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| City: | Mahomet, Il.  | | Personal Data: | Male, born: August 15 1948 | | Membership | 21years 364days ago. | | Last Login | 6years 233days ago. | | Last Move | 11years 227days ago. | Phil Hall is currently  | Send a mail to Phil Hall |
| | Message text FLYBOYS, based on the exploits of the Lafayette Escadrille, is due for release in the U.S. on October 13. It uses real aircraft for all but the dogfight scenes. Advance screenings have produced mixed reviews. Apparently the actors are "wooden" in the roles, but the 5 or 6 huge airbattles are stunning. Plot is a bit thin. Air battles seem to include a Zeppelin raid on Paris with its escorting fighters meeting our heroes.
One thing. The producers and directors warn that CGI allowed them to make the aircraft "do things they couldn't do in real life". While I intend to see it, I'm not sure why you should convince the audience that snap rolls and such were a mainstay of WWI dogfighting is beyond me.
Air&Space magazine for June/July has a large article with photos and there is a website, flyboysthemovie.com with a trailer that I can't get to work because it keeps asking me for a Javascript password.
I intend to see the movie and hopefully be awed by it, but please folks, don't come back to me and say "Why can't my Nieuport 17 do that maneuver? I saw it do it in that movie!" |
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