The Red Baron

[Ricardo Reis]

Originally Posted by await

A tip for TSHARK 203: I purchased my PAL DVD player from GLVC template. It's a converted Coby DVD player. Never heard of the brand, but it works just fine. The price is $99 + $11 shipping/handling.

If you do get a computer with a DVD player you can also consider what I've done. My computer is set to play PAL videos. One can only change the region 4 times, but that's alright. I purchased an external DVD drive which I use for our NTSC DVDs. Plugs right into a USB port.

If it's any consolation, you may find some further use for your investment, even if you don't normally order German films. For instance, I recently purchased "1984" (based on the Orwell novel) for about $25 on PAL DVD because it's out of print on NTSC. I saw NTSC copies going for as high as $175.

if you use Linux you don't need to worry about "DVD Zones"

[tcrean7828]

Mates,
Just received my copy of "the Red Baron" DVD in German and watched it last night. IMHO the movie was not bad at all, infact it was pretty good.
Good points: lots of different German aircraft and different colors, not all red as in "Flyboys" and when they did have a dogfight scene, looked very good espically the near misses and the fly through's, observational point of view from above, they even got the cigarette pack color correct- for once, close ups of the a/c on the ground, and in the air, etc.

Other points that could have been looked at by others: MvR would never leave his rifle behind when hunting - no matter what, even at a tender age; They seemed to want to compress his lifetime with little snippits of this and those moments - jumping from one airfield to another to another; the romance could have been a whole loooooot sssshhhhhoooorrrrtttteeerrrrr; no real ending except to fade to black with MvR in the cockpit of his A/C looking at the girl; Voss' Albatros not even close except for the hearts and not even those were correct, Nothing on Wolff or Voss' demise other than a remark that they are gone; shooting down a balloon with a flare gun???? Don't know about that one.

The minor errors that you pick out, but overall would watch it again, and again .... and again.

The deleted/edited parts of the movie are all in English. I think there were about 6.

Anyhoo - good for the collection.

ttfn

tcrean7828

tom

[Willi Von Klugerman]

Actually tcrean7828,flares were used to destroy balloons.Heinrich Gottermann downed a few drachens that way,it was his favorite methode.

[tcrean7828]

Originally Posted by Willi Von Klugerman

Actually tcrean7828,flares were used to destroy balloons.Heinrich Gottermann downed a few drachens that way,it was his favorite methode.

Mate,
Thanks for the info, I seem to learn something new every day from this site.

ttfn

tcrean7828

tom

[TOMS]

Hello all,

I just watched the DVD this week end and even if I understood only a few words, I can't see what is wrong with it.
Anyway, are english subtitles available somewhere for this movie?

Laurent.

[tcrean7828]

Originally Posted by TOMS

Hello all,

I just watched the DVD this week end and even if I understood only a few words, I can't see what is wrong with it.
Anyway, are english subtitles available somewhere for this movie?

Laurent.

Mate,
Not that I can find.

ttfn

tcrean7828

tom

[Willi Von Klugerman]

Well The Red Baron has to be released in DVD in the Americas some point in time!The question is,WHEN!!!

[Laserlloyd]

I still can't find a torrent for it so it maybe a while before the English subtitle hits and who knows about the English languish version.

Lloyd...

[stoney]

So what is a torrent?

[Laserlloyd]

stoney:

They are my best kept secret but not if you look for it on the net. You have to find out for yourself as I don't want to promote it but it's a way you can download movies before that come out.

As the words of Sargent Schultz, "I knowwww... nothing!"