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[Johnny Novgorod]

The Killer Elite (1975)

James Caan and Robert Duvall are friends-turned-enemies who fight, let me quote Wikipedia, "a proxy war over a foreign dignitary in the streets of San Francisco". It's directed by Sam Peckinpah and the plot is almost as inscrutable as his later The Osterman Weekend. Sam was good with cowboys and with soldiers, but always fumbled around mercs and the CIA. Kinda like when Michael Mann makes a movie that isn't about cops and robbers. Here Bobby betrays Jimmy, who nurses himself back to peak by learning kung fu, then teams up with Burt Young and Bo Hopkins for that proxy war over a foreign dignitary in the streets of San Francisco. The whole thing is more farcical than gritty, and the surreal climax takes place on board the Naval Reserve Fleet, with the trio toting UZIs and mowing down ninjas in slowmo. I don't think the movie quite lives up to the promise of its venerable two-hander, but I'll take bizarre over boring.

 

[thebobmaster]

You know all those jokes about people making a sequel to a notoriously bad movie and making it good just so others go out and say "You have to see Baby Geniuses 3!" or something like that?

A ★★★ review of Bambi: The Reckoning (2025)

“Because what happens when the forest fights back?” The fourth entry in the universe started by Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, and consisting of that movie, its sequel, Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare, and this film (so far), it was initially intended to be directed by Scott Chambers at the...

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[Johnny Novgorod]

Super Mario Galaxy

Rosalina gets kidnapped by Bowser Jr. and Mario et al go off to rescue her, regularly splitting up and reconvening moments later in order to go through fanservice and product placement twice as fast (or 4x considering these movies' crippling addiction to montages). The ADHD is off the charts once again. Characters are given full package introductions and then chucked to the background for the remainder of the running time, conflicts are presented and then immediately resolved or reversed, we breeze past dozens of overdesigned, overstuffed locations designed for little more than YouTube breakdown videos... the speed and shallowness of everything is exhausting. God forbid you pause on a thought or an emotion for more than 5 seconds.

For positives, it's pretty and dazzling to look at, and has the obvious benefit of adapting characters and worlds that are already 3D CGI creations, so there's nothing uncanny about the process. You get a few platforming and fighty gauntlets that look way more thrilling than any Mario I ever did play. I liked a joke about Mario Maker, and I'm pretty sure I was the only one in the theater to get it. Couple of other cute callbacks too. Bowser and his kid end up being the most interesting characters in the movie; Fox was fun too (speaking of Glen Powell - he really is in everything these days). Everybody else does their schtick. Mario is definitely just along for the ride, which is also how I felt while watching.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Super Mario Galaxy

Rosalina gets kidnapped by Bowser Jr. and Mario et al go off to rescue her, regularly splitting up and reconvening moments later in order to go through fanservice and product placement twice as fast (or 4x considering these movies' crippling addiction to montages).

You know. I miss the days when a Mario movie could be about David Icke-ian lizard people from the Hollow Earth plotting to take over the world with their de-evolution ray. Or something like that. I was drunk when I watched that one.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

You know. I miss the days when a Mario movie could be about David Icke-ian lizard people from the Hollow Earth plotting to take over the world with their de-evolution ray. Or something like that. I was drunk when I watched that one.

Lol, that rings a bell.
Yeah this is just the standard "we have to go to A to get X to go to B to get Y to go to C to get Z" every blockbuster does since the last Star Wars.
I'm going to start calling these spectacle checklists

 

[BrawlMan]

You know. I miss the days when a Mario movie could be about David Icke-ian lizard people from the Hollow Earth plotting to take over the world with their de-evolution ray. Or something like that. I was drunk when I watched that one.

I don't miss it and I've watched that movie neither drunk nor high. I have some soft spots for the live action film but I pretty much have zero reasons to watch it ever again. So this comes out tomorrow, and it's my day off, I'll try and see it.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I don't miss it and I've watched that movie neither drunk nor high. I have some soft spots for the live action film but I pretty much have zero reasons to watch it ever again. So this comes out tomorrow, and it's my day off, I'll try and see it.

Did you like the 2023 movie?

 

[BrawlMan]

Did you like the 2023 movie?

Big Yes. I said it in my original review. The movie is a 9/10 for me, and I saw it recently a few weeks ago, and still stand by my rating. My only problem are the licensed songs. They're distracting and unnecessary. I already know they're not bothering with any licensed non-Mario songs in Galaxy. Glad they took the criticism to heart.

 

[thebobmaster]

Turns out I had logged/reviewed the wrong Supercop. Who knew?

A ★★★★ review of Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992)

“This will make the commissioner happy.” “And what about you?” “I’m never happy. Now go on.” Unfortunately, I was only able to watch the Dimension Films cut of this film. On top of the dub changing names around, they also cut about 10 minutes of the film and redid the score, so what I say in...

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[Johnny Novgorod]

Big Yes. I said it in my original review. The movie is a 9/10 for me, and I saw it recently a few weeks ago, and still stand by my rating. My only problem are the licensed songs. They're distracting and unnecessary. I already know they're not bothering with any licensed non-Mario songs in Galaxy. Glad they took the criticism to heart.

There are basically no licensed songs in the movie so I guess you'll like Galaxy even more.

Except for Rosalina and the Lumas this felt more like Odyssey than Galaxy though.

 

[BrawlMan]

There are basically no licensed songs in the movie so I guess you'll like Galaxy even more.

Except for Rosalina and the Lumas this felt more like Odyssey than Galaxy though.

Find me fine by me. I already knew this wasn't going to be a 1to1 adaption of Galaxy. Adaptions have to adapt and does what works for its specific medium. It's no different from how Sonic 3 adapted sonic adventure 2.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★ review of Anger Management (2003)

“I’ve been getting your coffee and doing your work for five years now, and when a good position actually opens up, you give it to the biggest dick in the world?” “I don’t know about the biggest in the world, but it’s definitely the biggest one in this room.” This movie resulted in at least one...

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[Thaluikhain]

Just saw Jurassic World: Rebirth

Spoiler

My mum has gotten the DVD and agrees with my opinion. She didn't like Hellboy: Crooked Man much either.

 

[BrawlMan]

I just got back from the show in all I gotta say......

Fucking peak! Galaxy and Sonic 3 are the best of the best when it comes to these adaptions. S-Rank; 11/10!

I am serious. Illumination knocks it out of the park. Effort went into this movie and it's more than just shallow fan service. There is fan service mud, it's weaved in without being distracting, or fits the scene in question. Don't know what those film critics have been smoking, but they mean absolutely nothing. I don't know everybody else's response or expectations but you're going to be in for a hell of a time. I'm gonna have to see this again.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

Crime 101 - 5/10

A rather nice thief (never uses any kind of violence) played by Chris Hemsworth executes very well-planned jobs while police detective played by Mark Ruffalo is trying to catch him. Halle Berry also has a pretty significant role working as an insurance agent and where most of the info for the jobs is acquired from. The overall plotting of the movie is actually pretty good, the setup for the ending is pretty solid and has an unique twist to it (that I don't think I've seen before). However, this movie feels so long, and the writing for the dialog is not very good. The dialog/chemistry between Hemsworth is his love interest is just so bad, it really feels like the actors had to improv/ad-lib all their lines. When they're on a date and she's asking him questions, he's answering them so vague and generically like some dude in a job interview that is totally disinterested. There is not too much going on most of the time in the film as Hemsworth really only does 2 jobs the entire movie and it's not like we're building up to some very elaborate heist or anything like that.

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice - 6.5/10

The movie is about gangsters, the boss' son gets out of prison and he wants to kill the rat that put him there (as welcome back gift essentially). There is a bit of sci-fi since time travel is a part of the movie but only very lightly so Vince Vaughn can be 2 characters (both Nicks). James Marsden plays the alleged rat and Eiza Gonzalez plays the love interest in a bit of a love triangle. Keith David plays the boss and is great as always. This movie should be a classic but it's like they didn't have time to do a couple more drafts, tighten the script and rework a few scenarios. There's a comedy bit during the climax at the end that is hilarious when you think about it but the way it is setup and cut (the timing is off), it just doesn't hit like it should at all. The action scenes are pretty generic and weak overall when they should be more inventive and fun, it's like they just didn't have time to shoot the movie and get everything out of the script. Some of the outtakes/deleted scenes during the credits are funnier than the scenes in the movie.

The room had sound so he wouldn't need it pointing at the screens all the time. Astrophage is a sci-fi element, but it's not treated like magic in the book or the film even if the latter offers less explanation. And it takes a long time for the astrophage to infect stars, so there is time for the information to arrive too.

It doesn't take the astrophage a long time to infect/dim stars as evidenced by how fast it was happening to our sun (it was only going to be a like a couple decades for half the population to die). As I was Googling on how long the process is, in the book, the astrophage only dim the stars by 10% and essentially stop / reach an equilibrium of sorts. So a star far away from us that only took a couple decades to dim, we probably wouldn't even notice because we've only been getting exact measurements of star brightness for a short time on earth.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★ review of The Fog (1980)

“ Sandy, you're the only person I know who can make "Yes, ma'am" sound like "Screw you".” “Yes, ma’am.” The inspiration for this film came when John Carpenter and his then-girlfriend Debra Hill were promoting Assault on Precinct 13 in England. Visiting Stonehenge (where the demons dwell, and the...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★ review of Pet Sematary (2019)

“This is the place where the dead rest. Do not go to the place where the dead walk.” This new adaptation had a bit of a road getting made, being announced as far back as 2010 with Paramount naming Matt Greenberg as the script writer. By 2013, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Steven Schneider were set...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★ review of Zootopia 2 (2025)

“Jokes are a common defense mechanism for a traumatic childhood.” “Would you like a traumatic adulthood?” “...I would not.” While the desire for a sequel to the first movie had been expressed pretty much as soon as it came out, it wasn't until 2023 that it was officially confirmed to be in...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★½ review of May (2002)

“Are you okay?” “So many pretty parts, but no pretty wholes.” This film was written by Lucky McKee while she was still in film school, with McKee flat-out stating that it wouldn't exist if it weren't for Amanda Plummer's character in The Fisher King. While the made-for-TV movie adaptation of...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★ review of Ballerina (2025)

“One bullet, well placed, can change the world. The Kikimora’s purpose is to stop that bullet.” The spec script for Ballerina was initially a stand-alone project by Shay Hatten, written in 2017 after being inspired by the trailer for John Wick 2. However, when the script rights were purchased by...

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