Red Tails Opens Friday (1 Viewer)

[lancer]

In the Washington Post newspaper this morning is to be found an editorial by Courtland Milloy, titled "Red Tails: A disservice to the airmen". This is a scathing opinion on the movie. Milloy says that "it is little more than a black comedy about guys who clown and connive their way through World War 2, supposedly as combat pilots." Milloy doesn't like a single thing about this movie from the depiction of the pilots as "Disheveled, undisciplined, crude and uncouth...the exact opposite of the real men who served...", to the wooden and badly written dialog. Milloy further states that "This is not just a bad film; it is ridiculous. It caricatures the black airmen with the very stereotypes they fought so hard to dispell in real life." Lucas "turns the story of the famed Tuskegee Airmen into the first-ever happy-go-lucky hip-hop war movie." Milloy is very clear that he sees the movie as an insult to the integrity, bravery, discipline, and honor of the airmen. He wishs that the movie had been more in the spirit of SPR or the HBO shows, BoB's and The Pacific. Milloy even finds the air combat badly done from a historical aspect that "weren't just fiction, but science fiction." He seems to feel that Lucas just couldn't leave Star Wars behind. His final word on the subject of the movie, "Unbelievable." -- Al

Due to all the bad reviews of this movie, I put off viewing it until just today. The only thing I can really say is I am shocked, absolutely shocked, that I find myself in some agreement with Courtland Milloy's review of 1/30/12, (for the record, I have NEVER agreed with anything Milloy has ever editorialized about). I didn't care for anything in this wooden portrayal of the famous Red Tails. Glad I didn't pay money for this movie. -- Al

 

[bromhead]

like "pearl harbor" a waste of state of the art special effects

 

[Panzer ace]

This movie was a disappointment to me.

 

[bromhead]

A 'Modern perspective" of the historical facts,,,,my father ,,48 missiona,,2nd bomb group ,15th af,,told me all about the 332nd gp in the 50s,,,while he was always glad to have the 332nd as an escort, again it was the times as to discrimination etc,,not the standards of today or a screen writer of a young age trying to change history,,while the fighter groups of the 15th had aces including victories over jets ,,the 332 had none until a much later PC led effort I believe went no where in later years,,somewhat of an insult to the true heritage of the 332 group.