Really bad film...

[jonnymacbrown]

"I :censored: all over Fly Boys simply because it is an awful film."

I saw "Fly Boys" in a fairly packed house, mostly 15-25 age bracket. I've seen some awful films but this wasn't one of them. I was disappoined that the filmakers didn't use the opportunity to accurately portray the Flying Circus, instead opting to have every Fokker Dr. III painted red except the villian's black triplane. But that's movies; the villian wears a black hat, and sneers at people, so it goes. Yes there were some superficial attemps to generate action for the 15-25 target audience but while art is nice, it needs to also pay the bills. However, there were some honest to goodness real flying Newports used in that film as well as some good computer-generated flight scenes. I'm published in film theory, not that it means anything as everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but as cinema there was some nice shots, good character development, some romance with a pretty face and some important social commentary to go along with a decent story: It was interesting to note that Afro-Americans could fly for France but not for their own counrty. Also, that fact that the 15-25 years old group which saw the film problably didn't even know that there ever was something called WWI, much less that a Lafayette Esquadrille made up of American teenagers and 20-somethings fought in it, was to me a positive influence. There have been worse films made, but as someone who knows something about WWI aircraft, seeing Handley-Page bombers in action was worth the price of admission, even if they were computer generated. von ege