There is no reason from here on forward to pay to see any Lucas film. He's lost it, whatever it was, he's lost it.
Lucas never had it to begin with!
RT has better combat scenes. Complain all you want about CGI, it definitely makes a movie more exciting.
Personally I thought Red Tail's CGI was crappy. Maybe its because they made it look like Star Wars (not the original 3) and not WWII. There is a serious lack of realism in Red Tail's CGI.
As I've said on several threads in the
Red Tails forum, I'm a former US Air Force F-4 Phantom Weapons Systems Officer (backseater).
To paraphrase General George S. Patton, George Lucas doesn't know anything more about real aerial warfare than he does about *beep* (And George C. Scott may have said "fornicating" in the movie
Patton, but the real Patton used the real F-word!)
Lucas was absolutely the worst person in the movie industry to do this movie. This movie is only the latest of many giant steps down the primrose path which Lucas started the world's movie-viewing public with the first
Star Wars movie in 1977; I distinctly remember the documentary on the making of that movie, in which Lucas patted himself on the back for patterning his battle scenes after what he claimed to be the most realistic dogfight scenes ever filmed, and at the same time in the documentary intercutting his scenes with those from
A Yank in the RAF which were absolutely
the phoniest looking flying scenes ever filmed! And he hasn't bothered to learn jack s**t about aerial warfare in the last 35 years; he's just conned most of the whole world into thinking his cartoonish creations are reality when they're the farthest thing from it.
The technical fallacies are far too numerous to list. Lucas doesn't know the first thing about physics or aerodynamics, let alone the complexities of basic fighter maneuvering required to put bullets into another airplane and to prevent another airplane from doing that to one's own. He just makes his CGI airplanes do anything he wants them to do to fit his fantasies and fiction.
Lucas is welcome to create his own sci-fi universe where he makes the rules. But for an "historical" movie like this claims to be, Chuck Jones could have made cartoon Mustangs imitating the Road Runner and cartoon Messerschmitts imitating Wile E. Coyote and his Acme gadgets, and they wouldn't have been any more technically inaccurate.
Or a better analogy: what would you think about a movie about Jackie Robinson's first few seasons with the Dodgers in which they used CGI to depict the games, and every non-homerun hit he made zigzagged 90 degrees in midair several times to get around and past the infielders?
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