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Post by TS on Aug 6, 2013 13:11:13 GMT 12
Oh well you can still take credit for putting it up on this forum.
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Post by Bruce on Aug 6, 2013 16:08:34 GMT 12
The special free preview screening at Oshkosh had the huge outdoor theatre completely packed out, I couldn't get in but I hear it was excellent.
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Post by baronbeeza on Aug 7, 2013 0:02:11 GMT 12
A few here saw the planes' trailer earlier this year.
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Post by Luther Moore on Aug 7, 2013 0:17:05 GMT 12
Next year the new one should be coming out..
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Post by Luther Moore on Aug 7, 2013 0:19:19 GMT 12
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Post by Ykato on Aug 24, 2013 23:43:43 GMT 12
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Post by flyinkiwi on Sept 24, 2013 15:51:56 GMT 12
I went to see it on Sunday. Overall, its a good way to spend 90 minutes of your time but don't waste money on 3D if you can help it, you won't be missing out if you see it in 2D. There are some details in the film which a kid won't get but a seasoned plane nerd will spot instantly.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Sept 28, 2013 13:29:41 GMT 12
Film review: PlanesBy GRAEME TUCKETT - The Dominion Post | 5:00AM - Saturday, 28 September 2013PLANE CRASH: Planes is a tacky and misjudged cash-in that slid swiftly into thoughtlessness and venality.WHAT: PLANES (PG) — 92 minutes.
DIRECTED BY: Klay Hall.
STARRING: Dane Cook, Stacey Keach and Priyanka Chopra.AGGRAVATED. There is no other word for my mood.
I know that the school holidays are about to start, because a couple of animations have just hoved into view at the multiplex. One of them is about a snail who wants to go racing (Turbo), and the other is about a small crop-dusting airplane who wants to do the same. I figure, with a couple of good film festival returnees also opening, I'll pick one of the cartoons to review this week, and let the other take care of itself. I chose Planes. Bad move.
Planes is what happens when a hugely successful franchise is tapped to pour another few hundred million into the coffers of a Hollywood studio. The franchise was Cars, and the studio is Disney. Cars was made by Pixar, and I've utterly lost track of who's sharing whose bunk in the relationship between those two companies, but somehow, probably via producer and Cars creator John Lassiter, Disney has finished up owning the Planes spin-off franchise.
The original Cars at least had a few moments of wit and big-heartedness to commend it. The film also featured the last ever performance from Paul Newman, and that is reason enough to remember it with some affection. Cars 2, not so much. That film was a tacky and misjudged cash-in that slid swiftly into thoughtlessness and venality. Planes is very much in the spirit of Cars 2.
Our hero is an unhappy crop duster. He dreams of entering, (and winning of course, for what is the point of competing, if you are not to win?) a pan-global air race. And so, with only his self-belief to aid him (and a couple of friends, including the obligatory grizzled old-timer) young Dusty takes on and defeats the world's finest air racers.
How? Who cares, it's only a movie. Right?
What I do care about is the hugely derivative and lazy writing, and the unthinking bigotry that drives this screenplay.
That Dusty will win the race is a given. It's been longer than I can remember since a Disney animation illustrated any lesson other than "winning is everything". But Planes can't even make that dubious point without denigrating its own supporting characters. There are two female planes in the race. Both are written to be no more than objects of the male's desire, to be seduced and "won" before the race is over. Then there is the Mexican plane. He is a bit dim, but full of passion, and he plays the guitar. And there is an African/American plane. He is also dim, and content to work in the fields all his life, despite his folksy wisdom. I cringed at first, but by Planes' end, I was actually angry.
If you're aged about nine, or have recently taken a couple of sharp blows to the frontal lobe, then maybe you could let this kinetic candy coloured kack wash over you, and think nothing more of it. But if you were hoping for something other than cynical, exploitative, reactionary drivel, I'd avoid Planes like a bad mussel. Maybe the one about the racing snail might be a better bet.www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/culture/film-reviews/9218169/Film-review-Planes
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 28, 2013 16:30:01 GMT 12
Interestingly all the aviation people I have heard talk about having seen it reckon Planes is great. Finally a movie for aviation buffs and not the critics?
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Post by glenn on Sept 28, 2013 23:07:10 GMT 12
I saw it in VEgas in August, and again in Canberra last week. Daughter loved it. I was not upset by watching it again either.
Although, Rochelle changed clothes between the two countries and I believe has about 11 different nationalities.
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Post by nuuumannn on Sept 29, 2013 3:22:22 GMT 12
That is very cool (The Oshkosh picture...)!
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Aug 5, 2014 0:30:55 GMT 12
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Post by Luther Moore on Sept 7, 2014 19:29:30 GMT 12
On Foxtel tonight if anyone hasn't seen it.
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Post by flyinkiwi on Oct 13, 2014 10:48:40 GMT 12
Went to see Planes 2: Fire & Rescue with my niece and nephew on Saturday. First up, its a better movie than the first film because the plot is more original. There are some great gags that are definitely aimed at the older viewers. It still surprises me how a movie like this gets more aviation things right than wrong compared with other more grown up productions.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Oct 25, 2014 13:15:42 GMT 12
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