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The movie strays a little bit from fact (bomber crews never knew the Red Tail pilots were black, except for one crew that crash landed outside a Red Tail base), but other than that -- great movie!
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Everyone has a favorite movie that everyone else hates. This is mine. I read the book; and if you were a 14 year old boy in the second half of the 20th century, it would be the most awesome sci-fi book ever, because it fits the 14-year-old's fantasy of high tech armies fighting monsters. I like monster movies, and I know they tend to be very cheesy -- this movie is no exception.
Mamoru Oshii's legendary anime film returns in a stunning new edition remastered by Oshii himself. All the original animations are reproduced with the latest digital film and animation technologies, including 3D-CGI. Set in a re-imagined Hong Kong.
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There is only one tiny problem: there is a stanza of poetry (taken from Walt Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric") that appears at the beginning. It's written in Japanese, and the translation only appears on the screen if you're watching the movie in the original Japanese.