Red Tails (Movie) 2012

A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAfGuDpd7PI&feature=related

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MR. HITLER

is the first Lucasfilm production since Radioland Murders (1994) not associated with the Indiana Jones or Star Wars franchises.

good luck

this looks awful & I am usually a sucker for "woo! fighter planes!"

The horrible, overworked CGI fits right in with recent entries of either franchise though.

lucas actually directed portions of this (mostly combat scenes)

Why in god's name use CGI for the interiors of the Pentagon?!

in typical new-Lucas style it looks like an overworked video game.

MR. HITLER.

take that mr hitler *is bombing a japanese carrier*

It's written by John Ridley, who I believe is a kind of righty-militarist who was unhappy how Russell & Co changed his script for Three Kings.

meh, maybe he just wanted it to be a heist movie:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kings_(1999_film)#Script_controversy

He also came up with Undercover Brother.

looks massively condescending and pathetic. public would be better served getting handed a print out of the tuskegee wikipedia page at the theater and turned away.

"I realize that by accident I've now put the black film community at risk," Lucas said. "I'm saying, if this doesn't work, there's a good chance you'll stay where you are for quite a while. It'll be harder for you guys to break out of that (lower-budget) mold. But if I can break through with this movie, then hopefully there will be someone else out there saying let's make a prequel and sequel, and soon you have more Tyler Perrys out there."

Where is this quote from? Because... o_O

"I have the power to make or break you, black film community."

george needs to get out of skywalker ranch once in awhile

he's making more tyler perrys

take that mr hitler *is bombing a japanese carrier*

It was German. That squadron was based in Europe, der.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/280349/20120111/george-lucas-hollywood-racism-red-tails.htm

george lucas-racist?

I saw him on the daily show, the way he was talking it's a pet project he worked on with the surviving Tuskegee Airmen. Which makes me want very much to like it. But Lucas being Lucas, who the fuck knows. It still looks pretty awful, regardless.

i saw the trailer, legit question is Hitler being played by Bryan Cranston

a 67-year-old white guy has spent $58 million of his own money to produce Red Tails

the ads don't look good no matter how much he spent

MR HITLER

Countdown to Red Tails / Downfall trailer mash-up in 3...2...

"I realize that by accident I've now put the black film community at risk," Lucas said. "I'm saying, if this doesn't work, there's a good chance you'll stay where you are for quite a while. It'll be harder for you guys to break out of that (lower-budget) mold. But if I can break through with this movie, then hopefully there will be someone else out there saying let's make a prequel and sequel, and soon you have more Tyler Perrys out there."

this man needs to be put down

given the controversy in the history of the airmen, i wonder if the movie will show any lost bombers

"someone else out there saying let's make a prequel"

oh god the youtube comments on the trailer are insane

visual style reminds me of sky captain and the world of tomorrow

A pan from TONY, and the Jedi avengers comment, clutching their Ewoks:

http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/film/2501621/review-red-tails

this man is to directing what cuba gooding junior is to acting

Anthony Hemingway?

(GL didn't direct this)

as i mentioned upthread, he actually directed significant portions - mostly action scenes

It's written by John Ridley, who I believe is a kind of righty-militarist who was unhappy how Russell & Co changed his script for Three Kings.

It's also written by Boondocks writer/creator Aaron McGruder, who is decidedly not a righty-militarist. And whose involvement makes me want to see this.

that is weird! hadn't read a thing about McGruder.

wow McGruder makes it interesting

MR HITLER

They interviewed McGruder for the NY Times thing with Lucas. Says he had a blast and that Jar Jar didn't come up even once.

I am now wondering why McGruder didn't bring it up:)

Also can't find the "thread title juxtapostitions" thread for this followed by Rolling 'Is This Racist?' thread.

The number of films in which a screenwriter's sensibility is undetectable are myriad btw, such as Gore Vidal on the 1959 Ben-Hur.

I wonder if Tyler Perry ever came up, because McGruder has some entertaining things to say about that guy

It's also written by Boondocks writer/creator Aaron McGruder, who is decidedly not a righty-militarist. And whose involvement makes me want to see this.

I had no idea!

I doubt this movie will be as good as this episode of the Boondocks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mai0DXA95w

McGruder can only be an auteur of The Boondocks (so far)

http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag/red-tails/

Uhm, so did anybody actually see this?

The film, I mean.

It made $19 million over the weekend, so I guess, yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxHqPD-grhM

It made $19 million over the weekend, so I guess, yeah.

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how does that relate to expectations? my guess is that expectations were crazy low.

expectations were modest but its doing well. its incredibly bad btw

yeah it looks that way.

guys maybe we should talk about making a prequel or a sequel

we could call it "Yo Hitler"

at the end, their "we fight we fight" circle chant is kinda like when drew brees hypes up the saints before a game

terrence howard's the only guy in it who brings any conviction to the table. seeing cuba gooding mug his way through it really crystallized for me why his career went to shit. movie should've used cranston better, make him into a big villain doing mean racisms or smthing. couldnt tell if all the pilots (all of them cardboard cutouts) were terrible actors or if the dialogue was just that bad. maybe both

funny thing is from the trailers i was expecting the dogfights to be really videogamey star warsy crap, but actually everything in the movie looked like a plausible combat maneuver. not that it mattered

lol i thought the same thing ums

I watched this last night. Oh boy.

The dogfights were the best thing about the movie. The only good thing about the movie really. Can't overstate how good they were. But everything on the ground was pretty much u_u.

H4A otm that Terrence Howard is the only one with any conviction. Cuba though. Christ. All he did for the whole movie was grin and chomp down on a giant pipe! It was so lame! The sad part to me was that some of the kids who played the pilots have actually been really good in other things, like the Wire or Friday Night Lights etc. It seemed like the dialogue was written with such a tin ear that it just sounded TERRIBLE coming out of almost anyone's mouth except howard.

I like that Lucas tried to make the movie. I really do. But it's really sad when a HBO tv movie made 25 years previous could blow
Red Tails out of the water. He wants to tell their story, then he should, because it's a great story to tell. But selling them out with corny dialogue and bad character development is a real downer. How do you fail at telling that awesome story? Seriously. It's all there. This should be some Band of Brothers level awesomeness. It IS that level of awesomeness, their story is really fucking cool! Ugh

Overall to me it felt like a movie made by the Smithsonian to sell in their gift shop. And honestly, they should just cut together the dogfights and show them in the flight simulator at the Air & Space Museum. That would be an excellent use of that material.

the p-51's look pretty, is my takeaway.

Overall to me it felt like a movie made by the Smithsonian to sell in their gift shop.

haha, this is great, the movie equivalent of "art garfunkel sounds like a museum"

great post vg. yeah ive seen some of the pilots in other movies since this and i was like 'hey damn, this guy's good' - the movie really does them a disservice.