Fly Boys

[Skyros]

Here is an interesting clip of the movie.

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/flyboys.html

[AlvinS]

I am looking forward to this one. Hope ts good.

[Neilster]

It looks like yet another ethnocentric schmalzathon. It's good to see some WW1 aerial action but.

Cheers, Neilster

[Skyros]

What you expected a multicultural approach from Hollywood? I noticed that the Germans all fly Red Fokker Triplanes, they have cloned the Red Barron.

[JudgeDredd]

Looked interesting

[rhondabrwn]

Well it has Jean Reno, one of my favorites.

Should be fun, though these days it is starting to get hard to tell whether you are watching a movie or a video game trailer.

[ravinhood]

I hope it's a video game trailer for a new WWI areoplane game I love WWI flight sims

[sprior]

Lord Flasheart: [about planes] Always treat your kite like you treat your woman.
Lieutenant George: How do you mean, sir? Do you mean, take her home at the week-end to meet your mother?
Lord Flasheart: No! I mean get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back!
Captain Blackadder: I'm beginning to see why the suffragette movement are wanting the vote.
Lord Flasheart: Hey, hey! Any girl who wants to chain herself to my railings and suffer a jet movement gets my vote!




Captain Darling: Excuse me, Sir
Lord Flasheart: Yes, yes, prat at the back.
Captain Darling: I'm sure we'd all like to know... Why are you called the Twenty Minuters?
Lieutenant George: Oh, Mr Thicko, fancy not knowing that!
Lord Flasheart: It's simple! The life expectancy of a new pilot is twenty minutes!
Captain Blackadder: Life *expectancy* of twenty minutes?
Lord Flasheart: That's right! Goggles on, last one back's a homo! Hooray!
Captain Blackadder: So we take off in ten minutes, we're in the air for twenty minutes, so we should be dead by twenty to ten.
Lieutenant George: Hairy blighter, sir, this is a bit of a turn-up for the plus fours.


Sorry - just had to!

[Neilster]

Well, much of this might be lost on our American friends. I'm not sure how Blackadder would go down in the Bible Belt.

Anyhow, later on, when Blackadder and Baldrick have been captured by the Germans....

Scene 10: A German Prison Cell
------------------------------

[BA is pacing about the cell. Baldrick is seated.]

BA: I don't believe it. A German prison cell. For two and a
half years the Western Front has been as likely to move as a
Frenchman who lives next door to a brothel, and last night the
Germans advance a mile and we land on the wrong side.

Baldrick: Ooh, dear, Captain B, my tummy's gone all squirty.

BA: That means you're scared, Baldrick, and you're not the only
one. I couldn't be more petrified if a wild rhinoceros had
just come home from a hard day at the swamp and found me
wearing his pyjamas, smoking his cigars and in bed with his
wife.

Baldrick:I've heard what these Germans will do, Sir. They'll have
their wicked way with anything of woman-born.

BA: Well, in that case, Baldrick, you're quite safe. However,
the Teutonic reputation for brutality is well-founded: their
operas last three or four days; and they have no word
for `fluffy'.

Baldrick: I want my mum!

BA: Yes, it'd be good to see her. I should imagine a maternally-
outraged gorilla could be a useful ally when it comes to the
final scrap.

[Footsteps are heard outside the cell.]

BA: Prepare to die like a man, Baldrick.

[Baldrick stands.]

BA: Or as close as you can come to a man without actually
shaving the palms of your hands.

[The door opens and Oberleutnant von Gerhardt enters.]

von Gerhardt: Good evening. I am Oberleutnant von Gerhardt. I have
a message from the Baron von Richthoven, the greatest living
German.

BA: Which, considering that his competition consists entirely
of very fat men in leather shorts burping to the tune of
`She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain', is no great
achievement.

von Gerhardt: Quiet!

[von Gerhardt slaps Baldrick across the face. Baldrick falls against the
wall.]

BA: And what is your message?

von Gerhardt: It is. Prepare for a fate worse than death, English flying
fellow.

BA: Oh. So, it's the traditional warm German welcome.

von Gerhardt: Correct. Also, he is saying: Do not try to escape or you
will suffer even worse.

BA: A fate worse than a fate worse than death? Sounds pretty bad.

and...

Scene 12: A German Prison Cell
------------------------------

[BA is seated. Baldrick is sitting on the floor. There is a jangling of
keys, the cell door opens and the Red Baron enters.]

von Richthoven: So! I am the Red Baron von Richthoven and you are the two
English flying aces responsible for the spilling of the
precious German blood of many of my finest and my
blondest friends. I have waited many months to do this.

[von Richthoven kisses BA on both cheeks.]

BA: You may have been right, Balders. Looks like we're going
to get rogered to death after all.

Baldrick: Do you want me to go first, Sir?

[von Richthoven laughs.]

von Richthoven: You English and your sense of humour. During your brief
stay I look forward to learning more of your wit, your
punning and your amusing jokes about the breaking of the wind.

BA: Well, Baldrick's the expert there.

Baldrick: I certainly am, Sir.

[von Richthoven laughs.]

von Richthoven: How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing.
For us, it is a mundane and functional item. For you, the
basis of an entire culture.

[Baldrick laughs, von Richthoven slaps him in the face.]

von Richthoven: I must now tell you of the full horror of what awaits you.

BA: Ah, you see, Balders. Dress it up in any amount of pompous
verbal diarrhoea, and the message is `Squareheads down for
the big Boche gang-bang'.

von Richthoven: As an officer and a gentleman, you will be looking forward
to a quick and noble death.

BA: Well, obviously.

von Richthoven: But, instead, an even worse fate awaits you. Tomorrow, you
will be taken back to Germany . . .

BA: Here it comes!

von Richthoven: . . . to a convent school, outside Heidelberg, where you will
spend the rest of the war teaching the young girls home
economics.

BA: Er . . .

von Richthoven: For you, as a man of honour, the humiliation will be
unbearable.

BA: Oh, I think you'll find we're tougher than you imagine.

von Richthoven: Ha! I can tell how much you are suffering by your long
faeces.

BA: We're not suffering too much to say `thank you'. Thank you.
Say `thank you', Baldrick.

Baldrick: Thank you, Baldrick.

Cheers, Neilster

[andym]

You cant beat the Fancy Dress Episode where Bldrick turns up with a Pencil up each nostril
Blackadder
"what are you going as Baldrick?"
 
Baldrick
"A Pencil case My Lord!"
 
 
A classic show,the final episode of Blackadder goes forth was a very poignant ending.

[Neilster]

ORIGINAL: andym

You cant beat the Fancy Dress Episode where Bldrick turns up with a Pencil up each nostril
Blackadder
"what are you going as Baldrick?"

Baldrick
"A Pencil case My Lord!"


A classic show,the final episode of Blackadder goes forth was a very poignant ending.

Yes. I thought so too. The guns stop and Captain Darling ("Hello Darling" [:D]) thinks the Great War of 1914-17 is over. Then they go over the top and get blown away.

So many good memories though. The 1:1 scale map of the ground gained in the last big push...George realizing that he's the last of the leapfrogging tiddlywinkers who joined up in 1914....Blackadder's plan to become an official war artist in Tahiti. [:D]

Cheers, Neilster


Cheers, Neilster

[JudgeDredd]

Brilliant series. Never tire of watching them...along with the classic that is Only Fools and Horses!!

[walkerd]

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[font=arial]I hope it is just bad marketing and it may be an ok movie.  I like Jean Reno so may see it anyway.[/font]

[Tankerace]

BlackAdder: You failed to spot that only two of those are great universities.
 
Melchit: Yes Oxford's a complete dump.
 
BlackAdder: .........quite.
 
 
oh yeah
 
 
Wibble.
 
From the second series:
 
"Percy....it's entirely up to you, but you can either shut up...or have your head cut off."

[Neilster]

ORIGINAL: walkerd

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[X(][font=arial] The worlds first combat pilots![/font]
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[font=arial]I hope it is just bad marketing and it may be an ok movie.  I like Jean Reno so may see it anyway.[/font]

As usual, nobody did anything until the Americans turn up. [8|] The rest of that blurb is complete balderdash as well. Good to see the Hollywood research "experts" in form again.

Cheers, Neilster

[Tankerace]

Melchit: "Didn't you hear, the Americans joined the war yesterday!"
 
BlackAdder: "Yes, but how is that going to help, sir?"
 
Melchitt: "Because, ninny, they've brought the largest collection of Charlie Chaplin films in existence!"

[Tankerace]

ORIGINAL: Neilster

ORIGINAL: walkerd

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[X(][font=arial] The worlds first combat pilots![/font]
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[font=arial]I hope it is just bad marketing and it may be an ok movie.  I like Jean Reno so may see it anyway.[/font]

As usual, nobody did anything until the Americans turn up. [8|] The rest of that blurb is complete balderdash as well. Good to see the Hollywood research "experts" in form again.

Cheers, Neilster

Actually, if pre April 1917, couldn't they be joining the Escadrille Lafayette? That was done before we jumped in in '17.

Personally, I think I'll stick with the Blue Max. I like SE5a's better anyway.

[walkerd]

ORIGINAL: Neilster

As usual, nobody did anything until the Americans turn up. [8|] The rest of that blurb is complete balderdash as well. Good to see the Hollywood research "experts" in form again.

Cheers, Neilster

Well, in their defence until the Americans do get involved it is just a little European afair and not a world war.[;)]

[m10bob]

WWI aviation trivia..

The engines of those planes did not have fuel injection, and tended to cease feeding fuel to the carb in high G turns or during tight maneuvers and loops..This was counter-acted by adding castor oil to the fuel lines.
An unfortunate side effect of this was that the fumes gave the pilot and gunners runny bowels.
Many of the planes of that day had the floor below the cockpit removed to accomodate any "sudden urges" of the natural kind.................[X(]

[rhondabrwn]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

WWI aviation trivia..

The engines of those planes did not have fuel injection, and tended to cease feeding fuel to the carb in high G turns or during tight maneuvers and loops..This was counter-acted by adding castor oil to the fuel lines.
An unfortunate side effect of this was that the fumes gave the pilot and gunners runny bowels.
Many of the planes of that day had the floor below the cockpit removed to accomodate any "sudden urges" of the natural kind.................[X(]

Oh yea, they have to include THAT in the movie. A pilot with loose bowels "sh*t bombs" the enemy lines. [:D][:D][:D]

And, of course, this is the answer to jammed guns or being out of ammo... fly over the Red Baron and cut loose.

I'm not sure I needed to know this bit of trivia! [:D]