Have not watched it but it does look to be one I will be checking out.
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OMG! I jsut saw SHAZAM! and I’m like “BEST SUPERHERO MOVIE EVARR!!”
Is that the one that has the girl playing “Billy Batson?”
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Uhm… Nope? It’s a guy, Asher Angel.
He does remind me of Maize Williams from time to time but…
Shazam was better than I expected. It wasn’t Wonder Woman good, but as good as Aquaman.
Still, I miss the Nolan Batman films. Best DC films since Reeve’s Superman.
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Captain Marvel was the one where they did the gender role switch.
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I thought it was just the one with a woman lead.
I enjoyed it in theaters (especially the soundtrack), and Dr. Girlfriend and I have just started the MCU in chronological order, so it’ll be next.
I just got done watching this:
Somehow I had never seen it before. For a move in which nothing of consequence really happens, it’s remarkably entertaining. The superb shots of carrier life and flight are worth the price of admission in and of themselves.
1980 truly was the heyday of the supercarrier: A-6, A-7, RF-8, F-14, SH-3, E-2 and S-3. And all of them in those beautiful grey and white full colorschemes with the eggshell noses. So nice. When “air superiority grey” and “toned down markings” became de rigeur, we all lost a lot.
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I noticed it was on Prime last night so set it to go from the Zero V F-14 dogfight then ended up watching the rest.
I have it on DVD but its one of them films I would have never found again I don’t think if it wasn’t for the Internet.
I never forgot that film. I saw it on cable the first time in 1981 or 82 and instantly loved it as the first film to have F-14s in it. The SF aspect didn’t hurt.
The day it came out on DVD I picked it up, I’m not sure if it ever got an HD treatment or not, it was never that big a hit.
I always laugh at the scene where James Farentino names all the Japanese carriers with a Japanese accent. He really shouldn’t have bothered. Also features Soon Tek Oh as the Japanese pilot, I’ll leave it to others to determine if he spoke Japanese with a Korean accent or not. 
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The sailor manning the station that says “The helo is gone!” A real sailor, an airborne intercept controller who worked in CIC. I met him when we were both on the Kennedy 86-88. …Yes Sir. (sigh) That was me in the movie."
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Based on the Stephen King novel. Simply outstanding! I highly recommend it.
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Looks good RB65.
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It is @chipwich. It really builds up the tension and you are asking yourself “what the hell is going on?” I’ve got one more episode to go.
Huh. Watching Wargames and today I learned that before he was a fighter pilot and a vice Principal of a high school in Hillsdale, California, Stinger worked for the FBI.
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Just a wee bit too esoteric for me to figure it out Navy.
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What? It is easy to figure out…so first you look up the cast of Wargames and you see that the FBI agent was played by James Tolkan. Then you remember that he was the Vice Principal in Back to the Future and the CAG/Ship’s OPS O (a naval aviator; callsign Stinger) in Top Gun.
I must admit that the whole time travel from Back to the Future puts a wrinkle in it. (100 Mudspike points if you caught that pun - no Googling). Movie chronology is Wargames, (1983), Back to the Future (1985) and Top Gun (1986). However, within the stories’ time-line it would be Back to the Future 1955, Wargames 1983, Back to the Future 1985 and then Top Gun 1986…well technically “The Indian Ocean, Present Day”…
…see, easy-peasy. 
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Navy people are weird.
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One of my favorite book series as a kid, haven’t seen the newest movie adaptation yet. And I liked A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet a bit better than the first one.
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The part where all the balls were bouncing at the same time.…scary…
I never went beyond “A Wrinkle in Time”…probably because our library didn’t have the rest.
Did you ever get into “The White Mountain” series? - also adolescent Sci-Fi. I got it on Audible…it holds up pretty well.
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