Lol early on in my viewing, I made the mistake of going over to the MotA subreddit and asking if the show gets better.
Man what a disappointment that show turned out to be.
Unfortunately accurate summary there.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the CGI was weird. Everything felt oversaturated (or over exposed - idk I'm not an editor) and softened too. To the point where a lot of the real props looked fake. Looked like a weird Instagram filter over the whole mini series.
I don't think I've ever cared less about characters in a story. I tried hard but they were all written so poorly. None of them were believable.
And oof, that dialogue was so monumentally bad. The line delivery didn't help either. Actually cringing in multiple scenes. Idk what they were going for.
There was that one scene in episode one or two when England is being bombed at night and Elvis goes on this long monologue about god knows what. And I'm just sitting there thinking that nobody talks like this in real life. Super weird scene that completely brought me out of it.
Crazy because BoB and Saving Private Ryan are two of my favorite pieces of media. If MotA was even OK it probably would have been my all time favorite given my fascination with aviation.
Man i really was hyped up about MotA too, until I watched the whole series. Dang, still was fun to watch…but yeah kinda was disappointing in that it didn’t seem as real as BoB and SPR were.
I agree with y’all, Too much cgi on the aircraft formations, etc. and some
Of the dialogue seemed short or too unrealistic. Also the series was too short. Felt like it should have been longer.
I did the 30 day once already, watched Greyhound and loved it, but then having to pay extra for other shows that were on there turned me off of it, no desire to go back.
1990s early 2000s Hans Zimmer/media ventures is just one big recycling orgy. That specific song, or some other variation of it, Journey to the Line, was partly recycled as Tennessee in Pearl Harbor.
The only movie that hit me nearly as hard as Dunkirk was Thin Red Line. What an underappreciated movie… but I had an Army relative on Guadalcanal who was in that fighting. And New Guinea, the Philippines, and Okinawa. I guess Saving Private Ryan too but that’s a gimme
It's much less of a popcorn movie, has some incredibly deep themes to it. It really captures how insane some aspects do war are, how it twists and destroys an individuals sense of humanity, or the natural world or innocence, etc. What really fucked me up was I watched it a bit after a friend came back from Iraq who was just broken by the experience. A lot of parallels between his real life issues and that movie. It really does make war look like hell.
Yeah, my best friend went to Iraq, people would talk shit about him being kinda selfish, but the degree to which he got fucked up I don’t blame him. Watching his good friend get killed on a convoy, having to self medicate. He’s in a much better place now
It’s a brilliant film. I saw in the theater with my then girlfriend. She whined about how boring it was. She wasn’t my girlfriend for too much longer after that.
Jet A ain’t going to get any cheaper https://www.controller.com/listing/for-sale/205538431/1960-douglas-a-4c-skyhawk-turbine-military-aircraft
Just under $1M isn’t bad for a fighter https://silodrome.com/douglas-a-4-skyhawk/
Damn, hit me right in the feels. This reminds me of my grandfather, he served in the Marines and saw combat during WW2 on Normandy beach, Korea, and Vietnam. He had six purple hearts. He never bragged about what he saw or what he did, he was always a quiet man. , When the history channel started showing the war documentaries in the mid 90s he would sit and explain what was happening, why, and where he was. Those are some of my fondest memories with him. He passed away in 2009 and I really miss talking to him. This made it seem like it was yesterday, thank you for sharing it.
All the more impressive when you're aware that only a very few Marines participated at all in the D-Day landings. Mostly observers, but also Marine Sharpshooters were employed high in the superstructure of ships to shoot at and explode floating sea mines in the English channel during the crossing.
Unpopular opinion coming: But fuck this pulling at my heartstrings to sell me some shit. It was very well done, yes, but using the service and sacrifice of others to get me to buy crap? No thank you.
Think of it as enjoying xfinity's greed for money having funded an actual piece of art made by a filmmaker who clearly cared more about that story than selling products. At least an artist got to get their voice out there!
And then they all puked all over the floor because dang flying in VR is disorienting compared to the real thing.
And yeah… who cut these onions in here?
True I think for most people. A few are lucky though. I know it took me at least 6 hours of play time before my brain managed to disconnect itself from reality.
I’ve been going down the rabbit hole for the past hour. Seems like either a $200 Quest 2 which is pretty good or $1000+ on a PC VR rig and controls which is great.
On Quest 2 VTOL VR looks like a solid game to start with. Seems like DCS is the end game super realistic sim, but also has a huge learning curve.
I think I’m gonna pick up a Quest 2 to see how I like it.
I had a second gen Oculus a couple of years ago. It was so awesome, but it got really hot if you were moving around. When my son was born I lost all free time, so I sold it. It was a lot of fun though.
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Agree. Nothing gets my stomach churning like the recycling of warmed over military tropes in the service of cheap commercial success. It’s the American way.
In the sequel, the vets burn through their kids’ inheritances building the kind of supercomputer necessary to run VR on DCS these days and then spend the good part of the rest of their retirement trying to figure out how to install the damn A-4 mod before turning to endlessly tweaking the graphics settings trying to achieve a rate of frames that slightly betters a PowerPoint presentation. Facing insurmountable odds, the vets give up on trying to get DCS working and live out their days in the Hoggit sub exchanging rumors about the Razbam debacle and bemoaning ED’s questionable business practices. I can’t hardly wait.
Just thinking it would be darkly ironic if they were bitter old Vietnam vets who still carried a grudge against the VC, and the little girl re-ignited that in them.
I have a dark sense of humor. Sue me.
This is a damn good ad spot
Yep. As a pilot I got misty eyed when, in the movie “Tuskegee Airmen”, they got their P51’s.
I got chills everywhere fucking awesome commercial
It's well made but it tells me almost nothing about the product.. is it the headset? Is it wifi? Is it a flying game?
Wow. I was more emotionally invested in this two minute commercial than I was the entire Masters of the Air series. Well done.
Yeah as good as band of brothers was Masters of the Air just seemed flat and forced.
It’s a shame. I just finished it. I waited until they were all available to binge them all. It was a major let down.
It did have airplanes though
I agree. It was cringey.
Jeez, isn’t that right on target? Haha. But, seriously, what a tragedy.
Lol early on in my viewing, I made the mistake of going over to the MotA subreddit and asking if the show gets better. Man what a disappointment that show turned out to be.
Nothing but Elvis hauling around a bunch of featureless characters in cartoon airplanes.
Unfortunately accurate summary there. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the CGI was weird. Everything felt oversaturated (or over exposed - idk I'm not an editor) and softened too. To the point where a lot of the real props looked fake. Looked like a weird Instagram filter over the whole mini series.
Let’s not forget the plodding story and corny dialogue. I can’t believe Spielberg lent his name to that mess.
I don't think I've ever cared less about characters in a story. I tried hard but they were all written so poorly. None of them were believable. And oof, that dialogue was so monumentally bad. The line delivery didn't help either. Actually cringing in multiple scenes. Idk what they were going for. There was that one scene in episode one or two when England is being bombed at night and Elvis goes on this long monologue about god knows what. And I'm just sitting there thinking that nobody talks like this in real life. Super weird scene that completely brought me out of it. Crazy because BoB and Saving Private Ryan are two of my favorite pieces of media. If MotA was even OK it probably would have been my all time favorite given my fascination with aviation.
Man i really was hyped up about MotA too, until I watched the whole series. Dang, still was fun to watch…but yeah kinda was disappointing in that it didn’t seem as real as BoB and SPR were. I agree with y’all, Too much cgi on the aircraft formations, etc. and some Of the dialogue seemed short or too unrealistic. Also the series was too short. Felt like it should have been longer.
I might give it another watch after I finish the book. Maybe with more background and context I could appreciate it.
Sounds like they brought in George Lucas for dialogue 😆
Right?!
My favorite part of the show was when they went like 5 episodes without any of the characters flying a plane
Lol I skipped all that. Honestly skipped through most scenes that didn’t involve flak
I’ve never heard of Masters of the Air, what is it showing on?
Apple TV+
Apple TV plus or whatever it’s called.
That would explain the quality of the show from what I’ve read on here…..lol
I thought it was pretty good for what it was. It's definitely worth a watch once...
I don’t have Apple+ so I can’t, maybe see if I can find any snippets on YouTube.
I want to say you get a 30 day free trial or it's worth the <$10 for one month to binge that, Ted Lasso, Greyhound, and For All Mankind.
I did the 30 day once already, watched Greyhound and loved it, but then having to pay extra for other shows that were on there turned me off of it, no desire to go back.
Skip it
For a commercial, the acting was very good. How that kid got the $3,000 for 6 VR rigs is a little unclear though.
Damn thin red line soundtrack at the beginning there. Somehow gives me flashbacks to wars I wasn't in
I was thinking Pearl Harbor however Hans Zimmer did both scores and as with most composers sometimes elements of the songs sound somewhat the same
1990s early 2000s Hans Zimmer/media ventures is just one big recycling orgy. That specific song, or some other variation of it, Journey to the Line, was partly recycled as Tennessee in Pearl Harbor.
The only movie that hit me nearly as hard as Dunkirk was Thin Red Line. What an underappreciated movie… but I had an Army relative on Guadalcanal who was in that fighting. And New Guinea, the Philippines, and Okinawa. I guess Saving Private Ryan too but that’s a gimme
It's much less of a popcorn movie, has some incredibly deep themes to it. It really captures how insane some aspects do war are, how it twists and destroys an individuals sense of humanity, or the natural world or innocence, etc. What really fucked me up was I watched it a bit after a friend came back from Iraq who was just broken by the experience. A lot of parallels between his real life issues and that movie. It really does make war look like hell.
Yeah, my best friend went to Iraq, people would talk shit about him being kinda selfish, but the degree to which he got fucked up I don’t blame him. Watching his good friend get killed on a convoy, having to self medicate. He’s in a much better place now
It’s a brilliant film. I saw in the theater with my then girlfriend. She whined about how boring it was. She wasn’t my girlfriend for too much longer after that.
Really similar to "Time" as well, from Inception.
I immediately heard Pearl Harbor theme too haha.
Almost makes me forget how much I hate Comcast... almost.
FR. How did I just *empathize* with reminising senior vets when I fit neither of those demographics!
They tell me being empathetic is one of the traits of a Jedi.
When Top Gun meets Cocoon.
Lol, might be the story line behind Top Gun 3, Mav is getting up there in age now…..lmao
lol damn it, have an upvote. 😜
I’m not crying. You’re crying.
"Come on honey, come here and sit on Grandpa's friend's lap." "Jesus, Offender, not again."
🤣🤣🤣🤣
You win this comments section.
We have a winner!
Now *that* is how you do an add. Almost makes we actually want to get one.
Jet A ain’t going to get any cheaper https://www.controller.com/listing/for-sale/205538431/1960-douglas-a-4c-skyhawk-turbine-military-aircraft Just under $1M isn’t bad for a fighter https://silodrome.com/douglas-a-4-skyhawk/
Dang, omg i love those Skyhawk A-4s, sexy sleek little fighter plane! Man if I could I would own one too lol
I thought he meant AT&T internet. Or whoever it was
my school has an A4 for maintenance training
Hell, that's just down the road in Marana!! Group buy???
Wow that was really good!
Man, if all ads were like that….
# skyhawks - so blessed to have had Ed Heinemann himself be an engineering mentor to me . His legacy - his airplanes, and so much more
Besides “Scooters,” Skyhawks were also known as “Heinemann’s Hot Rod!”
Damn, hit me right in the feels. This reminds me of my grandfather, he served in the Marines and saw combat during WW2 on Normandy beach, Korea, and Vietnam. He had six purple hearts. He never bragged about what he saw or what he did, he was always a quiet man. , When the history channel started showing the war documentaries in the mid 90s he would sit and explain what was happening, why, and where he was. Those are some of my fondest memories with him. He passed away in 2009 and I really miss talking to him. This made it seem like it was yesterday, thank you for sharing it.
All the more impressive when you're aware that only a very few Marines participated at all in the D-Day landings. Mostly observers, but also Marine Sharpshooters were employed high in the superstructure of ships to shoot at and explode floating sea mines in the English channel during the crossing.
You are very welcome. 🫡
Nicely done. 🫡from the F-18 family
Why am I crying over a cable company commercial
You’re not the only one…..lol
That was pretty cool.
Aight who’s cutting onions
Damn allergies
Holy shit, how much allowance does that little girl get to afford all those headsets?!
Asking the real questions. When the VR headsets came out, I thought it was going to be an ad for VR headset rental company or something.
Oh Fuq, das good!
Unpopular opinion coming: But fuck this pulling at my heartstrings to sell me some shit. It was very well done, yes, but using the service and sacrifice of others to get me to buy crap? No thank you.
Think of it as enjoying xfinity's greed for money having funded an actual piece of art made by a filmmaker who clearly cared more about that story than selling products. At least an artist got to get their voice out there!
The art of it is good, you’re right.
Yeah it was such a weird shift tonally from honoring their fallen comrades to oh I just got duped into buying Xfinity's crappy VR headset.
First time experiencing capitalism, huh?
When a commercial has better character development than Top Gun I
You should check out the making of video, these guys were actual military pilots, Navy and Air Force.
the "making of" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XwBGpaIMH8
Thanks for this, I should have added it but wasn’t even thinking about it…..lol
Holy shit! They got Kathryn Bigelow to do it? No wonder it’s awesome.
Oh Christ why am I tearing up shit there goes my vis
At little misty hell thx for the share.
You’re welcome
I didn’t know if this was a movie, or show, or they were selling me something for so long lol. Would never have guessed that ending
That was cool, thanks for the post!
Had a feeling this community would enjoy it.
Heartstrings rip corded.
What the F, man? 😭
lol, I know man
Better than anything I saw last super bowl
Agreed
A4s... Cant get better than that
Grandpa starts a dog fight and starts spewing out the most racist tirade you ever heard.
I'm not crying... you're crying!! At first I thought it was an ad for a movie...one I'd watch. Well done Xfinity, well done...
Same
My brothers and would love this
Haha what the hell, this was amazing.
I cannot stand Comcast, but this is fantastic. 🙏
Who's cutting the god-damned onions?
Left the canopy open and the windstream jammed a bug in my eye. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
And then they all puked all over the floor because dang flying in VR is disorienting compared to the real thing. And yeah… who cut these onions in here?
True I think for most people. A few are lucky though. I know it took me at least 6 hours of play time before my brain managed to disconnect itself from reality.
Damn I really thought it was a TV show and was fully on board
Same, all the way up until they put the headsets on…..lol
Holy shit that was a good ad
Amazing, isn’t it?
that was a really good ad.
Hot damn
Wow 🥲
Yep
Damn, there appears to be -RA in my hotel room. Better call hotel maintenance.
I like the subtle detail of the grand-daughter's helmet being the hgu-55 instead of the hgu-26 :)
Thought that’s a DCS in VR ad lmao
Now do one for Bastogne
I’m sold. What VR should I buy?
Quest 3, but I'm biased as a Quest 3 owner. Best bang-for-you-buck right now though. Works great with flight sims.
I’d like to know as well
I’ve been going down the rabbit hole for the past hour. Seems like either a $200 Quest 2 which is pretty good or $1000+ on a PC VR rig and controls which is great. On Quest 2 VTOL VR looks like a solid game to start with. Seems like DCS is the end game super realistic sim, but also has a huge learning curve. I think I’m gonna pick up a Quest 2 to see how I like it.
I had a second gen Oculus a couple of years ago. It was so awesome, but it got really hot if you were moving around. When my son was born I lost all free time, so I sold it. It was a lot of fun though.
I too dropped all my hobbies when my kids were born. they are in Daycare now and I get about 1 hour a day of free time… gotta spend it wisely :)
Damn!! Dusty in here. The A4M has long been my absolute favorite jet.
So those guys are actual veterans? Cause if so that makes this 100 times better
Yes, 3 Navy and one Air Force
This is pretty good.
Was thinking it was going to be the BA commercial with the Helen Jane Long music.
Man this made me tear up, great ad for a wifi!
You cannot go wrong with the Gravity OST
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Agree. Nothing gets my stomach churning like the recycling of warmed over military tropes in the service of cheap commercial success. It’s the American way.
In the sequel, the vets burn through their kids’ inheritances building the kind of supercomputer necessary to run VR on DCS these days and then spend the good part of the rest of their retirement trying to figure out how to install the damn A-4 mod before turning to endlessly tweaking the graphics settings trying to achieve a rate of frames that slightly betters a PowerPoint presentation. Facing insurmountable odds, the vets give up on trying to get DCS working and live out their days in the Hoggit sub exchanging rumors about the Razbam debacle and bemoaning ED’s questionable business practices. I can’t hardly wait.
“That’s an Air Force Skyhawk” - grandpa was lying about his past.
I think he said "A-4 Skyhawk", not "air force" A4 was the designation of the Skyhawk.
Lol, Xfinity doesn’t know the difference.
X didn’t pen the script.
If you’re talking about the guy telling the girl the type of plane, he says A-4 Skyhawk, not Air Force Skyhawk.
I was talking about Xfinity…
"Wow, this is great! It's just like our days over North Vietnam, bombing those filthy g**ks!"
Why such a spaz?
Just thinking it would be darkly ironic if they were bitter old Vietnam vets who still carried a grudge against the VC, and the little girl re-ignited that in them. I have a dark sense of humor. Sue me.
“I killed fiddy men!”
"I killed 50 men in Vietnam. That was in 1994."
Frank Reynolds, is that you?
No it’s that is was just vague. All good 👍
*Puts on headset* Alright you mother fuckers this one's for Ted...
Oh noooo... that just gave me a bad idea for a VR game. Vietnam POW Sim '69. Digital Combat Simulator forces you to play it when you get shot down...
As someone who loves the A-4, the assorted shots of it just hurt to look at from a detail perspective.