Author Topic: The Red Baron (Read 8023 times)

thebinmann · « **on:** February 18, 2010, 07:06:02 PM »

Hi

Has anyone seen this film?

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/10673898/Red-Baron/Product.html

Is it worth buying?

tyhanks

Plynkes · « **Reply #1 on:** February 18, 2010, 08:10:52 PM »

Yes I have.

No it isn't. Buy some lottery scratchcards with the money instead. They will be more entertaining.

thebinmann · « **Reply #2 on:** February 18, 2010, 08:15:25 PM »

Quote from: Plynkes on February 18, 2010, 08:10:52 PM

Yes I have.

No it isn't. Buy some lottery scratchcards with the money instead. They will be more entertaining.

Thans for the advice, If I win big I'll get you the sequal!

Phil Robinson · « **Reply #3 on:** February 18, 2010, 08:27:25 PM »

Quote from: Plynkes on February 18, 2010, 08:10:52 PM

Yes I have.

No it isn't. Buy some lottery scratchcards with the money instead. They will be more entertaining.

Another one to cross off my list then, Passchendaele seems to be another I should avoid?

Plynkes · « **Reply #4 on:** February 18, 2010, 08:49:16 PM »

A lot of people don't like it because they muck with his character and make up some kind of fairy story about him being a pacifist trying to stop the war, who regularly lands his plane in No-Man's-Land for cosy, chummy chats with his best pal Roy Brown.

Personally, I wouldn't care how they messed with history if it made for an entertaining film. But the crazy thing is, instead they made the most turgid, boring, flat piece of poo imaginable. The real story is much more interesting. You just don't care about any of them, all you want is for the film to end. It is so boring.

The flying sequences are the best I have seen in any film, but they are so short it is not worth suffering through the rest of it for them. Find them on Youtube, instead.

For all its faults, Flyboys is a much better film. It at least fulfils the minimum requirements for a film: It entertains.

Hammers · « **Reply #5 on:** February 18, 2010, 09:35:15 PM »

Quote from: Plynkes on February 18, 2010, 08:49:16 PM

The flying sequences are the best I have seen in any film, but they are so short it is not worth suffering through the rest of it for them.

I got the blueray (cheap) for the flying sequences alone and thought it was well worth it. The rest is, well, should be, insulting to any person of average intelligence.

Ignatieff · « **Reply #6 on:** February 19, 2010, 09:09:04 PM »

More with Hammers on this one. If you forget the reality (and when has this EVER got in the way of Hollywood), then its worth watching. But. The plot is turgid and predicatable and the CGI overdone. Worth a few hours out your life however...