LOL A somewhat cruel assessment there Ginger, but I have to admit that there certainly is an element of truth in what you say, even if that is a less forgiving way to look at it.
Bit mean to say the CGI is laughable though, from a technical standpoint it's well done in my opinion (by that I mean the matting of live action with CGI, not necessarily the accurate portrayal of flight characteristics). For example, there is a scene (supposedly Operation Micheal) where an explosion knocks some troops out as the camera pulls out wider to reveal numerous Dr1s flying overhead, and they pass behind the translucent smoke and dirt plume of the explosion.
Now, being that I teach video special effects, I do know how it was done, but I also know the problems involved in doing it, so I tend to watch out for things like that in movies. For me, some of the only CGI effects which are of that ambition in recent times, would be from the last Indiana Jones movie, where the actors progressively get wet whilst there is CGI water flooding the scene, and the fairly recent Tom Cruise movie version of the War of the Worlds, where people run down a street with a camera in front of them as various victims get vapourised. The latter being an excellent example of motion control on live footage with CGI dropped into the cocktail too. Note that both those movies are Spielberg, so I'm comparing the effects with a good understanding of the latest technology and how to use them dramatically, from someone who certainly knows his stuff.
As noted, a lot of movies seem obsessed with imbuing aircraft with supernatural flight characteristics, and there is certainly some of that going on in the CGI in the Red Baron movie too, so it's not all great. Such effects sometimes really spoil a film for no good reason too (the CGI shot of a bunch of UH1-D Hueys flying toward the camera in the Vietnam war movie 'We were soldiers' is a good example of how that can be poor). But being a film fan, I'm usually pleased when movies show that just because vehicles and objects no longer exist, does not mean we could never have movies with them in, and there is plenty of evidence for that possibility in the Red Baron film too. I think that bodes well for the possibilities of other WW1 stuff being possible and indeed convincing.
Al