Just watched this movie and liked it. Not perfect but nice and enjoyable battle action.

Flyboys (2006) Movie Overview ~ Cast and Crew, Box-Office, Trailer, Pictures, Synopsis, Release Date - RopeofSilicon.com

In 1914, "The Great War" - WWI - began in Europe. By 1917, the Allied powers of France, England, Italy and others were on the ropes against the German juggernaut. While millions of young men were dying overseas, arguing that the freedom of others was none of its business, America chose...at first...not to fight.
Some altruistic young Americans disagreed. They volunteered to fight alongside their counterparts in France; some in the infantry, some in the Ambulance Corps. A handful of others had a different idea: they decided to learn how to fly. The first of them - a squadron of only 38 - became known as the Lafayette Escadrille. In time, America joined their cause. The Escadrille pilots became legendary. Flyboys is inspired by their story.

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Yes, I liked it too. I would not want to be the gunner located ontop the zeppelin.

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American by birth, TEXAN by the grace of GOD!

hi guys

..still haven't gotten around to seeing this film ...for those of us in the UK the full size replica aircraft constructed for the film (Nieuport, Dr. 1, Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter, Gotha forward fuselage) are all on display at the RAF Manston History Museum down here in deepest Kent - having just come from there I can tell you this is well worth a visit because they look fantastic..!! ..especially the red Tripe of course and the Gotha...I understand that some of the film was shot at RAF Halton and the production team was about to send all the props up in smoke after filming when they got a request from the Museum...

I have to question the last scenes with the main character popping the evil German hund killer with a 6-gun

interesting graphics though the rounds wiping through the air followed by streams of smoke was a little corny

I've only seen the first half of the movie and thought it was very well made. Someday, im looking forward to seeing the other half ;-)

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

like I said the closing scene(s) though it had to make it as a finality completely made the film disfunctional

ach du maybe I am just to critical

I was actually expecting much less of the movie... And was quite surprised at how much I enjoyed it.....


Not a bad movie at all!

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

I found the romance got in the way.

I wish I saw some really good world war I movies. I think they should make one of them these days about the first tanks

speaking of which.. the Germans seemed to have, in my eyes too many British tanks in that movie

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Time is only enemy you'll never get rid of.

Hawkerace, if you haven't seen lost battalion, that's a great WWI movie!

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Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it- Sun Tzu

Some great WWI movies that I know are released on DvD. Besides The Lost Battalion, here are a few for you to ponder about--all if which are geat on their own accounts:

Both versions of: All's Quiet on the Western Front.

Biggles, Sergeant York, The Fighting 69th, Hell's Angels, Dawn Patrol and I think Lafayette Escadrille was released but not 100% sure?

A few i'd love to see released:

Anzacs: The War Down Under w/ Paul Hogan. This one has the usage of tanks.

The Lighthorsemen - Usage of Australian Cavalry.

I thought that Gallipoli sucked prune pits, as well as Breaker Morant.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

I saw the movie before I'd read anything about the squadron and was a bit thrown off by the "pet" lion. Albeit, according to what I've read since, it was only one of two lions that the Escadrille had. Whiskey was the first and Soda was the second. Osprey Publishing has an Aviation Elite Units book titled SPA124 Lafayette Escadrille that's pretty entertaining.

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