It’s a shame this was a flaming bag of shit; we need more WW II air movies, “The Battle of Britain” (1968) just isn’t cutting it anymore.
Cody
George Lucas go home!
you ruined star wars! is your movie, but there is a boundary between the new and stupid.
and used the african-American argument, to try to sell another bad movie! is not aboutracism, there are many movies with black people, great movies, but you used yourcamera A and B again, wasting the cast, and promoting other movie video game action!
please retire!
Guestman
Too many “like” in the reviews. It’s like the review is like loaded with that sort-of like f-word and like not the good f-word and I mean like….
Deimos
A great excuse for Lucas. By picking a movie that included black characters he could defend its merits by a supposed faceless racist. Meanwhile he didn’t give a shit about the typical anti-German propaganda image that was displayed. Just as it was stated it was also racist for white people, in that the fighter escorts were carelessly egocentric. Battle of Britain was a kickass historical aviation film. The action scenes felt like in many ways as if it was scripted by a child.
“Wow that jet is fast, i better go pick up some altitude so i can keep up as i later go into a dive”
Meanwhile the Me-262 action is paused while the P-51 pilots gain whatever advantage they seek.
George Lucas does have a extremely big ego, but I trust him enough that he is telling the truth about the racism in hollywood, and honestly the progession of uniting minorities with a whole movie that isn’t stereotype on the regular basis is very unlikely, but honestly we shouldn’t blame 100% on hollywood, but that minority directors should be held accountable too.. think of all the black movies made by spike lee, most of them is no different then what hollywood do all the time, he’s hypocrite, sure he can say that’s it’s to promote blacks, but honestly he’s just a big headed ego man who uses race to a coat to cling on to his power. it’s not just him but tyler perry too..if BOTH majorities and minorites can QUIT sticking to there own power/race cause of grudges their great grandfathers have been through, then maybe will have more unified races on regular bases, meaning no obvious evil germans, or black gangster always dying first etc. you wanna know why most people respect will smith, morgan freeman, and denzel washington is because they don’t mind unifying with whites, there not selfish like spike lee who PRETENDS it’s for a good cause of his race, when really all he is doing is holding them back, why can’t spike lee ever make movies with full whites and few blacks? it’s things like these that bring people to enjoy movies and it become a normal phase,but till black directors actually invest in REAL movies where it’s more mainstream meaning that whites don’t have to be the badguy and it won’t be obviously a black movie, then hollywood and future of american movies will change to a more diverse movie.. maybe then blacks in movies won’t be known as “that black guy”
DavidHilbert
Huh?
EthnicallyOffended
And what’s the deal with airplane food? It doesn’t even taste like airplanes.
JohnWaynman
Unless a movie makes objective claims about what it contains and what it doesn’t, and then turns out to have been lying about it, you technically can’t cry “foul” or “scam” no matter how bad it is.
All you can do is criticize… just like you’d criticize a Shakespeare in the Park performance. Because, ultimately, you pay to see the movie, and any movie you see can turn out to be bad, or not meet your tastes. There’s normally reading reviews and stuff like that, to reduce the probability of that happening.
No, not believing the promoters or fucking Oprah, but some reviews that are usually more reiliable.
Steve
Here’s an idea. STOP. PEDDLING. DRUGS.
Helvetica36
I think it’s a little bit more complicated than that…
OpenMaw
Not really.
Steve
You notice how you got two mark downs? Yeah, that’s because people are hard-wired with political correctness. Nobody wants to talk about the racism against whites that is RAMPANT in the media, Hollywood, and culture in general. As a comedian pointed out, it’s OKAY to call whites “white trash” for example, but we can’t even be calm or rational when even discussing the historical usage of the word “nigger” for it is so offensive and so politically incorrect it damn near causes a riot. Racism, in terms of laws that are racist, has been by and large abolished. I wish people would understand that. you’re never going to eliminate all racism. There will always be bigots and ignorant fools out there.
kylez
i agree with almost everything you say, but i think you hold back with the “by and large” qualifier. laws that are racist (and that means intentionally, not just having more negative consequences on minorities, like many liberal policies do) have been completely abolished for half a century now. or can you think of any that fit into that small exception category? (if perhaps you didn’t just mean in the u.s. i’m sure there are plenty throughout the world.)
Steve
Here in the U.S. I think that it’s more of a political thing than a legal thing now. There are many corporations that have these very strange rules about hiring based on ethnicity. I’ve had personal experience, and members of my family have had personal experience, wherein a corporation will pass over certain ethnic groups if they need to fill in some kind of a quota for “diversity” never mind that the qualifications of the person who was hired were grossly under the person they passed over. It’s ridiculous… But that’s the politically correct racism.
Fah Q
That’s called “Affirmative Action”.
Shane Ainsworth
Here’s a mildly interesting coincidence…. I was perusing the Red Tails IMDb page and apparently the editor of it (Ben Burt) made a documentary short about the movie Glory back in 1991.
Jakoporeeno
Spike lee is racist
Grand Sorcerer
Wow, if I didn’t despise George Lucas enough already….
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fuck these verison ads jeeeeesus
proghead777
I remember when I first went to see The Fellowship of the Ring in the theater. It was opening day, so December 19, 2001. There were A LOT of black people there and they did not seem to notice or care that the cast was 100% white (with the exception of some of the actors who played Uruk Hai warriors who were Maori, though given the make-up, no one could have known that). I know for a fact that the group sitting in front of me, all black, loved the SHIT out of that movie. Racism is alive and well in America. No reasonably astute person disputes that. But it’s also not 1945 anymore. Things have changed. We (white and black Americans) are not so far apart these days as we once were.
DanceK
“It looks like a big movie, it looks professional, it has movie stars in it…”
Oh it does? Well, then, can MUST be a good movie!
zero_miles_per_hour
Glory is a movie about nice blacks being oppressed by evil whites, and then rescued by nice whites. Hollywood’s made a ton of movies like this, and unironically claimed them as anti-racism films, which is messed up if you think about it. It’s basically saying that racism is okay against blacks that aren’t nice, and that only white people can fight racism. I wonder what would happen if you applied a black version of the Bechdel test, checking how often you see black people talking to black people about something other than white people in modern Hollywood films, because I suspect this is the kind of thing George Lucas was referring to in those interviews.
Steve
Did we watch the same movie? Glory features Denzel Washington, and Morgan Freeman, and several of the other supporting black characters discussing issues of racism, freedom, independence and ignorance, not to mention taking on the responsibilities and the pride and respect of their duties.
OpenMaw
Peddling ideas about racism that no longer apply is just as bad.
Åpex
Not only had the movie already been done, it had been done by the same actor, and better.
Gary McLean
I thought this movie was really simplistic and dumb. Too bad, because the real story it’s based on is quite compelling.
Starone
Funny how so little of this long post actually talked about the movie and instead complained about what you perceive as wrong black people. Racism still exists, and like it or not, a group that has historically been the victims of racism will be very sensitive to it, or the claims of it, whether it’s justified or not, whether said people themselves have experienced it or not. And I don’t like how you stereotype black people as a whole as sheep that will rally behind anything without any thought or reason as soon as accusations of racism come up. Not all black people are like that. Also, never start a comment with “I’m not racist, but….”, it never makes you look any less racist.
hal 9000
Ok insanity troll. I’ll bite. What are you talking about? Millions die because of free and unrestricted economies as opposed to planned economies. Explain looney toon.
The holocaust was made possible because of an American adding machine company that developed modern computing for use in fire control on battleships in response to the inevitable war in Europe. I don’t know what IG-Farben is or was but I’m guessing you don’t either.
Bill
I’ve got a few thoughts about Glory.
The movie portrays them accurately with white officers. Black people were being integrated into an all white Northern Army. If they had been portrayed otherwise it would have been a lie and a terrible disservice to black people.
Morgan Freeman rises to the rank of Sergeant Major through the course of the movie. If you know anything about military history you’ll know that Sergeant Major is a big deal. He’s the top dog; as high as an enlisted man can rise. Morgan Freeman’s character does this on merit. In a white Army. That’s cool and inspiring.
The black unit volunteers to be the vanguard in an insane daytime forward assault over an occupied beach. They weren’t chosen because they were black for this dangerous duty. This was considered an honor which they volunteered for and were selected over other units that also wanted to lead the assault. They were chosen for merit, fought like wildcats, died next to white brothers in arms, and the assault still failed.
Sucks that they couldn’t win WWII and bomb Berlin but that’s how war goes and so goes real life. They weren’t given anything but earned their place in the line of battle. They contributed in their part in a war that was ultimately a victory. Its based in reality and showcases realistic expectations of what can be achieved. Glory is the best “black” war movie around.
adaMAntiumSpoon
Who would want to watch a “shorter version”?
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Agreed. I watch lots of RLM shows on Youtube, since my Android Tablet can’t handle the Blip versions, for some reason. I hate the idea of missing any of the runtime of the originals, though.
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Except Xenogears was an awesome game about gnosticism, Freudian psychology and giant robots, and Red Tails was about… well, this movie had more nothing in it than Zaat.
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