Make that Airport 1975, the one with Chuck Heston.
Thank you, ThelmaLou. So she took an I.Q. test in 1931 when she was ten. In 1931 the I.Q. scores were the old ones which used the quotient of the mental age divided by the chronological age, not the number of standard deviations from the norm. If she was 10 when she took the test, she scored around that of an average 17-year-old. Let me make it clear that she was certainly very smart, the sort of person who could probably get through any college degree program she wanted to and get pretty much any kind of job she wanted to. Well, today she could. A lot of women back in 1931 were simply told that no women could should ever study certain subjects and get certain jobs.
A score of 172 on today’s I.Q. tests is something that’s much rarer though. It’s very hard even to be able to say that someone today has such an I.Q. In general, these days it’s essentially impossible to say that a person has an I.Q. higher than 160. An I.Q. of 160 today means that only one person in about 31,000 has such an I.Q. An I.Q. of 172 means that less than one person in a million has such an I.Q.
Some people liked that movie. I thought it was kind of boring to be honest. It made no impact on me.
Yeah, the '70s were fun for those of us old enough to remember. 
Okay.
Back to Bataan - John Wayne and Anthony Quinn
One of my personal favorites. It’s rare to see this level of desperation in a WWII Wayne film. The loss of the Philippines and surrender of US and Filipino forces is a surprising subject for a film meant to encourage the US public.
There are scenes where the Duke is unshaven and hunted as he builds a Filipino resistance force. That doesn’t last long and (of course) he triumphs in the end. The real footage of freed US POWs is sobering and a powerful reminder of personal sacrifice.
Good film that I usually watch on Memorial day weekend.
Guardians of the Galaxy 3.
So, I really liked this movie. I thought the deep-dive on Rocket Raccoon was great. It tied up a lot of the character development arcs. The soundtrack ruled. It may be my favorite of the three.
But I have to warn you the entire film is centered on a narrative of animal cruelty. If you are greatly upset by seeing cute furry things being tortured, this is not the film for you. It’s unusually bleak for a Guardians film, and kind of gross in parts, there are some shocking (for Marvel) killing scenes. All interspersed with jokes. This occasionally creates some tonal whiplash.
I’ve read some reviews and many see it as emotionally manipulative. I didn’t take it that way, but every piece of criticism I’ve read has had some valid points.
Not my favorite of the three, but I also saw it and can confirm it was excellent. Less funny than the others, but a really excellent movie.
I’d like this to be the final appearance of the Guardians. Even the “star lord will return” message concerns me. I’d like this to be it for everyone.
Agreed. It was a great trilogy and it felt like a well-earned satisfactory ending. I don’t need any more story.
I watched a crazy-ass movie called Nobody. It’s Bob Odenkirk as John Wick. Yes, Bob Odenkirk. Kicking Ass and Taking Names. To paraphrase Gunny Hartman, it was silly and ignorant, but it had guts. Sometimes guts is enough.
Dumb and made no sense at all, but it was mildly entertaining.
High praise, I’ll check it out.
Been quiet here(playing Tears of the Kingdom), but have still watched movies and here are my recommendations and avoids:
Missing: Not recommended. Boring.
The Cell : Highly recommended. This movie was divisive when released in 2000, but I loved it. Very well made and worth your time.
Subspecies 1-4 : Recommended, especially 2 & 3.
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - Recommended, very much so.
John Wick Chapter 4 - Crying shame they didn’t edit this down more. There is some amazing movie in here, just astounding. There is also a lot of stuff to be cut out. Still, you get your money’s worth. last hour is incredible.
What a fun movie. Occasionally I just watch the scene of his bus trip home.
The bus ride was the highlight, for sure.
I, Frankenstein <–streams on Netflix
Not really recommended, but not too bad.
I was struck how much this movie seemed like Underworld and it is from the same creative team, at least partially. Their hope was to make several of these movies where the Frankenstein monster fights against evil. Alas, if the later Underworld movies felt like each one had diminished returns, this movie felt like one of the later sequels. Just kind of stylistic with not much story or characterization.
I didn’t hate it, but it is pretty forgettable. I’m glad Aaron Eckhart, Mirdanda Otto, and Bill Nighy got paid. Not an embarrassing movie to get paid to be in. Not a career ruiner. Just a movie. No one comes out of this movie experience looking bad.
I probably would have watched a sequel to see if they could improve.
Saw, and for a Disney-princess movie liked, Disney’s new “live-action” Little Mermaid. Mostly due to Halle Bailey’s terrific performance.
Caveat: I am a cinematographic dunce in general, so if you read some critic’s negative review complaining about the visuals or the direction in one scene or another, don’t assume that my overall positive impression refutes such criticisms in any meaningful way. I’m okay at evaluating dialogue and script construction, and I vaguely notice if a movie comes across as unusually dark or loud, say, but cinematography? What’s that?
Saw The Wrath of Becky over the weekend (If you enjoyed Becky, you’ll enjoy this sequel, even though it has lower emotional stakes) and, based on the trailer, am now looking forward to The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (currently at 100% at Rotten Tomatoes FWIW)
Saw Senior Year this weekend, on Netflix. It’s basically Mean Girls, but in an alternate universe. Very predictable, but good-enough acting and funny.
My most recent five:
We’re No Angels
A 1989 remake of the 1955 Bogart movie, costarring Robert De Niro and Sean Penn as two escaped convicts in upstate Depression-era New York, pretending to be priests and trying to blend into small-town life before they can make their escape across the border to Canada. Never quite took off. Meh.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Pretty good Shrek spinoff with Antonio Banderas returning as the titular feline. Good cast, impressive animation and some very funny bits.
Boston Strangler
Keira Knightley (with the first American accent I’ve ever heard from her, and doing it pretty well) and Carrie Coon play spunky reporters in Sixties Boston, trying to catch a killer who seems just a bit too clever for the cops. Some plot holes and too many unanswered questions, but still worth a look.
Tetris
Lighthearted, based-on-a-true-story account of how the insanely popular videogame made its way from the Gorbachev-era USSR to the rest of the world. Taron Egerton is quite good as the businessman who jumps through a million implausible hoops to win the rights to distribute the game abroad.
Being Mary Tyler Moore
Affectionate documentary about the beloved sitcom and movie actress, who died in 2017. I learned quite a bit about her and, although the biopic acknowledges some of her shortcomings and failings, I like her even more now.
Actually, I liked that movie.