Fight Club With Planes

dkwookie · #1 12-08-2009, 06:21 AM

Interesting new film coming out. Looks like they have an interesting spin on the WW2 dogfight film:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=26442

Presume the re-enactments involve live ammo at some point. Could be great, could be awful.

Edit: after re-reading that piece it sounds more like a Fast And Furious with WW2 planes

InfiniteStates · #2 12-08-2009, 09:31 AM

Sounds pretty cool, although lol at the terribly written article.

I guess anyone in Michigan is in for a free airshow

stealth finger · #3 12-08-2009, 09:49 AM

Sounds like one of those things that will be either completly awesome or completely terrible. No middle ground.

InfiniteStates · #4 12-08-2009, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by stealth finger

Sounds like one of those things that will be either completly awesome or completely terrible. No middle ground.

Even if it's terrible I'm sure the flying bits can be edited into a decent YouTube vid

dkwookie · #5 12-08-2009, 11:45 AM

I bet it will be made to appeal to teens with lots of shakey cam and rapid cutting. Bizzare idea for a film in my opinion. Like they wanted to do a ww2 air combat film but the orange film producer got involved

stealth finger · #6 12-08-2009, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by dkwookie

Bizzare idea for a film in my opinion. Like they wanted to do a ww2 air combat film but the orange film producer got involved

hahaha i bet the meeting went a little like those ads.

gritty realism turns into huge explosions lol

irrelevant · #7 12-08-2009, 01:55 PM

"... gets pulled into the culture of real-life, illegal aerial combat."

uh, what? i need to change careers if hollywood is that short on competent screen writers.

i may travel to michigan just to watch the planes fly, but what a disgrace of an idea. i hope local veterans show up to backhand the director and his crew.

InfiniteStates · #8 12-08-2009, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by dkwookie

I bet it will be made to appeal to teens with lots of shakey cam and rapid cutting. Bizzare idea for a film in my opinion. Like they wanted to do a ww2 air combat film but the orange film producer got involved

PMSL Maybe they will organise formation flying via texts?

Those Orange ads have ruined that guy - now, when I see him in anything else, he's still the Orange guy and I'm just waiting for a stupid remark or his silly little sidekick to pop up...

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uh, what? i need to change careers if hollywood is that short on competent screen writers.

LOL that's why we get so many (crap) re-makes of films made when the ideas (and the drugs) were flowing. Hollywood has been very stale for many years, with a few notable exceptions. Stupid really, because all they need to do is go into a bookshop and there is at least a decades worth of material right there. Note - this does require some imagination on the part of the reader/screenwriter...

stealth finger · #9 12-08-2009, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by InfiniteStates

Note - this does require some imagination on the part of the reader/screenwriter...

Damn, you were so close too lol

dkwookie · #10 12-08-2009, 03:33 PM

"... gets pulled into the culture of real-life, illegal aerial combat."
As oposed to legal aerial combat!

Yeah Hollywood is scraping the barrel with ideas. Its like they have a think tank and thow differnet succesful formulas together on a blackboard or everything has to be a 10 second pitch like "Its Fast and Furious, with WW2 planes"

I dont know as long as the bad guy flys an I-153 and gets his arse shot down I dont mind a video viewing