Fall In the Air
Cloudy, rainy, cold...fall is in the air. It's amazing how quickly it changes in the Midwest. Hopefully there is Indian Summer around the corner for a few days.
We needed to get out and do something besides grocery shop so we went to a movie Wednesday afternoon. In keeping with our recent Air Force Museum adventure we saw Flyboys. It's a true story about some Americans who served with the French Lafayette Escadrille in WWI prior to the U.S. getting involved.
It's a war story/ love story, kind of hoky and predictable but the flying and dogfight scenes were quite incredible and the acting was pretty good.The docents at the Air Museum told us about the movie; they were quite impressed. Seeing the movie was like seeing the old planes from the museum come to life. Like this one!
It's truly amazing that these planes were flying only about 10 years after the Wright brothers first sustainable flight. This is the kind of movie that needs to be seen in the theater, something we don't often do. The dogfight scenes wouldn't be nearly as exciting on the small screen. It's a slice of history about real people doing ordinary and extraordinary things...something lacking in many current movies.