Damian Snell

It's been so long since anybody has seen a decent movie that they've forgotten what one looks like. America are the bad guys, invading another country to destroy a facility. The "mission" is the Star Wars: A New Hope trench run on the Death Star (shoot the missile into the exhaust port) ... and don't worry, faux Han Solo will arrive at the end to save the protagonist from certain death. Maverick undermines the entire premise of the movie by showing that he can do the mission alone, without help from anyone else (so why don't they just send him alone rather than risk the expensive aircraft and people?) Jennifer Connelly only exists to undermine Maverick with her expertise as a fully qualified bar owner. That makes her an expert at sailing and she is always just hanging around for no apparent reason {this time we get homoerotic football on the beach, and while Maverick is shirtless and involved, Connelly is nearby watching, yet too frigid to actually show her body in a swimsuit... so, what's the point of her even being in the scene?) You know that Rooster is Goose's son because he inherited Goose's moustache and Hawaiian shirts! All the same awful tropes you've come to expect from Bruckheimer films... slow zoom in on the face of someone watching something in awe, for 6 people present in the same location, one after another, while the soundtrack chimes in to tell you how to feel about the cliche you're watching. A few of the airplane stunts are so absurd that I suspect they were copied from the dogfighting scenes in Hot Shots (1991)! If this is the Navy of the current year then we will all be dominated by our ambitious enemies very soon. This movie is terrible. It p¡sses all over Tony Scott's legacy

A frustrating 2 hours of viewing. Hour one is slow and boring, with a pointless plot that could have been cut from the movie and not been missed; hour 2 of watching a ludicrously excessive introverted man repeatedly fail to kiss the girl who couldn't make it any clearer to him that she wanted him to kiss her without being on-the-nose about it. An entire movie based on the stupid romantic notion that people don't act on their feelings. I have trouble believing that anybody would deny themselves to the ridiculous lengths of Mr Stevens in this story, for the amount of time he does, literally decades!

Rewatched this recently and I think Scott was making fun of the airforce with how much homoerotica he put onto the screen

Annoying poncey characters who all have to be so clever; and deliver every line like it's they're delivering the Gettysburg address. Think of everything you hate about high elves of other franchises. 14 year olds who've experienced nothing will love it, even though it's made for adults so they aren't supposed to be watching it. Couldn't stomach anything beyond the bar fight in episode 1... oh, and expect to see "the message" for no logical reason Can anything happen without on-the-nose expositional dialogue? Not in this show

The post Braveheart story of Robert the Bruce, starring some widow and her Mary Sue archer daughter and token sons

When the 4th Spider-man shows up I'd had enough... how many Spider-mans does it take to ruin a movie? 4

Has that awful docutainment style where they're acting pre-scripted lines as though it's happening live (think Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory)

While the documentary is often confronting and very tense in parts, one has to wonder how much of the film is a genuine document and how much is either people performing for the camera they are aware is recording them, or just outright contrived and staged