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First Man (2018)
Haven't seen it, but the entire cast seems terribly miscast!
So far as I can see of the actors I am familiar with (most of them), unless they have undergone a lot of makeup and facial remodeling or rubber-masking for their roles, I see virtually NO resemblance to the real people they portray of any of the male cast - other than having a mouth, nose and two eyes. This applies most appallingly to Ryan Gosling as Neal Armstrong.
Ground Control (1998)
Beats out "Plan 9" for worst movie ever.
An airline pilot who has lost everything electrical, hydraulic, wind and steam-powered on his plane makes contact with PHX center via cell phone and says "Roger Phoenix, we are not going anywhere." If you don't understand the problem with that, you will probably think this is a good movie. The dialogue comes fast and furious and is full of in-crowd jargon, but also full of ATC non-sequiturs. I got the impression a copy of the script was cut up into strips that contained one line of dialogue AND one line of action on each strip, then each strip pasted on a 3 x 5 card; then the cards were shuffled very thoroughly and the movie shot in order from the resulting stack of cards. A REAL air traffic controller would find hundreds of lines with technical errors; you would think that control towers and centers (ARTCC) were interchangeable. In a scene near the end, when all the airplanes PHX ARTCC was controlling have all gotten on the ground, the controllers all close up shop and go home, leaving the ARTCC unmanned, except for the hero and a few other important characters. Then when they assume that the last airplane has crashed, they all climb up the stairs to the tower, which is apparently conveniently on top of the ARTCC (which is never the case), and the hero ARTCC controller guides the plane in from the catwalk outside the control tower cab. A complete list of the technical improbabilities, inconsistencies in dialogue and unexplained scene shifts would fill a 500 page book. I say all this having been an air traffic controller and ATP rated pilot. Again, any pilot or controller who thinks this is a good movie was not paying attention.
World War Z (2013)
Inexcusable aircraft discrepancy, C-130 vs AN-12.
The visible differences between the Lockheed C-130 and Antonov AN-12 are so pronounced, I can't believe the director released this film with the scenes frequently cutting between the two aircraft. The airplane played such a prominent role in the movie, this simply should have never happened.
The movie was virtually unwatchable for me because of this jarring discrepancy. Even people generally oblivious to aircraft types can tell they are not the same model of plane.
I hope that Brad Pitt had not seen this gross error before the movie was released. That aside, simply the fact that this was a zombie movie should have given Pitt some doubts about his participation in the movie.
Hybrid (2007)
vacant staring, running with tame wolves
I can't blame Cory Monteith (Aaron) for what the director and film editor did with him - although most reviewers seem to blame him for the seemingly hours the camera spent watching him in close-up staring vacantly into the distance. I presume that was done to make sure we could see the cool wolf-eye contacts he was wearing. No acting was needed in these scenes, other than the ability to maintain a serious demeanor rather than breaking out in giggles.
In the monkey-cage room near the end of the scene where the monkeys are out, the monkeys start jumping back into their cages, but does the Doctor close the doors behind them? Oh, no. She continues to panic and goes elsewhere.
Finally, we get another hour of wolf-boy loping through the fields with his buddies the tame wolves, mostly them following him far enough behind that this could be construed as the wolves CHASING him, for an alternate ending. But the director chose to end it with Aaron following the wolf pack in their joyous romp in the fields.
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010)
The dialog is the best argument for censorship I've heard yet...
But first - I walked out on "300" after about 30 minutes, and don't plan to go back to see the full movie. I watched 2 minutes of "Spartacus" before tuning to a different channel; it looked like "300" but with a dubbed sound track consisting of filthy language that would make a sailor run screaming out of the room. I see how this show appeals to immature teenagers - I was about to say "teenage boys" but in today's world I have to include "teenage girls" in that category. Too bad the dialog was so foul I didn't stick around long enough to see the blood that everyone else seems to be obsessing over. I give it minus 3 stars.