Flyboys

YOU will enjoy FLYBOYS

Barry I think you are right, I will more than likely enjoy this film. I just now have to find the time to actually catch at the cineplex. Cheers. 🙂

Flyboys

hi guys,

for those of us in the UK the full size replica aircraft constructed for the film (Nieuport, Dr. 1, Sopwith 11/2 Strutter, Gotha forward fuselage) are all on display at the RAF Manston History Museum down here in deepest Kent – having just come from there I can tell you this is well worth a visit because they look fantastic..!! ..especially the red Tripe of course …amazingly the production team was about to send all the props up in smoke after filming at RAF Halton when they got a request from the Museum…sadly no-one here seems to know when the film is being released in the UK….

RAF Manston History Museum

YOU will enjoy FLYBOYS

Just watched a small trailer …..looks quite interesting Barry!

Any big names in the cast?

YOU will enjoy FLYBOYS

Any big names in the cast?

Yes…1917 and the Lafyett(sp) escdrille……..nice Nieuport 17s, but I felt the Germans were too “stereotypical”…….and the ONLY German fighters shown were triplanes…….but a very enjoyable move nevertheless.

Cooper: correct.

I saw it last week too… A quite good movie, I have to say. And I probably was the only one in the theatre who could understand everything 😀 (There were no subtitles, and the French and German actors were native speakers).

Still there were some inaccuracies: The Fokkers should have been green, that kind of flying would break the planes,…)

Isn’t the movie about American flyers who flew in WWI?

If that’s the case, then having Americans as the main characters is probably a bit important to the whole point of the movie is it not?

It was hard to work out what was CGI and what was real.

Really? I’ve seen some trailers on TV here in the US & it looks like a second rate PlayStation game.. :confused:

With out giving too much away, how about the scene when the lead character pulls out his revolver. Remember the scene when Indy shoots the guy twirling the swords. I think Harrison Ford had a bad case of the runs, and he didn’t have the energy for a long scene !

gotcha.. 😀

I think you mean “Hollywood” or cinema style.
Most films have elements of unbelievability to them…witness James Bond epics, European surrealist “art” films, or Indian musicals 😀 .

If it was Indian Style (read bollywood style). The lead character would have landed his aircraft in the trenches, grabbed the nearest machine gun , killed all the 200,000 german soldiers without reloading the gun and then have rescued his friend. :diablo: :diablo:

I missed that – which clip was it?

With out giving too much away, how about the scene when the lead character pulls out his revolver. Remember the scene when Indy shoots the guy twirling the swords. I think Harrison Ford had a bad case of the runs, and he didn’t have the energy for a long scene !

Some scenes in true american style were unbelievable.

I think you mean “Hollywood” or cinema style.
Most films have elements of unbelievability to them…witness James Bond epics, European surrealist “art” films, or Indian musicals 😀 .

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Watch out for the clip lifted from one of the Indiana Jones movie. You will recognise it when you see it. or

I missed that – which clip was it?

Loved the movie – the CG was great – some of the shots will make you cringe, like the pilot whose aircraft catches fire – he had no choice but to pull his revolver out for the ‘short way out’.

The scenes where oppsoing pilots in a chukker look at each other was chilling as well – gives you a straight feel of how things were at that time.

Some scenes in true american style were unbelievable – like the guy who lands in the trenches to try and rescue his friend.

thanks for the review! I’ve been seeing the trailers and wondering whether its going to be worth it. I think my mind may be made up now.

JJ