Flyboys

[xmid]

Isn't that the iron worker that got an appointment to USNA, and subsequently made out with his uncharacteristicaly hot detailer?

 

[Coota0]

Isn't that the iron worker that got an appointment to USNA, and subsequently made out with his uncharacteristicaly hot detailer?

Nope, one of his upperclassmen

 

[Carno]

WTF? Did someone just say James Franco was a decent actor??

Annapolis was the only movie that I have ever walked out during the middle of, because I couldn't stand James Franco's horrifying "acting".

 

[VGULIN]

Let's not forget James Franco as James Dean. Just pure ick.

 

[eddie]

I think my "favorite" part of the trailer was the guy running on top of the zeppelin. Ugh!:knockout_

 

[raptor10]

 

[HAL Pilot]

I think my "favorite" part of the trailer was the guy running on top of the zeppelin. Ugh!:knockout_

Guess what? They actually did stuff like that. The walked around inside and outside the gas bag during flight doing maintenance, opeating engines, etc. I didn't see the trailer so I don't know how realistic it was, but there is some basis to it.

 

[TurnandBurn55]

Very disappointed,
When I heard they were making a movie "Fly Boys", Thought for sure that it was an adaptation of Bradly's book about Navy and Marine aviators above Chichi Jima. Great Book.
Would make very good movie, however grotesque and depressing (similar to Schindler's List)

That would be tough. Part of the appeal of FlyBoys was that it focused very little on Chichi Jima compared to the whole backdrop of the War in the Pacific... I think that while it might makes a terrific book, the story of Chichi Jima just wouldn't be enough to fill a 2-hour movie without an enormous amount of fictionalization

...think Bat 21 with Gene Hackman and Danny Glover... complete fiction, even leaves out the TRUE hero of the rescue, Navy LT Tom Norris...



http://www.pbs.org/weta/americanvalor/stories/norris.html

 

[PropStop]

Guess what? They actually did stuff like that. The walked around inside and outside the gas bag during flight doing maintenance, opeating engines, etc. I didn't see the trailer so I don't know how realistic it was, but there is some basis to it.

Zepplins are so cool. I really wish we still used them. Yeah, yeah, i know, impractical in moder war (aside from maybe heavy lifting to rear areas). But damn, are they cool or what?!

 

[raptor10]

The Dirigibles were killed again...

Giant Blimp, Deflated

No! Nooooo! Say it ain't so, Darpa! The Walrus program -- the fringe-science agency's awesomely, almost insanely, ambitious plan to build an aircraft carrier-sized blimp -- is over, Defense Technology International discovers.

 

[mmx1]

Dude, that's so Star Wars.

 

[Gatordev]

Zepplins are so cool. I really wish we still used them. Yeah, yeah, i know, impractical in moder war (aside from maybe heavy lifting to rear areas). But damn, are they cool or what?!

Well, they do use aerostats, which are basically a derigable, just tethered... and unmanned.

 

[jai5w4]

Very disappointed,
When I heard they were making a movie "Fly Boys", Thought for sure that it was an adaptation of Bradly's book about Navy and Marine aviators above Chichi Jima. Great Book...

At least we're getting Bradley's "Flags of Our Fathers" in late this Fall.

directed by this guy nonetheless...

One Bradley book movie-adaptation is better than none.

-jai5w4

 

[todd740]

these young, naive adventure-seekers learned the true meaning of love, brotherhood, heroism, courage and tolerance.

Gay

 

[JIMC5499]

Dude, that's so Star Wars.

I thought that the zepplins only carried biplanes.