Yeah you can put LOTS of ludicrous shit in a movie and people will accept it as long as you build the CHARACTERS. Everyone I know who saw it a decade ago still remembers “Bob”. How in the fuck did they get the ridiculous idea that the remaining Japanese soldiers would kneel down and pay respect to all the dead Samurai at the end on the battlefield right after the Samurai sliced up and burned 2/3 of their compatriots alive lol? But it was still an awesome cinematic moment.
Not gonna lie, that’s probably my favorite Tom Cruise movie.
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No love for Jack reacher?
I enjoyed them, but I’ve read most of the books and he’s just not the right guy for the role imo.
A Few Good Men is right up there. Despite his lunacy, I like a lot of his movies.
Have you seen edge of tomorrow?
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Ya, I liked it too. The only Cruise movies I don’t care for are some of his older ones. Like Cocktail.
*Looking through his bio, I’ve only seen probably half of his movies. I stopped watching the Mission Impossibles after like 3 or 4. I might have seen 5, I can’t remember. The not so impossible missions are running together in my head.
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It ranks at number 2 for me. Number 1 is something no one is going to agree with me on:
Vanilla Sky!
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You’re missing out. The Mission Impossible movies have become incredibly entertaining popcorn movies in my opinion.
Tom Cruise keeps trying to one-up himself with each movie. I honestly think he’ll die filming one of them if he keeps at it for another 6-8 years. He’s not young anymore.
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Tom Cruise has a great filmography. Just look at this fucking list and this is the only ones I really enjoyed
The Outsiders
Legend
Top Gun
Rain Man
Born on the Fourth of July
A Few Good Men
The Firm
Interview with the Vampire
Eyes Wide Shut
Vanilla Sky
Minority Report
The Last Samurai
Collateral
War of the Worlds
Edge of Tomorrow
American Made
Crawl
Couple of very well executed JUMP SCARES! in between scenes of Daddy telling his adult daughter how special she really is. That’s the whole movie. 5.5/10
Murder in the First (1995)
Kevin Bacon is an inmate at Pre- WW2 Alcatraz, abused by sadistic prison warden Gary Oldman and defended in court by lawyer Christian Slater. Solid movie with some gritty prison stuff, courtroom intrigue and enough personal drama for my girlfriend. Almost a true story. Definetly worth a watch.
This movie made me fondly remember my teenage years in the 90s when Bacon/Oldman/Slater were all over the place. That was fun too.
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Welcome to Marwen
As an online reviewer said about this film, just because Zemeckis could doesn’t mean he should have. The premise, based on a true story, is that an illustrator gets his ass kicked by some white supremacists for joking about liking to wear women’s shoes. The physical and mental trauma is so severe he creates an actual 1:6 scale Belgian village, sets scenes with Barbie-sized dolls, and photographs those scenes as a way to both create his art (he can no longer draw) as well as an outlet for (or escape from) his PTSD.
The story is compelling but the movie is confused about what it wants to be. It bounces back and forth between stop-action fantasy and live-action reality in a way that is more annoying and distracting than fun and clever. Leslie Mann’s character’s line were absolutely flat and the whole mess just disintegrated during the final third including a Back to the Future reference that Zemeckis should be ashamed of because it was handled in such a ham-handed way.
I haven’t see the 2010 documentary about the same story, Marwencol, but heard it’s much better.
3/10
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Finally saw Deadpool. Some good jokes, opening credits were fairly original and funny.
I have been a huge Morena Baccarin fan since the Firefly days; she’s awesome as usual.
Finished Season 5 of Luther recently, and the series recovered from a very meh Season 4.
Highly recommend, with the caveat of what imo is a subpar Season 4 (only 2 episodes).
I watched Rebirth and The End of Evangelion again while my wife popped into the room occasionally just to laugh at me for watching cartoons. Women suck.
9.5/10 (This is just me. Some love it. Others will fucking hate it.)
Have you watched the entire series yet?
yes I did… also on my sons suggestion watched Berserk .
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I finally got around to watching a movie that first caught my eye one night at the video store, but mom wouldn’t rent it. She said it was garbage and we all ended up watching The Rocketeer instead, which was awesome so I forgot all about that video box that was calling my name back in Jr. High…
Stone Cold (1991)
SPOILER ALERT
This was playing on one of the TVs at the bar while I was covering part of a shift, so my review doesn’t include any of the dialogue and I also had large stretches where I paid no attention to it at all.
Even without experiencing the dialogue I was riveted by the so-90’s-it-hurts imagery. The mullets. The partially exposed chests. The fully exposed chests. The motorcycles. The fights. The great bad guys who required no sound to understand that they were bad. There’s almost too much to list.
The scene where he leapt out of the helicopter, crashed through a glass ceiling and landed like 80 feet below by somehow breaking his fall on a wall and then whooped the gunman’s ass was incredible.
7/10 would watch again with sound. Early 90’s action film making is a lost art. They’ll probably do a reboot soon and fuck it all up like they did with Red Dawn.
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Imagine if they rebooted Double Impact? Van Damme at his finest
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Watched season 3 of stranger things. Part of the appeal is it takes place in my home state.
Dream Scenario! With Hong Kong in the news so much now, the time is right!
On TV it looked like people were protesting in some city from the future. That’s not how I remembered it in the movies. An update of Double Impact would be 100 times cooler than some douche travel show.