Red Baron and Crossing the Line (2007)

"The Red Baron (German title: Der Rote Baron) is an upcoming 2008 feature film about legendary fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen."

Trailer

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bJghJNAjc1k& ... ed&search=


.....and "Crossing the Line - Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpTHFVBlm_A&NR=1

Regards,
Che.

 

Der Rote Baron seems to be using a lot of CG, which is allright as long as it doesn't look like a computer game which at least the trailer gives the impression of at times. And his Albatross wasn't all red! Makes it taste a bit like Flyboys, but it did look interesting.

Crossing the Line looked better and more interesting.

But you know, us military history geeks are a hard crowd to please when it comes to movies like these. Thanks for sharing the trailers with us though, I will probably see both movies anyway.

 

Thanks for alerting me to this movie Che... As an WW1-aviation-fan-nutcase it is now top of my movies i am looking forward to list!

And i disagree as to the redness of the aeroplanes They seem to have included a huge variety of German Jasta paint schemes! Already much more realistic than Flyboys where every German plane was a red fokker!

 

I have just seen flyboys and it was very trash, shame really.

FNG

 

red baron

I do hope that 'Snoopy' gets the recognition that he deserves!

 

I want a movie about wwI infantry combat. Sgt. York was a superb movie in my eyes.

 

"All Quiet on the Western Front" should do the trick...

"The Red Baron" looks really cool. Having given up on historical realism in movies, I'm now mostly hoping they make it worth watching.

 

I'm looking forward to see snoopy in action

Red Baron does look great. I wonder when they play it in belgium

 

So far, all they know on IMDb is release dates for Germany and the Czech Republic. Both are early 2008, so maybe we won't have to wait very long...

 

It was allright. Im not sure the germans, especially machine gunners would have been on platforms surrounded by mounds of dirt. Even if they were an artilley bombardment would surely knock them out. Plus, it had a bit of a propaganda feel to it, like almost every other american war movie at the time. It was a good "combat" movie for its time.

All quiet on the western front is good, maybe even Gallipoli(excluding the british officer at the end. seemed like an anti-british gesture), or even the trench, but thats more concerned with trench life

 

If you want a WW1 infantry movie, then I recommend "ANZACs: The War Down Under". It's a truly excellent film.

 

"The Trench" was horrible. It was marketed as "Das Boot above ground" but it lacked some vital elements in the success of "Das Boot", notably tension, claustrophobic scenery, and interesting characters. And even if you didn't think the endless scenes of clean uniformed men sitting around in deceptively quiet and tidy trenches were a poor reflection of the dawn of the Somme offensive, at least you'll have been ticked off by the fact that a neat and unscathed green grassy hillside awaits the soldiers who go over the top.

And the fact that the final scene is an exact copy of the final scene in "Gallipoli".

 

Another WW1 infantry film, or series comes to my mind. Black Adder IV. Well, maybe not that accurate description but still...

 

A very remarkable WW1-Film is "Joyeux Noel /Merry Christmas (Christmas at the Trenches)" of 2005.

Trailer

http://youtube.com/watch?v=F2n1Kkjbxlc& ... ed&search=

this is a nice part of the movie (unfortunately in italian lang., but the song is in german and not to much is talked in this extract)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WhDBAAjhFMc& ... ed&search=

Regards,
Che.

 

Why not, we get to see who killed the red baron, how the war ended in 1917 and who was the "Pigeon Killer of Flanders"

 

an aussie inf corporal on a lewis gun almost without a doubt shot the baron ,the bullet passed through from his lower ribs and out the opposite armpit as he passed over aussie inf lines at very low altitude ..the canadian rfc capt brown who was nearly a quarter mile astern did fire a burst but was merely hopeing to unsettle the barons aim as he was closeing on lt may rfc ..the baron slumped over and his otherwise pristine triplane nosed into the mud and broke to peices where it was swarmed by cobbers with pocket knives and soon dissapeared ..surely some pieces of the red plane must have made it back to oz ..maby sitting in an attic in perth or alice as we speak...though brown was officially given credit (to his chagrin i belive ) ,he always avoided newsmen and backslappers and didnt much like to talk about the famous day. he died a melancholy alcoholic within a few years of the barons death iirc ... btw , who was the pigeion shooter?

 

Edmond Blackadder the IV