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It's sad to see Lucas playing the same race card excuse that has been so overused by politicians and other public figures. The fact is that film studios weren't interested in making "Red Tails" because of the subject matter, not because of the race of the characters in the story.

If you look at the box office history for military aviation films, you'll see that the majority of them have tanked. "Top Gun" was of course a huge unique exception.

seems to me at the end he said it wasnt about race, it was a marketing thing,

"Marketing thing" is a euphemism for "the studios didn't want to make my film because it was all black people".

The person who wrote JarJar and those trade federation guys complaining about racism? That's rich lol

Don't you dare use that word in any self respecting SciFi forum.. !!!



lol

Well I for one wont go to the theater to see it.

I don't have much confidence but I will see it this Saturday to at least give myself some justification for my opinions on the film. I'll be sure to post my in-depth review on SimHQ.

I just don't go to the theater anymore to see a movie, and Red Tails won't be any different. From what I've seen in the previews, it's not a movie that I'll rate very highly if I see it, but who knows. It opens in two days and I don't think has been made available to most reviewers, which isn't usually a good sign (although that may only be because of the difficult time Lucas had in getting it distributed). I like the concept behind it that Lucas expressed in the article, and would really like it to be a good movie, but I just don't get that feeling.

I found the article itself pretty interesting. In particular, the reference to how Lucas now views the fans in the same way he views the movie studios.

Worth seeing for free, maybe