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Post by Bartman on Nov 21, 2018 15:07:42 GMT -5
Yeah I D/L'd a Rip with Chinese subtitles, so what! Anyway I didn't like it at all. I don't get why the director portrayed Armstrong as so stone like. It's as if he was barely Human. I've seen many interviews with him and he didn't look Anything like how Gosling was directed to portray him. In this film it looks as if he has even less Personality than Commander Data and Sheldon Cooper combined! It just makes the movie Drag too much. You'd be better off re-watching HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon" Miniseries than this flick. OK the Special Effects were pretty good but not Outstanding. Guess I'll keep a copy in my Library just on general principles but it's hardly worth a second look in my opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2018 18:28:34 GMT -5
Yeah I D/L'd a Rip with Chinese subtitles, so what! Anyway I didn't like it at all. I don't get why the director portrayed Armstrong as so stone like. It's as if he was barely Human. I've seen many interviews with him and he didn't look Anything like how Gosling was directed to portray him. In this film it looks as if he has even less Personality than Commander Data and Sheldon Cooper combined! It just makes the movie Drag too much. You'd be better off re-watching HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon" Miniseries than this flick. OK the Special Effects were pretty good but not Outstanding. Guess I'll keep a copy in my Library just on general principles but it's hardly worth a second look in my opinion. Much like the last movie I went to Dunkirk, walked out on it.
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Post by Bartman on Nov 23, 2018 23:06:22 GMT -5
Much like the last movie I went to Dunkirk, walked out on it. I kept Dunkirk in any case just for the History along with the original 1958 B&W flick. It's just the way Brits do film. Churchill wasn't quite as good as Darkest Hour but it had it's points too. I kept both of those too. If you're an Aviation Buff at all, another recent Brit Flick is Hurricane. It's abt the 303 Squadron made up of Poles, and other refugee pilots who got out of Europe and made it to the UK to fly. Mostly flying the Hurricanes who went after the bombers while the Spits kept the fighters busy. The great 60's Battle of Britain film just gave a slight nod to them. It's not a Big Budget film but they did a pretty good job. The CGI isn't great but not too bad. I can live with it. One aspect is it "Racism" or maybe just Culture Clash with them trying to fit in with the Brits. Another Keeper in my library.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2018 23:11:59 GMT -5
Much like the last movie I went to Dunkirk, walked out on it. I kept Dunkirk in any case just for the History along with the original 1958 B&W flick. It's just the way Brits do film. Churchill wasn't quite as good as Darkest Hour but it had it's points too. I kept both of those too. If you're an Aviation Buff at all, another recent Brit Flick is Hurricane. It's abt the 303 Squadron made up of Poles, and other refugee pilots who got out of Europe and made it to the UK to fly. Mostly flying the Hurricanes who went after the bombers while the Spits kept the fighters busy. The great 60's Battle of Britain film just gave a slight nod to them. It's not a Big Budget film but they did a pretty good job. The CGI isn't great but not too bad. I can live with it. One aspect is it "Racism" or maybe just Culture Clash with them trying to fit in with the Brits. Another Keeper in my library.
It's a good thing Spain was so far behind the power curve in weaponry otherwise "The Battle of Britain" could have never been filmed! They used actual Heinkels that were reengined and built there as well.
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Post by Bartman on Nov 24, 2018 17:44:48 GMT -5
It's a good thing Spain was so far behind the power curve in weaponry otherwise "The Battle of Britain" could have never been filmed! They used actual Heinkels that were reengined and built there as well. Not that they were behind the power curve exactly. The He111's were license built by Spain's CASA and used the same Merlin engines that were in the 109's that were also used in the film as after the war the original Daimler Benz engines were no longer available. I read that by the 60's when the film was made they were just used by the Spanish Air Force in a training squadron or used for transport. One interesting note: if you watch in the beginning of BoB where the refugees are on the road and the guy in the Spitfire does a Victory Roll over them, you will hear the engine sputter when he goes inverted. That's 'cause the early mark Spits still used a downdraft carburetor and it would do that under negative G's. I read that in Capt. Robert S. Johnson's (27 Kills) book "Thunderbolt" that when he went to a RAF base in '43 they let him try out a Spitfire and that scared the crap out of him! "Heck of a thing to happen in a dogfight!". Of course in later Merlin engines they went to fuel injection.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 18:49:23 GMT -5
It's a good thing Spain was so far behind the power curve in weaponry otherwise "The Battle of Britain" could have never been filmed! They used actual Heinkels that were reengined and built there as well. Not that they were behind the power curve exactly. The He111's were license built by Spain's CASA and used the same Merlin engines that were in the 109's that were also used in the film as after the war the original Daimler Benz engines were no longer available. I read that by the 60's when the film was made they were just used by the Spanish Air Force in a training squadron or used for transport. One interesting note: if you watch in the beginning of BoB where the refugees are on the road and the guy in the Spitfire does a Victory Roll over them, you will hear the engine sputter when he goes inverted. That's 'cause the early mark Spits still used a downdraft carburetor and it would do that under negative G's. I read that in Capt. Robert S. Johnson's (27 Kills) book "Thunderbolt" that when he went to a RAF base in '43 they let him try out a Spitfire and that scared the crap out of him! "Heck of a thing to happen in a dogfight!". Of course in later Merlin engines they went to fuel injection. Well I'd say He-111's in 1956ish was well behind the power curve. Circa 1971 we were anchored at Rota, Spain. The US more or less gave them a WW2 jeep carrier, the ex USS Cabot and she was always tied up to the pier, I assume she went to sea every now and again but I never saw it underway. I was also there in 70 in transit to Naples, Malta to ship and the Spaniards actually quit work around noonish and took siestas. I was like damnnnnnnnnnnn....
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Post by pickle20 on Jan 28, 2019 9:16:18 GMT -5
I watched First Man last night on Blu-Ray.
Awesome movie. Great performance from Gosling, and while the first hour of the movie is pretty slow and gets bogged down in technical jargon, it really comes to life when they go to the moon.
It's been a weak year for movies, but this is one of the best.
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