So... I saw Red Tails

ellen_fremedon and I went to see Red Tails today. It was about what you'd expect -- gorgeous men in gorgeous planes and full of explosions.

Now I want to see what else the main cast have done. Because Red Tails is a WW2 movie -- you can see the tropes coming a mile away and nothing is a surprise (well, okay the ( Spoiler )

, I'd like to see each of these actors in roles that let them extend their ranges a bit more.

For a war movie about pilots, the air combat was wonderfully easy to follow. I never felt like I didn't know which planes were American and which were German (and considering both sides start the movie sort of greyish and zip across the screen, that's a feat) or what action I was supposed to be seeing. I'm sure a lot of it is due to the fact that George Lucas put a lot of his own money into this film -- there was no way the special effects would be bad.

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But coming out of it, what I really want is for there to be a 10-episode miniseries like Band of Brothers or The Pacific about the Tuskegee Airmen. Using composite characters to get the story down to movie-length doesn't do justice to the real history, and it's not like there isn't a compelling narrative for a miniseries to follow.

I do hope there will be crossover fic -- the military fandom writers should be all over this! Recs if you've got them?