Product: Flyboys [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 4.0
Fun Movie, Bad History
This was a really fun movie to watch but it they took an awefull lot of creative liscense. The combat scenes were fun but looked so fake. If you were to dive as steeply as they did in that film for as long as they did in a Nieuport 17 you would rip the lower wing clean off. Probably the same with the Fokkers. If you want more realistic combat scenes I would recomend The Blue Max but this movie will still keep you on the edge of your seat. One think I didn't like was the fact that they made the Germans look really bad. I've read many accounts of German pilots who really went out of their way to be humane and a many stories of allied pilots who were downright cruel (Mannock). WWI was a war where niether side was better than the other, and it was a war that shouldn't have happened. Entangling alliances are an itch.