Band of Brothers and War in the Pacific both had one major thing in common. They were recreations of eye witness accounts and so, combined with good acting etc recreated authentic stories of war and of the men who fought and died.
Where 'Masters of the Air' lacks authenticity starts with CGI , it's obvious and overdone and detracts from the telling of the story.
The 2nd thing is you don't really care anything for the characters they are too wide ranging among the crews.
It may have played better as the story of one aircraft and it's crew - as in 'Memphis Belle' . The same as it was Winters and his platoon/company etc.
I've just started episode 2 and it's 'alright' but nothing more. To many flavours of other films on this subject and (so far) lacks any uniqueness or authenticity in it's own right.
The anti-English sentiment is annoying, but again shows the lack of authenticity and the writer(s) scraping the story telling bottom of the barrel
Perhaps it will get better but so far 6/10.
UPDATE: Having now watched episodes 1 - 4 of Masters of the Air has clarified by thoughts that Masters of the Air is dissappointing.
It is not terrible by any means, but, being a fictional story, told with excessive use of CGI, it doesn't fair well in comparison to Band of Brothers or War in the Pacific.
The latter both being vivid, factual, and true accounts of war, and both will stand the test of time, as classic productions.
Nor did the PR fanfare, of how Masters of the Air was made by the makers of the same, do it any favours. It raised the viewers expectations and failed to deliver (which would have been difficult and near impossible for any fictional production)
Where 'Masters of the Air' lacks authenticity starts with CGI , it's obvious and overdone and detracts from the telling of the story.
The 2nd thing is you don't really care anything for the characters they are too wide ranging among the crews.
It may have played better as the story of one aircraft and it's crew - as in 'Memphis Belle' . The same as it was Winters and his platoon/company etc.
I've just started episode 2 and it's 'alright' but nothing more. To many flavours of other films on this subject and (so far) lacks any uniqueness or authenticity in it's own right.
The anti-English sentiment is annoying, but again shows the lack of authenticity and the writer(s) scraping the story telling bottom of the barrel
Perhaps it will get better but so far 6/10.
UPDATE: Having now watched episodes 1 - 4 of Masters of the Air has clarified by thoughts that Masters of the Air is dissappointing.
It is not terrible by any means, but, being a fictional story, told with excessive use of CGI, it doesn't fair well in comparison to Band of Brothers or War in the Pacific.
The latter both being vivid, factual, and true accounts of war, and both will stand the test of time, as classic productions.
Nor did the PR fanfare, of how Masters of the Air was made by the makers of the same, do it any favours. It raised the viewers expectations and failed to deliver (which would have been difficult and near impossible for any fictional production)