBE]
Cody Coyote
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Saw it last week. Went primarily to see the combat flight sequences, which were plentiful and very good. The balance of the story was rather thin and not fleshed out well. Worth seeing if you're a WWII aviation buff. I'd give it a solid "B".
I went and saw it last night. I was very dissapointed. In my opinion, it does a tremendous disservice to the real Tuskegee Airmen. To me, it reinforces the stereotype of what black men were viewed as back in the '40s. After researching the Tuskegee Airmen for the campaign and missions, I can tell you that the real Tuskegee Airmen were much more disciplined and militarily strack than the movie makes them out to be. And, WHO is Colonel A.J. Bullard? Colonel Benjamin O. Davis was their Commander. There was quite a bit of literary latitude taken in this movie. It was not historical. It was very short on action scenes. If it costs you more than 5 bucks to see it in a theater, my advice is to wait until it comes out on DVD. I am not sure I would pay BluRay prices for it.
Poetic / Literary License......
To sum it up.....:
"... Although the true names were not used, anyone knowing the history can infer that Colonel A.J. Bullard, brilliantly played by Terrence Howard, is actually Lt. Col. Benjamin Davis Jr. and Major Emmanuel Stone, played by Cuba Gooding Junior, is Major George "Spanky" Roberts, the commanding officer. The pilots depicted in the movie were played by unknown actors and were a composite of the Tuskegee Airmen..."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/red_tails_and_reality.html
To sum it up.....:
"... Although the true names were not used, anyone knowing the history can infer that Colonel A.J. Bullard, brilliantly played by Terrence Howard, is actually Lt. Col. Benjamin Davis Jr. and Major Emmanuel Stone, played by Cuba Gooding Junior, is Major George "Spanky" Roberts, the commanding officer. The pilots depicted in the movie were played by unknown actors and were a composite of the Tuskegee Airmen..."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/red_tails_and_reality.html