Last movie you watched......

Jared Leto tries too hard.

 

I love all three of them -- Denzel, Rami, and Jared -- and will happily watch the shit out of this movie.

 

I'm not spending money on anything with Mel Gibson in it, but this does look like stupid fun.

 

Pretty derivative of Edge of Tomorrow, but doesn’t appear to take itself very seriously.

 

Oh, it is definitely derivative of Edge of Tomorrow and a bunch of other stuff.

 

Gwen and I finally got to see Hidden Figures.

As seems to be the case with every movie about the space program, it plays fast and loose with the facts. The timeline is massively compressed and there were some glaring eye-rolling scenes (Mercury Mission Control was at Cape Canaveral, not Langley and nobody in the United States had real time tracking data on Sputnik) and one blatant line -- "he'll be reaching an altitude of 120 miles PER HOUR" -- that had me yelling at the TV. Plus, there's the "white people realize black people are useful and come to their senses" simplistic plot. I realize the idea was to link civil rights with the space program, but it was done awkwardly.

I know it's really difficult to have three storylines running currently, but the focus should have been on the three women (who were amazing in their roles), instead of so much screen time for Costner and Jim Parsons (who basically plays a more snarky Sheldon Cooper). And the IBM techs don't even know how to install their own computer?

Gwen loved it. I liked it a lot because it showed the unsung heroes -- the "computers" -- before there were actual machines doing all the calculations. When Dad was at the Cape (and Houston), engineers still carried sliderules on their belts and pens in pocket protectors. Fun to find out a lot of the scenes were shot in Georgia, I guess because there are a lot of 1950s and 1960s houses around.

 

Kong - Skull Island or something like that.

It’s a crazy cast.

 

Finally got around to watching “Greyhound,” the Tom Hanks-written story of a WWII destroyer escorting ships across the Atlantic.

Meh (at best).

 

Nick Fury leads a military mission to the island, enlisting the aid of Loki and Captain Marvel. They are aided by a long-lost member of the Nova Corps, who had been stranded there.

 

All following the lead of Walter Sobchek.

 

I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt that way. My friend who loved it thought I was crazy when I said it bored me.
The highlight to me was when a character said something like “there’s now 40 less Germans” and I yelled “fewer” at the screen.

 

Harbinger Down.

Poor Lance Hendriksen.