Just saw "Red Tails" stay home save your money

[Smith357]

The history of the Tuskegee Airmen is an incredible story that most everyone here knows fairly well. The sad thing about this movie is there virtually none of that great history incorporated into the flick. The character development is non-existent and the movie portrays these heroic men in a less than flattering stereotypical light. The portrayal of the German pilots creates a comic book atmosphere and the over the top CG feeds the comic illusion. The character development is pretty much non existent with all your stereotypical chacters, from the reckless hotshot, the stern commander, the comedian, the child, and the list of clichés go on




The Tuskegee Airmen who fought off segregation and Nazis during World War II, merit a great film. "Red Tails" is not it.

 

[A10]

Thanks for the review, I had planned on seeing it now I'm not so sure. I have had the honor of meeting several of the surviving Airmen at the Museum of Flight. They are courageous heros. Sorry to hear the film sucked.

 

[LVSteve]

The trailer I saw on TV was enough for me to stay home. I doubt all that gangsta talk-up stuff was around in the 1940s.

 

[Dadsnugun]

Sorry you didn't enjoy it, I doubt that I would either, I'm about sick to death of CG special effects. They're so overdone anymore, they look as phoney as the "models on strings" days...blech...

 

[Jim Fuller]

After watching the trailer on TV, I too decided not to spend my money. The effects looked like a darn video game to me.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I read a recent interview with George Lucas in which he belittled capitalism and free enterprise. When the interviewer asked how he could put down the system that made him wealthy, he was silent.
A more meaningful movie is "The Wereth 11". It tells the story of 11 black GIs who were trapped behind enemy lines at the beginning of the Bulge. They were betrayed to the SS who brutally treated them-then murdered them.

 

[Knightrider03m]

As I've met a few of the real Tuskegee Airmen a couple times in my life, I'm still going to watch the movie.

 

[Faulkner]

I read a recent interview with George Lucas in which he belittled capitalism and free enterprise. When the interviewer asked how he could put down the system that made him wealthy, he was silent.
A more meaningful movie is "The Wereth 11". It tells the story of 11 black GIs who were trapped behind enemy lines at the beginning of the Bulge. They were betrayed to the SS who brutally treated them-then murdered them.

Now you've done gone and told the ending . . . I can't sit through it now knowing they're all going to die.

 

[bitstream]

The trailer I saw on TV was enough for me to stay home. I doubt all that gangsta talk-up stuff was around in the 1940s.

Yeah, when I saw the locker room pep style chant thing, I pretty much figured it was a bad movie.

I also have had the privilege of meeting a genuine Tuskegee Airman. He was a genuine and humble man. The previews showed a completely wrong set of characters.

 

[GaryS]

The trailer I saw on TV was enough for me to stay home. I doubt all that gangsta talk-up stuff was around in the 1940s.

I saw this on the trailer and decided that if I watch it at all, it will be on PPV on cable. It looks like more revisionist ****.
No wonder it took Lucas 20 years to get anyone to produce it. At that, I think he underwrote a lot of it himself.

That bit just sounded like all the **** you hear in football locker rooms and on the side lines. It might be fine for amping up players, but I just don't see the military doing that sort of thing during World War II.

 

[CajunBass]

It seems to me that I glanced up during a trailer for the movie the other day and they were strafing an aircraft carrier? Maybe I was wrong... but I wondered, "Where'd they find a (enemy)carrier to strafe in the ETO?"

 

[Kelly Green]

Thanks for the heads-up. A good friend (RIP) of my dad’s and the family was a gunner on a B-17 in WWII. He spoke of the Tuskegee Airmen with respect and praise. This appears to be one more historical account that Hollywood has turned into pabulum.

 

[GaryS]

It seems to me that I glanced up during a trailer for the movie the other day and they were strafing an aircraft carrier? Maybe I was wrong... but I wondered, "Where'd they find a (enemy)carrier to strafe in the ETO?"

Not a carrier, a destroyer. Which is accurate since the unit was credited with sinking a destroyer.

I just watched the trailer on line again. I'm still not impressed with the movie.

 

[sigp220.45]

I'm going to see it this week. Its got Terence Howard, good guys killing Nazis, and P-51 Mustangs. I don't care if they're CGI - I"m pretty sure there aren't enough real ones around to make a movie.



Red Tails (2012) HD Movie Trailer - Lucasfilm Official Trailer - YouTube

 

[CajunBass]

Not a carrier, a destroyer. Which is accurate since the unit was credited with sinking a destroyer.

I just watched the trailer on line again. I'm still not impressed with the movie.

Ok. Like I said, I just glanced up as the trailer was going off the screen, so I obviously didn't see it well. Thanks.

 

[GaryS]

Ok. Like I said, I just glanced up as the trailer was going off the screen, so I obviously didn't see it well. Thanks.

I had to go to the website and view the trailer on line to be sure. Looking carefully, I found the CGI effects to be even less lifelike than just glancing at them on TV. Definitely going to be a PPV thing if I see it at all.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

The trailer does say "inspired by true events"-it doesn't say it portrays them. Feels like a WWII movie made during WWII-say in 1942 or '43.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

Well Im just glad they made it,even if it's not so good. They dont teach our kids any relevant history in school anymore and maybe this is one way to get the message out about those brave aviators.

 

[LVSteve]

There was a perfectly good HBO movie called The Tuskegee Airmen made in 1995 that told their story with reasonable accuracy. Why Spielberg should chose to do a remake with non-period linguistics is beyond me.

The Washington Post online review is scathing. ‘Red Tails’ a disservice to Tuskegee Airmen - The Washington Post

 

[retarmyaviator]

The CGI makes the movie look more like a cartoon.