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Flyboys is about what you'd expect. I was expecting gorgeous air battles and formulaic plot, which is what we got. Thanks to a game Abe and I used to play, I even had a pretty good idea of what was going on in the battles and had fun spotting things like Immelmans. The air battles did not disappoint and they caught some of the peculiar culture of pilots at the time that developed as a result of the incredibly short life expectancy. we felt the love plot was tacked on. We would have rather they devoted more time to pilot culture or the more interesting pilots like, Cassidy and Skinner, or even on extra minor character development, so it would be harder to guess who would die. So, to some up, it's a pretty movie and not particularly annoying, but nothing you can't afford to miss if you aren't in to aerial battles.