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It took 30 years to make... not bad. Good message.
 
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I saw The Phoneician Scheme on Saturday. A good movie not Andersons best but a return to form in my opinion compared the last 3 that have come out. Great cast, music and settings. Actually cared about the characters in their quirky ways as they grew in the story. No spoilers here, if you are a Wes Anderson fan this will leave you happy.
 
Watching The Accountant 2 right now...

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Just finished this flick, highly entertaining, some parts that I found very humorous, love the Chris & Braxton exchanges; makes me wonder what a third installment in the franchise might bring...
 
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Watched Fountain of Youth and Wolfs on Apple TV+

Both was pretty ok - I won't probably remember it or the context next month though. But a 5-6/10
Wolfs was a bit more funny, ah well those guys 😂
 
Rebel Ridge (2024 Netflix)- 5/5 Incredibly good story about a black USArmy veteran riding into police corruption in a U.S. Southern town. Not your typical action film, and not based on a specific true story, but is based on real cases of police corruption. I spent the entire film wondering how is this man going to survive this with his life intact? 🤔

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Plane (Netflix 2023)- On a flight from Singapore to Tokyo, an airliner in forced down onto an island where the Captain tries to protect his passengers from local insurgents. Energetic, but…I think they forgot an aviation consultant…

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I like both these actors!​

Read after the movie or get a taste now, hard core spoilers.
  • Along their route they hit storms storms, they hit severe turbulence, the captain is concerned and on a two pilot aircraft, he leaves the flight deck and goes back to check on the crew and passengers. Post 911, as far as I know that just doesn’t happens.
  • Lightening strikes are possible, losing your avionics is possible, but I’ve never heard, “electronics are down, radio is dead, we’re on straight battery, (with the engines still running) , We have 10 minutes before power goes completely dead, and then an uncontrolled descent. The gens are on the engines, they’d likely put out juice. The engines would not stop running if the battery went dead. There are circuit breakers on aircraft not fuses. Ok, there could be a fuse, but a 40 amp fuse? I think it would be a CB. It’s not a scenario I ever saw, which doesn’t mean anything really, just mentioning it. I’ve not heard of a situation as described in this movie- 10 min for the battery, then we lose control. On an A320 you could lose all electric and still fly the aircraft with minimal control, but you still had enough to fly, but because the throttles are fly by wire, if all the gens died, to leave you on battery power, you would have a short time frame to land before losing the ability to control them, but more than 10 min. Could be with newer aircraft, this is a possibility, but all aircraft designs are based on heavy duplication of critical items. They have static ports specifically designed to carry any electrical strike energy off the airplane, and there are multiple generators usually on the engines unlikely to be damaged by a lightning strike, but it’s been 15 years since I’ve flown so don’t take this as gospel. Onward…
  • They have 10 min to get on the ground. In 10 minutes at 40k (mentioned later) you could do an emergency descent but that’s about it. Normally if the engines are running you keep flying until you are close to running out of fuel. But under the premise as described, lose control of aircraft when battery dies, the pilot is preparing to ditch, good move, but he then sees land and flies inland, into the jungle at night, no lights anywhere, bad move. Much better to ditch than try to set it down in the freaking jungle. But there’s a road and they land the plane.
  • The investigators trying to figure out what happened to the airplane, want to know why this captain was demoted to flying “crappy” routes. They watch the video on a flight of the captain being punched in the face by an out of control passenger, and he responds by subduing the passenger, like that’s wrong?? 🤔
  • The captain actually finds a phone in a warehouse and calls his company, and the woman he talks to, doesn’t believe he’s the captain because they’ve been getting prank calls. She wants to know his badge number and he tells her sorry I don’t have it on me. When I flew, it would be your employee ID number and everybody had that memorized. 😳
  • They get help from a mercenary team sent by their company, because the Philippine government is too scared to send troops to the island because of the insurgency. Somehow the electronics are fixed, via a fuse and they gonna fly out?
  • The Captain gets shot in the leg from an assault rifle, no problem, he’s not in shock, not bleeding to death, he’s gonna fly them out. And during the escape the aircraft takes a lot of bullets from automatic assault rifles. No problem.
  • They want him to climb to 3000’ but he says he can’t cause the doors are open. They tell him he must! He say no! No problem. Maybe if he had limited power after one engine failed, but there is like 20 people on board, and he says it’s light on fuel., Damn it, that plane should climb! They are rated to fly around on one engine, maybe cause of all the bullets, and the near 3000’ mountains decided to give him safe passage… 😛
  • Ok, I won’t tell you the ending… 😁
 
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Huntn said:
Plane (Netflix 2023)- On a flight from Singapore to Tokyo, an airliner in forced down onto an island where the Captain tries to protect his passengers from local insurgents. Energetic, but…I think they forgot an aviation consultant…

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I like both these actors!​

Read after the movie or get a taste now, hard core spoilers.
  • Along their route they hit storms storms, they hit severe turbulence, the captain is concerned and on a two pilot aircraft, he leaves the flight deck and goes back to check on the crew and passengers. Post 911, as far as I know that just doesn’t happens.
  • Lightening strikes are possible, losing your avionics is possible, but I’ve never heard, “electronics are down, radio is dead, we’re on straight battery, (with the engines still running) , We have 10 minutes before power goes completely dead, and then an uncontrolled descent. The gens are on the engines, they’d likely put out juice. The engines would not stop running if the battery went dead. As far as There are circuit breakers on aircraft not fuses. Ok, there could be a fuse, but a 40 amp fuse? I think it would be a CB. It’s not a scenario I ever saw, which doesn’t mean anything really, just mentioning it. I’ve not heard of a situation as described in this movie- 10 min for the battery, then we lose control. On an A320 you could lose all electric and still fly the aircraft with minimal control, but you still had enough to fly. Could be with newer aircraft, this is a possibility, but all aircraft designs are based on heavy duplication of critical items. They have static ports specifically designed to carry any electrical strike energy off the airplane, and there are multiple generators usually on the engines unlikely to be damaged by a lightning strike, but it’s been 15 years since I’ve flown so don’t take this as gospel. Onward…
  • They have 10 min to get on the ground. In 10 minutes at 40k (mentioned later) you could do an emergency descent but that’s about it. Normally if the engines are running you keep flying until you are close to running out of fuel. But under the premise as described, lose control of aircraft when battery dies, the pilot is preparing to ditch, good move, but he then sees land and flies inland, into the jungle at night, no lights anywhere, bad move. Much better to ditch than try to set it down in the freaking jungle. But there’s a road and they land the plane.
  • The investigators trying to figure out what happened to the airplane, want to know why this captain was demoted to flying “crappy” routes. They watch the video on a flight of the captain being punched in the face by an out of control passenger, and he responds by subduing the passenger, like that’s wrong?? 🤔
  • The captain actually finds a phone in a warehouse and calls his company, and the woman he talks to, doesn’t believe he’s the captain because they’ve been getting prank calls. She wants to know his badge number and he tells her sorry I don’t have it on me. When I flew, it would be your employee ID number and everybody had that memorized. 😳
  • They get help from a mercenary team sent by their company, because the Philippine government is too scared to send troops to the island because of the insurgency. Somehow the electronics are fixed, via a fuse and they gonna fly out?
  • The Captain gets shot in the leg from an assault rifle, no problem, he’s not in shock, not bleeding to death, he’s gonna fly them out. And during the escape the aircraft takes a lot of bullets from automatic assault rifles. No problem.
  • They want him to climb to 3000’ but he says he can’t cause the doors are open. They tell him he must! He say no! No problem. Maybe if he had limited power after one engine failed, but there is like 20 people on board, and he says it’s light on fuel., Damn it, that plane should climb! They are rated to fly around on one engine, maybe cause of all the bullets, and the near 3000’ mountains decided to give him safe passage… 😛
  • Ok, I won’t tell you the ending… 😁
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Sounds dumb - sorry but thanks for saving me some time!
 
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I've been catching up on some of the Marvel Movies lately and the last two weeks I saw The Marvels and Captain America Brave New World. I think I liked The Marvels better, even though it got bashed when it was released. I just liked the chemistry of the three leads.
 
Night of the Demon (1957)
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Originally released in the UK under the title Night of the Demon with a running time of 95 minutes. When the film reached the shores of the United States running time was cut to 83 minutes and renamed to Curse of the Demon. The English release being the better for those twelve minutes.

Night of the Demon is a superbly crafted horror/occult film. A feature film of importance for horror cinema, influencing generations of directors in the construction of atmosphere & suspense. The director Jacques Tourneur develops tension through psychological horror alongside the sceptical protagonist creating an interesting contrast to the narrative...

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The Stand (1994)
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After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.

If a fan of Stephen King The Stand is well worth the watch. I have a version cut into a full feature with a runtime of 6 hours. Holds true to the original story, beating some newer releases. The Stand was directed & produced competently, equally for TV so tends to lean to the theatrical although the production value was good for the day and still stands up.

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