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Captains of the Clouds (1942)
Good flying action, dumb plot
If you're going to watch this, do so for the technicolor flying action. The plot is terrible. Our star is James Cagney as Brian McLean. He introduces himself as a Canadian bush pilot who is lying about the other local pilots and undercutting their prices to get all of the local jobs. Also the instant he lands and sees Emily (Brenda Marshall) he decides to make up stories about Johnny her lover who she plans to marry, and take her away from him. He gets hit by his own helicopter blade. She nurses him to health. Johnny, in dangerous weather conditions, flies a doctor in and saves him. These two and another guy make a bunch of money. Then Brian marries and immediately leaves Emily. He says he needed to do that to stop Brian from marrying her and prevent him from wasting all of his money on her (really).
They end up in the Canadian air force. He is all about being a hotshot with his intuitive skills. He is a trainer. He takes a pilot up to show him how it's done. He crashes, nearly kills the guy and totals the plane. For this he is court martialed and forced to leave the military. So he mopes around town getting drunk and complaining about it. He get's the bright idea of dive bombing a celebration where the air force is giving other pilots their wings with a friend and the friend gets killed. He is rather intuitive and reckless. But in the end he sneaks back into the air force. He flies with a group of unarmed planes to England. A German plane shows up. He flies his plane and himself into the German plane. They both crash. The other planes are saved. He is a hero. The end. Stupid.
Eye in the Sky (2015)
It made my stomach turn
This movie was beyond terrible. Oh no, we want to bomb 3 of the most wanted terrorists in Africa who we haven't seen together in years. There is a little Kenyan girl who might get killed. We'll have to consult the most important political figures in the US and UK to decide what to do! In war unfortunately, there is collateral damage and pretending that the heads of state are consulted every time a little girl is in the way is just a way to make people feel good about it. Whatever the merits or lack of them are of the war on terror, this pretend fantasy is sickening. Never mind that even in the movie they say all sorts of people outside the compound are going to get killed anyway. Presumably they magically know that none of them are children.
Then we have the electronic flying beetle. It's battery runs out. It can't provide a picture so presumably they don't really know who will be killed (to add to the tension). This doesn't make a lot of sense since the girl is outside and they have a plane showing a high res perfectly stationary picture shortly after the drama of the beetle going out. It's amazing how a plane zooming around can show a still picture, though doesn't explain why they were so worried about the beetle since people are clearly visible from the plane cam.
Just avoid this offensive junk.
Citizen Ruth (1996)
The ending credits
There are 49 reviews and no one mentioned the ending credits? Maybe nobody waits for them to roll. The first 1/2 has typical end of the movie music. Then there is the loud sound of a cassette turning over. The cassette she was playing earlier about how to make money plays with lots of pseudo advanced theories about investing money from a small nest egg. Then the tape jams and breaks and the movie ends. Too funny.
My Dad picked this movie. Reading the short description given of a comedy about both sides of the abortion debate I was expecting the worst. However it is a dark comedy that pulls off its subject quite well, making fun of everyone. That is rare for a movie made in the last 10 years. A movie such as this works best when the main characters don't come off too stereotypically. The movie only partly succeeds with this. This type of movie is so uncommon nowadays though that I give it a 9.