衝上雲霄

Never really had any intention of watching this after hearing a lot of bad reviews.  But the chance came up and so it happened.

As a movie, I would have to agree that this was no good.  It really has no relation to the TV series except for the few characters.  But even the characters are not quite realistic to the TV series.  Jumping back and forth between the mostly unrelated characters' stories was almost annoying and made the whole movie just seem broken.  The stories, themselves, were pretty typical and really had nothing particularly interesting.

But, having said that, there are a few things in there that I liked.

The scenery.  I'm a sucker for beautiful scenery.  Whether it's nature or cityscapes, it's one of the things I love most about traveling.  Taking in the scenery.  With the movie mostly set in the UK, one of the places at the top of my list, it brought up a lot of thoughts and questions in my mind.

The cinematography.  Coupled with beautiful scenery has to be cinematography.  Basically exactly why I've always had a love for photography.  How do you capture the moment and the feeling?  Close up?  Far away?  Filters?  Hard to do, but I think they've done a good job here.

The soundtrack.  I'm sure the theme song is a winner for everyone.  Eason's song is the rightful song that everyone expects with this TV series and movie.  There really was no other choice.  But that is not the part I liked.  It's the entire soundtrack.  Whether it's the background music, or the songs thrown into various scenes or Sammi's performance of "Over the Rainbow".  I liked them.  No surprise on this though, because a glance at the credits showed names of many musicians that I know and love.  Hopefully they have an OST for this.