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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance... No where near as good as the first one

How it Ends - 1/10

Great idea, well done until a certain point and then it makes EVERYTHING unwatchable. Don't waste your time

Extinction - 7/10

Very cool idea...well acted, well shot... something missing though

First Man

A film about Neil Armstrong's career which immediately begins with Armstrong as a test pilot flying the X-15 rocket plane. Later scenes show his selection into NASA's Gemini programme, and subsequent Apollo programme. Ryan Gosling plays Neil Armstrong and Claire Foy from "The Crown" plays Neil Armstrong's first wife.

The film ends unexpectedly and suddenly with him in quarantine after his Apollo 11 flight with big cracks in his first marriage. Everything else about Armstrong's career is not shown, nothing about his childhood, military and later ex-NASA career.

Overall, not a good tribute film to Neil Armstrong, as it was already done much better by the Ron Howard tv series "From The Earth To The Moon", as this film feels much cheaper, has less detailed history and seems to have been made for the general popcorn audience. Yes, there are nice visual effects, but the story feels less important than the visuals in places.

3/10

Only the brave, about the Granite Mountain Hotshots that perished in Yarnell Fire of 2013
With,
Josh Brolin, Jeniffer Connolly.

I dip me lid to these blokes.

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

Not the last, but as nail biting as the true story. Sad news about 'Argo' https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46939359

Did anybody watch The Wolf's Call? A French submarine movie.

Pretty stupid movie, IMHO.

American Sniper

Official trailer for TOP GUN 2 Maverick !

25th James Bond film name revealed


The 25th official James Bond film is to be called No Time To Die. It will be Daniel Craig's fifth and final time as 007.
Release date: 3rd April 2020 (UK), 8th April 2020 (US).

Joker is very, very good. It's about a director's cut adding fifteen or twenty minutes of depth away from a stone-cold classic. If I wanted to be hyper-critical you could complain that it's maybe a bit too much of a love song to Scorsese's early work, but since that's it's intention I don't think there's anything wrong with that and it makes it a pretty rubbish criticism.

I do tend to think that the controversy that's surrounded it is probably far more dangerous than the film itself which requires a shit-tonne of mental gymnastics to see as glorifying incel culture.

The problem with comicbook superhero films is that once the origin story of the character is explained and done, there's very little else shown. Then its remade and rebooted with another retelling of the same origin story. Not a fan of superhero and comic films.

SKB wrote:The problem with comicbook superhero films, is that once the origin story of the character is explained and done, there's very little else shown. Then its remade and rebooted with another retelling of the same origin story. Not a fan of superhero and comic films.

I wouldn't class Joker as a superhero or comic book film, it's got a lot more in common with Scorsese's Taxi Driver and other mid-to-late 70's neo-noir's than any modern comic book or superhero film, the Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan Batman films included.

(Paramount Pictures) 16th December 2019

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose.”

Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

The Girl on the Train, more than likely. Can't say I'm a huge movie buff.
I'd give it a 4/10. Not a fan of them "Americanising" a British book and it is nowhere near as gripping as the book is.

(Operation) Red Sea. A chinese production on Netflix: good hardware (ships multiplied digitally, but just for the background. PLAN had given one to use, for real). The plot is also quite good.

Hard to say if borne out of private enterprise, or is a way to brush off the embarrassment when in Libya China really couldn't do much/ anything for their many citizens there.