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97 Minutes (2023)
seems deliberately messed up
The movie opens with the CA, apropos of nothing, telling ATC he has 97 minutes remaining. Then on PA telling the passengers they were "an hour and a half from JFK." Was he planning to glide in? Alternate +45 doesn't matter to Oceanic Airways dispatch?
It does not get better. The whole air pressure event was so wrong as to be incoherent. They're reading pressure in psi, but normal displays are for cabin altitude, in feet. And 16 psi wouldn't be too high or cause the plane to explode; it's absurdly low. Normal would be at 25-21 psi (cabin alt 5000' to 8000'). And pressure wouldn't rise if there were holes.
There's no "fail safe." Wtf was that about? It made no sense.
Sometimes I do enjoy a bad movie. This wasn't one of those times.
The Hunt (2020)
Unclear what they were attempting to do
Was it a comedy? A commentary? A view of the civil war to be? Who knows?
What it wasn't was entertaining. Betty Gilpin is good but not in the least believable as the anti-hero. The plot itself made no sense and was strained around "let's visit the comments section." In the end, nobody knows what motivated Hilary Swank, the main character.
One extra star for a good set-up of a group of people unsure why they're being hunted. But that's it. If I want to see pointless fighting, I have many other apps for that.
Do better.
Greenland (2020)
tense disaster movie
"Greenland" is a tense but fairly predictable and typical disaster movie. One good thing about the movie was that they obviously had good consultants involved. They didn't always listen to them, but they did better than most. The son's Type 1 diabetes was handled much, much better than in most movies. The aviation bits were ok, but had some unintentionally hilarious mistakes, in particular running through the wrong checklist based on the dialog.
Overall recommended because it's a good example of the genre, the mistakes aren't too numerous, and the characters have at least a little depth.
Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
fun at points but mostly weird
What's up with the lightning in the field scene? Is running short interleaved sprints how you beat lightning? Why is it striking so fast?
I've been near lightning, and it doesn't sound like that up close. That scene is just weird, man.
2067 (2020)
not bad for low budget
There are plot holes that are senseless and laugh-out-loud ridiculous. Oxygen sickness? All plants gone but people ok?
There's more that makes no sense, but I'm leaving it out to avoid spoilers. To be fair, as a viewer, you'll probably be ahead of the characters the whole time.
It's not great or even good, but it does try hard and has a heart. I wasn't sad that I'd watched it, unlike so many other movies.
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Not perfect, but very good
Great to see the characters back and getting out of impossible situations again. A lot of fun on a rainy Saturday.
Perhaps the best part, though, is the tearful 1- and 2-star reviews submitted by reactionaries and incels. That makes it all the better. Don't stop weeping, guys!
7500 (2019)
tense and realistic
I'm a pilot, and I'm usually prepared to roll my eyes and laugh at the stupid and unrealistic things - like having a drunk pilot fly a jet inverted in order to save it - that movies do.
This isn't that kind of movie. The dialog and action are realistic. That makes it all the more terrifying.
The terrorists are a bit cliched, and that knocks off a point for me, but the rest is so very good that I'm glad I saw it.
I think the bad reviews are looking for a shoot-em-up Hollywood "Air Force One" type of movie. This isn't that. It's about a man trying to stay alive.
Ad Astra (2019)
unclear why this was made
Sure let me interrupt my flow and checklist to pray to St. Christopher just in case I get mauled by a space monkey in the next scene. I've flown this craft a thousand times before, and I'm part of a professional crew, so that makes sense.
It seems the sole reason this movie was made was to cram religious non-sequiturs into a slowly plotted story built on characters the audience neither gets to understand nor care about.
That's the only reason I can divine. Otherwise, the real mystery is how things like this get made. It can't possibly be that the world is out of good stories, could it? Or do this producers not know what a good story looks like? Good god, what were the rejected ideas?
What Did Jack Do? (2017)
toototabon!
What did I just watch? And how high should one be to understand it?
Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019)
Not ... good
Strangest movie based on an old Apple advertisement I've ever seen.
Only movie based on an Apple advertisement I've ever seen.
The I-Land (2019)
Not the good kind of terrible
Birdemic was terrible and great. This was just terrible, and it's unclear why anyone would have made it.
Event Horizon (1997)
passable story, badly made
Excellent cast, standard set of characters, and a familiar plot are all this has going for it. The music is poor, the "special" effects are laugh-out-loud hilarious, and the editing made a fast paced story seem slow and bogged down in irrelevant detours.
Did his wife's suicide mean anything? What happened to her son? Is he now Frankenstein's monster? We'll never know.
Watch it if you have nothing better to do, but, beware: anyone watching with you may be unwilling to forgive your choice. You may never hold the remote again.
Singularity (2017)
Rotten
A complete waste of time. The plot makes no sense and goes nowhere. Why would anyone make this dreck? Why would anyone agree to be in it? Having filmed it, why would you edit and release it?