I like where they were headed to with Prometheus. I didn’t like where they arrived with Covenant.
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The Chinese word for blowjob literally translates to “blow flute”. 吹箫(chui xiao)
On behalf of my comrades, I would like to express my gratitude for the lolz when Michael Fassbender metaphorically blew himself in Covenant.
Seriously, I think both movies can be summed as “a group of purportedly smart scientists doing really stupid things.”
To be fair, Prometheus set up a very interesting premise but Ridley Scott is vastly overrated as a director so he couldn’t make full use of it.
Covenant made 2 mistakes:
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They obviously didn’t have the budget to explore more of the shit the ending of Prometheus had set up. It shouldn’t even have been made.
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Since they did have to make an Alien movie, and this time it was obvious that they focused more on action trying to be like Aliens, they should have done some spinoff occurring somewhere else with some references to the events of Prometheus instead of a direct sequel. Then they wouldn’t have had to settle for such lame explanations for the sake of continuity.
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I watched The Lighthouse and I can’t stop quoting Willem Dafoe’s character.
I also watched Tenant. I could summarize it by the following mid-movie exchange:
Brother: “Are you able to follow along?”
Me: “Who cares!”
I’ve been on a 90s binge lately. Saw some new ones I haven’t seen.
Faceoff. Interesting concept, for sure a 90s movie. In this movie, John Travolta and Nick Cage swap faces and voices, and lives (one is a detective and the other criminal). I was entertained through the whole movie. 7.5/10.
The Game. Again a 90s style movie. I was entertained. 7/10.
A Time to Kill. I really enjoyed this court drama. Acting was pretty good. I thought the conclusion wasn’t very believable, although the movie wouldn’t work without the ending. I give this one a 8/10, but could bump up to 8.5 because of my love for the 90s era. Star studded cast of Samuel L Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey (might be a terrible person, but he plays a great bad guy).
Se7en. Excellent 9.5/10. Really liked this film. Kevin Spacey played an excellent bad guy again. Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman were good as well. A great crime drama that holds up today.
I don’t think any of these were a waste of time (especially in lockdown).
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David Fincher directed this … love that dude’s style … he also directed Fight Club
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I have noticed I like David Fincher as well. Fight Club is possibly my favorite movie. I first watched it expecting it to be an entertaining action movie without much substance. I got a lot of ideas (especially anti consumerism, not trying to impress others) from that movie that really clicked with me.
The movie “The Game” I reviewed is also a David Fincher movie (partly why I watched it). Not as good as Se7en or Fight Club by a long shot, but worth watching.
Yea, funny thing - so as soon as I started watching Mindhunter (Netflix - if you haven’t watched it…you’ll like it) I knew Fincher had something to do with it … just the feel reminded me of Se7en and Fight Club.
Fight Club affected me strongly when I was first saw it in high school for kind of the same reasons you’re talking about
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I thought the first season of mindhunter was excellent. Second was pretty good.
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ditto - something was lacking in the 2nd that was in the 1st … of course, that wasn’t Anna Torv who was sexy as hell in both imo
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One of the more underrated 90s movies if y’all are interested.
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Oh heck, if nobodies already said it, watch Seinfeld. Best sitcom ever.
Just watched it. 7.5/10 pretty solid.
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Just saw “the hunt”… InTeREStiNg
Ham fisted, needless political commentary for the win
In all fairness, it was original, the plot was decent. Good characters, nice gore effects (and the film actually contains graphic violence, somewhat rare for a mainstream release). Some humorous commentary on PC cultural, political divide etc. From what I could perceive the film doesn’t overtly pander towards one side over the other, rather caters towards questioning the validity of blanket judgements we tend to make.
Coming up on the end of season 2 of the Mandalorian. Phenomenal show. 9/10.
Also saw “Fatman” - Mel Gibson plays a washed up Santa who has to sell his services to the military and fend off an assassin hired by a 12 year old to kill him for giving him coal for Christmas. R rated. Just tons of fun. Very tongue in cheek, dark comedy. 8/10.
Watched the 2nd, with Ryan Philippe. Started out as a 5-6/10, ended as a 1, maybe 0.5/10, with a steady decline the whole time, not just a bad ending. Things like people firing 200 rounds out of a handgun, ridiculous storyline, more and more dumb stuff until the ending.
Oh, Triple 9 was alright too. 7/10. Great cast, bit of a slap dash ending, but engaging and action-packed. Bit cliche at times, preventing it from breaking the 8/10 barrier, but entertaining enough to be thoroughly watchable.
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The finale was awesome. Good to see good star wars content.
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Yeah, the continuation of the original storyline has been garbage thus far, but Rogue One was great, IMO.
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Soundtrack was awesome.
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I broke down and watched the 1989 Wes Craven film “The Shocker”. I’m into bad horror with b and d actors so it did not disappoint. I did not watch it just because of the name.
Watched the first 2 episodes of The Stand. Massive plot structure and narrative issues. I think only people who have read the book will know what’s going on so far. They jump back and forth too abruptly between the past and the society they formed with Mother Abigail while introducing the characters so you don’t know what’s going on and can’t understand the motivations and dynamics between the different characters. It’s too way too confusing and keeps the viewer from being invested in any of them.
If you’ve read the book, it’s a pretty good adaptation if you give it’s narrative flaws a pass and I wish they had left some of the events alone instead of reinterpreting them.
There’s a scene where Larry gets offered a million dollars “for a fuck” with the old chick travelling with him, now a young chick played by Heather Graham for some fucking reason, and I appreciated that. Then they changed the scene by adding on an attempted gang rape which completely screwed up it’s original context. And they should have kept the original motivation for the chick’s suicide the same or omitted the character altogether.
Yeah, I remember all this shit cos I really fucking loved the book even though he kinda fucked up the last 3rd of it. The uncut version is his best work by far IMO. Not even IT comes close.
In this adaptation, they fuck some things up and make up for them with others. There’s a great cameo by J.K Simmons and the guy who plays Harold plays him to perfection.
Only Frank Darabont(The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist) has been able to make great movie adaptations of Stephen King’s books and make them look and feel like they’re adapted from his books. Carrie and The Shining don’t count. They were good movies, but looked and felt like and De Palma and Kubrick films respectively even though Carrie was very loyal to the book because De Palma is just so good as a filmmaker with his own style.
The original TV mini-series came close in the first episode. Then it all went to hell. This one’s been consistent for 2 episodes and it looks like it’s gonna get better. I have one big gripe, though. I just can’t dig the guy who plays Randall Flagg and it’s not really his fault. Now the only guy I can picture as Randall Flagg is Matthew McConaughey even though that movie adaptation he starred in sucked balls.
Then I watched Wonder Woman 1984 for about half and hour and turned it off. It looks more like an inferior reboot directed by Zack Snyder than a sequel. I may or may not continue watching it tonight.
Jiu Jitsu (2020)
Was gonna watch the rest of Wonder Woman 1984.
But then, while scrolling through the movies section, I saw THIS:
Yes, that’s NICHOLAS CAGE. In a movie called JIU JITSU. And Tony Jaa(Ong Bak), the guy from Kickboxer: Retaliation and Frank Grillo are in it too. There was no fucking way I wasn’t going to watch this first.
It turned out to be a Predator ripoff. While the Predators created the pyramids, the aliens in Jiu Jitsu created Jiu Jitsu. I’m not making this up.
They taught it to men, and then come back every 6 years in in a jungle in Burma through a portal in an ancient temple for some fucking reason even though Jiu Jitsu is from Japan. Bah, who cares. All Asians are the same.
The idea is that that they want to duel with a couple of Jiu Jitsu fighters descending from an ancient Jiu Jitsu clan they taught the martial to or some shit like that. If they don’t duel, they destroy the world. At least that was what I was able to decipher from the ridiculous mess of a plot. The military’s in there for no reason other than to serve as cannon fodder for the clan to engage in fight scenes with or get taken out by an alien. Don’t try to make sense of any of it.
Nicholas Cage plays Nicholas Cage - a member of the clan living as a hermit in shame in an underground cave somewhere in the jungle who spends his time making hats out of old newspapers since he chickened out in the last duel or something. I’m not really sure, nor do I fucking care because he has ONE BADASS FIGHT SCENE with the guy from that fucking amazingly bad ‘B’ movie called Kickboxer: Retaliation and it involves flying kicks and acrobatics and shit.
They cut the scene perfectly between close up and medium shots of him and wide shots of his stunt double so perfectly it actually LOOKS like he’s the one doing the fighting. Fucking almost died laughing. Again, I’m not making this up.
This is a really fucking bad movie with some amazingly choreographed fight scenes that don’t involve much Jiu Jitsu at all even though it’s called Jiu Jitsu. It’s not Kickboxer: Retaliation but I still enjoyed it a lot. There’s no way to rate a movie like this. You either like this kind of shit or you don’t.