Product: Flyboys [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 1.0
The Second Worst Movie I've Ever Seen
If you think Armageddon and Pearl Harbor are good cinema, you'll love Flyboys.According to this film, flying in WWI was nothing more than a long vacation in rural France, where you got to live in a chateau, drink brandy for breakfast, and sleep with buxom brunettes. (Oh, but you didn't get to smoke. Apparently no one was allowed cigarettes in France during the first world war.) Your uniform was always clean and pressed, and all you had to do to earn your wings was sit around in a hangar and spout off sophomoric one-liners.Here, let me save you a few bucks: just take the shower and volleyball scenes from Top Gun, stretch them out a bit and set them in 1916 France, and you'll pretty much have Flyboys.But the dogfight scenes are cool, right? No. If you want to see brilliant aviators handle WWI-era planes, go buy "The Great Waldo Pepper," the outstanding film starring Robert Redford. If you want to watch a multi-million dollar video game, depicting fabric airplanes with 80 horsepower engines performing extended vertical climbs, then see Flyboys.The only redeeming scenes in this film are those in which a few of these snot-nosed little brats get shot of of the sky. Too bad they don't all die. Seems like that's the only way to shut them up.