So it seems my little film binge came to a close for a while and instead I indulged in my other secret shame, that being medical TV shows and decided to watch ER which aged surprisingly well. Started back on the films though
Containment 2015
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3561236/
Disease spreads through a few blocks of flats in modern UK while the seemingly massively unprepared military response team attempts to sort it.
Started off strong and had some interesting ideas but generally meh. Science boy and armchair general* have a few questions as well.
*so they have a few blocks of flats, all sealed and then being floor by floor. I could see not having a rifle sporting soldier with each team but not with the option to fire down the halls? They have it together enough to have a sniper on the roof and presumably a perimeter.
Galaxy Quest
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/
You know that thing where I claimed to like cheesy films, and also have a great fondness for ribbing groups? Add another to the "you should have seen that years ago" list, and in this case I really should have.
Anyway aliens mistake the cast of a cheesy sci fi show (pretty much a stand in for star trek, though with the cheesiness ramped up a bit) for actual space adventurers, recreate their ship (but make it work) and enlist them to help with a bad guy threatening them.
They drag in a bunch of pretty good/noted actors for this one as well which makes it rather amusing, all of them being somewhat typecast in real life.
1917
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8579674/
A rare world war 1 themed film, and not a thinkpiece or just odd setting like so many others. Nor is it an action film (trenches don't tend to make for as exciting a scene as modern stuff, or indeed world war 2 and beyond).
A couple of soldiers are tasked with delivering a message that will save hundreds, if not thousands, of other soldiers but have to cross some distance across no man's land to do it.
Well worth a watch but other than it being a world war 1 film I am not sure it is going to be remembered in so many years.
Wonderfully shot with sets that do well and great acting as too.