I just watched The Northman, or most of it, and IMHO it was beautiful boring shit.
I fully understand the 89% critic score and 64% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. So boring.
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I just watched The Northman, or most of it, and IMHO it was beautiful boring shit.
I fully understand the 89% critic score and 64% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. So boring.
I just watched Top Gun: Maverick, and IMHO it was, well it depends.
If you're a fan of the original Top Gun you'll love it. If nothing else this is a movie made for fan service. Lots of references back to the original movie. Val Kilmer was invited to be in the new movie but not Kelly McGillis probably because she's no longer hot.
If you've never seen the original but you like action movies, jets whooshing around, and explosions, you'll still like this movie. There is no shortage of action.
If you're not a fan of the original, and you want more from a movie than explosions, you'll pretty much hate this movie. The characters are paper thin, the primary conflict in the movie kind of evaporates without ever being directly solved. The love story is just sorta there because it has to be.
Personally, I liked Top Gun, and I liked Top Gun: Maverick for the same reason: I love good action scenes. The jet scenes in this movie are great. It's mindless fun and I'm okay with that.
Before the movie started there was a little blurb where Tom Cruise talks to the audience and says, "We made this movie for you." I chuckled, leaned over to my wife, and said, "Well, that and millions of easy dollars."
Oh, and I forgot one thing which will resonate with the ex-Yahoo!'s on this forum.
During the film, Maverick works on a P-51 Mustang, and during the end credits he takes his girlfriend for a spin in it.
Long long ago in days of yore, Yahoo! would sometimes host celebrities who would come and talk to the employees in our cafeteria. He was the biggest name who ever got booked for one of these things. So pretty much every employee on the main campus dropped what they were doing mid-morning and crammed into the cafeteria to gaze upon his awesomeness.
He was super late, like an hour and a half late. I'm not exaggerating when I say that something like 2500 employees were standing around, on company time, not doing any work for an hour and a half. Why was he late? Because he had just bought himself a P-51 Mustang and decided to fly it up to the Bay Area instead of taking a private jet like a normal celebrity.
I'll bet that was the same P-51 we see in the movie.
I'm not sure how a captain in the Navy can afford his own P-51, but whatever.
That sounds like such a Tom Cruise story.Quote:
Originally Posted by RainMan
Looks like you can get one for just south of $2.5 million, so, easy money on a commissioned officer salary.
A guy I went to high school with has a family that has done quite well for themselves. They now own a private WWII museum and they've got 2 P-51's, among quite a few notable planes in their collection.