Red Tails - 2012

[BarrettRC8]

Coming to a theater new you.

 

[wlawr005]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tuskegee_Airmen

Tuskegee Airmen II? I remember watching the first one about a million times when I was a kid. Funny that Cuba Gooding is in both of them...

 

[BusyBee604]

The special effects look pretty realistic, may be a good flick. Word I've heard, is that they (the Tuskagee Squadron/s) have the reputation of having never lost a bomber they were escorting! Could that be true???
BzB

 

[NavAir42]

BusyBee, I don't think that's actually true. Considering they escorted raids to places like Berlin, I would be surprised if they never lost a single bomber.

 

[scoolbubba]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tuskegee_Airmen

Tuskegee Airmen II? I remember watching the first one about a million times when I was a kid. Funny that Cuba Gooding is in both of them...

Same thing I thought when I saw this. It looks like it could be pretty good...but when is someone going to redo the Black Sheep series or make another Flying Tigers movie? I can only watch The Battle of Britain in blu ray so often...which, if you haven't seen, I HIGHLY recommend.

As far as the Tuskegee Airmen's escort record, they lost 25 bombers total over Europe.

 

[bunk22]

It's a myth that the Tuskeegee Airmen never lost a bomber to a fighter, they lost ~ 25 to enemy fighters. Overall, their kill record was average with 112 or so kills and one ace (though not official).

 

[Flying Toaster]

It's a myth that the Tuskeegee Airmen never lost a bomber to a fighter, they lost ~ 25 to enemy fighters. Overall, their kill record was average with 112 or so kills and one ace (though not official).

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story...

 

[kmac]

25? Did they lose that many? There is a small display at the library here at Maxwell AFB that shows some of the research from ~2006. It seems that there was only a handful of aircraft lost by enemy fighter (<10) while others were lost to anti-aircraft fire. Either way, it should be a good flick.

 

[phrogpilot73]

25 due to enemy fighters: http://aimpoints.hq.af.mil/display.cfm?id=17731

 

[Uncle Fester]

Well, looks pretty promising. I was wondering when the Spielberg/Tom Hanks team would get around the the bomber campaign; guess this'll do.

Really needs to be a Navy Air in the Pacific movie/miniseries before long.

 

[beaverslayer]

This movie looks like it could be awesome. I'll definitely watch it.

Really needs to be a Navy Air in the Pacific movie/miniseries before long.

I would vote for a miniseries over a movie... that could be really good.

 

[armada1651]

Well, looks pretty promising. I was wondering when the Spielberg/Tom Hanks team would get around the the bomber campaign; guess this'll do.

Really needs to be a Navy Air in the Pacific movie/miniseries before long.

Yeah, I was really disappointed with the lack of Naval aviation in "The Pacific" - the Guadalcanal episode especially would have been appropriate for a depiction of Torpedo Squadron Eight at least.

The possibility that crossed my mind was that it might be prohibitively expensive to make a highly realistic film about WWII carrier aviation due to the lack of appropriate boats (see the shots in "Pearl Harbor" with catapaults and angled decks clearly visible as Doolittle's bombers launch). But I'm still hoping for it.

 

[SynixMan]

I highly doubt it has anything to do with boat availability. The things you can do with good CGI these days is amazing (see: Thrones, Game of). I think it's mostly a matter of finding good source material and then adapting it properly, plus having someone like Hanks and Speilberg who want to do the work. The Pacific, for all it's potential, sputtered out pretty quickly IMO.

 

[BarrettRC8]

Where the hell is the "edit" button? I meant to write "theater near you."

 

[nittany03]

Yeah, I was really disappointed with the lack of Naval aviation in "The Pacific" - the Guadalcanal episode especially would have been appropriate for a depiction of Torpedo Squadron Eight at least.

The possibility that crossed my mind was that it might be prohibitively expensive to make a highly realistic film about WWII carrier aviation due to the lack of appropriate boats (see the shots in "Pearl Harbor" with catapaults and angled decks clearly visible as Doolittle's bombers launch). But I'm still hoping for it.

Seeing as I'm just finishing up Shattered Sword, it would be interesting to see someone come out and portray Midway as the two-sided clusterf**k it was instead of the Mother of All Naval Battles.