As an aviation enthusiast this movie did not scratch my itch. The "ace" did several egregious piloting sins to produce a more visually consumable picture at the expense of realism.
1. Flying low across the channel. There is literally no reason to do this other than to show off the speed of the planes to the audience. Altitude is life insurance and flying low like that is suicide. Right off the bat I knew Nolan was pandering to the masses instead of creating a realistic portrayal of aerial combat.
Are you fucking kidding me? Yes, it was realistic, but the only reason it was in the movie was because some retard just recently made a super popular "engineering" video on the spitfire's "fatal" flaw and Nolan wanted to jerk off everyone who knew this little factoid. In reality all spitfire pilots were well informed about negative g maneuvers and no "ace" would ever get baited into one.
Elijah Ramirez
3. Tailgating a bomber.
Sitting behind a bomber is how you die a very stupid and avoidable death. An "ace" would never tailgate a plane while a machine gun is shooting at him. One bullet in the engine and you're toast. Yet in the movie he sits behind the bomber for a good ten seconds and somehow all the bomber's bullets are deflected as if they were bbs.
4. And worst of all the movie didn't even feature deflection shooting.
I thought Nolan would first show a scene with a rookie pilot shooting directly at a plane and having all his bullets fall short, then later having him learn from his mistake leading his shots on his second pass, scoring a critical hit to give the audience a feel for what it was truly like to be in the cockpit of a spitfire.
Jordan Sanchez
5. And last but not least, he crashed the plane with no survivors.
In reality, a big guy with a master plan would never play right into the CIA's hands like that. Jesus Christ.
Austin White
For all of the reviews claiming this movie was "realistic" and respected the audience's intelligence I was severely disappointed. Nolan didn't even trust us to wrap our tiny brains around basic ballistics.
The "aerial combat" consisted just of "I'm on his six", the pilot pressing a button, and then smoke coming out the enemy plane. When considering you have all these amazing aerial combat maneuvers that could have been showcased: immelmans, vertical scissors, hammerheads, reversals, etc. it is such an absolute shame that Nolan chose to play it safe. The spitfire deserves better.
Overall, I enjoyed the movie, especially the sound, but the aerial combat was seriously lacking. Yes I had high expectations but man, I didn't think it would be that bad.
Tyler Roberts
Can you explain this further? I'm not sure what you are referring to.
Jordan Wood
A negative G maneuver is when you reverse the tachyon fields and induce local anti-gravity. When in fact during the early battles of WWII anti-grav tech hadn't been put into greater service.
But in the end he landed this plane, with all survivors
Michael Carter
Its almost as if movies sacrifice some realism in order to make an enjoyable film. Who would have thought
Robert Carter
I think it's when you turn the plane back and the engine would cut out, am I correct?
Jeremiah Cruz
then why does every fucking review praise the movie for its realism?
Jonathan Stewart
Looks like it.
Blake Baker
>implying Nolan knows these stuff himself just chooses not to show us He is not the guy I would go to for detailed depiction of technique and technology
Colton Russell
You can take the guy's advice and make an even more enjoyable film. Nolan just doesn't care.
Robert Cox
>Sitting behind a bomber is how you die a very stupid and avoidable death
nope
early German bombers were under armed had pretty obvious blind spots (yes you could tailgate at a certain angle behind and avoid fire with early heinkels).
the machine-gun at the tail of the heinkel for instance was actually fixed dummy, they would remote control fire to try and scare off allied fighters even though in reality it was zero threat.
either way the bomber was about to drop charges on the minesweeper so he went balls deep, you're making a mountain out of a molehill here OP
Ethan Parker
who cares what reviewers say.
Levi Jenkins
I hate it when they get the most simple shit wrong
Cameron Hill
>1. Flying low across the channel. There is literally no reason to do this other than to show off the speed of the planes to the audience.
Considering you had low flying kraut bombers looking for isolated targets would this REALLY be impossible to imagine? pretty sure in the first engagement they're at about 2k, how low would a torp/depth charge carrying bomber be sitting? a lot less I would imagine.
I don't claim to be an expert, but it seemed decently realistic to me. certainly light years better than "red tails" or whatever crap the Americans churn out
Thomas Butler
To appease who? the handfull of autists on Sup Forums that complain about this shit
Jose Ramirez
Flying low makes you hard to detect on radar you moron.
Jonathan Gomez
Holy shit, this thread oozes autism.
James Edwards
the planes had no radar back then
Hunter Scott
So fucking what if we want realism. It should be the standard, not something the fans have to beg for each time.
Carter Young
>Tailgating a bomber Even I knew this was stupid, and I'm not an enthusiast. He should have come in from underneath.
Parker Roberts
Auuuuuuuuutism
John Garcia
>t. plays war thunder and thinks hes an expert aviator
Ryder Ortiz
>the only reason it was in the movie was because some retard just recently made a super popular "engineering" video on the spitfire's "fatal" flaw Video seems published late 2016, which probably means the movie was well into production already at that point.
Charles Young
lmao@u fuken nerd
Ryan Long
Realism is fucking shit, pretty much nobody wants realism in their movies. They want what they think is realism, not actual realism. Same games for video games.
Michael Ramirez
What bothered me is that nobody had a moustache. They were very common back then.
Christian Myers
The point was he had no time. It was about to hit the ship.
Asher Walker
shutup nerd
Carter Hill
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Landon Rivera
french kid did
Brayden Fisher
Don't forget the were literally hundreds of planes fighting over Dunkirk, which was littered with hundreds of thousands of tons of abandoned vehicles and equipment and Nolan depicts a single Spitfire blowing up half a scattered squadron over a pristine beach and coastline. It's an absolute insult to the Miracle at Dunkirk.
Jayden Turner
Its concevable that going low makes you harder to spot, but in a dogfight in that era energy (kinetic and potential) was everything.
Going low basically gives you zero potential energy because you cant dive.
Jacob Cook
You know when your on a rollercoaster and you feel your ass lift the seat and your being thrown up into your harness? Thats a negative G manuver.
In aviation, all you have to do is push the yoke forward quickly. Havent seen the movie, but it sounds like OP stated, they put it in because it sounded cool.
Landon Edwards
nothing pissed me off more than none of the pilots leading their targets. WHY THE FUCK DID THEY WAIT FOR A TURNING TARGET TO BE IN THEIR CROSSHAIR BEFORE SHOOTING, SHOOT BEFORE THAT HOLY FUCK IF THEY ARE TURNING AND YOU WAIT UNTIL THEY ARE PARALLEL WITH YOUR GUN TO SHOOT, BY THE TIME THE BULLET TRAVELS IT WILL HAVE MISSED THEM COMPLETELY, THIS HAPPENS LIKE 4 TIMES
Noah Harris
Unlike OPs silly list, this one is an actual gripe. And there HAS to be some reason for it. Especially when the MG fire wasn't even that visible in the film. So why didn't Bane lead? Would normies not get it? And in one shot he's even clearly shooting AFTER the target has already left his reticule...
Sebastian Price
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Michael Diaz
Ah, yes. I too have played war thunder. It's a shame nolan did not hire aviation experts like us to assist in the directing of those scenes.