..Blueskies. wrote:

"Dan Luke" wrote in message ...
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: "Ross" wrote:
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: In the case of _Flyboys_, a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 29% means it's a
: "wait for the DVD" deal for me.
:
: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/flyboys/
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:
: I have seen movies that the "critics" raved about only to be really
: disappointed. Critics do what they are supposed to do - nit pick films. Go
: see the movie and enjoy. This months AOPA pilot has a nice write up about
: the movie.
:
: A Rotten Tomatoes score below 35% guarantees a poor movie, in my experience.
: That goes back years before I'd ever heard of the site. A critic or two may
: be off base, but a large negative score from many critics is an ominous,
: reliable sign.
:
: The trailers for Flyboys remind me a lot of Pearl Harbor, a wretchedly
: written piece of Hollywood tripe full of Pretty People doing and saying
: silly things. I'll pass until it shows up on satellite TV.
:
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: Dan
: C172RG at BFM
:
:

You are going to miss a good movie on the big screen. It looks like the rotten tomatoes review thinks that a war movie
has to be all guts and gore. I too thought it would be a 'Pearl Harbor' chick fliq, but it is not. Bob Hoover got up
during the premier at Oshkosh and said it was one of the best war movies he had seen...and I agree...


I agree. If a movie produces an emotion in me then it has merit. I have
sat though movies that I just sat there. My wife usually does not like
these type of movies (when a movie is bad her legs start jumping and
moving like she is ready to go) and she stayed still during the movie.

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Regards,

Ross
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