mikeoughton
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The Gorge
This Apple TV+ movie was streamed yesterday.
A semi-retired Marine sniper (Miles Teller) is recruited by a still impressive Sigourney Weaver for an unusual job that will last for a year - no details given. At the same time, a Lithuanian sniper (Anya Taylor-Joy) is recruited by someone for a similar job.
They are sedated and then helicoptered in to a point a day's hike from their duty posts - one on either side of a deep, mist filled gorge, each in their own ageing concrete tower to guard the gorge.
The rules are quite simple - no contact with your opposite number on the other side; a radio check in every 30 days; kill anything trying to get out of the gorge; expect to be relieved in 12 months.
To no-one's surprise, they don't obey the rules - shenanigans ensue...
It's utter b0ll0cks, but good fun - the writers/producers have sat down with a large quantity of edibles and asked themselves the question, "Given what we are trying to do, what precautions would we have to take?"
There are plot holes you could taxi an Airbus through, but ignore that and eat your popcorn, and you'll likely enjoy it.
This Apple TV+ movie was streamed yesterday.
A semi-retired Marine sniper (Miles Teller) is recruited by a still impressive Sigourney Weaver for an unusual job that will last for a year - no details given. At the same time, a Lithuanian sniper (Anya Taylor-Joy) is recruited by someone for a similar job.
They are sedated and then helicoptered in to a point a day's hike from their duty posts - one on either side of a deep, mist filled gorge, each in their own ageing concrete tower to guard the gorge.
The rules are quite simple - no contact with your opposite number on the other side; a radio check in every 30 days; kill anything trying to get out of the gorge; expect to be relieved in 12 months.
To no-one's surprise, they don't obey the rules - shenanigans ensue...
It's utter b0ll0cks, but good fun - the writers/producers have sat down with a large quantity of edibles and asked themselves the question, "Given what we are trying to do, what precautions would we have to take?"
There are plot holes you could taxi an Airbus through, but ignore that and eat your popcorn, and you'll likely enjoy it.
The Last Rifleman
Pierce Brosnan is 71 years old - that fact aged me...:eek7
Here he plays Artie Crawford, a 94-year-old Irishman living in a nursing home with his wife (in a separate room and who is in terminal decline with dementia). He wakes most nights with nightmares about being an infantryman in Normandy in 1944.
The 75th anniversary of D-Day celebrations appear on the TV, and he determines that he wants to go there. The nursing home turns into a kind of detention camp as they try to foil his attempts to do so.
His journey brings him into contact with lots of different people of differing generations, most of whom wish him well, but occasionally threaten him. I won't go into detail to avoid spoilers. His methods of travel are many...
This film is inspired by the true story of Bernard Jordan, a British World War II veteran who slipped out of his nursing home in England in 2014, wearing his war medals pinned to a jacket under his raincoat. He travelled by bus and ferry to France to attend commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
This is a slow-burn fell good movie. The final reveal will have you bawling like a baby... :(
Five riflemen out of five.
PS Lookout for Jürgen Prochnow, playing an SS Armour veteran...
Pierce Brosnan is 71 years old - that fact aged me...:eek7
Here he plays Artie Crawford, a 94-year-old Irishman living in a nursing home with his wife (in a separate room and who is in terminal decline with dementia). He wakes most nights with nightmares about being an infantryman in Normandy in 1944.
The 75th anniversary of D-Day celebrations appear on the TV, and he determines that he wants to go there. The nursing home turns into a kind of detention camp as they try to foil his attempts to do so.
His journey brings him into contact with lots of different people of differing generations, most of whom wish him well, but occasionally threaten him. I won't go into detail to avoid spoilers. His methods of travel are many...
This film is inspired by the true story of Bernard Jordan, a British World War II veteran who slipped out of his nursing home in England in 2014, wearing his war medals pinned to a jacket under his raincoat. He travelled by bus and ferry to France to attend commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
This is a slow-burn fell good movie. The final reveal will have you bawling like a baby... :(
Five riflemen out of five.
PS Lookout for Jürgen Prochnow, playing an SS Armour veteran...