Thinking about watching the Hellraiser series next month, since the man who created Berserk once claimed it to be one of the inspirations behind making the manga of it.
Should be fun.
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Thinking about watching the Hellraiser series next month, since the man who created Berserk once claimed it to be one of the inspirations behind making the manga of it.
Should be fun.
Finally watched Nobody, and while it wasn't absurdly amazing I really enjoyed it.
It was just fun, that's the best way I can describe it. A good mix of goofiness, really kino fight choreography, and great acting from Odenkirk. You really got the feeling they enjoyed making this movie.
Best scene, hands down was when the Russians invade the house. The use of the actual environments the fights were in made it feel more visceral and realistic, and the house scene really flexes in that regard.
Overall, I would recommend it.
It was just fun, that's the best way I can describe it. A good mix of goofiness, really kino fight choreography, and great acting from Odenkirk. You really got the feeling they enjoyed making this movie.
Best scene, hands down was when the Russians invade the house. The use of the actual environments the fights were in made it feel more visceral and realistic, and the house scene really flexes in that regard.
Overall, I would recommend it.
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Ethel and Ernest by Raymond Briggs. I loved every minute of it! It really makes you appreciate, warts and all, just living your life. It certainly made me feel that way!
Trese. It's coming to Netflix on June 11.
It's not technically summer till the 21st this month but since it's after memorial day summer I'd like to recommend the ivan Reitherman classic meatballs. It's up there with The sandlot as the definite movies about summer
I was legit surprised to discover the movie came out in 1979. I could have sworn it was made in like 81 or 82 between blues brothers and caddyshack. but no it actually predates both of them, was just a year after animal house.
Oh and don't let the peppy theme, summer camp setting, and PG rating fool you. This is 1970's PG. and it's still and ivan ritherman/bill murray comedy. It gets as close to showing scantily clad women, and raunchy inuendos as a movie made back then could get without getting slapped with an R rating.
I was legit surprised to discover the movie came out in 1979. I could have sworn it was made in like 81 or 82 between blues brothers and caddyshack. but no it actually predates both of them, was just a year after animal house.
Oh and don't let the peppy theme, summer camp setting, and PG rating fool you. This is 1970's PG. and it's still and ivan ritherman/bill murray comedy. It gets as close to showing scantily clad women, and raunchy inuendos as a movie made back then could get without getting slapped with an R rating.
Apparently the Turks made a movie based on the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. Its dubbed in English.
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I've been binging documentaries lately. I rewatched Fail State today while I was doing some chores, and also watched The Last Blockbuster (both of which I recommend) and WeWork: or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn (nowhere near as good). I need to find more to watch, since that was honestly pretty great for my productivity.
I cannot recommend gone with the wind enough. And I urge you to get it on physical media. Not only is it a historic landmark of cinema, not only is the cinematography breathtaking to the point where it feels like the director; Victor Fleming wishes wide-screen had been a thing at the time of production, and is it a love letter to a civilization "gone with the wind. "
But as cancel culture and outrage culture get more and more influential in what media gets spared AMD what media gets memory holed, it's important to protect works of art like gone with the wind from the baying mobs who'd gleefully see history vanish and be rewritten into their own sick, twisted, perverse vision of reality.
But as cancel culture and outrage culture get more and more influential in what media gets spared AMD what media gets memory holed, it's important to protect works of art like gone with the wind from the baying mobs who'd gleefully see history vanish and be rewritten into their own sick, twisted, perverse vision of reality.
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The first one and 2 are interesting (the first one is a clive barker) - beyond that...well some of them yu can tell are unrelated cheap scripts with a hellraiser aspect just skinned on to leverage the franchise
I just got finished watching the ‘restored cut’ of 1971‘s ‘The Wicker Man’ For about the tenth time.
For those not in the know, this was a seminal British horror film that Christopher ‘Saruman’ Lee considered his best film.
It is a difficult film to love, as it was extremely underrated at the time, and much of its footage was literally buried in landfill for a highway being constructed nearby.
However, what remains is creepy even by today’s standards.
The basic gist is that back in the ‘no dancing on sundays’ restrictive 60’s, a police officer gets a report that a young girl has gone missing, presumed dead, on Summerisle, an island off the west coast of Scotland.
It’s known as Summerisle because it seems to have unusually good harvests. But not as all it would seem, as the cop sent to investigate finds out.
The remake with Nick Cage is a textbook example of why you should keep Jews away from your media. But the original is creepy as fuck while transporting the viewer into another mindset. Highly recommended.
For those not in the know, this was a seminal British horror film that Christopher ‘Saruman’ Lee considered his best film.
It is a difficult film to love, as it was extremely underrated at the time, and much of its footage was literally buried in landfill for a highway being constructed nearby.
However, what remains is creepy even by today’s standards.
The basic gist is that back in the ‘no dancing on sundays’ restrictive 60’s, a police officer gets a report that a young girl has gone missing, presumed dead, on Summerisle, an island off the west coast of Scotland.
It’s known as Summerisle because it seems to have unusually good harvests. But not as all it would seem, as the cop sent to investigate finds out.
The remake with Nick Cage is a textbook example of why you should keep Jews away from your media. But the original is creepy as fuck while transporting the viewer into another mindset. Highly recommended.
I watched the Denzel Washington thriller that came out this year, The Little Things, and I actually loved it. I've seen it twice now, and while it may not be a classic, it's a damn good throwback (and a self-aware one, in my opinion) to that earlier period of Washington's career where he did a lot of these "hunt a killer"-type procedurals. The cast is solid, the script is pretty damn strong, if derivative, and it's more than competently directed.
Highly recommended if you liked watching Washington catch bad guys back in the day.
Highly recommended if you liked watching Washington catch bad guys back in the day.
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Been watching Generation Kill the last couple of nights. I'd love to hear an actual veteran's take on the accuracy, since it's the second gulf war. As far as the entertainment, I definitely recommend it for anyone into war fiction.
I just watched Collateral again for the first time since it came out and man that movie is so good. I really wish Tom Cruise would go back to making more varied roles as all he's been making for the last decade is variations of him being an action superhero.
It's silly to say Michael Mann is underrated as he was a hugely popular director for several decades but I feel his filmography is rather overlooked among modern film circles.
It's silly to say Michael Mann is underrated as he was a hugely popular director for several decades but I feel his filmography is rather overlooked among modern film circles.
Um, it's not fiction. It's based closely on a book by Evan Wright, who was an embedded reporter with the First Recon Battalion, First Marine Division.
It's actually pretty true to the book, which is apparently pretty true to what happened.
Just rewatched American Made last night, holy shit is that movie a good one. The meeting between Barry Seal and Dubya? So subtle but so amusing.
Jack Reacher I is excellent (2 is good but not great).
Hope that they make a 3 and that it follows the MIB pattern- 1-good, 2-meh 3-good.
Fuck I'm rewatching Magnolia right now. Frank TJ Mackey is by far my favorite Tom Cruise role. He's such a great actor and the action hero shit he's been doing lately really understates his range.
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Watch the running man and they live back to back. It's eerie how those movies predicted the manipulation of the masses by the use of mass media and popular entertainment to distract them from the fact that they're all being controlled by a totalitarian
Just got done watching the first four episodes of C.B. Strike and was very impressed. In these days of NCIS, CSI, Chicago PD and other soap operas masquerading as frenetic cop shows, it’s good to see a slower-paced, character-driven procedural (even if the main character is a PI, not a cop).
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I just watched The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Damn good film.
