No one recognizes a good movie anymore and this is a good movie about family and faith and how we lean on those in a crisis. It's based on a true story which makes it that much more amazing. Dennis Quaid delivers as a devout family man who is put in an impossible situation. He is a good actor and one who has improved over the years and he is great in this role. Heather Graham is his incredibly hot sweet wife and she does well although it seems like her prayers are a bit stilted. All the smaller roles are well played and make it clear these are based on real people.
I love this film's commitment to tell the real story and it's well done. I promise you'll be on the edge of your seat as you watch a family in the crucible. It's a great family film, something you can watch with your children and it's refreshing to see faith played out in the lives of real people.
This thing is so bad, yet they keep producing it. They should be ashamed of the writing and the characters in this show. As a life-long Trekkie who watched the original when it aired, this is just unmitigated crap. The casting may be without a doubt the worst in Trek history. It's amazing how they've taken something as simple as episodic science fiction and turned it into a farce. Please, Paramount, spend the money elsewhere, I don't want anymore Trek if this is what we get. I can live off what I already own.
After John Cena's groveling video in Mandarin to China. I will never see anything that includes him in it, period. As far as I'm concerned he represents the true nature of Hollywood, chasing a buck from slave owning cyber/economic terrorists and thugs.
Ignore the cynics. This is a sweet family film you can watch with your pre-teens. It shows a family's love for each other and the resilience of the family bond. It's never going to win an Oscar, but every parent and child can relate to this film and that is an achievement. Besides it has Jennifer Gardner and she literally breaks the cute meter.
Watch it as a family and enjoy!
Ok, let's do the good first. This is an outstanding series that opens us up to a world we could not know, the 100st Bomber Wing during the length of WWII. It is an amazing story of friendship, camaraderie and survival against insurmountable odds. The action is the best I've ever seen for a film with planes, the scale and scope of the combat is overwhelming as is the damage done to the planes on each mission. The acting is first rate, clearly these are great actors at their best with Austin Butler leading a cadre of young actors all in their prime. The best part is the writing, each episode touches on a different aspect of this air war and all involved.
Now for the bad... Jamming the Tuskege Airmen into a show about the 100st was done purely for PC/Woke purposes. I believe the episodes actually do injustice to the Airmen and their incredible skill and bravery. If you want to make a series about them, than do that, but this series was about the 100st and it's jammed in ham-handed in the last episodes and it's beyond obvious why. Shame on Spielberg and Hanks for servicing this anti-merit movement in their storytelling. You get the feeling these guys would have folded in a New York second during the Black List days and the rest. They are cowards and it's sad to see cowards telling a story of bravery.
Should you watch it? YES! Should you get mad about the Tuskege Airmen/PC/Woke episodes, yes.
This series was so good and then it jumps the shark when it has to POC cast an actress that is the polar opposite of Guinevere. Period series’s like this are being ruined by casting the wrong race in the name of “diversity.”
This is the kind of movie that flyover country want Hollywood to make. At its essence it's the story of a woman who fights the demons and failures in her own life by essentially becoming an angel to a family truly in need. She takes on the burdens of this family to avoid dealing with her own life and in the process is transformed through these acts of pure selfless kindness.
Hillary Swank puts on an Oscar worthy performance as Sharon Stevens, our ordinary angel. She slows us all sides of this character, both highs and lows. This is a top actress at the top of her game and she delivers.
Alan Richson, of Reacher fame, plays the family's father Ed Schmitt. Just based on the physical size of RIchson, I thought this would be a stretch, but not at all. Richson delivers an amazing performance, filled with nuance and emotion. He has an amazing way of drawing you into his character and feeling his desperation and urgency.
All the supporting characters add to the sense of community and love the film delivers in bunches. This kind of flyover country optimism is frowned upon by professional film critics who are mostly cynical elitists who enjoy watching perversion and destruction.
So ignore the useless critics and go see this movie. It's so worth your time and money and you'll leave the theater feeling better for it.
Was so hopeful for this season to be good. Started out interesting and as it went along, it just got more and more dense. By episodes 5 and 6 this thing jumps the shark so far, they're still looking where it went. This is what happens when you take a good series and you turn it over to a bunch a Clown World idiots. You go Eskimo girls! What a steaming pile of waste. Avoid, it's just going to piss you off. Shame on you Nic Pizzolatto for letting them take a large feminist dump all over your project.
Grey's Anatomy is a perfect indicator of when the PC Virus spread and metastasized through the entertainment industry. We watched as the show each year jumped further and further over the shark (forced to watch by the wife who loved the "characters"). Now it's just a smoldering pile of entertainment crap that shows how little regard actors, networks and the rest have for their audiences. I thought MASH was too indulgent, this jumps MASH AND the shark! Shame on all the paycheck actors/writers/producers and rest who are just doing this to fatten the residuals. When they say they do art, just point at this steaming pile of dung and say, "no you're not."
I'm just so tired of seeing the affirmative action POC remakes. Seriously they're never as good as the originals. Donald Glover is no match for Brad Pitt and Maya Erskine? Seriously for one of the most timeless gorgeous faces ever in Hollywood? Angelina Jolie would have been a star in any generation of Hollywood, who will remember Maya Erskine? Don't you guys get tired of these low-quality remakes and adaptations? Rehashed ideas with middling talent does not add up to a winning formula. Yes, I watched all the episodes, what a disappointment.
