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Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, a review by Antares

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016) 58/100 -  This was quite a chore to get through. I don't know if it was supposed to be a loving tribute or character assassination of Debbie Reynolds. Everyone knows what a train wreck Carrie Fisher was and this documentary is a warts and all treatment of her life, mainly warts. I can understand that it must be hard to grow up in the shadow of a famous parent, but her self-loathing and her desire to wallow constantly in the pain of her past is for the most part pathetic and incredibly tedious to watch. But you do get a sense of where all that material came from in Postcards From the Edge.


Teal = Masterpiece
Dark Green = Classic or someday will be
Lime Green = A good, entertaining film
Orange = Average
Red = Cinemuck
Brown = The color of crap, which this film is

(From Antares' Short Summations on July 11th, 2020)

Quantum of Solace, a review by goodguy

Quantum of Solace (2008) Written by: Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade Directed by: Marc Foster Starring: Daniel Craig, Olga Curylenko DVD: R2-DE Fox (Mar 27, 2009) My rating: -

Sorry, not much to say about it. More entertaining than Casino Royale, although a second viewing will have to confirm that, because I gave CR the same rating the first time I saw it, and it dropped to plain "boring" the next time around.

Marc Foster (does anyone remember Stay?) doesn't do action all too well, plus some intercuts are beyond cringeworthy. Gemma Arterton could have been as good as Eva Green, but she didn't have enough screen time. And as far as Olga Curylenko movies go, I prefer Hitman.


(From goodguy's Watch Log on June 17th, 2009)

The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Airwolf



What's the show about?
Airwolf is a specially-equipped and -armored helicopter that can go supersonic. Stringfellow Hawke is the pilot of that gunship and he keeps it hidden from The Firm, a branch of the CIA who developed and built Airwolf. Hawke however uses the helicopter in missions for The Firm, mostly in Third-World-Countries and behind the Iron Curtain.

"Shadow of the Hawke"
Dr. Muffet is the creator of Airwolf but after a successful demonstrations he kidnaps the helicopter ti Libya from where he attacks french Mirages and sinks an US destroyer. Stringfellow Hawke is a former test pilot of Airwolf and he gets the assignment of returning Airwolf.

My Opinion
"Airwolf" is the total opposite to "The A-Team" when it comes to the death toll. Although I liked the show it became ludicrous when the Airwolf crew vistited "East Germany". But that can be said about almost every american movie/show in the 70s/80s, so I won't hold it against Airwolf.

(From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on January 6th, 2008)