Flyboys (2006)

For War Week, I only watched a few. I hadn't seen this one yet, nor any WWI movie for all I know, so why not? It turned out pretty good, too. Even for a PG-13 movie.

Franco joins the French military as they're trying to utilize and weaponize these new flying things called "airplanes". Pretty entertaining overall, and a few scenes stuck with me.

SPOILERS

When they first fly into the air against enemy planes, that one guy gets his plane shot down, and he crashlands his plane as best as he can... and actually survives. Yay! He gets out and the enemy aircraft sees him and guns him down. Poor fuck. I mean, this was "inspired" by a true story, right?

I also thought the last straw in that ending air fight, when Franco flies up next to the smug enemy pilot, pulls out his pistol, and shoots that asshole in the face? Bad-ass!

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