Posted on 07/29/2005 3:49:01 PM PDT by frogjerk
Boston Globe gave it half a star.
(s)But But But it has special effects!!!!! It has a sassy blond woman who picks on men!!!!!(/s)
Oh maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan! And I was hoping to like this one. Well, it does have Jessica Biehl...
From another review:
"EDI is programmed to kill, but when he speaks, in those dulcet tones of servitude, he's like KITT from "Knight Rider" on his wimpiest day. He's so icky-fey that he sounds as if he's warming up to play Felix in a dinner-theater production of "The Odd Couple."
what was the swipe? last one I heard was in blacula or blade were wesley is asked who is in the white house and he replies " an asshole."
[See bottom half of post above mine]
She rides a bicycle in the movie?
hahahahah!!!
She is so beautiful she absolutely kills me.
She gets ejected from the cockpit...
The TV news is on, and the lead character asks, who's that? Another guy says he's the president (mildly familiar face). Then the lead says he never liked the guy, and that he was stupid, or words to this effect.
I apologize if this is not the exact way it works into the movie. But whenever I see this stuff I just go off. Then Mrs. CT shooshes me. But basically it took me a few moments to get back into the movie, and this piece could have never been there and it would not have made the movie any different.
bugmenot.com
Thanks.
Looks like a real stinker. I'll be missing it. Which is too bad because I like airplane movies.
The pilots won't complete missions because of collateral damage? Give me a break.
The linked review has some great observations, though:
The pilots, who refuse to complete missions because of their own freelance estimates of civilian casualties, sound less like warriors than members of PETA. One aborts a bombing raid on some nuclear bomb smugglers because onboard computers say "1,000 mammals" are nearby. So cows trump nukes?It's funny to watch Hollywood reach out to the red states only to trip over its own insane values: The life of every living thing, even a roach, used on a movie set must be accounted for before the production can get an OK from the animal-rights groups, so "Stealth" imagines Navy bombers are under similar constraints.
Just two minutes into the film I could tell that the reviewers would do everything they could to kill it. Why? Because the movie unabashedly promotes the Global War on Terrorism.
No kidding. And - What must really get their goat - is that the pilots exhibit a tremendous amount of concern about collateral damage and go as far as to abort missions if they think civilians will be harmed. The soldiers (pilots) are all portrayed as compasionate good guys, who don't hesitate to take out the bad guys (witout endangering civilians.) It's a pro-war, pro military movie, so naturally, the critics will pull out all the stops to kill it.
That isn't how it was. It was a village, and it looked like a fairly substantial village of at least a few thousand and only a short distance downwind of the nukes (which were in transport). The pilots estimated that, if they took out the nukes, at that moment, a radioactive cloud would descend on the village. Nothing about cows. Only people. Allies, at that.
The left-media don't want you to see this movie.
And just to set your minds at ease. None of the 'aborted' missions were actually aborted.
This movie is more likely to have the effect that TopGun had, way back when - With people standing in line to enlist because of all the cool fighting gear. So let the critics fool you.
Ok, it's not a great movie, but the reviews are written by left-wing loonies who want you to stay away.
oops. That was supposed to be 'Don't let the critics fool you.'
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