To this day, David Schwimmer as Captain Sobel remains to me one of the most bizarre casting choices that actually worked out well!
Unfortunately I have Captain Sobel's complete lack of direction finding capability. If I need to go left I tend to go right and if I try to out think the errors by doing the opposite I still end up heading off in the wrong direction. I do get where I am going but it is always an adventure when I don't use a map or some sort of digital assistance to get there.
100th Bomb Group veterans at premier of "Masters of The Air" in Los Angeles
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#4641418 - 01/21/2404:10 PMRe: Finally, a full trailer for Masters of the Air
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I’m glad some of them are still alive to see this. I hope they are happy with what they see.
If I made a TV series about WWII, I would be nervous as heck to show it to the veterans. I would have had them along as quality controllers, I couldn’t bear to make anything they wouldn’t be happy with.
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
#4641422 - 01/21/2405:58 PMRe: Finally, a full trailer for Masters of the Air
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That’s quite an inspiring photo you posted F4U. It’s also a reminder of just how few are left of the “Greatest Generation ”.
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#4641578 - 01/24/2404:56 PMRe: Finally, a full trailer for Masters of the Air
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My judgement so far is no woke stuff (I HOPE NONE EVER) but script needs a bit of polishing and more character development.
On the first mission, B-17s are getting shot down and they are calling out things like Jones ship is down, Smith ship is in flame, no chutes.
Who is Jones? Who is Smith? Don't remember seeing a Smith and a Jones in the previous 20 minutes.
In Band of Brothers and in The Pacific, right from the first half of the first episodes you are already remembering names and faces:
Winters, Nixon, Meehan, Malarkey or Leckie, Basilone, Sledge.
Here in episode 1 everyone of those flight crews from CO to each B-17 captain to crew members, they all LOOK SIMILAR.
I had to rewind during the bombing mission to get an second look on the flight crews . There maybe 6 squadrons totaling 78 B-17s but looking at those crew, for all intention and purposes, I'm thinking I'm looking at the interior of only one B-17.
I think the lack of character development is no training shown in the episode. It starts right away in 1943 and the air crews are headed to England.
Unlike Band of Brothers and The Pacific where you show them going through the hardship of boot camp and you the viewer sort of form a bond with the characters on screen.
Both Band of Brothers and The Pacific had 10 episodes each. This only has 9 episodes. Unless they show the air crews training later on which I doubt they will, I think there should also had 10 episodes instead of 9 and dedicate at least the first episode to introduce the characters starting at their flight crew training.
The series is reported to have a budget of 200-250 million dollars, so far I can't see where that money went. Couldn't be all for the CGI and to build full size mock B-17 models .
#4641660 - 01/26/2411:30 AMRe: Finally, a full trailer for Masters of the Air
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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
The series is reported to have a budget of 200-250 million dollars, so far I can't see where that money went. Couldn't be all for the CGI and to build full size mock B-17 models . [/spoiler]
Inflation + Spielberg and Hanks aren't cheap to say the least. Remember they are the executive producers of the series.
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#4641674 - 01/26/2409:36 PMRe: Finally, a full trailer for Masters of the Air
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Visuals: 9/10 Screenplay: 3/10 (narration meh, cheesy dialogue) Plot: so far awol - what plot? Actors: 9/10 doing a lot with no help
BoB and Pacific had the momentum of tide of war to pull you along w the characters as the battle waxed and waned. So far we have no real momentum or purpose to the actions of these character beyond their own survival. For me that's not enough yet because the foreshadowing is so heavy handed - "we're going to make it arent we buck/y?" No surprises in store there just a question of how many episodes it takes until buck/y buys it.
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#4641676 - 01/26/2410:24 PMRe: Finally, a full trailer for Masters of the Air
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With a quarter of a billion dollars to play with, I expected good CGI. This is just….bad. Flight sims from 20 years ago had better visual representations of flight.
The actors are doing well with a script that so far is fairly plain, but the cheesy lines are fortunately few and far between. I like it so far, but it hasn’t blown me away yet.
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
#4641677 - 01/26/2410:54 PMRe: Finally, a full trailer for Masters of the Air
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With a quarter of a billion dollars to play with, I expected good CGI. This is just….bad. Flight sims from 20 years ago had better visual representations of flight.
The actors are doing well with a script that so far is fairly plain, but the cheesy lines are fortunately few and far between. I like it so far, but it hasn’t blown me away yet.
What I saw in the Trailers gave me the same impression.
I stream through the latest Apple TV and the sound is way off.
I use the app on my Sony TV, and I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary.
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!