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Red Tails Delivers Stunning Special Effects, But No Substance: Movie Review
Red Tails reduces one of World War II's most compelling stories to the intellectual level of a Disney cartoon. But the special effects are great.
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Great review Matt you said exactly what was on my mind when I saw the commercial for this. I love Lucas' work, but I hate it when Hollywood gets its mitts on a piece of history like this. What's next? Will Smith in an edge-of-your-seat drama about Plessy vs Ferguson(with equally corny language)???
Even CNN's review (taken from Entertainment Weekly) calls this "prosaic" and "thinly scripted". But I guess this is what it takes to get the average American interested in history these days, by creating a Hollywood blockbuster movie about it
Thanks. What's even more puzzling is I always thought it was the big studios who ruined movies like this, screening them for focus groups and re-editing them until they were bland enough not to offend anyone. But the studios had nothing to do with this movie, it was all George Lucas.
This one joins Pearl Harbor and Titanic in history-dilution to me.