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So let me go over the positives first. Amazing amazing filming of the flights. Not sure how they did it. I don't like air shows, but watching the acrobatics in this film was amazing.

The film goes over the progress toeard being certified as a Thunderbird to give demonstrationas around the world. Displays a dedicated team, working effectively together. Like all documentaries they have a story line. Not sure how contrived it was, but fundamentally the individuals stories was also interesting (though only really touched on their stories briefly.. could easily have been half an hour longer). Good pacing, very upbeat.

What I didn't like.. I've served myself, and I think these guys, while appearing calm logical types, are absolutely insane. 10% of Thunderbird Pilots die. This is an acrobatics demo team but I'm sure that death rate is higher than combat. The tight formations theu fly on are absolutely jaw dropping. Seriously I had tears in my eyes just watching them fly. God bless them, bit seriously, is it worth that death rate? Anyway I highly recommend this film. It literally amd figuratively flew by. Well done to the team that filmed this.

Good and bad.. so let me cover the good first.. So set in plantation era, focusing on a couple of rich black guys and black culture. Black/white tensions, scenes of beautiful rolling cotton fields, a beautiful cast. The panning shots, lighting, scenes are beautiful and really deserve an oscar for the filmography and score. Some of the singing and music was just stunning, and built into the story beautifully. The acting is pretty good, and scenes are really painted out well.

The negative? The story is pretty rambling and weak amd definitely plays second fiddle to the atmosphere of the film. Also, while talking about the past it is solidly in the modern era in its attitudes toward race relations. It's like a modern leftist view of how the plantation era was, with a wakanda like optimism of black relationships. So it's a (modern) 'black' idealist view, making the characters more like charicatures, and similarly white people are depicted as 'crackers' in the most part, though there is some sympathy for the more musical white characters.

So what is this film? An atmosphere piece with great music amd filmography. Did I like it? Yes, it was a beautiful film. And no, it had preconceived ideas of black and white people (nice and fun black people, awful and boring white people). That sheen of discrimination makes it a 'black' film, and through its racially discriminating approach, a little two dimensional. Should you watch it? Sure, it's beautiful and sounds great.

Guys mother dies, decides to open a restaurant using friends of her mother. Nothing else to this film...

...unless of course you are pulled in by sappyness. Yes, Italian culture. Yum, Italians cook well and the food is good. Have the dialogue is talking about different recipes. I really don't get why the high ratings. I like Vince as an actor, and actually he was also good in this, but good at what? Good at appreciating food and being sweet to old women.

I'm not sure who this film was done for, but my guess is Italian-Americans that are out of touch with their origins and can feel good about the fact that Italians cook well. Possibly old women that think 'finally, a film about cooking'. I got very bored about half way through, and I love Italian food (and know Italy and Italian culture). Anyway, I don't recommend.