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Is that supposed to be a good thing? I mean, it honestly looks as bad as an F900 movie from 1999...

 

No, it's not supposed to be good. I just meant that maybe at the time they were using a "new" camera.

 

I thought it looked terrible. Dull, purple and blurry.

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No comment on fleshtones as they relate to a film's sales, but I do have to say that the flesh tones I saw in the trailer had an obscenely digital look to them.

 

 

Karl, I had the same reaction when I made the rounds at the AMC 20 in Overland Park, KS this past weekend.

 

Had just seen "Hugo" projected digitally with a 2K Sony projector and it looked great. Acquisition was with the Arri Alexa, of course. There were even scenes in "Hugo" which reminded me of the great work Richardson did on "The Aviator" in which LUTs were used to emulate the look of two-strip Technicolor.

 

Then the manager took me next door to see the 4K projection of "Red Wings" and it looked milky and flat, essentially lacking in contrast. I was taken aback.

 

Does anyone have any insight into what happened with "Red Wings?"

 

-Jerry Murrel

CineVision AR

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I have to make a correction here. Although is has long been stated that the 332d FG never lost a bomber to enemy aircraft, new evidence surfaced in 2007 that refuted this claim. The 332d did, in fact, loose 25 bombers to enemy aircraft during the course of it's service. Despite this, they still had one of the finest operational records of any fighter group during the war.

 

This was not new evidence. This was known from the start of the myth that was published in a magazine article during WWII. On the day the writer was covering the story of the Red Tails, they lost 12 bombers but he wrote that they had never lost a bomber they escorted. This must have been due to war time propaganda, maybe meant to encourage more black Americans to become pilots. As such, I don't have a problem with it for that reason. However, everyone who flew in the European theater knew that claim was false. Embarrassingly, so do the members of the 332d, yet this is repeated every time by them and the media. I think it detracts from their rightful place of honor as Americans who fought in the war. To be singled out and held up on a pedestal without legs is an affront to the others who did the same and more. Hyperbole and exaggerations aside, the 332d flew mostly ground support and there is not one single ace (five confirmed kills) among them. They were credited with destroying about 150 aircraft including those on the ground. Those are facts one can look up. There in only one story of any US fighter shooting down a Me262 jet in actual air-to-air combat that I know of, and that was by a P-51 pilot who made a lucky shot and he was not in the 332d. I don't doubt the 332d shot down three Me262's while they were out of fuel and trying to land. This was how almost all of them were destroyed in the air and with the 332d flying ground support they would have been in position to take the advantage. No disrespect meant to any of the Red Tails, it took huge amount of courage just to climb into one of those planes and go off knowing you could get killed and they deserve the proper credit for doing so. Never get your history from Hollywood, they never let the facts get in the way of a good story...

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Thank god she invented Texas! :-)

 

Because, without Texas, we probably wouldn't have news stories like this:

http://hosted.ap.org...EMPLATE=DEFAULT

 

In part:

 

"DALLAS (AP) Feb 10, 7:00 PM EST -- When 5,700 fifth-grade boys in Dallas' public schools recently went to see a movie ["Red Tails"] about black fighter pilots in World War II, the girls stayed in school and saw a different movie instead. ... "Akeelah and the Bee," about an 11-year-old girl who competes in a national spelling bee. ..."

IMHO the girls got to see the better movie, the one shot by "our" M. David Mullen! ;-)

Cheers.

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