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What Was The Last Movie You Watched and Rate it!
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That movie was many things, but boring wasnt one of them.
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El Camino
Jesse’s conclusion after breaking bad
Worth watching but much less than the original
Jesse’s conclusion after breaking bad
Worth watching but much less than the original
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Downton Abby has been out a couple of weeks now.
Also, just saw Judy. Renee Zellweger might have just won herself an Oscar.
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You must be a Michael Bay fan lol.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) - IMDb - This is a companion movie to Breaking Bad, and sort of details what happened to Jesse Pinkman after the climactic shootout. It's really unnecessary and more like a fan indulgence than anything else. So-so and its good to see the old faces again, but really, there's no need for it. 6/10
Deadwood: The Movie (TV Movie 2019) - IMDb - Just like the previous movie, this is a companion piece to the HBO series. I never really got into it during its series run, so I ended up skipping through a lot of the scenes. I guess it's so-so, but in the end, it's unnecessary, just like the previous movie. 5/10
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Midway (2019) - IMDb Ugh, where do I even begin? It was either this or watch Terminator Dork Fate, so I figured a history lesson would be better. Bleech. The main character has a very funky accent (after researching it seems he's British- why couldnt they have hired an American actor instead?), and his scenes are very awkward and distracting. In fact the non-battle sequences are devoid of any drama and characterization that its all laughable.
The characters are all archetypes, and dont seem to be very realistic even though they are based on real life people. The script has no suspense or thrills- it seems more like a highlight reel of what happened on Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway. Even the Doolittle Raid takes up about five minutes- I think they included it because half the backers of this movie are Chinese.
All in all, I'd give it a 5/10- the 5 being for the battle scenes, even though they are unrealistic too.
The original Charlton Heston movie was better- if it only had better special effects like this one it would have been a classic.
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Well the director is a German (and I dont think Germans make good directors lol) :2razz:
Also, it seems half this movie was financed by the Chinese so its not all Hollywood's fault (naturally they had to add in a scene where they are portrayed as good people).
The one thing its got in its favor- its (slightly) better than that awful Ben Affleck Pearl Harbor movie lol
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Saw the preview and it looks more like an action thriller that just uses the Great War as the background. Low expectations for me.
To be honest, the last great war movie I saw in recent years was a documentary: The Vietnam War by Ken Burns.
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I watched that one too. Pretty good- I liked the colorization, it made it more topical.
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The King (2019) - IMDb
Good movie. The battle of Agincourt is more realistic than any of the previous adaptations although there were still some glaring inaccuracies (like longbowmen shooting into the air). All the mud and the stabbings in order to get through plate mail was filmed in all its glory. Pity they didn't use half-swording or mordhaus in the duel, I would have loved to see that, but no movie or tv show has yet to show it.
The big revelation to me was Timothee Chalamet- I've heard about him but this was the first time I saw him in a movie, and he is a good actor- he'll be playing Paul Atreides in Dune so I cant wait for that to come out too. Most American actors cant play British roles because they cant get the accent right- Chalamet nails it.
The one thing that was out of place is Robert Pattinson- he seems downright goofy in playing the French Dauphin, it felt like he was imitating Peter Seller's Inspector Closeau. Overall 7.5/10
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As I type this I'm watching the 2002 FOUR FEATHERS, directed by Shekhar (ELIZABETH) Kapur. I haven't re-watched any of the earlier adaptations of the 1902 pro-colonial novel, but I'm relatively sure that none of the earlier versions sported so many significant roles for actors of color.
And yet, for once, the acting and the directorial pageantry are so good that I don't mind that Kapur (who identified himself as "anti-colonialist") is being somewhat manipulative (which, of course, the original novel was, as well). The English characters in this version are sometimes more brutal, racist or exploitative than in earlier versions, but I don't get the sense that they're inhuman monsters, as white people are in most if not all Spike Lee films. Heath Ledger does a good job infusing the old standby with new passion, and the camera-work is outstanding.
And yet, for once, the acting and the directorial pageantry are so good that I don't mind that Kapur (who identified himself as "anti-colonialist") is being somewhat manipulative (which, of course, the original novel was, as well). The English characters in this version are sometimes more brutal, racist or exploitative than in earlier versions, but I don't get the sense that they're inhuman monsters, as white people are in most if not all Spike Lee films. Heath Ledger does a good job infusing the old standby with new passion, and the camera-work is outstanding.
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Really? Like Richard Best evading a Zero by climbing and then stalling his dive bomber and shooting down two enemy planes afterwards? Or his tailgunner shooting down two more enemy Zeros? Never happened.
The anti-aircraft fire from the Japanese carriers were also vastly overstated when the dive bombers attacked from an almost 180 degree angle.
This is taken directly from Japanese sources:
"A look-out screamed: "Hell-Divers!" I looked up to see three black enemy planes plummeting towards our ship. Some of our machineguns managed to fire a few frantic bursts at them, but it was too late. The plump silhouettes of the American Dauntless dive-bombers quickly grew larger, and then a number of black objects suddenly floated eerily from their wings."
Battle of Midway - Wikipedia
The torpedo bombers took a lot of hits but they werent attacking from a dive and flying slow and level.
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Joker.
It was the first film I went to the movies to see since, man...the first Avengers? That don't sound right, but I can't honestly think of any since...
Kinda an arthouse feel to a comic book movie.
Called a few things out before they happened.
Could have waited til it hit video.
3/5
It was the first film I went to the movies to see since, man...the first Avengers? That don't sound right, but I can't honestly think of any since...
Kinda an arthouse feel to a comic book movie.
Called a few things out before they happened.
Could have waited til it hit video.
3/5
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Meh. Best was a superb pilot, and the Dauntless had a "plus" air combat ratio: shot down more enemy aircraft than the number of Dauntlesses lost to enemy aircraft. Absence of armor on Japanese aircraft was costly.
Heavy defensive AA fire against dive bombers was the norm.
USN torpedo bombers at Midway were the obsolete Devastator type, and they were massacred. However, by drawing the Japanese combat air patrol fighters down to the surface, they opened the door for the USN dive bombers.
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The Dauntless was slow too, and Best never shot down enemy Zeros, the only Dauntless pilot who did that was the Swede in the Battle of Coral Sea.
The main reason the dive bombers were so effective in Midway was because the Japanese fighter cover was already drawn away by the sacrifice of the torpedo bombers, so the Dauntlesses pretty much had the sky to themselves when they started their bombing runs. The defective torpedoes that the Devastators were issued with were also a huge factor why they never scored a hit.
The Japanese carriers also had inadequate anti-air capability, unarmored flight decks and defective firefighting systems. Their only real protection was the air cover- once they were stripped of that, they were vulnerable.
Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga - Wikipedia
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Ford v Ferrari (2019) - IMDb Great racing movie. The story of how Carroll Shelby and his teaming up with maverick race car driver Ken Miles to beat Ferrarri's dominance in the 24-hour Le Mans car race is thrilling and dramatic. It does go on a bit too long though. 7.5/10
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It does not matter in the slightest whether Best or someone else shot down Zeroes. The fact is that it happened.
Their relatively heavy gun armament with two forward-firing .50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns and either one or two rear flexible-mount .30 in (7.62 mm) AN/M2 machine guns was effective against the lightly built Japanese fighters, and many pilots and gunners took aggressive attitudes to the fighters that attacked them. SBD pilot Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa was attacked by three A6M2 Zero fighters; he shot down two of them and cut off the wing of the third in a head-on pass with his wingtip.[SUP][8][/SUP] [SUP][N 1]
[/SUP]. . . The Dauntless was one of the most important aircraft in the Pacific War, sinking more enemy shipping in the War in the Pacific than any other Allied bomber. In addition, Barrett Tillman, in his book on the Dauntless, claims that it has a "plus" score against enemy aircraft, meaning it was credited with more victories over enemy planes than losses due to enemy action. This is considered to be a rare event for a nominal "bomber".[SUP][14][/SUP]
Douglas SBD Dauntless - Wikipedia
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The Douglas SBD Dauntless is a World War II American naval scout plane and dive bomber that was manufactured by Douglas Aircraft from 1940 through 1944. The SBD ("Scout Bomber Douglas") was the United States Navy's main carrier-based scout/dive bomber from mid-1940 through mid-1944.
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The point is that Best never shot down an enemy fighter, he was a superb dive bomber pilot, yeah, but was never a fighter ace unlike what was portrayed in the movie, so ergo- the movie's battle scenes were inaccurate. Same with the AA fire coming from the Japanese carriers.
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That scene, based on combat events, was well within bounds for a war film. It was cinematically true, even if not literally true. And you're just wrong about AA volume.
The Midway you said you prefer featured fully fictional characters, so I'm not concerned about quibbles over Best.