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The movie Howard Hughes WANTED to make
I'm not too sure what some of these reviewers are talking about or what movie they saw, but it sure wasn't the FLYBOYS movie that I saw. TOP GUN rip off with extended volleyball scenes? What? American men vacationing in France? For the record. I didn't see one volleyball in the film. In fact, I didn't see one guy without his shirt or a shower scene. Don't listen to bogus reviews. Please, don't listen to these comments, because you will be missing a marvelous, sharp, beautiful and BASED ON A TRUE STORY World War I picture that blew me away. <
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>The extent that the filmmakers went to make this a realistic, poigniant and time capturing homage to the FLYBOYS of World War I who went over to France BEFORE America joined the war, is stunning. After watching this film, I couldn't believe that this film hasn't received more accolades. <
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>It's a little one dimensional, but that was the way life was for the pilots of World War I who were volunteering to fly war planes only years after the plane was even invented. They arrived in France, they trained for three weeks and they were flying missions that had claimed thousands of lives and had a less than 5% return rate. <
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>In between missions, their lives were dull and simple. Parked in the middle of a French country side, they would frequent a single pub and drink to the men who didn't return that day. <
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>FLYBOYS is based on real stories from journals of the real men the movie portrays. The lives they left behind to become pilot gods. The loves they lost and left behind. The people they met and the amazing world changing missions they embarked on. <
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>James Franco plays Blaine Rawlings, a young man who was about to lose his ranch and be arrested, motivating him to enter World War I as a fighter pilot before the American government joined the fight. He meets a beautiful french women named Lucienne (newcomer Jennifer Decker) who speaks little english, but their bond is realistic and beauiful portrayed. <
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>The most breathtaking part of FLYBOYS is the battle scenes themselves. The planes circle and dart between the clouds, streaming their clouds of bullets across the sky. The rudementry targeting system and the flaws in their guns. Everything is captured. <
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>Bottom line. FLYBOYS is breath-taking. A wonderful film and exactly the kind of movie that Howard Hughes wanted to make. Today's technology allows it to happen in glorious fashion.

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The Second Worst Movie I've Ever Seen
If you think Armageddon and Pearl Harbor are good cinema, you'll love Flyboys. <
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>According to this film, flying in WWI was nothing more than a long vacation in rural France, where you got to live in a chateau, drink brandy for breakfast, and sleep with buxom brunettes. (Oh, but you didn't get to smoke. Apparently no one was allowed cigarettes in France during the first world war.) Your uniform was always clean and pressed, and all you had to do to earn your wings was sit around in a hangar and spout off sophomoric one-liners. <
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>Here, let me save you a few bucks: just take the shower and volleyball scenes from Top Gun, stretch them out a bit and set them in 1916 France, and you'll pretty much have Flyboys. <
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>But the dogfight scenes are cool, right? No. If you want to see brilliant aviators handle WWI-era planes, go buy "The Great Waldo Pepper," the outstanding film starring Robert Redford. If you want to watch a multi-million dollar video game, depicting fabric airplanes with 80 horsepower engines performing extended vertical climbs, then see Flyboys. <
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>The only redeeming scenes in this film are those in which a few of these snot-nosed little brats get shot of of the sky. Too bad they don't all die. Seems like that's the only way to shut them up.

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Very good, trust me
I was expecting Flyboys to tank. And it didnt. The movie could have had some help at the box office if it had a different name (Flyboys sounds dumb to me) and more advertising leading up to its release. When viewing the movie you cant find fault with the acting. Everyone does a good job. The plot and writing arent perfect but get the point across. The bond between the men as they battle together works well. The romance though is the key here for me. We have two people that speak different languages and they fall in love. Its the heart of the movie in my opinion. The action is great, though I could argue that the dogfighting is too short. You just get the blood pumping and that particular fight ends too soon. The battles could have been longer but they are well executed. Very good movie!!!