Really bad film...

[Gasbag]

I don't think that I'm a particularily tough audience member. I :censored: all over Fly Boys simply because it is an awful film. The director, writer(s) & the producer(s) were just plain lazy. They didn't bother to do any real historical research (ie. all German planes being Fokker Triplanes). The research would have been relatively easy to do considering all the WW I info that's out on the web. Then there's the flight into No Man's Land stunt that was previously mentioned, the leading man's (can't remember his name now) Texan drawl that fades in & out throughout the movie, etc. What annoys me most is that these people (the film's makers) figure that your average movie goer is too stupid to notice these things & that we'll buy any nonsense that they put out. I know that there will never be a perfect war movie. Fly Boys doesn't even try to be marginal.

I didn't miss the Thin Red Line. I've got the dvd; just didn't like it very much.