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In Reply to: What are you Viewing ????? posted by mikenyc on May 21, 2002 at 00:17:05:
Hi,
True Grit is a good movie, perhaps Waynes best. But in no respect was it ahead of it's time. As respects to aviation, there are few good
dogfights on film. You might try the old brit docudrama 'Piece of Cake'. If you are familiar with dogfighting, it has some simply done, but nice work. There is one maneuver where the Spits turn aorund the flight path of incoming 109s; and turn sharply towards a wing of bombers. it's not a obvious hollywood moment, but it sat me straight up in my seat when I saw it. Sheer balls to the wall flying.
Follow Ups:
Love the bloody carnage in "Flying Tigers"....as the Japanese pilots are shoot...they grasp their throats and blood flows out and over their hands....the good old days, right ?
heh heh.
You don't see many of those oldies on the TV any more, thank goodness.
John Waynes acting was at its absolute stilted inept peak.Cheers
John K
The Quiet Man-wonderfully atmospheric film, with great support from veteran Irish character actors. John Ford reportedly remarkedThe Shootist-Wayne's farewell film, a poignant performance of a gunfighter dying of cancer made more so by his real life struggle with the disease.
I hadn't finished the quote from John Ford after seeing the Quiet Man - "I didn't know the big lug could act!"
"Red River"."Wings of Eagles".
Hi,
I am interested in dogfighting. I'm not good at it, mind you, just interested. For years I played the WW2 aerial combat game Warbirds.
It's played over the net, I was in a squad, the 111th. I thought a lot of that old Hollywoood stuff was cheesy. The plain truth is we double teamed the Japanese planes. Our planes were less maneuverable, so when a bogey got behind a plane and started shooting....his buddy would attack him.
That's why our Navy planes looked like flying bank vaults. They needed to take a few hits. The bullets we used were capable of ripping a plane apart. If one hit a person, I imagine it would make quite a mess, a l ittle more than Hollywood was used to back then. From the gun camera footage I have seen, the lightly armored planes the Japanese used simply fell apart under attack, or burst into flame, or exploded...you get the idea.
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