Originally Posted by Cen1aur 1963 (Post 2120700)

I liked the movie. But it was pretty predictable. When dude who was about to get married to ol girl, died, I knew what was about to happen. That part was very predictable. At the beginning of the movie with dude being kind of a maverick, I was under the impression that he might not be the one to die. I thought that maybe they were going to state some facts about him at the end. As soon as he got engaged to ol girl, I knew right then that dude was going to get killed. That was predictable as hell. That's the only thing I didn't like about the movie. To me, shit like that is kind of irrelevant to what the movie was about.

Originally Posted by MSN Winter Movie Guide

The results are in. After weeks of hype and hyperbole, executive producer George Lucas's World War II action film "Red Tails" has finally had its moment in the spotlight, and now we have a chance to examine what the box office totals say about race and racism in both Hollywood and America. But first, let's have a quick recap for those who haven't been following the story from the beginning.
For decades, Lucas -- the man who brought us "Star Wars" and all that comes with it -- wanted to make a film about the Tuskegee Airmen. An all-black division of pilots during World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen fought for respect and the opportunity to prove themselves in combat, neither of which came easy. Despite the desire of Lucas to make this film -- which to a certain extent was made by HBO a few years ago -- no one in Hollywood would finance it. The prevailing logic being that most Americans don't want to see a movie with a predominantly black cast, at least not one that would cost what Lucas's film would cost to make. Undeterred, Lucas decided to finance the film himself, and when no one wanted to release it, the wizened Jedi master decided to release it himself, but not before going on a publicity campaign that recounted this whole story, and accused Hollywood of being racist.

Originally Posted by SOM

I saw it and enjoyed it a great deal. As an entertainment movie-job well done by all.
History? May have been far from perfect. BUT a great deal of what was shown I have either seen or read about. And in some cases have been told about it by WWII pilots and crews.
And yes, there are a few points that one could wonder it happened that way or not. But at that point one is trying to nit pick.
Both this and The Tuskegee Airmen make the very same "error". While the Airmen DID attack a large German "PT" Boat/small "DE", they did it with P-47's and not P-51's. And not clear if boat was sunk or just put out of the war due to heavy damage.
And yes, during the mission to Germany, they did shot down at least three German jets.
I plan on seeing it again this weekend.
I hope that those who see it take some more time to look up more information not only about The Airmen, but about the other segregated units that fought in war. They all had a great deal to do with the Civil Rights Movement. Something that will be covered if Part II ever gets made. Yes, there are Part I and III to this movie. GL has been working on this for over 21+ years with the full support and backing of The Airmen.

Originally Posted by AXOmom (Post 2121060)

I haven't seen this movie yet - really want to - love history movies. I'm interested to see how it compares to "The Tuskegee Airmen" - a movie I liked but never see around anymore.

Originally Posted by DrPhil (Post 2120722)

Starting with....



I thought Lightening would die because he was crazy as hell but I wanted it to be less predictable than that. I thought that perhaps Easy would die. It was hypocritical how Lightening and Easy preached to each other about alcohol and risk-seeking behavior. They both had low self-control and were both risk-seekers. They had no reason to lecture each other.

I knew Junior was not dead.

It was funny when the Red Tails were invited to have drinks with the white pilots. The Red Tails looked shocked and speechless like someone pissed in their whiskey. LOL.

Originally Posted by christiangirl (Post 2121100)

I also knew Lightning would die within the first 20 minutes of the movie. The only thing unpredictable for me was the timing. I thought he would die way sooner (when he went rogue against that big German ship).

Which brings me to something I thought of in the theater. Lots of people brought their small children to show them "history." This is a war movie--characters are going to die. That was a given. Someone if not multiple someones who you may like or are really attached to is going to die in a war movie, probably in a graphic way. People should know if their children can handle something like that then act accordingly.

Someone at school said that there should have been more sistahs in the film, especially since there were some Black nurses during this time. Meh. I think there were so few of them that it's not far-fetched to say there was a base that had none, especially overseas. Also, yes, Black women fought to be allowed to be nurses and that was a huge victory--but that plight is not the focus of this plot. Leave that for another movie.

Originally Posted by Cen1aur 1963 (Post 2121122)

As soon as he got engaged to that white girl, I knew then, that his black ass was grass LOL.

Originally Posted by DrPhil (Post 2121132)

LOL. Hello white woman, goodbye life?