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Mar
09
2008

Fly With THE RED BARON!

Posted by Todd Brown at 5:31pm.

Posted in Trailer Alerts , Drama, Action, Continental Europe & Russia.

What a difference a shift in perspective can make.  Through Canadian eyes it is more than a little strange to see a bio-pic about the life and flying adventures of the Red Baron - German flying ace and a true legend who flew against the Allies - labeled as being an inspirational story but hey, all’s fair in love and war, right?  And this is definitely a war story made by people in love with their subject.  A major German blockbuster due for release there in April, The Red Baron very clearly has its eyes set on the international market, so much so that the film plays with a significant amount of English dialog, enough at least for them to cut a fully English trailer.  But whatever language its in and whatever perspective it casts on the events it portrays the basic reality is that people are going to come to this film for one main reason:  the aerial dogfights.  And they look absolutely incredible.  The action sequences are handled with a blend of CG and practical effects and they are jaw dropping.  Good god, i hope this gets on to the big screen here because there’s no way DVD will do these visuals justice ...

Check the English trailer below the break in the Twitch Player.

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Reader Comments

  1. pdli_5 03/09/2008 @ 6:19pm

    Whew! That does look amazing! And with a seemingly solid story to boot.

    Big screen for sure.

  2. Benni Diez 03/09/2008 @ 6:44pm

    Dammit, now I regret that I didn’t apply for a VFX job on this one. They had their VFX department just a few miles away. And this stuff looks so much better than I expected when they were talking about the project two years ago.
    If the film turns out to be as good as the trailer, then I really hope this sets an example for German cinema.

  3. Novastar 03/09/2008 @ 8:04pm

    I hope that German cinema doesn’t follow the vfx way like hollywood did or else the story will come in second.By the way Cinema 4D is German isn’t it?So why don’t they have more vfx movies?Or do they all cross to the other side...direction Hollywood?

  4. Benni Diez 03/09/2008 @ 9:34pm

    Well there’s been some nice VFX stuff in TV movies recently. Don’t know what’s Cinema’s problem over here. I’m crossing:)

  5. Momo the Cow 03/10/2008 @ 12:28am

    “Our task is to bring down aeroplanes, not men. We are sportsmen, not butchers.”
    Those may be the most unlikely words from an actual military figure I’ll ever not hear.

    Sharp-looking movie though.

  6. DiVeRsItYofChEaSe 03/10/2008 @ 12:53am

    sad, germany has so many better films to offer..this looks like the usual hollywood crap

  7. Kurt Halfyard 03/10/2008 @ 10:16am

    Lena Headey = awesome.  I love to watch this actress work.

  8. Todd Brown 03/10/2008 @ 10:47am

    Diversity:  Give us some examples, man!  We’re always on the prowl for the good stuff ...

  9. DiVeRsItYofChEaSe 03/11/2008 @ 3:13am

    I just wanted to say that normal german films dont look like “the red baron”. To me it seems that this movie is just trying to imitate Hollywood. At the moment there arent any good german movies which would fit for twitchfilms (I think twitch focuses quite a lot on horror,fantasy and action). Actually most of the german films wont make it on twitchfilms because they are too serious. (and have not action, fantasy or horror)
    But check out the short film “Akumi”. Its a good german (student) film. Since it is a black/white zombie film it fits perfectly for twitchfilms. Have a look here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yhl96KVdAQ

  10. Ard Vijn 03/11/2008 @ 3:56am

    DiVeRsItYofChEaSe, please remember we do a lot of coverage on mainstream drama as well, not just genre. Last year we dedicated multiple articles on “Das Leben des Anderen”, because it was a good movie which didn’t seem to get a wide release in the States.

    Well, we can’t accurately predict all the Oscars, but that’s besides the point. What is the point? The point is: we’re looking for, as todd calls it, “The Good Stuff”, meaning any good movies we might miss out on because they won’t be generally released in the big cinemas. One of the reasons we have so much ‘genre’ at this site is because the same thing that happens to great non-English movies also happens to genre movies: they get overlooked (or rather: underseen).

    Twitch is meant to be a site where the reader can find the movies they won’t read about in general media.
    So what may be mainstream for you might be the most coveted treasure for us!

  11. DiVeRsItYofChEaSe 03/11/2008 @ 4:00am

    ok, i get the idea...but i still dont like the red baron ^^

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