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Field of Lost Shoes (2015)
Pretty poor Civil War movie
I'll give it a 3 because the Civil War re-enactors did a great job on the battle scenes. Otherwise this is a poorly acted movie. All the actors seemed stiff, just reading their parts. Many of the scenes seem contrived and unrealistic. I doubt if the cadets had time to party the night before the big battle.
The costuming was done very well as well as the battle scenes. In fact these 2 things saved the movie from getting a 2 star rating as far as I'm concerned.
I watched it through the end, but should have cut my losses after the first 20 minutes.
Boyhood (2014)
Kind of like "Seinfeld", a movie about nothing
I was excited too see a movie that was filmed over a span of 12 years, as that was a pretty interesting concept. Watching the actors age before your eyes was a nice novelty. But is what this movie mainly is, a novelty. Hopefully this will be the end of the genre.
This movie could be edited down to 2 hours without losing anything since there is so little to the movie anyway. The kid goes through issues just like you and me. Would you want to see 30 minutes of your life in 4th grade? Me neither. So we get 5 more of these vignettes, at various times during the kids life. His acting was nothing to write home about either. At least the 2 biological parents did a good job of acting, but the rest of the cast seemed to be going through the paces.
If you have 3 hours to blow by, like a long plane ride, go for it. Otherwise your time could be spent much more productively watching something else, like maybe reruns of "Breaking Bad".
Gravity (2013)
Really not believable at all
I give it a 2 because of the excellent CG. Really made you feel like you were in deep space and viewing the Earth from orbit.
Otherwise the story was not believable in any way, and any one who knows High School physics will pick up on the ridiculous chain of events that occurs. There are really too many to chronicle.
So the big spoiler is that she gets back to earth. And lives through it. And just happens to splash down 100 feet from shore. The chance of any 1 of these things happening are about 1 in a billion. So I don't know how many zero's would have to go after a 1 to get to the odds that this movie depicted.
Sometimes it is a bad thing to be a retired Military Aviator. I know how tough it is to bring a plane in to land or how hard it is to hit a target with a bomb. Now put this into space with zero gravity and next to no reference points, but she manages to jump from space station to another, read manuals written in Russian and Chinese and then descend to earth through the atmosphere as if any 10 year old could do it.
If she had just died when the oxygen was running out, it would have been very poignant. Or a flash back just before she died in a flaming re-entry vehicle. But guess that wouldn't do for the masses.