jcashcoach
Joined Jul 2016
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If you have a couple hours free, and want to watch a movie AND play a drinking game, Capricorn One might be a good choice. Peter Hyams spent some eight years after the Apollo Moon Landing in making this film. One wonders if he needed the time to view enough previously made movies in order to fill in the plot details. How many can you name? Take a drink for each one.
Story has it that Writer/Director Hyams had the kernel of the idea in July 1969 after watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk around on the Moon. For a director who would go on to sit in the chair for the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, it isn't even a bit ironic that within a year of the spectacular space special effects from Stanley Kubrick's film the United States celebrated the televised landing on the lunar surface, and Hyams thought it could be possible to fake such history.
Viewers would be puzzled, then, why he didn't insist on writing a better script, or eliminating the enormous Mars Lander shadow on the matte painting with a few skillfully placed lights (one can imagine the photographer in Kubrick would never allow such laziness), or come up with more realistic character names (Caulfield, Brubaker, Judy Drinkwater?).
Capricorn One is okay, but just okay. It isn't inventive enough, doesn't go anywhere new or interesting, and, until the flying sequence near the end, had me poking around the house doing chores while it played in the background.
Story has it that Writer/Director Hyams had the kernel of the idea in July 1969 after watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk around on the Moon. For a director who would go on to sit in the chair for the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, it isn't even a bit ironic that within a year of the spectacular space special effects from Stanley Kubrick's film the United States celebrated the televised landing on the lunar surface, and Hyams thought it could be possible to fake such history.
Viewers would be puzzled, then, why he didn't insist on writing a better script, or eliminating the enormous Mars Lander shadow on the matte painting with a few skillfully placed lights (one can imagine the photographer in Kubrick would never allow such laziness), or come up with more realistic character names (Caulfield, Brubaker, Judy Drinkwater?).
Capricorn One is okay, but just okay. It isn't inventive enough, doesn't go anywhere new or interesting, and, until the flying sequence near the end, had me poking around the house doing chores while it played in the background.
If you take the best single episode of Breaking Bad (Ozymandias) and then tell the story of No Country for Old Men in a slightly different way to get there, that's The Arroyo. Someone once said there were no new ideas, and this movie proves it. Still, for a moment of entertainment to leave you probably wondering what our government is waiting for, watch this one.
It's not top notch acting, and as a Daily Wire production it's going to have a message, but it gets the job done. It's a slow start that introduces the characters and the problem. You've seen this kind of thing before. Thank goodness this is a rather short runtime for a feature-length film at only about 80 minutes. The ending is worth plodding through the set-up.
It's not top notch acting, and as a Daily Wire production it's going to have a message, but it gets the job done. It's a slow start that introduces the characters and the problem. You've seen this kind of thing before. Thank goodness this is a rather short runtime for a feature-length film at only about 80 minutes. The ending is worth plodding through the set-up.
Too many characters I don't care about. Too much soap opera. Nothing to look forward to, no one to cheer for, Alpha isn't enough to hate. There's no threat to the top of the cast from Walkers or the Living, and far too many minor characters. This show works best as an ensemble cast attempting to survive. I can't even keep track of all of these faces.
An entire half episode 3-4 weeks ago to find and bring back a projector lamp; no real danger, lots of attempt at humor, and in the end we only get a peak at "movie night" after all that. There appear to be plenty out there who find this show an entertaining Sunday evening hour but I can't even keep from multi-tasking while it's on as background.
An entire half episode 3-4 weeks ago to find and bring back a projector lamp; no real danger, lots of attempt at humor, and in the end we only get a peak at "movie night" after all that. There appear to be plenty out there who find this show an entertaining Sunday evening hour but I can't even keep from multi-tasking while it's on as background.