Horrible movie

What gives you the right to say which actors should and should not act. Too bad Terrence Howard's been acting for twenty years now, a little too late might I add.

Well, I don't have periods. I'm sure your next one will be danndee though.

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What a jerk! he was absolutely correct about this stinker.

I enjoyed the film very much and for what it was I thought it was good. I didn't go into this film expecting amazing dailouge given the fact that Aaron Mcgruder was making his feature film, and John Ridley has never written a dramtic piece. The film really does need the support though, so we can get the sequel and the prequel.

Last Movies Seen:
Theater: Red Tails
DVD : The Ides Of March

The Documentary had already been done by HBO in 1995. It was more dialog as you want and more of a historical accounting to what happened, but not enough action. I've met some of the airmen at a special preview.

George Lucas wanted to put a bigger than life spin on it, because they were bigger than life.

I don't understand how people can claim to know that these men didn't have fun and act a little silly during their down times. They all had "nick names" that should be an indicator of who they were. They had input from several of the living airmen and I believe they were portrayed pretty accurately.

This was their story sensationalized, if it does well, the deeper training scenes will come, but overall I enjoyed it immensely.

People need to lighten up. If the original airmen liked it, who are we to complain.

2. It was never explained (for those unaware of what WWII was about) how these brothers wound up in Italy.

3. Over 50 Tuskegee Airman died in WWII. All we got to see was one. Some battle that was.

I could go on and on. But fact remains that Hollywood cannot tell our story or stories. And Black people (especially Tom Joyner) should be ashamed of themselves for helping the white man (Lucas) sell this garbage. It was nothing more than feel good history. Now we will have ignorant Negroes (like those that saw Malcolm X, thinking they know all there is to know about the Tuskeegee Airmen just because of that damn movie. Now now books will be read or again written for that matter.

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6. No mention of how German prisoners where treated better than the Brothas.

"But fact remains that Hollywood cannot tell our story or stories."

And my question remains, WHY? Why, why, why... it's so frustrating. I'm white, friend, and I'm human. I want to see good story-telling, accurate history in historical films, depth of character and dimension built into human stories of human lives. Someone here called me a snob and you know, if wanting (begging) for truth-telling and justice to the stories of real human beings makes me a snob, that's fine. I'll even wear a badge.

I didn't go into the theater looking for escapist fodder. I went in looking for a realistic, rich, deep, epic, beautiful, tragic, exciting, fantastic, breath-taking, heart-stopping (and award winning!) war story from the perspective of the Airmen (not the myth of them, or the cardboard cut-out of them, but the "real" them) and their role during World War 2 which completely changed the face of war.

"Good enough" for me was not good enough.

I'm done here. Thank you.




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1 Terence Howard is a very good actor.

2 If you watched the movie, Easy and Lightning disscused that he drinks to handle the war. He also drinks before missions more than likely to take the edge off of leading these men into combat.

3 This is a Hollywood movie. It's job is to make money. It's job is to be entertaining. If you want a movie with all historically accurate dialogue, watch Iron Lady.

4 The movie was marketed, more than likely, towards younger people who really don't know who the Tuskegee Airmen were. You have Ne-Yo in the movie.

5 Be happy the movie was done! Schools dont even mention the Tuskegee Airmen. My girlfriend of 26 didn't know who they were until this movie, just like none of you know who the 761st Black Panther Tank Battalion were.

Final Note: This is the type of movie you take younger people to go see (12 to 18) who dont know who the Tuskegee Airmen were. If your a historical buff, then tell them the true story of who they were after the movie so that they have a refrence. Think of 300, all action based on an historical event and now everyone who the Spartans are.


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So how does this film compare for realism with "Pearl Harbor" ? :)



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