WWI Planes

Duke2 · Post by **Duke2** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:14 pm

Looks kinda instering. ( Movie )

http://www.myspace.com/flyboysmovie

FuelPump · Post by **FuelPump** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:18 am

Could be awesome, those guys did a great job, in tough times.

Main4ce · Post by **Main4ce** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:50 am

That looks really good! Only another 4 days until it opens!

http://www.mgm.com/flyboys/

Theres a game too...Nice post Duke2

http://www.flyboysgame.com/screenshots.html#

Main4ce · Post by **Main4ce** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:11 pm

Hey guys, this is one kick ass Game

You can play online and you don't need loads of time to set it up either, downloads a it big though, 198 MBs

was play'n it today and can report that its fun! I think it would be great, dogfighting you lot in a wwi plane!

Tzulscha · Post by **Tzulscha** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:36 pm

I fear that Flyboys is gonna be another Pearl Harbour mess.
The preview with the dozens of red triplanes worries me....

I did find another WWI movie that looks pretty good.
http://www.redbaron-themovie.com/

'Red Baron' may be out by X-mas

It's being shot by a German film crew with a German cast and I'm hoping that it will be like Das Boot or Stalingrad, gritty, realistic and not Hollywierded.

If any of you guys go see "Flyboys", I want a review!!

FuelPump · Post by **FuelPump** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:08 am

One of the perks of my new job, there's a stack of flying mags.
I just read an article about Flyboys, it sounds like they might do a decent job of it.
The director is a long time pilot.
They custom built a bunch of Nieuports for the film.
They put some, if not all of the actors through flight training for the film.
One of the actors is a well respected young aerobatics pilot, who did a crash course in acting.
The computer generated side of things was done by putting inertia logging equipment into aircraft flown by aerobatics pilots, and then transferring the data into the computers so they can get the CGI aircraft in the film to behave realistically.
The mag rated the movie pretty highly.

I had a look at the website for the Red Baron movie a while back too. That could be good too. If they do as good a job as they did with "Das Boot", it'll be a winner.

Main4ce · Post by **Main4ce** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:07 am

Has any1 else tried the Game ?

FuelPump · Post by **FuelPump** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:41 pm

Been kind of in demand lately, but I'll download it sometime tonight or over the weekend and have a look.

Duke2 · Post by **Duke2** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:57 am

I wanted ti try it, but couldn't find the download. Do you have to join a Squad or group to get the download?

Main4ce · Post by **Main4ce** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:50 am

Heres the download page, you will see 3 servers to choose from at the bottom of the page

http://www.flyboysgame.com/DownloadDemo.html

You simple registor by given your Email address, make a game name and password. You will then receive an email to activate you account (no cost) and hey bingo! you can play online!

My game name is "Scottx" as it wouldn't take Main4ce, this is due to the fact that your name has to be 6 letters and no numbers!

AeroCmdr · Post by **AeroCmdr** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:57 pm

I think I saw a spad that was going to be in FlyBoys. Was at a aircraft museum a year or so ago and they said they were packing it up to be moved to Europe for a WW1 movie.

Duke2 · Post by **Duke2** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:38 pm

Just saw the Movie. It's a great movie, lot of flying and fighting. $8.50 a ticket. Don't know if it ranks with the Blue Max, but I really enjoyed it.