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Yeah I presume they thought they'd need him cos of all the makeup Ron 'Fuck Mothering' Pearlman was under would hinder his ability to act. Suffice it to say, Pearlman and Doug Jones (ably assisted with David Hyde Peirce's voice) managed to act rings around FBI dude and he was unceremoniously shunted away for the sequel. The opening sequence of which was alone worth the cinema ticket I paid to see it.
Shang-Chi and the Subtitle
The thing about Shang-Chi and the rest of the title is that I rewatched Deliverance last night, and Exorcist 3 the night before. I like tension in movies. I like to like characters and to feel tense from tension. Conflict is great for conflict, good writing is paramount to good writing, and I like it when a movie is directed by the director. I want to see some kind of risk and to feel like I discovered something.
The thing about Shang-Chi and the rest of the title is that I rewatched Deliverance last night, and Exorcist 3 the night before. I like tension in movies. I like to like characters and to feel tense from tension. Conflict is great for conflict, good writing is paramount to good writing, and I like it when a movie is directed by the director. I want to see some kind of risk and to feel like I discovered something.
You can just say you thought it was a shit movie and not dance around it with puffed up sophistry you know.
But then I wouldn't get any fun from having watched Shang-Chi, and you'd have nothing to say to me. Everybody wins.
Mortal: Absolute garbage / Great
Guy has God-like powers. Police get involved. Love story. Indiana Jones. Thor. Cliffhanger.
What kind of dog shit was that? It's like someone gave another someone a couple million dollars and 9 minutes to make a movie. It was like the Cliff Notes of Cliff Notes to a much greater movie. So much potential there, and they pissed it away in extraordinary fashion. It's like they white-boarded a movie, then did a point-for-point of the white-board instead of fleshing out an actual movie. SO bad. Crackhead on a treadmill: makes no sense but lasts a while. I don't even want to break it down with a synopsis because that'd literally be the entire film. So fucking stupid. I'm almost angry at how that hour and a half of my life was wasted. Worst movie I've seen in quite a while, and I'm pretty hard to offend. I try to find something redemptive in every movie I watch; this one? Nope; fuck that; they should pay my Netflix subscription fee for this month for my sitting through that utter bullshit of a film.
Guy has God-like powers. Police get involved. Love story. Indiana Jones. Thor. Cliffhanger.
What kind of dog shit was that? It's like someone gave another someone a couple million dollars and 9 minutes to make a movie. It was like the Cliff Notes of Cliff Notes to a much greater movie. So much potential there, and they pissed it away in extraordinary fashion. It's like they white-boarded a movie, then did a point-for-point of the white-board instead of fleshing out an actual movie. SO bad. Crackhead on a treadmill: makes no sense but lasts a while. I don't even want to break it down with a synopsis because that'd literally be the entire film. So fucking stupid. I'm almost angry at how that hour and a half of my life was wasted. Worst movie I've seen in quite a while, and I'm pretty hard to offend. I try to find something redemptive in every movie I watch; this one? Nope; fuck that; they should pay my Netflix subscription fee for this month for my sitting through that utter bullshit of a film.
Alexander 2004 with Colin Feral as Alejandro El Gran, specifically I watched the longest cut of the movie, The Final Cut: Alexander Revisited.
By far the most homoerotic film ever. And Alexander is one of the few protagonist in Film I've seen that's openly Bisexual. This movie is the opposite of Troy 2004.
By far the most homoerotic film ever. And Alexander is one of the few protagonist in Film I've seen that's openly Bisexual. This movie is the opposite of Troy 2004.
I watched the new Candyman movie, and really enjoyed it. I would happily add it onto my list of horror films that aren't jump-scare bullshit. Had a great time, and would definitely recommend it.
I also watched Battle Royale last night, and this was a film that I didn't enjoy so much. It is definitely an important film, but I feel like it has been done better a billion times since. Too many characters, and a little too much cheese.
I also watched Dredd again, but I feel like I have been spoiled by John Wick for gun action scenes. This just didn't compare.
I also watched Battle Royale last night, and this was a film that I didn't enjoy so much. It is definitely an important film, but I feel like it has been done better a billion times since. Too many characters, and a little too much cheese.
I also watched Dredd again, but I feel like I have been spoiled by John Wick for gun action scenes. This just didn't compare.
Our family rewatched all five of the Bourne movies over the past week.
Identity: My favorite, seeing Bourne transform from a panicked young man to an emotionless murder machine then back again is fun. He feels the most like a real person in this movie. But it can look pretty dated sometimes. The fight sound effects are hilarious, straight out of a 13 year old's first YouTube upload. Some driving scenes look absolutely awful with the green screen or projection.
Supremacy: Where the shakey-cam stereotype begins. Honestly didn't watch much of it, but I liked what I saw.
Ultimatum: More shakey cam, and Bourne starts doing really stupid shit. It feels like certain plot elements were created just so Damon could mouth off a one-liner. And they just had to bring in more backstory didn't they. Every Bourne movie needs a new old man antagonist who is somehow related to Bourne, this time higher up the chain. Maybe if they ever make a sixth movie, Bourne will be up against POTUS.
Legacy: This was shot partly in my country, which was very distracting. Only a few actors who had speaking roles were actually Filipino, I guess they didn't bother finding local stunt actors. The finale was pretty underwhelming, and the movie largely forgettable. Too much setting up "Bourne universe without Bourne" (although I did enjoy the returning side characters) that they forgot to put in the good stuff.
Jason Bourne: Also didn't watch much of this one. I could forgive the really obviously fake software they used in the older movies, but this movie was made just a few years ago and the hacking scenes felt straight out of a TV show.
I really like the franchise, even though now that I'm older I see most of its faults. I find myself less interested by the action (which I now realize is really nothing that special) and more impressed by the clever tricks that Bourne uses to wage a one man war on the CIA. It's fun to watch someone who knows what they're doing, and not just being tossed from one action scene to the other.
Identity: My favorite, seeing Bourne transform from a panicked young man to an emotionless murder machine then back again is fun. He feels the most like a real person in this movie. But it can look pretty dated sometimes. The fight sound effects are hilarious, straight out of a 13 year old's first YouTube upload. Some driving scenes look absolutely awful with the green screen or projection.
Supremacy: Where the shakey-cam stereotype begins. Honestly didn't watch much of it, but I liked what I saw.
Ultimatum: More shakey cam, and Bourne starts doing really stupid shit. It feels like certain plot elements were created just so Damon could mouth off a one-liner. And they just had to bring in more backstory didn't they. Every Bourne movie needs a new old man antagonist who is somehow related to Bourne, this time higher up the chain. Maybe if they ever make a sixth movie, Bourne will be up against POTUS.
Legacy: This was shot partly in my country, which was very distracting. Only a few actors who had speaking roles were actually Filipino, I guess they didn't bother finding local stunt actors. The finale was pretty underwhelming, and the movie largely forgettable. Too much setting up "Bourne universe without Bourne" (although I did enjoy the returning side characters) that they forgot to put in the good stuff.
Jason Bourne: Also didn't watch much of this one. I could forgive the really obviously fake software they used in the older movies, but this movie was made just a few years ago and the hacking scenes felt straight out of a TV show.
I really like the franchise, even though now that I'm older I see most of its faults. I find myself less interested by the action (which I now realize is really nothing that special) and more impressed by the clever tricks that Bourne uses to wage a one man war on the CIA. It's fun to watch someone who knows what they're doing, and not just being tossed from one action scene to the other.
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A big part of what hurt the movie for me was a lack of parameters. I didn't understand what hurt the bad guys. How powerful are they? Why would Hellboy be able to beat them? What am I hoping for here?
Example good: we are told that Dormamu in Doctor Strange has no concept of time. Strange is able to use this to really mess the guy up. Without that? A straight up fight between the two? I don't know what he's supposed to do so all I'd be left with is to just watch and wait for the good guy to somehow win.
Example bad: Matrix Revolutions. Squid bad guys are super fast and so numerous that I have no idea other than the script as to why any one of the humans is still alive after some 30 seconds.
The Green Knight. Beautiful visuals but a bit boring. However not boring enough to stop watching. The movie is tied together with a couple of vignettes like a ''ghost in the well'' scene that looks straight from The Witcher. The main character is a doofus but that is probably part of the movie's charm. Apparently the movie is based on a poem and part of the King Arthur folklore eventhough there aren't direct references to King Arthur.
The movie is defintely not without it's qualities but it just failed to grab me. There is no real drama or excitement just some predictable, superficial meandering about bravery that brings the movie to exactly the kind of close you expect. It's very sanitized. I guess it's more of a movie you watch with the fam. If The Green Knight had a better story it would have been incredible since everything else is top notch.
The movie is defintely not without it's qualities but it just failed to grab me. There is no real drama or excitement just some predictable, superficial meandering about bravery that brings the movie to exactly the kind of close you expect. It's very sanitized. I guess it's more of a movie you watch with the fam. If The Green Knight had a better story it would have been incredible since everything else is top notch.
Val
Documentary about the rise and fall of Val Kilmer, made largely from Kilmer's own stash of 8mm home videos. It's a depressing movie. More than depressing, it's pathetic. Evidently that's Kilmer's idea - seen here attending third-rate cons, vomiting in garbage bins and being wheeled out of the premises under a blanket. Even as he's enjoying his 15 minutes of Hollywood glory (ca. Top Gun to Heat) he comes across as a deeply disturbed individual who never got over the death of his brother, dead from an epileptic seizure in a jacuzzi; divorcing the love of his life or being used and scammed by his own dad. He was starring in low budget clunkers long before he lost his voice to cancer. The impression I got from the movie is a man always on the edge of breakdown, who happened to be a movie star for a while.
Documentary about the rise and fall of Val Kilmer, made largely from Kilmer's own stash of 8mm home videos. It's a depressing movie. More than depressing, it's pathetic. Evidently that's Kilmer's idea - seen here attending third-rate cons, vomiting in garbage bins and being wheeled out of the premises under a blanket. Even as he's enjoying his 15 minutes of Hollywood glory (ca. Top Gun to Heat) he comes across as a deeply disturbed individual who never got over the death of his brother, dead from an epileptic seizure in a jacuzzi; divorcing the love of his life or being used and scammed by his own dad. He was starring in low budget clunkers long before he lost his voice to cancer. The impression I got from the movie is a man always on the edge of breakdown, who happened to be a movie star for a while.
I largely ignored most of jim carreys in living color-esque character films because I had to hear quotes day and day out at school to the point where it really grated on my nerves. Cable Guy is one I've literally never seen though I'm mostly aware of what its about. I wouldn't mind going back and giving that one a shot.
Really? I feel they bring very different but wonderful gunfight choreography to the table that more movies would do well to try and learn from.
Man, don't watch the new Hellboy. It's even worse
The original movie was centred on trying to make hellboy into HELLboy and I didn't believe he was ever going to turn bad.
The Matrix 1999.
Still a movie that stands on its two legs, but it definitely feels like its of its own time. But when comes to the Matrix movies, I only just watch them for the action and cool effects. I don't take them as Philosophy 101 and based my world view on it.
Animatrix.
Best segment was the Samurai one because goddamn that 2D animation was beautiful. Also really impressed with the Flight of the Osiris how their take on Photo Realistic CGI humans shockingly still looks good, like video games only now just reached its level of CGI. (Looks at Resident Evil 8, Devil May Cry 5, Metal Gear Solid 5, recent Yakuza games)
Still a movie that stands on its two legs, but it definitely feels like its of its own time. But when comes to the Matrix movies, I only just watch them for the action and cool effects. I don't take them as Philosophy 101 and based my world view on it.
Animatrix.
Best segment was the Samurai one because goddamn that 2D animation was beautiful. Also really impressed with the Flight of the Osiris how their take on Photo Realistic CGI humans shockingly still looks good, like video games only now just reached its level of CGI. (Looks at Resident Evil 8, Devil May Cry 5, Metal Gear Solid 5, recent Yakuza games)
The Next Three Days: Ok / Great
Russell Crowe plays a husband who finds himself in the unfortunate position as a husband of a wife he feels is wrongfully convicted of murder and plots on escaping her from prison.
Not a notable film. Wasn't bad, just not as clever as it wanted to be, and it ends pretty ambiguously; the "reveal" doesn't tell us much more than we already knew the hour previous. Biggest curiosity was Liam Neeson acting in a four-minute appearance. Like, was he hard up for cash or something? How do you pull down a big name like that and effectively not use him? The part literally could have been played by anybody; instead, they paid for Neeson to put on a New York(?) accent for a bit. Watch it if you want to, but you're not missing anything.
Russell Crowe plays a husband who finds himself in the unfortunate position as a husband of a wife he feels is wrongfully convicted of murder and plots on escaping her from prison.
Not a notable film. Wasn't bad, just not as clever as it wanted to be, and it ends pretty ambiguously; the "reveal" doesn't tell us much more than we already knew the hour previous. Biggest curiosity was Liam Neeson acting in a four-minute appearance. Like, was he hard up for cash or something? How do you pull down a big name like that and effectively not use him? The part literally could have been played by anybody; instead, they paid for Neeson to put on a New York(?) accent for a bit. Watch it if you want to, but you're not missing anything.
Personally I found the gun porn in the Wick series to get really old, really quick. After the first film, it just felt like nothing but an excuse to do fight scenes....oh and hey maybe we should have some plot or something somewhere in there? Yeah maybe, I dunno, more pew pew! Gun kata! Weeee!
What I like about that first Matrix film, is just how well they wove exposition into the rest of the narrative. Like how they explained the way the physics of the matrix worked, while having Morpheus beat Neo. By the way he explains the whole "your tiredness is a construct of your mind here. You really aren't winded, you don't have lungs here." And you visibly see Neo realize that and just, WILL himself to being fresh and ready to fight again. How Agent Smith, interrogating Morpheus, perfectly works in that monologue, in a way that totally works, and does double duty of illustrating how the Agents, and Smith in particular, are actual beings, and they can be driven by very real motivations to do things. The dinner scene where they discuss what Tasty Wheat tasted like, and why, and maybe why "everything tastes like chicken" is because the machines just copy/pasted that flavor file for lots of dishes to save processing space. Just so many fun details that made it really more than just an action flick.
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I don't think John Wick - the first one especially - quite reaches the absurd heights of Gun Kata.