Red Tails

[GreenLantern]

I just saw this movie and wanted to say that its a decent movie saved by the spectacular aerial combat scenes by ILM. The plot and the characters though are cliche, which is disappointing given the strength of the source material. Rating 7/10.

 

[Hand of Evil]

With the amount of air combat, this movie should have been made in 3D. Also, it should have been a WAR movie, I am talking blood, gut and glory, it is too clean. Oh, leave history at the door, this is Hollywood.

6/10

 

[frankthedm]

The plot and the characters though are cliche, which is disappointing given the strength of the source material. Rating 7/10.

The Escape to the movies review for this got me thinking... Perhaps this is supposed to be the cliche riddled war movie that the Tuskegee airmen never got back in the day. An intentional step back in time to the old WWII movies in characters and delivery.

 

[Jack7]

The Escape to the movies review for this got me thinking... Perhaps this is supposed to be the cliche riddled war movie that the Tuskegee airmen never got back in the day. An intentional step back in time to the old WWII movies in characters and delivery.

You mean like a propaganda film for the black airmen of that era? That's an interesting idea. If that's the way it works.

I'm gonna see it either way because I'm a big Air Force/Air Corp buff, of that era especially, and since my children are half-black I think it'll be nice for them.

But I hope it's not too race cliched, that is taking modern era racial cliches and applying them to that era.

If though it has a lot of cliches about America and the WWII era then that's fine by me, and I think my kids will get a kick out of that.

 

[Janx]

The other thread about George Lucas had a good article about his intent on RedTails

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/george-lucas-red-tails.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all


It was meant to be like the old movies, except about black airmen instead of white guys.

So, of course it is cliche, it is about giving the black airmen their homage to that era.

 

[fanboy2000]

The Escape to the movies review for this got me thinking... Perhaps this is supposed to be the cliche riddled war movie that the Tuskegee airmen never got back in the day. An intentional step back in time to the old WWII movies in characters and delivery.

One of the things that struck me when I saw the movie was how old fashioned it looked. It wasn't in black and white, or silent, but it looked like it was shot in the 70s. So many movies make use a color correction (Transformers, Harry Potter 8 had a scene in the forest where everyone was blue) that the lack of color correction stood out. The opening titles too, were very simple. I probably could have achieved the same big bold red lettering in iMovie. That kind of thing would have been more normal 30 or 40 years ago than today.

So, I think that supports what your saying about the movie being a throwback.

 

[Starman]

I haven't seen this movie, yet, but this review from Red Letter Media doesn't endear me with much confidence.

 

[Mark CMG]

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