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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
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RobertB wrote: I kind of like Live Free or Die Hard. It's totally stupid but the cast is good. Better than your average Michael Bay movie.
Hacking mastermind villians NEVER work in any movie. I don't know why they were so popular for a while there, fortunately it seems like they have fallen by the wayside.
I kinda liked the McLain family evolution into mini badasses. The real problem with DH4 and 5 is that Bruce just doesn't give a shit anymore.
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Stole this, but it's pretty obvious. Die Hard is the movie it is because McClane is a relatively ordinary cop, stuck in a bad situation. In later Die Hards, he's just a notch below Captain America in the badass department. Which doesn't help the movies much. I like DH 3 and 4, but they're nowhere as good as the first.jason10mm wrote: I kinda liked the McLain family evolution into mini badasses. The real problem with DH4 and 5 is that Bruce just doesn't give a shit anymore.
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I have had vampires on the mind lately. I am currently 7/12 of the way through a binge re-watch of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and spin-off Angel. And I've been waiting for quite a while for both 1,000 Year-Old Vampire and Masters of the Night, a couple of Kickstarter kind of games about vampires that have been talked about in the forum here in the past. Masters of the Night may arrive next month, and 1KYOV (hmmm) landed on my porch two days ago.
Also, I have been feeling a little burned out lately. Long hours at work, too many holiday treats and not enough exercise, and the cumulative effect of 10 months of isolation. My slight plans for New Year's Eve involved frozen pizza and a movie, followed by a relatively early bedtime. Since I have been deliberately wallowing in nostalgia lately, I forced myself to search out a movie that I hadn't seen before, preferably one that I knew almost nothing about.
And so I watched Blood From Stone (2020). Vampires in modern (well, pre-pandemic) Laughlin, Nevada, a lesser-known alternative to Las Vegas. It was rated 4.5 stars out of 5 on Amazon Prime, and that's probably about right. It's a low-budget movie, but picks up considerable glamour from the casino environment. The acting is quite good, but there are no familiar faces to latch onto. It's definitely a horror movie, but the protagonists are the monsters. Aside from immortality and some modest degree of superhuman strength, these vampires get all the bad stuff from the vampire curse with almost none of the traditional perks.
Even including the vampiric element, Blood From Stone offers a powerful semblance of authenticity. It is easily the best vampire movie I have seen in over a decade. The two main vampires offer a great contrast, but their curse occasionally blurs that distinction. The story feels fresh, offering occasional surprises but playing completely fairly by its own rules.
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Watched The Invisible Man off HBOmax, the recent Blumhouse one. It's really good, if a bit predictable and one note. Certainly more grounded than the Kevin Bacon version but not as fun. Not quite "Gaslighting: The film" but it is real close, the relationship dynamics take front and center. Elizabeth Moss channels all her acting powers in it and does a great job. And DAMN that guy from Leverage is as big as a house now!
My kid has been obsessed with the 2005(?) Fantastic Four movie (the one with Jessica Alba and pre-Captain America Chris Evans) and IIRC Sue Storm is about the only HERO with invisibility as a power (maybe Martian Manhunter, or can he just phase through things?). But anyway, after The Boys and most versions of the The Invisible Man, can anyone see an actual legit purpose for invisibility? It just seems to lend itself to perving and a descent into madness. Maybe the old Chevy Chase flick had a different spin (and did Steve Guttenberg do an IM flick once?). And of course that Sci-fi channel show from back in the day, though I don't recall how he used his powers much (as a spy I think?). Anyhoo, food for thought.
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Entirely too much time is devoted to the confessions of Jorge "Rivi" Ayala, Griselda Blanco's hitman, which grinds the film's pacing to a halt. To me, the most interesting characters in the documentary were the smugglers - Mickey Munday and John Roberts in particular - and this version didn't seem to add very much to their stories. I've seen the 2006 version a few times, and even then I couldn't tell you precisely what was added as nothing stood out as an essential addition to the original.
And, inexplicably, two of the best Mickey Munday anecdotes and one of his lines were excised from this version entirely. If you're the least bit curious about the subject matter watch the original version instead.
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But another jab at HBOmax's terrible organization, I didn't even know there was a directors cut of DS available until AFTER I watched the movie. Put that up front!
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Beyond Thunderdome sticks out as boring, and overall very poor; it doesn't rank anywhere near the others in quality. If I never see it again, I'll be okay with that. Actually, if you watch up to the Thunderdome scene, and then quit, it's pretty good!
Ranked:
1. Fury Road
2. Road Warrior
3. Mad Max
.... so far you can't see it....
Beyond Thunderdome
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