The Red Baron Hits US Theators

Coming out sometime this Spring, The Red Baron released two years ago in Germany/UK has finally made it over the Atlantic.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/theredbaron/

I guess they finally found a studio willing to gamble it in a NA release.

I will watch this to repay the Red Baron for all the pizza he's provided me.

Originally Posted by El Brujo

I will watch this to repay the Red Baron for all the pizza he's provided me.

And fun arcade hijinks!

Has anyone seen this yet over there in Germany and the UK? Is it worth it?

I saw it before youtube pulled it. I enjoyed watching it, my only complaint was the fictional... welll we don't know if it was fictional but there was no evidence, of a love story between Richthofen and his personal nurse he had when he was recovering from battle wounds. She actually existed, but was there a relation ship? The movie says so, but there isn't any evidence of it.

I liked the film other than that, well I mean the love story thing was interesting, just didn't feel like it fit well, and no it isn't like Titanic's stupid retarded love story with Jack and Rose, on Red Baron it's better done, a lot better done. There were a few air combat moments which made me lift an eyebrow but what CGI animated and special effects person knows perfectly about how an aircraft moves? The movie focus mainly on the Legend of the Red Baron, more so than the factual Red Baron.

Though the battle scenes are short, the scale of them is epic. The on field moments on Red Baron are also nice, I love some their R&R moments when on base. lol

Originally Posted by vizi

6/10 on IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365675/
25% on Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10010789-red_baron/

Sounds like the movie isn't worth the wait and should be avoided.

I may have random spoilers.

IMDB is typical. The movie on IMDB is only one star lower than most other WWI Air combat movies on the site, and I heard so many idiototic complaints about the movie that you can garentee most of those negatives to it's star count were ticked off viewers who hated the CGI airplanes insted of Real Airplanes, or the fact the film didn't focus on people like Werner Voss much, and THE LACK of air combat scenes, or the slow ground scenes taking up most of the film. I read first comment style review on that page on IMDB it was just completely random gibberish not even talking about the movie itself and why he doesn't like what, he talks about the actors and producers and how they raised money but not the movie!!


Over all the movie is a hit or miss, you either absolutely love it, or absolutely hate it. I mean I find it the best WWI air combat film I've ever seen, ya it isn't the best told movie, but the atmosphere on the field, and in the air is excellent. I liked how the film went from Young Boys Being all We pwn we are the best we are becoming aces, eta eta eta, to wow everyone is dieing one by one in the movie, depression, dispear, very sad movie over all, most of the air combat scenes in the later half of the movie are not action packed but just absolutely filled, the music isn't action, it's very dark, slow and sorrow like. I love that, it fit the mood of the air war perfectly for a pilot who survived as long as Richthofen and lost as many friends as he did.

Oh one note I think meny may get annoyed at when or if they watch it. Is the Red Baron at a point starts to get shown off as a pacifist.. This was actually done because the director and producer were actually scared of other Western nation opinion on a German War Film about a German Hero which is a very negative and bad Taboo in Germany since WWII. Despite all the problems it's still better than most of the trashy American War films I've seen over the years. It's better than Saving Private Ryan but no where near as good as Letters From Iwo Jima.

6/10 on IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365675/
25% on Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10010789-red_baron/

Sounds like the movie isn't worth the wait and should be avoided.

HUGO STIGLITZ!

I own this on DVD, I think I want to watch it now.

Is it just me or were there no francophones in the crew ?

Diable Rouge =/= Red Baron


apart from that, good one

Bleh. Too young and boyish an actor for the part and spent too much time making him out to be a humanitarian in a war.

Typical crap movie, made for moneys sake and not because they wanted to tell a story or because they have a passion for what they do.

So many hate filled post towards the film. It saddens me.

Originally Posted by Lumina

So many hate filled post towards the film. It saddens me.

Proves that most people lack taste.

Originally Posted by Akrotatos

Proves that most people lack taste.

Ya, It's a movie for frap sakes not a documentry. It is better than an average movie, I like it more than the other WWI flying movies primarly because with the CGI work they finally could make the First World War air battles colorful, not a single plane sometimes has the exact same paint job which I thought was brilliant. It's no Home Run like Amazing Grace or Letters From Iwo Jima, but I thought it was quite good but accept it's problems. But then again I'm a person who liked the game Gundam Crossfire, better translated as Gundam CrapFire if you saw the N4G review for it.

Originally Posted by Akrotatos

Proves that most people lack taste.

Wrong. Most people apparently have taste.

Der Rote Baron is a German production filmed in the English language. With an estimated budget of 18 million euros, it remains as one of the most expensive and at the same time lowest-grossing films in German history. It premiered on 31 March 2008 in Berlin and was released a week later in the German theatres. Fewer than 100,000 movie-goers saw the film in the first week, causing the film to miss the Top 3. In the second week it dropped to No. 10. In the third week the film was gone from the top ten.

If we are going by your definition that people who like this film have no taste.

Originally Posted by vizi

If we are going by your definition that people who like this film have no taste.

Wrong, otherwise Transformers or Spider Man wouldn't of become greater hits than films like Amazing Grave or Letters From Iwo Jima. I can't even get anyone in my family to watch either of them.

Either that or I totally confused myself on what everyone is talking about.

Perhaps you do not understand the definition of definition.

Maybe, but your post wasn't really clear on it's meaning. Sounded very negative to me. At least because of the quotations.

I do thing though most people don't have taste, definity in music...

If his definition of people who do not have taste are people that like the movie Red Baron then it follows that most people do have good taste because Red Baron flopped in the box office. Which means nobody went to see the movie.

So we can establish that he was wrong about most people having no taste, because they obviously have taste by not going to see the movie.

Savvy?

But because they didn't go see the movie doesn't prove people have taste. I mean most of the biggest blockbuster movies are sometimes some of the worst movies. Well most of the time the worst movies, atleast most of the movies I'm thinking of right now.

I understand this. Doesn't make a difference.

If we were to have a discussion about objective values and our definition of objective values was: objective values are values that are held by all people across every society, regardless if they consider it valid or care.

During our discussion we can only view objective values under that definition.

The definition I am using is based on Akrotatos claiming most people have no taste. If most people have no taste then how come no one went to see the movie? This means most people do actually have taste. Also considering the movie was slammed by critics...this makes Akrotatos's statement even more incorrect.