tijgert Reviews

Greyhound (2020)

Predictable shallow action movie with moronic foes.

[4/10 · 16 July 2020]

The movie chose action sequences over character development and I can support that. The visuals are amazing. But it seems that the Germans had to be both mean and stupid in this film. They had to be depicted as evil so they have them taunt the convoy and it's escorts by radio. No sub captain would give his position away like that.

On top of that the Germans had top be depicted as stupid too and completely surfaced their Uboots all the time within visual range of the escorts BY DAY when they had perfectly good periscopes. Even in the middle of the convoy, right next to a destroyer at a range of a couple hundred yards. Lunacy, this never happened. Of course when they actually used periscopes they rose up like 10 feet into the air at a range of a maybe a mile from a destroyer.

No no no. When a sub spots a destroyer, he goes silent and goes away, he does NOT attack and surely not head on. Subs did not want to sink destroyers, they saved their precious torpedoes for merchant ships only. When a sub is forced to surface between two destroyers they also don't shoot it out, that's plain suicide.

Cowboy action, bubblegum for the brain, nothing more.

7500 (2019)

As a pilot I was overwhelmed by the realism, excitement and acting.

[10/10 · 14 July 2020]

I don't like aviation movies, they never get more than two things in a row right. This movie hits home somewhat as I'm a pilot (though on a Boeing) and as such it could happen to me, so I was curious as to how bad another aviation movie on this topic could be.

This movie... I was stunned and amazed, I had a genuinely elevated heart rate all throughout watching it. You really feel the lack of movement and placement scripting in the absolute freedom and improvisation of the filming, it is so inconceivably unpredictable and realistic. All the procedures and actions are technically correct too, which can feel superfluous for the people that don't know and care, but is a level of authenticity in movies that I've never seen.

I am advising all my colleagues to see this.