"Flyboys" Topic

I know next to nothing about WW1 aviation, but I saw a little too much of Pearl Harbor in this trailer…

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I always knew that the germans used nothing by triplanes. I'm glad this movie proved it for me. ;)

(And I am joking here people.)

Flyboys. Oh dear…

Ray :-(

these young, naïve adventure-seekers learned the true meaning of love, brotherhood, heroism, courage and tolerance.

While the action in the trailer looks fun, this sentence seems to bode ill for the rest of the film. "Pearl Harbor 1917", indeed.

And I don't know — would a canvas-and-wood Fokker explode like a TIE Fighter when hit amidships like that?? Did they have secret reserves of nitroglycerin on board that I never heard about?

Wow, and they are all red tripes! Still I will go see it. Can't get enough of the old kites!

My hope is that the movie is still in post production and a lot of the fx shots were thrown together so they could get a trailer out. There did seem to be way to many red Fokker triplanes in those shots.And what's with the guy running along the top of an exploding Zepplin? Based on a true story, sure it is.

David S.

"And I don't know — would a canvas-and-wood Fokker explode like a TIE Fighter when hit amidships like that?? Did they have secret reserves of nitroglycerin on board that I never heard about?"

I don't know about real life but in Blue Max my planes expolde alot :) . I will go see it no matter how bad, just enjoy the old planes.

A decade ago the "Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" had a two-hour episode with Indy winding up as a photographer with the Lafayette Escadrille. That show featured the Red Baron, and they actually had him in an ALBATROS! Very nice models/replicas and a whole lot of fun.

Von Richtofen: We are afraid of nothing! I want my enemies to know it is me!

Indy: Well, why don't you paint your plane red, then?

I've read a couple of articles on this new movie, and I'm curious but not overly excited.

Probably had some genius think "hmm, biplanes for the good guys, triplanes for the bad guys – the audience will be able to identify with that easier".

Wow, that just looks spectacularly **BAD**!!! Pearl Harbor 1917, indeed. I think the Crimson Skies computer game is more realistic than that tripe.

I wonder if, when the DVD comes out, it will include a feature to delete everything except the flying scenes? (They aren't very historical, but they do look cool. Heh!)

Poor Jean Reno.

*bangs head on Keyboard*…

Nice to see the obnoxious Brit in the trailer – and presumably all the Hun aviators wear monocles and talk like Adrian Edmonson in "Black Adder Goes Forth"? :)

I liked the trailer and am looking forward to seeing the movie. Yet all my knowledge of ww-I airwar was gathered from watching snoopy on Charlie Brown battle the Red Baron. lol

asa1066: "And what's with the guy running along the top of an exploding Zepplin?"

They stole that gag from "The Rocketeer".

Eew. Looks schlocky, bordering on dreck. CGI can't save it. Nieuports defying gravity and the other laws of physics? Looks like a rehash of the "dogfighting" around the Death Star to me….

1066.us

Oh, come on people. It's a movie, about WWI aviation!!!!!

What a suprise, from the director of Independence Day and The Patriot, I think we know what to expect.

"Meet the Fokkers"

That was the title of the review in the "Ottawa Citizen." Best pun I heard today.