Airplane Flick Trailer: "The Red Baron".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJghJNAjc1k

Wow! Maybe there's a movie theater visit in my future, after all.
Thanks, Tone. Steve

Steve Helmick
Renton, Washington
USA

Yep Very cool hope its all that good ! Must see !

Anyone know when it will be at the theatres? Gotta see this one.

General question to anyone...

Which would you rather see?

1. A movie like the present "Red Baron", with a terrific array of different aircraft types in massed formation or battle, thrilling dogfight scenes, etc. But only made possible by computer imagery. Wonderful stuff, but in the back of your mind, you know that is not real.

2. A movie like "The Blue Max" or "Batle of Britain", where the action is limited, because of the limited availability of aircraft types, limitations in replicating battle scenes, etc. But it is real.

I know I will enjoy "The Red Baron", but I think I still prefer the Old School flicks.

Just curious...

Currell

I don't know, I liked Flyboys pretty well. It really depends on the story. The best movies are the ones about people, not planes. Planes may tell the story, but the people bring it alive. Doesn't matter to me if it's CGI or real. If it's a good movie, it's a good movie. I can suspend belief to enjoy a good flick.


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Some days it seems like a coin toss between George Orwell and Monty Python...

While I have to admit that "Battle of Britain" and "The Blue Max" are 2 of my favorite movies of all time, the new GCI flicks are pretty good also. With actual examples of fighter aircraft becoming almost priceless, you can't really justify risking them to make a major motion picture where schedule demands and money may cause someone to make an error in judgment that could result in the loss of a piece of history.

We lose one or two a year just in ferry flights to / from airshows, but I hate to think of the day when I can no longer go out to a base or airport and get to see / hear / feel a Merlin or Allison or P&W fire up and take to the skies.
Most people don't get it- but when I am at an airshow and the warbirds are flying I tend to look around at the crowd a bit. You can spot the guys like us, misty eyed and choking up at the memories of what those planes represent in terms of courage and sacrifice in a time quite different from where we are now.


Back on topic- I bet the new Red Baron movie has countless scenes where he uses his skill and superb manuverability of this Fokker to defeat his foe in one on one combat. A movie that showed him repeatedly closing in on the blind spot of an observation plane, pumping it full of rounds from below and behind before breaking off and looking for another victim probably would not break any box office records.
Bill Heher
If it's broke, fix it.
If it aint broke - let me see it for a minute

I hope they give credit, in the movie, to the Aussie Rifleman who shot the Baron down from the ground. He was a drifter that not even a picture exists of him. He died at a young age after the war. That would be the accurate story of the end of the Red Baron in a French field. Captain Brown didn't shoot him down.

Yeah, I googled "death of the Red Baron", and found out that there were at least two Aussie gunman on the ground that may have killed him. Yes, the odds are pretty strong that the shot came from the ground. Currell

He was shot by Aussie Snowy Evans.....

Perhaps, but the most likely person was Sgt Cedric Popkin, of the Australian 24th Machine Gun Co.

Google it for some most interesting reading.

Currell