A film is made using CGI aircraft and we complain about the lack of reality, incorrect markings so on and so forth…
So, the film is made using real aircraft..how commendable. They are all painted in markings they never actually wore during their service and many of them are new-builds so never saw any form of service anyway. We’ll overlook that though.
During the filming there is a mishap and an aircraft is lost. We now complain about the reckless use of precious historical aircraft and question the morals of using such treasured rarities for entertainment.
All the while the masses watching the aforementioned film largely are none the wiser to whether the aircraft they are watching are real or not, and let’s be honest probably don’t care at this stage, but it hopefully got some of them thinking about the facts of what actually happened and the sacrifices made by men who had no choice but to climb into the real aircraft and shoot at, get shot at and often fight to the death with a real enemy in a real sky where they had no choice but to be and in the case of this film had no glorious chapter written in history for an awfully long time. Maybe they will even look these young men up on this new-fangled internet (which incidentally is probably the downfall of the good old fashioned according to much of this anti-logic) and learn the true history of these events where maybe the film made some mistakes and oversights.
But no, you’re right, lets bitch and moan about the fact we don’t get to watch the pretty real aeroplanes in the film.
I for one look forward to going to my local cinema to see it (obviously with my popcorn and coke because I am one of those troublesome disrespectful young folk some of you seem to know so much about)
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