This is a 5 min review and you don't really say what the movie is about untill we hit the 3 min mark. This is a strange review, almost feels more like a Big Picture than Escape to the Movies.
Im pretty sure James just wants the money....sailor_960 said:George Lucas has my undying respect no matter how many Special Editions he attempts to shove onto shelves. The man is a visionary whose work changed the movie industry for the better. Is he a good director? The jury is out on that one, but he is a brilliant filmmaker. How many other directors out there have actually gone out of their way to create the technology required for their dream project, solely for the purpose of creating said project? The only others that I can think of are James Cameron and possibly Peter Jackson.
um, he's only done the prequels and indianna jones in the last fifteen years, and they are not even a fraction as bad as people ***** about.Craftybonds said:I think movie bob insulted a lot of his fan base on this one. People dislike george lucas because he's been repeatedly involved in some of the worst big budget movies from the last 15 years. You can't blame people for recognizing patterns. Nerds can definitely be biased quite often, but there's a whole lot of people who will do their best to ignore their personal bias if they can, because nerds tend to be more self aware of their bias once they get out of the 10-15 year old range, and start handling things a bit more maturely.
I was actually quite interested in this movie a few weeks ago, after watching george lucas talk about it on the daily show, but then he started talking about starwars, and this definitely made me rage a little bit. i'll still go see it, but don't assume that everyone in your audience is younger than 16.
Replace platoon with Apocalypse Now and FMJ and you got a perfect list.....also, green berets, longest day, and hamburger hill.Moeez said:Damn, you're missing out on some great films. Saving Private Ryan, Kingdom's Heaven (Director's Cut), Thin Red Line, Platoon, Red Cliff, Braveheart, Spartacus, and so on.BanicRhys said:Oooh, Moviebob just told off the prequel haters and made a Plinkett reference. He has just replaced Jim Sterling at the top of my respect list.
It takes a lot to make me want to see a movie, so needless to say, I won't be seeing this one. Not because it's made by Lucas, a film's director/producer/whatever have little bearing on my opinion of a film, I'm just not into historical war movies.
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I'm 22. I saw star wars episode I and loved it (when i was 9). i knew about the original trilogy, but had never seen it. 2002 came around, and i saw the episode II and was severely disappointed. i decided to rewatch episode I for funsies, and didn't like it at all the second time around. it was only then that i decided to watch the first three movies, and loved all of them. The first two episodes and most of the third one are awful movies. they have countless plot loopholes, terrible acting, and awful dialogue. Not to mention the ludicrous use of CGI that add nothing to the movies. They were terrible movies long before Mr. Plinkett came around and pointed out everything people hadn't realized themselves.Jegsimmons said:um, he's only done the prequels and indianna jones in the last fifteen years, and they are not even a fraction as bad as people ***** about.Craftybonds said:I think movie bob insulted a lot of his fan base on this one. People dislike george lucas because he's been repeatedly involved in some of the worst big budget movies from the last 15 years. You can't blame people for recognizing patterns. Nerds can definitely be biased quite often, but there's a whole lot of people who will do their best to ignore their personal bias if they can, because nerds tend to be more self aware of their bias once they get out of the 10-15 year old range, and start handling things a bit more maturely.
I was actually quite interested in this movie a few weeks ago, after watching george lucas talk about it on the daily show, but then he started talking about starwars, and this definitely made me rage a little bit. i'll still go see it, but don't assume that everyone in your audience is younger than 16.
No, my friend, people hate lucas because of the dumbest bullshit reasons.
"a special edition of star wars!? HANG HIM!!"
(completely ignoreing that people like James Cameron re released a single movie 6 times in one year and nobody says a damn thing.)
You forgot Steven Spielbergsailor_960 said:George Lucas has my undying respect no matter how many Special Editions he attempts to shove onto shelves. The man is a visionary whose work changed the movie industry for the better. Is he a good director? The jury is out on that one, but he is a brilliant filmmaker. How many other directors out there have actually gone out of their way to create the technology required for their dream project, solely for the purpose of creating said project? The only others that I can think of are James Cameron and possibly Peter Jackson.
Yep, taken that into accountIndignator said:I'm taking bets that on the next Big Picture or Escape to the Movies Bob will lash back at everyone that pointed this out (I include myself in this - for the length of the entire review I was thinking, "What about the one with Laurence Fishourne?"). You know, something like, "Ooh, you know of an obscure made-for-TV movie made almost twenty years ago, and you had to make a post boasting about it? Aren't you a walking encyclopedia of cinematic history."LaBambaMan said:Actually Bob, if I may;
I'd say the Tuskegee Airmen got quite a good film made about them the the horrors they faced both from the enemy and from their own government in the 1995 film "The Tuskegee Airmen" staring Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr.(who is also in Red Tails), Allen Payne, Malcom Jamal-Warner and John Lithgow to name a few.Briney- said:If I recall, The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) was quite good. I might take the time to see this one as well.Nautical Honors Society said:Pretty sure they've made a movie on this subject before Bob...give me a momentMovieBob said:Red Tails
George Lucas chronicles the Tuskegee Airmen.
Watch Video
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tuskegee_airmen/
Yup, here it is.
And oh look! It was aparently good.
So, I am not sure what you mean about this topic not being covered before...
OT: I thought this movie could have been good, but it was just so pathetically marketed for me to have any interest in it, that being said, I say we are all a little hard on Lucas now and again...although his interview on Jon Stewart made him seem impossibly ignorant.EgonCom said:Boviebob said:"Red Tails" gives Tuskegee Airmen action movie which they never get back in the days...
What about The Tuskegee Airmen [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114745/]?
(and You call yourself a movie critic )Snooder said:I still have no idea how MovieBob could do the entire review without ONCE mentioning the movie about the exact same characters, with the same basic plotline, and starring the same lead actor.EgonCom said:Boviebob said:"Red Tails" gives Tuskegee Airmen action movie which they never get back in the days...
What about The Tuskegee Airmen [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114745/]?
(and You call yourself a movie critic )
He could just have been trolling all of us, of course.
andgphjr14 said:He's referring to a movie made for theaters.EgonCom said:Boviebob said:"Red Tails" gives Tuskegee Airmen action movie which they never get back in the days...
What about The Tuskegee Airmen [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114745/]?
(and You call yourself a movie critic )
I have two answers to that:ImSkeletor said:EgonCom said:Boviebob said:"Red Tails" gives Tuskegee Airmen action movie which they never get back in the days...
What about The Tuskegee Airmen [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114745/]?
(and You call yourself a movie critic )
Sorry but TV MOVIES don't count.
Do you have other suggestions for the villains in a movie chronicling the struggle of the first US African American fighter pilot squadron? You know, since they fought in World War II and everything, in the European Theater? Where we were fighting the Nazis?geier said:Some day, i will travel to the US and test your drinking water for creativitydestroying bacteria.
Again Nazis ?
Really, it is time some country commits a warcrime with AT LEAST 100 Million innocent dead civilians, so someone else then Nazis can be the bad guys.
Yeah, I got one.John Funk said:Do you have other suggestions for the villains in a movie chronicling the struggle of the first US African American fighter pilot squadron? You know, since they fought in World War II and everything, in the European Theater? Where we were fighting the Nazis?
Yeah, I was disappointed that Bob felt the need to invent this strawman of an imagined Red Tails backlash just so he could go on a rant about anti-Lucas fanboys. If Red Tails had been directed by Lucas himself then maybe,maybe I could see the scenario that Bob depicts happening. But Bob's irrelevant rant about Lucas haters makes it look like he's the one who can't get over the prequels not the critics.maninahat said:I don't think I've ever met a single person who's claimed that they won't see Red Tails because it had something to do with George lucas. Even if they are out there, who cares what they think? Besides Bob, I mean.
Bob needs enemies to attack to make his reviews seem bolder. Remember it was Bill O'Reilly's fault that Friends with Benefits was predictable and action movies are inflicted on us by "dude"-spewing fratboys. I really wish he'd outgrow it because even somewhere as base as the IMDB forums people can disagree in mature ways. I'd expect better from a prominent review.MikeN said:Yeah, I was disappointed that Bob felt the need to invent this strawman of an imagined Red Tails backlash just so he could go on a rant about anti-Lucas fanboys.
Tangouser said:Been real excited for this one! (the bad reviews that is). But wait? It's not bad?
No... It sucks. It really does.DVS BSTrD said:The marketing for this film seemed rather shallow, glad it doesn't suck.
So George, this is what you've been holding out on us?