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Offline Kosh

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Re: New WWI movie - Flyboys
That scene with the Zepplin looked really nice......
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Offline Flipside

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That's the way I'm viewing it. Seems like every movie set in the World Wars is 'Based on a True Story', which basically means 'Hey Guys! The World Wars are a True Story!', so I just wanna see the biplanes ;)

 

Offline Mefustae

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That scene with the Zepplin looked really nice stupid......
Corrected. :)

 

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Thing is, you don't outrun a Hydrogen explosion. Not going to happen. ;)

 

Offline Prophet

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This movie has potential... The only experience I have with biplanes is the game "Wings", ages ago... Never got trought it though, my Amiga died before that. :(

Anyone else remember Wings? It had (well done) dogfighting. The view was behind the pilots head. And when your plane took damage you could see bulletholes appar in the wings, and the pilot could get killed with a lucky shot.
Then there sometimes were these cool topdown bombing runs. Sometimes you just got a picture of the targets before the mission and then you had to remember it when the mission started. Those train beombings were a bit easier though...
And then there were these strafing run missions where the plane would move frome bottom right to top left corner of your screen and there would be a truck convoy or a train with bunch of jerries running around and shooting at you.
The pilot even had developing skills that effect how well the guy could fix his jammed guns during mission for example.

Between mission you could read the pilots (hilarious) diary, and see how the war effected the other pilots.
And even the graphics were awsome.
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Offline aldo_14

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Well, what happened next is Xenu resurected the pilot as a Warrior for Scientology, and armed with the power of Bull**** he uses the Dark Side to overthrow Hitler and replace him.....

Well, don't forget Tom Cruise can control the mind of goats, so he probably raised an animal army to singlehandedly topple both Hitler and then destroy Communism, tax inspectors, and psychologists.

 

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I remember Wings. It was a fantastic game with bags of atmosphere. Dogfighting was pretty intense since every time you shot down an enemy bip their was a fair chance the thing would go into a death spiral and end up coming back at you. If it collided with you. You died. No ifs. No buts.  :nervous:
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Offline Kosh

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Anyone remember the old game "Red Baron"?
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: New WWI movie - Flyboys
That is soooooooooooooo old, like eurofighter 2000 and FA18 hornet 3.0.
(which i of course owned both)
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Re: New WWI movie - Flyboys
I'm getting two things:

- Interesting, WW1 makes a pleasent change of pace from WW2.

- Oh god, it has Americans in it. Sorry guys but I instantly fear this is going to be some gung-ho rubbish, particularly as it's from the director of Independence Day. ID could pull this off because it was a fictional yee-haw US vs the Aliens affair. This is different. I'd rather a Band of Brothers feel than Jawhead in WW1.
« Last Edit: June 14, 2006, 03:06:00 pm by Kalfireth »

 

Offline Rictor

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Well, it looks like typical Hollywood war drivel. Sweeping, dramatic music, inspirations voiceovers, bla bla bla bla. I've stopped caring. Why can't Hollywood make something original, something that has some substance to it, rather tha just the same style that has been used in two dozen other films.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: New WWI movie - Flyboys
They haven't done that since...well, for a full-length movie in something like fifteen years. I can't remember the title anymore, 'twas about the Battle of Britain. (Or was Memphis Belle more recent?) Although technically Band of Brothers is also more recent it's not a movie.


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Offline Goober5000

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DosBox FTW.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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I have DOSBox; it runs very slow, almost unplayable.
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There are ways to tweak performance and speed.  You might be able to speed it up.