Lucas does Red Tails...

[Sternjaeger II]

I have been following the development of this movie for a while now, they used real warbirds to shoot some of the scenes (the airbase that you see, which is supposed to be Italy, was actually shot in Czech Republic, and they used real P-51s and P-40s for flybys and other scenes) and despite the fact we already had a movie about Tuskegee Airmen, I was wondering what things would have been like when George Lucas put his hands on the genre..

The thing that puts me off it, like someone else said, is that he treated it like a "Star Wars of the 40s", with improbable points of view and scenes that defy physics for the sake of spectacularity (like the P-51 tumbling backwards and hitting the Me262), but making it a kind of ridiculous toy.

Dark Blue World, and to a certain extent The Red Baron were the last movies made with intelligence on the subject. The Pearl Harbor issue wasn't the aerial scenes per se (which were relatively ok, considering that there again, they used real planes), it was the appalling romance plot and acting.