Flyboys

jumpinjan · 17 January 2007, 02:28 PM

This makes me furious. Who are these morons? What do they know? This actually is the first movie that was worth anything to go see in the last 6-7 years for me. Hollywood is putting out a load of crap, and they are wondering why attendance is down? Geez, give me a break.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ys&btnG=Search

The worst movies of 2006, with the worst listed first:

1. Running With Scissors

2. The Hills Have Eyes

3. RV

4. Fur

5. Just My Luck

6. Unaccompanied Minors

7. The Shaggy Dog

8. The Guardian

9. Flyboys

10. How to Eat Fried Worms

17 January 2007, 03:14 PM

They might have said " Revenge of The Red Baron " with Mickey Rooney was a W.W. I classic.

Jim

Sandy Spigot-Colon · 18 January 2007, 05:30 AM

I thought it was lucky to get away as lightly as it did.

StephenLawson · 18 January 2007, 07:21 AM

Critics usually know nothing about what is good or bad. It is all a matter of taste.

Sandy Spigot-Colon · 18 January 2007, 08:21 AM

Well I'm not a film critic but nobody could say it was a good film.

18 January 2007, 08:51 AM

Flyboys was total failure, check the box office. Maybe germans will make a "real" air war movie

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=flyboys.htm

Digital-Audiophile · 18 January 2007, 11:11 AM

I trust they will make up their loss in DVD sales. I know I'll be buying it the day it comes out.

jonightflyer · 18 January 2007, 02:39 PM

Me too! and I haven't even seen it.

buzz1941 · 18 January 2007, 03:01 PM

Well, I AM a film critic, and have been doing it for something like three decades. You'll find that many "critics" sound off on a film not for what it is, but rather for what they perceive as its omissions. "Flyboys" seems to be exactly the movie its makers set out to create — a simple, semi-accurate and adventuresome account of the early days of air combat — and the only question is, did they succeed in their mission? I think, for the most part, they did.
I think the filmmakers' biggest mistakes were in marketing, not in the film itself.
It's interesting that such loathing for this film is stirred up in folks like Sandy. They're almost religious in their zealousness to destroy and discredit it. I don't know if that's because "Flyboys" didn't meet their high expectations or because they simply hate everything made for the average citizen-audience.
Variety's list of film "flops" is based on the ratio of earnings compared to cost, and has nothing to do with the perceived quality of the film. "Flyboys" is in the company of "A Good Year," "All the King's Men," "Lady in the Water," "Freedomland," "The Fountain" and other interesting films. Clint Eastwood's very acclaimed "Flags of Our Fathers" barely missed making the flops list.
Of the top-ten grossing films of 2006, four were animations and only two were non-comedies. In terms of dollars in vs. dollars out, the most "successful" film of 2006 was "Jackass II."

baldeagle · 18 January 2007, 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sandy Spigot-Colon

Well I'm not a film critic but nobody could say it was a good film.

And all these years I've been laboring under the illusion that everybody was entitled to their opinion, and now I find out that Andy speaks facts and everybody who disagrees is simply wrong....