Product: Flyboys [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 1.0
Unoriginal Low Budget Film
How can I sum up this movie: Low budget CGI, terrible acting, terrible lines, Cliché storyline, mediocre action, cheesy revolting love story, and untrue to life. I would have to say the best actor in the movie probably was the lion. Yes, there is a lion in a WWI movie, can you believe it?I found the dramatic dog fighting scenes actually quite comical. Once you realize the planes are CGI, the dogfights are almost as enjoyable as watching a PS3 game. The true horror of the film is watching the star of the show (Spiderman's best friend) try to woo a (almost retarded) French girl that likes to visit a local brothel for recreation. I had to vomit several times during their less than bearable dialogue. In one part of the movie, the leading character flies to her house to give her a joy ride in his plane. Yeah, I'm sure that happened all the time during a little war like WWI. Also, I swear the movie's soundtrack was used in about every other major blockbuster movie of the past, in an attempt to make the movie seem of a higher quality. I was actually relieved when the scratched blu-ray I rented locked up during the ending of the movie, so I wouldn't have to sit through much more of this pathetic excuse for a war movie.Questions to ask:Why was a French girl bandaging up injured war pilots in a brothel?How does a guy land a plane 100 yards next to his girlfriend's house with German guards all around without anyone noticing?How come they give a guy a medal rather than shooting him on site for stealing a squadron plane to save his retarded girlfriend?How do you chop off someone's hand with a dull field shovel?How is it that new pilots are suddenly artistic enough to paint professional looking logos on their planes?How can you shout commands at each other over the plane engines and wind noise during a dogfight?Why would you stand and wave your arms in open enemy territory after being shot down during a dogfight?Why would you do a solo suicide mission against a dozen nazi fighters, so you could revenge your friends?How do you do -3 G jet fighter maneuvers in a 65 Horsepower WWI plane?What was Bubba Gump's little brother doing in this movie?Why was there a pet lion used in a WWI movie? (believe it or not, this lion was based on a true story - too bad it didn't eat the main actors in this movie.. that would have been great to see.)