Starring Chloë Grace Moretz (“Hit-Girl” from Kick Ass). A decent monster movie set on a B-17 during WWII.
The movie soars to new heights of belief suspension, yet manages to stay relatively grounded (if that’s the right term) largely by her riveting performance. Reminiscent of Sigourney Weaver’s iconic performance in Aliens, right down to the final hand-to-hand (err, claw) fight scene. The actual monster isn't quite as menacing as the Alien, IMO, but I spent the movie watching Chloë anyway.
Seeing her unload twin fifties on enemy Japanese fighters might be worth the admission price.
This message has been edited. Last edited by: kkina, January 01, 2021 09:07 PM
It's quite possibly the worst movie we've ever seen. Ever.
We were laughing in disgust after the first ten minutes...I couldn't believe a studio would put up the money to make this B-side farce of a flick.
The certainly didn't do anything to honor those women who flew aircraft transport in WWII. Disgraced them actually.
But maybe I'm in the wrong business...
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March 21, 2021, 11:40 PM
LastCubScout
I thought it was hilariously stupid. The first half that takes place just inside the belly turret had me thinking it was the cheapest and lamest film I'd seen in a long while. At around the halfway mark when Chloe is hanging from the bottom of the fuselage at 20,000 feet, I was like, "I'm sorry. I thought you were a completely different movie. You seem to know how ridiculous and lame you are. Carry on."
I mean, nothing evokes more imagery of 1940s wartime than synthwave electronica music ... wait, what?!
I rate films on an absolute scale from 10 to -10, so I gave this one a -7, and |-7| = 7 on my entertainment scale.
March 21, 2021, 11:47 PM
x0225095
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Originally posted by LastCubScout: I thought it was hilariously stupid. The first half that takes place just inside the belly turret had me thinking it was the cheapest and lamest film I'd seen in a long while. At around the halfway mark when Chloe is hanging from the bottom of the fuselage at 20,000 feet, I was like, "I'm sorry. I thought you were a completely different movie. You seem to know how ridiculous and lame you are. Carry on."
I mean, nothing evokes more imagery of 1940s wartime than synthwave electronica music ... wait, what?!
I rate films on an absolute scale from 10 to -10, so I gave this one a -7, and |-7| = 7 on my entertainment scale.
Agreed. "Laughing in Disgust" wasn't the best choice of phrase.
"Laughing in Disbelief" maybe.
You said it better.
Yes. It was so bad that it was entertaining on the stupid scale.
But when they showed historical photos of women transport flyers at the end I concluded that the "filmmakers" actually were serious about honoring those women and their service.
What a facepalm of a film. Apart from spider walking a B17 at 22,000 feet surely.....surely there is a better story to tell about these women than what became "Shadow in the Cloud".This message has been edited. Last edited by: x0225095, March 22, 2021 05:34 AM
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March 22, 2021, 05:07 AM
LastCubScout
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Originally posted by x0225095: But when they showed historical photos of women transport flyers at the end I concluded that the "filmmakers" actually were serious about honoring those women and their service.
I loved that! That killed me! It's like, "In honor of all the women flight officers." You mean, all the women that served in the war that fought gremlins and held babies dangling from bombers? Those women?!
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Surely. Surely there is a better story to tell about these women than what became "Shadow in the Cloud".
Yes, there's obviously a better story to tell ... but, is there a WORSE story to tell? I think that THAT is what this film achieves, and I mean that in a positive light too!
