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I have to admit, I liked Blade Runner 2049 with Ryan Gosling a lot more. I just didn’t buy that the Japanese would attack the exact same place a second time so many years later.
There’s over 20 years of episodes, so if you like it, you’ll have a lot to watch! I started hating Tom Barnaby for a host of reasons, but I’ve liked John Barnaby a lot more (and his family), so I came back to the show.
Number one rule? Don’t be a blackmailer!
I saw Dark Star sometimes in the late 1970s. I thought it was great then and I still think it’s great. It was always feature-length. It was 68 minutes when it was first released. Later enough film was shot and added to it to make it 83 minutes long. (The usual definitions for feature-length are either being at least 60 minutes long or 40 minutes long.) Both versions are on the some DVDs of it and some have just one or the other version. The best line in it is “Talk to the bomb. You have to talk to it, Doolittle. Teach it PHENOMENOLOGY.”
We are currently watching Moonfall , because the youngest wanted to.
It is difficult to describe just how bad it is.
It is bad,
Just
…
I cant
I am assuming it was intentionally bad.
When you have seen The Room you will scoff at statements like this. Plan 9 From Outerspace is a god damn masterpiece compared to that.
We watched The Adam Project last night, which was the usual Ryan Reynolds career spacefiller movie he seems to be doing nowadays. A time traveller coming back in time to do stuff, meeting himself and his own family. However.
They utterly mutilated the song “Foreplay / Long time” by Boston during the finale. It was brutal. It skipped chunks and just as it got going, it skipped another. Did that about five times. I can’t imagine anyone who even didn’t know the song would have made sense of it. It’s clearly spoilers, in the sense this is the finale, but it’s a RR film, none of it is really makes sense and you know it will just sort of work out ok with no real threat or danger.
I guess it was to do with the fact the song had “Time” in the title. and you’d hear things like an instrumental “Time after Time” in the background sometimes. But that chopping up of the song is the only thing I really remember about the whole movie.
The Room? Try Diamond Cobra Vs. the White Fox.
Grit tv ran Big Jake and Chisum.
It was fun watching them again.
Big Jake is good but the comedy hits the wrong note. It starts out with an armed invasion of the ranch and several murders. Little Jake is kidnapped. That’s pretty grim for the later comedy scenes.
Chisum is very good. Wayne is playing a historic figure during the Johnson County War. It’s not intended to be completely accurate. Wayne does a good job playing Cattle Baron Chisum. Ben Johnson is great as the loyal ranch foreman.
I’ve rewatched Wayne’s 1960’s and 70’s Westerns. They’re surprisingly good. Wayne’s health was shaky after lung surgery. The later movies were difficult for him to make. He still managed to appear big and powerful.
War Wagon is my least favorite. I saw it in the theater and remember (age 10) being disappointed. I watched again last year and feel the same way.
Saw the new Marvel film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. It was neither the hot mess that some describe it as nor the brilliantly complex story that others insist it is. In general I relaxed and enjoyed it - it’s very much the Cumberbatch, Olsen and CGI Show, but it keeps moving along. No real surprises plotwise other than the hamhanded way in which they shoehorned in the Inhumans, Fantastic Four, What If? and X-Men franchises, complete with dramatic pauses before each character appeared so that the audience could go woop-woop (which was noticeable when watched in a cinema in which the audience didn’t). That said, I would totally watch a standalone Captain Carter series because Hayley Atwell is awesome.
Main gripe is that it felt very much like a mid-story film - it followed on from Endgame and WandaVision and makes no sense if you aren’t familiar with those, and leaves with lots of hooks for other films (including the obligatory mid-credits “here goes another adventure” scene). In that, it was somewhat unsatisfying. It also suffered from the common “The thing that turned the tide at the end could have been mentioned in the conversation at the beginning, thus preventing the vast destruction that happens throughout the film” problem, although obviously then there wouldn’t be a film.
Other points: while I liked Xochitl Gomez well enough, her character was less of a character and more of a Macguffin. Also, watching someone named “America” make star-shaped portals was cheesy to the point of breaking suspension of disbelief. I don’t care if it was in the comic books; it just looked silly. Also, that music fight scene: clearly Sam Raimi just said to Elfman “You know what, Danny? Fuck it - go apeshit.” We laughed a lot at it. And finally, yes, the requisite cameo for all Raimi films is in there. Always fun.
TL;DR: It’s a standard Marvel film. Not the best, not the worst, a lot of good scenes, a plot that probably shouldn’t be thought about too much, and a link to more and more and more films in future.
Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). Excellent thriller. Unforgettable performances by Bette Davis and Agnes Moorehead. Moorehead was second-billing, but IMO she was the true gem of the film. I need to watch more films with her in it. Just a genius character actress.
I’d say it was not a standard Marvel movie for the most part. The “Sam Raimi” sections that were insane were amazing, but the less “raimi like” sections were not great. I also felt like the Illuminati section was lame. The worst shoehorning of cameos in awhile.
The final 30 minutes or so(40 minutes, maybe? Zombie-Strange) were incredible.
I’d rank it in the middle of the Marvel movies since it is a mess. Half-great, half-meh.
On the cameos, I have to admit that the Inhumans television series was so bad I actually eyerolled when Black Bolt showed up. Plus an overpowered hero that can neither use his power nor speak makes for terrible TV/films. Can’t say I was sad to see him go, although they’ll probably drag some other multiverse version of him out at some point.
The Black Swan (1942) starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O’Hara. The single most misogynistic and, oh, let’s say third most racist movie I’ve ever seen. Great swashbuckling, though.
This is exactly why I gave up on Marvel years ago.
This is why I gave up on collecting comics years ago.
Eh, I’m willing to bear the burden of watching three usually enjoyable movies and a handful of well-made TV miniseries per year, if that’s what it takes to keep up. It’s not like I wouldn’t have seen them anyway.
I mean, Robert Jordan it ain’t.
I gave this book to my wife for Christmas. She’s a big fan of all those cozy English mysteries, and of Midsomer Murders, too.
True, but once I started falling behind (somewhere around Iron Man 3), I decided it wasn’t worth going back to catch up.
Perhaps when I retire and have time on my hands, I’ll start the whole franchise from the beginning. Or perhaps not.
We rented the 1956 classic ‘GIANT’.
Classic??? Go fuck yourself. 3 hr and 21 minutes. You could shave an hour and half off it and still have a boring and pointless piece of shit.
The only interesting thing is that they have characters aging 30 years and not gaining an ounce of weight.