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Blind Cop 2
Not recommended.
The first one…OK, just kidding…there is no first one!
This is a fake sequel in the style of a late 80s or early 90s tough-guy who breaks the rules movie. In this one, our main character is blind, but it’s quite humorous that he still insists on driving and being a full cop. He has zero Daredevil like abilities…but he still manages to be a cop.
Sadly, it’s dull. Mildly amusing, maybe? I think if you are going to make a comedy like this, you…well, need to make it funnier.
Skip it.
No, this was on streaming, but I did read some of the trivia on IMDB. Very clever of them to do that and quite refreshing these days, not relying on CGI to excess. Definitely helps with the nerve-shredding!
Begotten (1989)
Not recommended.
No, thanks. Just a very bizarre avant-garde(?) movie. Nonsense mainly. I read a summary online and I suppose it makes a bit of sense out of it. Unviewable, as well. Don’t watch it. It’s not worth your time.
Also, on the subject of things that don’t make sense when you think about them (but explainable due to the decision to film on-location atop a cliff) there were visible mountains in the background. Doesn’t make sense to have such a high antenna located on the plain. Should be on one of the mountaintops. Right? Kind of like how in the real world, they put their filming platform on elevated terrain.
Anyway, I saw the movie maybe a year ago and also liked it. Well done for what it is.
Last Night on Earth (2024) on Prime
A well thought out end-of-the-world thriller. The motivations of the antagonist could have been fleshed out a little more, but still a nearly flawless little film.
Ladies First (2026) Netflix
Sacha Baron Cohen is a wealthy, chauvinistic executive at an advertising agency, Rosamond Pike is an employee who has been overlooked because she is female who gets a promotion to cover a campaign and feign showing a woman’s side. Cohen bumps his head and ends up in a world where gender roles are reversed and he has to work his way out of being treated exactly like he treated women. Then he learns his lesson, returns to his normal life (spoiler!), and misogyny is solved.
It’s fine. It has some funny moments and has a point, though it is very in-your-face about it. It also sports a talented supporting cast. It’s based on French film I Am Not an Easy Man but I’m not familiar with that.
We watched it a few days ago, and enjoyed it, even though it is 100% predictable.
The best part about it is all the little Easter eggs they put in the gender-switched world: King’s Cross Station becomes Queen’s Cross, Burger Queen, Victor’s Secret, and many more subtle changes. At one point we see a statue of a seated woman named Georgina Peabody, a reference to this statue of American philanthropist George Peabody in London.
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(I looked it up, and coincidentally, there’s a replica of it in Baltimore, a few blocks from where my father lived for many years.)
Tom Sawyer (1973) on Prime with Johnny Whitaker and Jodie Foster.
A children’s film featuring alcoholism, grave robbing, murder, and blood oaths. Last time I saw it was when I was ten. All I really remember is that I was smitten with Jodie Foster. I had no memory that it was a musical, let alone that the screenplay and songs were written by the Sherman Brothers (with a score by John Williams). Not surprising, since the songs are entirely forgettable (although, I kinda liked the lyrics to “If’n I was God”). Johnny Whitaker is a perfectly competent actor by child-actor standards but his singing voice is atrocious and should have been dubbed.
The musical numbers aside, it’s a pretty solid film. Injun Joe is just as frightening as he was when I was ten. And Jodie Foster is still cute as a button.
All of those are in the novel by Mark Twain. Tom skips school. He has two girlfriends who he kisses frequently. He and one of them spend days wandering a cave until they are in danger of starvation. Adults drink so much that they can’t remember if it was them them or someone else who killed someone. People use words and have attitudes that would now be considered racist. The novel, published in 1876, has a cynical view of the southern U.S. just before the Civil War.
I really enjoyed those Easter eggs as well though I admit that I didn’t catch all of them.
Hokum
Good movie, but I kind of want to watch it again in a few months. I felt the same after watching Oddity, the previous movie from this director.
Adam Scott is good in the movie, though.
We went to see The Sheep Detectives three weeks ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it. First time I’ve been to a cinema since October, 2015 (The Martian).
Got Three Bags Full, the book it was loosely based on, from the library; other than a few characters’ names it was almost completely different. I know books can’t be translated directly onto film, but this was ridiculous.
I like to believe I would have thought about the need to deal with the old bulb before ascending the tower, and planned accordingly.
However, I freely admit to having been young and stupid once myself.