I was watching it again for the first time since it came out and I forgot how really BAD this movie is. It is so full of technical and historical errors that it is really sad. Some people are going to say oh it is just a movie, well if you are going to make a movie at least try and get it right. Films like Tora Tora Tora and The Blue Max did an excellent job on trying to be accurate.
Here is a small list of some of the major the problems with this movie.
1.) Why are Navy Nurses giving Army Air Corp pilots their medical exams?
2.) Now lets look at what is wrong with that little game of chicken they played over the airfield with the hordes of Zeros on their tail. For this to work they would have had to fly straight and level for way to long and the pilots of the Zeros would have splashed them both. Even overlooking that fact, if a pursuing fighter is trying to maintain a guns-tracking index on his target which then goes into a sudden hard turn, the pursuing fighter will instinctively try to stay inside the target's turn. The pursuer will do this automatically and reflexively by either by pulling a tighter pure-pursuit turn to maintain the tracking index, or by pulling upward in a high yo-yo or quarter-plane maneuver for more turning room, therefore missing another fighter doing a symmetrical move from the opposite direction.
3.) All the Bladwins should be banned from making films. Alec's portral of Jimmy Doolittle was nothing short of slanderous. He(Jimmy Doolittle) was not this "I am a bad ass pilot". He was one of the most down to earth guy's of the war. He was never in operational command of a fighter squadron in 41 he was stationed at the Air Force headquarters. His command of the raid was only temporary.
4.) How are two P-40 pilots going to be picked to fly a plane they are not trained to fly? Did the Army Air Corp finally find out about his dyslekia?
5.) How did "Red" get his wings? Last time I check a person that stuttered would have been washed out even before pilot training.
I could go on but this is just making more and more angry that people will actually believe this is the way it happened. Thanks to Jerry Buckhimer(sp) for making such quality film.
Here is a small list of some of the major the problems with this movie.
1.) Why are Navy Nurses giving Army Air Corp pilots their medical exams?
2.) Now lets look at what is wrong with that little game of chicken they played over the airfield with the hordes of Zeros on their tail. For this to work they would have had to fly straight and level for way to long and the pilots of the Zeros would have splashed them both. Even overlooking that fact, if a pursuing fighter is trying to maintain a guns-tracking index on his target which then goes into a sudden hard turn, the pursuing fighter will instinctively try to stay inside the target's turn. The pursuer will do this automatically and reflexively by either by pulling a tighter pure-pursuit turn to maintain the tracking index, or by pulling upward in a high yo-yo or quarter-plane maneuver for more turning room, therefore missing another fighter doing a symmetrical move from the opposite direction.
3.) All the Bladwins should be banned from making films. Alec's portral of Jimmy Doolittle was nothing short of slanderous. He(Jimmy Doolittle) was not this "I am a bad ass pilot". He was one of the most down to earth guy's of the war. He was never in operational command of a fighter squadron in 41 he was stationed at the Air Force headquarters. His command of the raid was only temporary.
4.) How are two P-40 pilots going to be picked to fly a plane they are not trained to fly? Did the Army Air Corp finally find out about his dyslekia?
5.) How did "Red" get his wings? Last time I check a person that stuttered would have been washed out even before pilot training.
I could go on but this is just making more and more angry that people will actually believe this is the way it happened. Thanks to Jerry Buckhimer(sp) for making such quality film.
). Bruckheimer is known for his blow 'em up special effects and explosions and that's what I got along with some lovey dovey stuff that I didn't mind too much.
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