When will those Pilots Ever Learn?

Rating: 5/10 (1 April 2017)

So how many King Kong movies will it take before the various pilots learn to STAY OUT OF REACH of those long ape arms??? Five minutes in, every freaking one is toast after presumably surviving an entire year in 'Nam. Even the biplane pilots in the original did better than that! When I was practicing bayonet drills at Fort Benning, the instructor told us he'd never actually used one because he "always carried plenty of ammunition." Excellent advice for infantrymen and pilots both.
And I never ever saw anybody lugging around an actual record player--see the Air Cav scene in Apocalypse Now for the proper reel-to-reel machine.
In general a stupid waste of time and money although its good to see that John Goodman has lost weight and Brie Larson is as lovely as ever, although not as limber as Naomi Watts. Its good Samuel Jackson still has a day job shilling for Capital One, and its good to see John C. Reilly, an under-appreciated actor whose heart got broken by Roxy Hart in Chicago, stealing the show. One only hopes he hung in there long enough to see his beloved Cubbies win it all. But I guess if characters in these movies paid attention to the warning from the guy who'd "lived there 28 years," we wouldn't have movies like this.
Hummm; maybe not such a bad idea.