OT: have to love these battle scenes...

Something worth watching with some popcorn...

Not a lot of people know that later in the war, both sides replaced their wooden wing struts and spars with adamantium ones so the planes could better handle their Mach 1 dives that were powered by the newly installed Tesseract cube engines. JFM, check my history on that, please?

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I can’t decide which I like more: The HP heavy bombers doing their work at 1,500’; the endlessly firing Lewis that never needs a drum change; the Alb V-Strutters that can out-maneuver Camels; the Harry Tate that is matching the Alb and the Spad 7 in a power dive; also the Camel that can keep up with the Alb in a power dive; the power dives in general; the Camel that makes a climbing left-hand turn in its own length; the “formation” flying; the long; backward smirking looks while flying straight and level as an enemy is firing away on their six. Really, there’s just so many to choose from. Historical accuracy at its cinematic best.

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I love the need felt by Hollywood Directors to jam-pack the screen with planes. Want excitement? Pack the planes closer together. Why don't they simply fly WOFF for a week and video-cap the screen?

I watched Dunkirk - the movie - last week and when they did happen to show some air to air combat, it was refreshing to see that they didn't "Hollywood" it up with insane speeds and impossible aircraft agility. I thought Christopher Nolan (the director) did an excellent job of keeping it real. Kudos to him for not turning WWII air combat into a Transformers-like movie.

Pet peeve number one!!!!! Every CGI scene is crammed, as if their only reference guide were a Sergeant Rock comic book from the 1960s.

In my opinion, the most remarkable thing about The Red Baron is how it manages to get more or less every single historical fact somehow wrong, including the personality of its protagonist, who has been transformed from a hard-boiled Prussian career officer into a 21st century anti-military liberal.

I've only watched the film once. Never again!

No point in my commenting. You folks nailed it all. The coffin is closed. All that remains is to bury it.

The only thing they got right, was to show that most of those Pilots where young men.

I REALLY disliked this film. Very much. Yes, the CGI airplanes were over the top, for sure. But the story! God Almighty. It wasn't even about Richthofen! Brown and MvR becoming friends!?? WTF! Roy Brown escorting Manfred's "girlfriend" across the lines so she could be at his funeral? They didn't get his personality down at all. He was not a lady's man. All who knew him said that he was rather shy (if that's the right word) around women. His brother Lothar was the Lathario. He was a womanizer and a drinker. As a matter of fact, he was killed after the war in a plane crash with a famous German actress. They reversed the two personalities and made Lothar the hard assed Prussian. Why!? Richthofen was too much of a proud German to have ever told the Kaiser that the war was lost. Terrible picture. The true story of the man has yet to be made. This surely wasn't it.

Argh, that was ...bizarre, lol.

What the Hell was that??? Andy Rooney should never have been that hard up, .

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'Something worth watching with some popcorn...' ??? Maybe with about a pint of whiskey already down the hatch! lol

I liked the look of airplanes in all those scenes. They did put a good effort into them.


Yes, though Werner Voss who was 20 is played by Til Schweiger who was 43 at the moment of filming.

Hah,that's is true. But it could have been far worse,I've seen a movie about von Richthofen where Boelke was a man in the late 40's or even 50's. And the rest of the Circus was like mid 40's

Just my 2 cents : I support any effort towards WWI, Airplanes and Cowboy films. I have sat thru them all and brought the DVD;s. The only sad part that I know of is the things that they could have done. Imagine GCI ( CGI ? ) slowed down to the proper a/c speed and capabilities. Or the use of all the a/c mock ups or The Correct Story lines for The Baron or Blue Max. Maybe Morer Wild West friendly like film Tombstone that pushes all the Wild West Hoo Ha ! Not necessarily , the Real Truth ( Johnny Ringo meeting Doc Holiday in the Saloon scene ) or maybe Non-stereotype enemy pilots than the Hollywood Hardcore German Airman Type in Tuskegee Airmen film. Oh well, the might have been !

I'll have to agree. Maybe someone's interest will be captured enough so that the interested party will research and discover the amazing history of World War I in the air! Then buy WOFF UE!

What about 'Lanoe Hawker' - depicted as an overweight screaming bearded psycho, flying an SE5 with the fuselage marking of a French Spad 13 Escadrille!!

Sorry to say that but I do not like such Holywood nonsenses I was able to watch this movie for 5 minutes at all.

At least this one wasn't Hollywood. It was filmed in Germany.

Beard

Oh, you are right, Beard!
However, that is even gloomier . Germans and such distortion .

I took the film for what it was... with that mindset I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I was pretty sure from the start and reading reviews that it was not an accurate depiction.