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Bill & Ted Face the Music
(2020)

An excellent, worthy and most triumphant movie.
This movie is in the spirit of the first two movies, it sticks close in theme and spirit of them. It's a light hearted trip through time and the afterlife as you would expect from a Bill and Ted movie and has an excellent message.

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
(2019)

An elegant movie from a more civilized age
I enjoyed this film, any film that makes you laugh when you are going through tough times is a god send. Sent by god herself. Jay and Silent Bob movies never take themselves to seriously and are entertaining. They aren't for everyone including Catholics, they have brought joy to my life for over 20 years and this film didn't disappoint. The Stan Lee interaction with Kevin Smith as the credits played was a nice tribute.

The Final Countdown
(1980)

A time travelling navy recruitment movie.
A time travelling US air craft carrier travels back in time to the events leading up to the one of the boldest naval air attacks ever undertaken. The attack on Pearl Harbour.

It's an interesting premise will the mighty modern navy be able to stop the mighty Mitsubishi Zero with their F14 Tomcats to prevent the day of infamy every occurring.

There are lots of cool looking shots of the modern 1980s navy in action including F14s Refuel Tankers and rescue helicopters all showing off their abilities. After watching this you will have forgotten the last war failures and conclude that any part of joining the navy is a very good choice.

All in all it is a dated movie from 1980 and would not hold a newer audience. My first thoughts of the movie when I saw it in the 80s is that it was a prime example of the Cold War proper gander coming out of the US.

All in all it's a ok film hence the rating I gave it. Must be a big ask to go up against The Empire Strikes back in the same year. I do believe that if this movie wasn't made you may never of gotten movies later in the 1980s like Top Gun or Firefox.

Battlestar Galactica
(2003)

I hated The New Battle Star
I had the grate pleasure of been born in the 1970's. 1974 to be exact. We had Star Trek on every day. What more could a young fella ask for in 1977, I remember catching the bus with my father to watch Star Wars. If I recall correctly the dude in the black mask gave me some bad dreams.

Skip forward 3 years as father and son went to see the empire strike back. It was around this time at school where every kid was asking was Vader Luke's dad. It would fill up our every lunch time discussions until a kid said did you guys watch the show on Saturday morning. No we all said, so next weekend we all went round to Chrises house and had our minds blown away. There were epice space fights with robots. As a bunch of 7 years old kids we were hooked. We watched it on Saturday morning and played out our favourite scenes. In the play ground on Monday. We loved that show so much that serveral of us started whistling the theam song while playing the Apple //e game elite. ( one of the best challenging space trader games ever ). As kids tend to grow up so did we. We grew up on some pretty fantastic shows and would defend their honnor till death if need be.

Skip forward to 2003. We were so excited to see our favourite show brought back from its deep dark hole where it was sitting for the best part of 24 years.

We were so excited to see the mini series but we all hated it. It didn't live up to our expectations, yes we know that our expectations were outrageously set too high. So as a group we decided not to watch anymore episodes. Move on to 2013 at a boys night in the motel they just happened to be playing the 2003 mini series. We were all glued to the tube and spent the whole weekend binge watching. Being a bit older and wiser it was easier to accept the series as the excellent show it is and realise that as kids we only remember the good parts.

I hope the boys and girls are playing in the play ground after watching bsg the same type of game we were as kids.

Despite the initial reacton to the new series I have to admit this could be one of the best sci-fi shows ever. I would like to see a spin off series following another battlestar during one of the wars or maybe a tale of the 13 tribes. Either way give us more BSG please!!!!!!!!

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