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Sailor Steve · 10-11-06, 08:16 PM

Finally saw it.

The Good: Fairly entertaining story, I liked the characters and the actors enough to get involved. The CGI was pretty good and the combat scenes were fun.

The Bad: Little niggly things bothered me. The real planes all had rotary engines, which means they went around with the propellors. In the aerial scenes this would have been easy enough since they were using CGI anyway, and they could have rigged one mock-up for the 'engine-starting' scenes. The zeppelin was cute, but the one in Hell's Angels, made clear back in 1930, was better (at least the crash scene was) and that one had a cloud car!

The Ugly: The N.17 was no match for the DR.1, which is not a problem because the first DR.1s weren't flying until late 1917! In fact, the Germans should have been in Albatroses, and they are just as easy to fake as any other plane. It would have been a lot better if "Based on the true story" was actually about the real Lafayette Escadrille. The real story is always better than any fiction.

Still, I had fun, and will definitely add it to my collection when it's on DVD. Probably wait for a used copy, though.

Grayback · 11-06-06, 02:26 PM

And here I was thinking that you guys were talking about Bradley's book Flyboys.

10-11-06, 08:16 PM	#16
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Finally saw it. The Good: Fairly entertaining story, I liked the characters and the actors enough to get involved. The CGI was pretty good and the combat scenes were fun. The Bad: Little niggly things bothered me. The real planes all had rotary engines, which means they went around with the propellors. In the aerial scenes this would have been easy enough since they were using CGI anyway, and they could have rigged one mock-up for the 'engine-starting' scenes. The zeppelin was cute, but the one in Hell's Angels, made clear back in 1930, was better (at least the crash scene was) and that one had a cloud car! The Ugly: The N.17 was no match for the DR.1, which is not a problem because the first DR.1s weren't flying until late 1917! In fact, the Germans should have been in Albatroses, and they are just as easy to fake as any other plane. It would have been a lot better if "Based on the true story" was actually about the real Lafayette Escadrille. The real story is always better than any fiction. Still, I had fun, and will definitely add it to my collection when it's on DVD. Probably wait for a used copy, though. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

11-06-06, 02:26 PM	#17
Grayback A-ganger Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 72 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	And here I was thinking that you guys were talking about Bradley's book Flyboys.