After watching the trailer I thought this was going to be a fun film that didn’t take itself or the source material too seriously. The opening titles seemed to reinforce that. Specifically the title. I grinned, expecting the rest of the movie to be awesome.
Hiding in here there might be a fun movie. The performances are good. The Rock is great. The juvenile dick jokes, and gross out humour derailed it for me. One joke, I can take it.…
Dunkirk didn’t move me as much as I expected it to. I loved the IMAX format. The performances were great. Mostly understated. The Englishness was spot on. Good afternoon. My favourite moment is when the son lies to the sailor. Just perfect.
The relative timelines were important to tell three related stories at the same time, and that worked well. I wish that didn’t turn into repeated events from different perspectives. The thing about planes, and boats, and people in…
I've bought the DVD, the soundtrack, watched the making of and dreamed about Kelly McGillis more than one time. The film that did more for Air Force enlistments than anything else will do the same for you.
If you've ever been holding on too tight with a bunch of oiled up dudes then you will lose your edge over Top Gun again and again.
What did I learn from Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol? Let me see. There are a lot of BMWs in Dubai and Mumbai (coincidence?) and they have safety features you can trust, and cool start controls, and cool wheels and cool grill-lights, what? I haven't seen such gross product placement in a while. Oh yeah, and iPhones. iPhones are cool, iPads are cool, apparently USB cables are cool; but iPhones in rubberised cases? I guess they might knock them around…
