Devotion (film)

If the critics at Rottentomatoes gave it an 82 and the audience score was 92 ..... that's enough for me to give it a chance with me too.

[quote=Haggart]If the critics at Rottentomatoes gave it an 82 and the audience score was 92 ..... that's enough for me to give it a chance with me too.

Did a search on Itunes for it.
Result?
Selena Gomez: Devotion.
I`ll wait.

Saw it and it was "Based on True Events", aka Hollywood took liberties with the truth/reality of history.

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The airplane graphics were EXCELLENT. The ship was so-so of an Essex Class carrier. How they parked aircraft on the flight deck was never done, but apparently desired to fill up the camera's lens with "stuff" to catch the eye, just like so much flak you couldn't walk on, but would SWIM in!

The U.S. Navy did not have jets on their aircraft carriers when Korean War began in 1950? Using a 10 years old aircraft?

The U.S. Navy did not have jets on their aircraft carriers when Korean War began in 1950? Using a 10 years old aircraft?

The U.S. Navy did not have jets on their aircraft carriers when Korean War began in 1950? Using a 10 years old aircraft?

Thanks for that info ebud and it's a shame that so little actual air combat is featured.


Take another war movie for example, "Glory". That featured race relations AND it had several really fantastic battle scenes.



So, it CAN be done but you have to have the right people involved in making the film.

Incoherent - The story drags, is one cliche after another, and it says nothing interesting about the war or the time period. On top of this, any comparison to Top Gun is laughable.

Could Have Been A Lot Better - Same old crap from Hollywood. A lot of racial overtones. Same kind of war movie. Bar fights. Immature thought processes. Not following orders and instructions which endanger enlisted and officer lives. This movie was crap. I couldn't wait until it was over.

Cliched, dull, funny - Devotion is one old trope after another after another. Most of those scenes involve some kind of trope speech given at just the right moment to the troops.

Another one - This could have been a very good movie, but very much of current ideology and moral panic stood in it's way. Almost every minute we were treated with some lesson on back woes. Now and then there are glimpses that movie could take off, pun not intended, but instantly loses fuel and lift with another healthy dose of blacksplaining.

Ruined by Wokeness - This movie could have focussed on a magnificent pilot, inspiring friendship, and draw dropping feat of sacrifice. Instead, like Gollum clutching the ring as he dissolves in lava, the writers can only focus on racism and hate.There is no journey of the character. The character stays trapped in hate unlike the real person.

Not a war movie - It felt like the trailer duped us. I was expecting to go in and see a Korean War film from the perspective of navy aviators. Kind of a style mix between Top Gun and Pearl Harbor. However it was far from that. There are only two action sequences in the entire movie and they don't last very long. Very underwhelming.

Heh, an actual excellent post from NFB! I give credit when credit is due!

Incoherent - The story drags, is one cliche after another, and it says nothing interesting about the war or the time period. On top of this, any comparison to Top Gun is laughable.

Could Have Been A Lot Better - Same old crap from Hollywood. A lot of racial overtones. Same kind of war movie. Bar fights. Immature thought processes. Not following orders and instructions which endanger enlisted and officer lives. This movie was crap. I couldn't wait until it was over.

Cliched, dull, funny - Devotion is one old trope after another after another. Most of those scenes involve some kind of trope speech given at just the right moment to the troops.

Another one - This could have been a very good movie, but very much of current ideology and moral panic stood in it's way. Almost every minute we were treated with some lesson on back woes. Now and then there are glimpses that movie could take off, pun not intended, but instantly loses fuel and lift with another healthy dose of blacksplaining.

Ruined by Wokeness - This movie could have focussed on a magnificent pilot, inspiring friendship, and draw dropping feat of sacrifice. Instead, like Gollum clutching the ring as he dissolves in lava, the writers can only focus on racism and hate.There is no journey of the character. The character stays trapped in hate unlike the real person.

Not a war movie - It felt like the trailer duped us. I was expecting to go in and see a Korean War film from the perspective of navy aviators. Kind of a style mix between Top Gun and Pearl Harbor. However it was far from that. There are only two action sequences in the entire movie and they don't last very long. Very underwhelming.

Typical modern Hollywood, making a movie far longer than it needs to be. The 1995 film, "The Tuskegee Airmen" was only an hour and forty five minutes long, plenty enough, and was really good.

Movie was passable but a bit boring. It primarily relied on the racial aspect. It was a bit odd as well in those scenes. While it would be hard to make a plot about such a person without mentioning the issues once, to keep going on and on about it did get old. The air scenes were very limited like mentioned above. This was a political commentary movie first, with a setting of a war. That isn't necessarily bad but it just didn't work in this movie. They needed some more air time.