Best flying scenes from the 2008 Red Baron film ..

[Wels]

Hello,

 

i have recently seen the "Red Baron" from Niama films, and i liked it, if only because it is the only film made recently that has anything to do with WW1 aviation at all *sigh* .. i know it is again highly inaccurate. I wonder why those older films have better stories, even if flight scenes and at least some details are correct in modern films, they will not automatically develop into a good film, there is lacking so much older films had.

 

If you are only in for the flight scenes, you will have seen almost all after having watched those links :

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIcgfxSP_f4

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er--DLaG7SM...feature=related

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-58SS77U84

 

edit: maybe Uncleal/Gimpiguy already posted those ...

 

Greetings,

Catfish

[shredward]

Great Stuff!

I sure hope it comes to the widescreen here. I like to think of myself as a student of history, and I could give a rat's ass whether this film is historically accurate. Those flying sequences are brilliant - they give you the pure adrenalin rush of whirling through the cloud canyons and columns of fire that were the mass dogfights of the Great War. And though we strive for complete historical accuracy in Over Flanders Fields, I hope that we also convey some of the flavour and the sizzle of what it was like to fly and fight in those first winged chariots of fire.

Cheers,

shredward

[Test Pilot]

Well it's not so much that it's historically inaccurate, it has more to do with the screenplay being so far fetched that all you can do while watching it is just go along with it and not ask any questions. Doing so let's you just enjoy the flight scenes!

[Geezer Gamer]

Any guess if this is ever coming to the states?

 

I remember a previous thread that said you can purchase it as a DVD somewhere but that it has no english subtitles, even though it was shot in english and dubbed in german ( I think)

 

Maybe if the screenplay is so bad, not understanding what they say is a good thing. I could pretend it was an incredible script and just enjoy the dogfight scenes!

[Krasny]

Flyboys is a fairly recent WW1 movie.

 

Only marginally more accurate in depicting WW1 air combat than Star Wars.

 

But an amusing movie never the less.

[Krasny]

Edit: The movie is called "Der Rote Baron"

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365675/

 

The German DVD version is dubbed into German, but the cinema version is in English, French and German.

 

http://www.amazon.de/Rote-Baron-Matthias-S...7502&sr=1-1

 

You can buy in for 5.15 euro.

 

Further edit: Amazon.de will not ship this DVD to the UK. :(

Edited March 29, 2009 by Krasny

[SGCSG1]

I'm tired of wondering if the dvd on this will EVER come out.

[RAF_Louvert]

Wels, those are some fun scenes to watch. Thanks for posting them.

 

 

And Krasny:

Flyboys is a fairly recent WW1 movie.

 

Only marginally more accurate in depicting WW1 air combat than Star Wars.

 

But an amusing movie never the less.

 

I just laughed so hard reading that that I ended up spritzing my monitor with the iced tea I was attempting to drink.

 

Cheers!

 

Lou