Just saw it:
About CGI: Nearly there, give it another 10 years and it will be close to perfect. Another Battle of Britain movie? Do it in 2020.
About the film: Decent to not very good at all. As shown in the promo, that P-51 flick-over-stall-loop – fancy flying while shooting down a 109 was plain stupid. I saw it in context now, and can confirm the stupidity of it. The German 109s were dropping like flies, and of course they had their own German nemsis, a chap which I’ve seen so many times in Commando comic books. Stupid. They escorted bombers to Berlin and managed to at least shoot down four Me 262’s. Stupid once again. The planes looked good though, the P-40’s sexy too and the P-51’s were shiny and cute.
Watch it, but here’s how you do it; Forget history, realism or anything like that. Just go if you want to see George Lucas playing around with CGI and finding out how good he can make it. Treat it like that Avatar movie, only this one in aviation-mode.
But here’s how it DOES work.
This movie, which all of us will find just stupid, will trigger SO many young minds, just like Memphis Belle did to me and the generation before me with Battle of Britain. For that it’s near perfect. This movie it’s not made for us. It’s made for teenagers who don’t know anything about history. It will trigger their little heads and I am 100% certain about one thing; in 10 years some guy will show up somewhere, either as a warbirds pilot, as an aviation author or something else and he will say;
“I guess it all started after I saw Red Tails. It was a really silly movie, but it sure made me interested in historic aviation”.
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