Post by Steller's Jay on Oct 17, 2006 23:25:31 GMT -5
Excellent movie! It is about pilots and pilot-wannabes who go to France to fight against the Germans in World War I. James Franco (right up there with Ewan in my heart-flutter scale) was beautiful (and he acted well, too!). Jean Reno was the base commander, an excellent French actor, who I love to see in movies. Very tense and realistic flying action, extremely well done.
imdb.com member review (partial): This film was inspired by a true story. There were actually 38 American volunteers with an average age of 26 that joined the Lafayette Escadrille. Thirty were college educated and eleven were sons of millionaires. These men had a sense of adventure and romance of war, and they believed in "dying with honor." The movie uses a composite of these qualities of the actual pilots, and yes, there really was a black pilot in the squadron. The movie does not shy away from the real aspects of war or the sordid aspects of life on the ground. After every mission there are some pilots who do not return, and we get to see their replacements, and how the pilots deal with the loss of their friends.
imdb.com member review (partial): This film was inspired by a true story. There were actually 38 American volunteers with an average age of 26 that joined the Lafayette Escadrille. Thirty were college educated and eleven were sons of millionaires. These men had a sense of adventure and romance of war, and they believed in "dying with honor." The movie uses a composite of these qualities of the actual pilots, and yes, there really was a black pilot in the squadron. The movie does not shy away from the real aspects of war or the sordid aspects of life on the ground. After every mission there are some pilots who do not return, and we get to see their replacements, and how the pilots deal with the loss of their friends.
