[Unknown Target]

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1msIdORDIbg

Of course it's historically inaccurate, but I'm just going for the air combat scenes

[Flipside]

Looks good

Admittedly, about 80% of air battles in WWI involved a bit of dogfighting till they ran out of ammo, a quick wave to your opponent, and off home again, Air didn't play a particularly big role till late in that War But yeah, the combat scenes look good, and I love Bi/Triplanes

[Solatar]

Looks like a good action movie. Hollywood has basically ran WWII into the ground, and some WWI dogfights look interesting.

[Bri_Dog]

Excellent. Sometimes it seems that WW1 was forgotten. I just hope this movie doesn't end up sucking.

[Black Wolf]

All the stories I've ever heard about WW1 aviation were the ones where most of the kills were made by the guy with the 303 in the back seat.

[Unknown Target]

That's not true Black Wolf, WWI brought about the advent of the forward firing machine gun and interruptor gear, which allowed the gun to fire through the propeller arc. While early aircraft were mostly tailgunners or just used as observation aircraft, as the war progressed they were used against each other.

[aceofspades]

Hello kids. Today we'll be talking about: What aceofspades Knows About World War I.

-vimy ridge.
-dutch/canada thingie.
-trenches.
-Manfred von Richtofen ( =the Red Baron) and Billy Bishop.

[aldo_14]

That's not true Black Wolf, WWI brought about the advent of the forward firing machine gun and interruptor gear, which allowed the gun to fire through the propeller arc. While early aircraft were mostly tailgunners or just used as observation aircraft, as the war progressed they were used against each other.

Heh.  Let's not forget the early tactic of just using bulletproof propellors........

[IceFire]

While it looks like it will be a fun movie...its not likely to be very historically accurate.  The planes look great but manuever all wrong...there was only one red Fokker Dr.I flown by a certain ace.  Its also odd that some guy is running along a Zepplin like that.  I'm sure he's carrying a parachute and manages to survive or something.  What I REALLY hope is that we don't end up with the Americans winning yet another war or battle...like U-571 or like what they were going to do with Tom Cruise and a new Battle of Britain movie.

[aldo_14]

Tom Cruise and a new Battle of Britain movie.

Is that the one where he plays an American pilot who crashed his plane on his first flight?

EDIT; slightly unfair.  A cursory check reveals he might have shot down a bomber and crashed on his second flight.

[Corsair]

Damn... that looks like it could be really, really good. Any word on when it's coming out?

[IceFire]

Tom Cruise and a new Battle of Britain movie.

Is that the one where he plays an American pilot who crashed his plane on his first flight?

EDIT; slightly unfair.  A cursory check reveals he might have shot down a bomber and crashed on his second flight.

Thats the one...the guy he was supposed to play...was one of I think two Americans involved in the RAF doing actual fighting during this time.  The guy may have shared a kill on a bomber and later crashed his Hurricane on landing.  He died in the crash.  Just not the sort of thing that Hollywood would want to make.  The guy was one of thousands of unremarkable pilots who died during the time period.  Not that unremarkable is bad or that their sacrifice is to be forgotten...just its not something you tend to make a movie about.

[Unknown Target]

While it looks like it will be a fun movie...its not likely to be very historically accurate.  The planes look great but manuever all wrong...there was only one red Fokker Dr.I flown by a certain ace.

Not true, everyone seems to believe it though. In actuality, when Richofen found that the British were gunning for him, he had all of his squadron member's aircraft painted bright red.

[NGTM-1R]

It's kinda funny too, if you consider that by all accounts Richtofen wasn't impressive in training. He was a mediocre pilot, apparently, but his gunnery could not be matched.

[Rictor]

Will the movie have Snoopy as the Red Baron? No? Then it doesn't get my money.

[NGTM-1R]

Snoopy's never been the Red Baron.

[Mefustae]

Looks s***. I forsee that it'll likely demoize the Germans for no apparent reason, it'll glorify the hell out of both Americans and WWI Pilots in general when they were shot at by both sides regardless and really didn't do all that much, and having a guy run along a ****ing Zepellin while it's ****ing blowing up is just plain insulting to... well... everything.

Now, what's this Battle of Britain movie with Tom Cruise? It is a joke, right? C'mon guys, that's not funny. It is a joke, right? ...Right?!

[Flipside]

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.....

[aceofspades]

<snip> and having a guy run along a ****ing Zepellin while it's ****ing blowing up is just plain insulting to... well... everything.

 

[Rictor]

Snoopy's never been the Red Baron.

My bad, he fought the Red Baron. It's been a while since I read the comics.