So, the fact that it’s based on a true story is meaningless?
What I’m really saying is that whoever put together that trailer really failed at his job because the trailer definitely made me NOT want to see the movie.
That’s the bottomline. I don’t like to support Hollywood and that trailer gave me no reason to change my mind.
Yes. I don’t need to be brow beaten with this theme, it was real and it’s been done to death.
Based on would be fine. He has a compelling story. And in a sane time it would be a good film. I read the book when it came out and thought it would be a great movie. First black navy pilot probably did have a few problems here and there. He had to be a cut above to be the first one selected. The centerpiece of the film was that he was down on the ground after being hit by ground fire, trapped in his plane. His white squadron mate crash landed his corsair in the same field so he could help him. There was a 24 hour effort to try to free him from the cockpit and rescue him, with helicopters going back-and-forth to the remote snowy North Korean mountain meadow.
The story could and should have been an inspiring tale of a white and black working together, and of a white pilot who belly landed his plane to aid a black squadron mate and that communist Chinese were the enemy. And that those two men were fellow Americans first.
But in this woke era. But CGI and grievance fanning is more important.
And if they turned it into a MiG15 dogfight they blew it.
It's one thing to base a movie on a true story, but it's another to embellish the facts in order to push an agenda........