This movie feels so weird to me.
It's like somebody took Snoopy's hunt for the red Baron story out of that old Halloween special, put it in a live-action movie and then stuck in one little point of nudity and a bunch of angry men all screaming at each other dealing with the whores in the war peppered throughout the rest.
It's supposed to be a Plucky-go-lucky film but it's not family friendly. It's a story of a bunch of boys getting thrown into dog fighting combat with little to no training and an extremely high mortality rate.
Really the only thing this movie doesn't acknowledges is that more people died in training with some of these planes than they did on the battlefield (at least at the beginning of the war).
It's an okay movie.
I feel like this story has been done a hundred times and a bunch of other movies some of which are far better.
The plane choreography is good but nothing to Fantastic especially when you consider that their movies in the 20s doing this kind of thing. But hey it's got a decent performance out of Malcolm McDowell the man who pops up in every movie ever.
Also half the cast looks exactly the same. They're all young looking skinny white British guys.
At the time I couldn't tell them apart and God help you once they're in the plains.
I can only tell Trevor Howard character apart and that's because he's several years older and has a moustache.
While looking up this guy's name I saw an article talking about how the movie used more modern biplanes for their flight choreography scenes.
And it answered a weird question I had in the back of my head where you had these weird looking radiators on the front of the plane. It look like something off of an old pickup truck.
I was kind of baffled why those were there.
Now I know it's to hide the modern engines house beneath the plains. Personally I just would have shown them and lived with the inaccuracy.
I mean really who cares
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