Any interest in Warhorse or Redtails - Page 2

TarJak · 01-13-12, 10:46 PM

Warhorse = meh
Redtails = stoopid

Not real interest in seeing either.

Sailor Steve · 01-14-12, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by VipertheSniper

I'd rather get a copy of HBO's Tuskegee Airmen

I have a copy, It's okay, if a bit silly. It looks a little like a WW2 recruitment film. The "effects" mostly involve seventy-year-old stock footage. I do like the acting, though.

Jimbuna · 01-14-12, 06:12 AM

I will see them both and make my own assessment but not in any great hurry.

GoldenRivet · 01-14-12, 03:09 PM

I'll go see redtails

assuming it does not portray every single white man, woman and child as foaming at the mouth to keep the black man down.

I'm pretty sure it will though

Schroeder · 01-14-12, 04:34 PM

Watched 20 seconds of the Redtails trailer and lost all interest after seeing the CGI toy planes pulling some "very realistic" moves...

It makes me appreciate "Battle of Britain" even more. Real planes ftw!

Dowly · 01-14-12, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

It makes me appreciate "Battle of Britain" even more. Real planes ftw!

Except those 109s... Gah!

GoldenRivet · 01-14-12, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

Watched 20 seconds of the Redtails trailer and lost all interest after seeing the CGI toy planes pulling some "very realistic" moves...

It makes me appreciate "Battle of Britain" even more. Real planes ftw!

Memphis Belle was one of the very last war films to use real airplanes. Only "CGI" was the replication of a hand full of B-17s to create the illusion that there were many.

Unfortunately there just arent enough to do something on that scale.

Its a lost art

Sailor Steve · 01-14-12, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Dowly

Except those 109s... Gah!

Well, at that time the Hispanos were all they could get. The Heinkels also were Spanish-built with Rolls-Royce engines. And several of the Spits were later models.

I recall one old movie about a P-47 squadron. The Germans were played by Mustangs.

And of course we could compare the real flying in Tora! Tora! Tora! with the CGI of Pearl Wars.

Schroeder · 01-14-12, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Dowly

Except those 109s... Gah!

Still better than the these CGI flyboys clones.

@GoldenRivet
I know, but they could use at least one real P51 (there are still some out there

) and use that one for some of the manoeuvres, then add a few more with CGI that behave like the real thing does.
But what I saw in that trailer reminded me of RC planes but definitely not of warbirds with a mass around 2 metric tons.

Sailor Steve · 01-14-12, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

Still better than the these CGI flyboys clones.

I have to agree there. In fact the best WW1 replicas I can recall seeing were in Young Indiana Jones and The Attack of The Hawkmen. Nieuports, Albatros and 1-1/2 Strutters.

krashkart · 01-14-12, 06:03 PM

Saw the trailer for Red Tails on TV. Was dumbfounded by the choice of electronica for the music track.

I might have to see it just to find out if the opening track is period music, or if it's that same electronic piece I heard in the promo.

Platapus · 01-14-12, 08:21 PM

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Perhaps every artillery mess in the UK, Canada, OZ and NZ have a copy of this on the walls:

Probably pass on the movie though...

What a moving painting. Any idea the title or the artist?

mookiemookie · 01-14-12, 09:09 PM

Surprised no one has mentioned Act of Valor. Action movie that stars eight real life active duty SEALs:

01-14-12, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

What a moving painting. Any idea the title or the artist?

It's variously called "Goodbye old Pal", "Goodbye old man" or "Goodbye my old friend". Received a black and white print from my last Warrant Officer's and Sergeant's Mess before I retired that hangs in my computer room (or man cave).

Royal Horse Artillery prints

Platapus · 01-14-12, 09:31 PM

Thanks for the link. $175 is a lot. I will have to find someplace where I can see it in person before I want to shell out that much.

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,992 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I will see them both and make my own assessment but not in any great hurry. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	I'll go see redtails assuming it does not portray every single white man, woman and child as foaming at the mouth to keep the black man down. I'm pretty sure it will though __________________

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Schroeder Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Banana Republic of Germany Posts: 6,170 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	Watched 20 seconds of the Redtails trailer and lost all interest after seeing the CGI toy planes pulling some "very realistic" moves... It makes me appreciate "Battle of Britain" even more. Real planes ftw! __________________ Putting Germ back into Germany.

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krashkart Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5,292 Downloads: 100 Uploads: 0	Saw the trailer for Red Tails on TV. Was dumbfounded by the choice of electronica for the music track. I might have to see it just to find out if the opening track is period music, or if it's that same electronic piece I heard in the promo. __________________ sent from my fingertips using a cheap keyboard

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mookiemookie Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 9,404 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 1	Surprised no one has mentioned Act of Valor. Action movie that stars eight real life active duty SEALs: __________________ They don’t think it be like it is, but it do. Want more U-boat Kaleun portraits for your SH3 Commander Profiles? Download the SH3 Commander Portrait Pack here.

01-13-12, 10:46 PM	#16
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Warhorse = meh Redtails = stoopid Not real interest in seeing either.

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,399 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the link. $175 is a lot. I will have to find someplace where I can see it in person before I want to shell out that much. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.