It was awful…. a total pos
Saw Red Heat for the first time this weekend. I’d seen the famous clips, of course, but had always heard from my friend that the parts that AREN’T those clips are not great. It was still worth watching all the way through, but after the amazing opening scene where a naked Arnold beats up thugs in a bathhouse, there were too many dull moments of Arnold not acting like Arnold. Still glad I saw it.
That same night, my partner and I watched The Thing (1982 version). Her first time and my second time 20 years after my first viewing. That was phenomenal. A real shame it was hated at the time and kind of dampened John Carpenter’s career.
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I watched IT: Chapter 2.
I had a lot of fun with this. I read the book last month, and I noticed many changes the movie made. Usually, if the movie altered something they referenced the book in some way.
A dumb example is that in the book, 1 kid gets terrorized in a water tower. In the movie, he gets terrorized in a different location, but later the water tower appears on a post card one character send to another.
Some of the best, well known lines from the 90s mini series that werent in the book, were in this movie. There were also references to other horror movies, including a head growing spider legs, like in “The Thing.” Or calling a lady a “great big fat person” like in Silence of the Lambs. And cameos including Stephen King and Guiermo Del Torro.
All of this kept me paying attention and interested. And made up for any flaws, like lack of scary scenes, obnoxious use of 80s music, weak final battle, or too many dumb jokes.
Its possibe that without prior knowledge and context this movie might seem choppy and dumb. And it’s 2.5+ hours long. So watch at your own risk?
Loved the It movie…preferred the 80s version better except for the ending…the ending was better in the latest movie
Also, watching the new series It, Welcome to Derry
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Tim Curry was great as Pennywise. The way he harassed and messed with the characters as much as he scared them made the older version really memorable.
How are you liking the new series? Has it been good?
I am enjoying it
The new show is good.
Also I never knew that It and The Shining took place in the same universe.
I was watching a YouTube video on the lore behind Dick Hallorann
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In the book, he’s just a minor character given a familiar name.
Fast forward 40 years and he’s tying the “King Universe” together.
Way to think ahead by ol’ Steve!
It’s cool that the Extensive background stories of Darry are coming to light and being used for something. King must have spent a lot of time thinking them up.
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Watching The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Absolutely love this movie. Highly entertaining and brutal all at the same time.
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Wrath of Man.
“a Guy Ritchie-directed action-thriller starring Jason Statham as “H,” a mysterious new armored truck guard in Los Angeles who reveals exceptional combat skills during a heist, leading his co-workers to question his past as he seeks revenge for a past tragedy”
I watched this after a recommendation from @meastlake1. It was pretty cool, action, with a little mystery and Guy Ritchie style snappy dialog and camera angles and quick cuts. Better than the last couple straight to streaming Statham movies I’ve seen.
It’s taken me 20+ years, but I was able to watch this movie and enjoy it without comparing it to Snatch and Lock Stock and getting all disappointed and pissy.
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Lol, glad you enjoyed it @FlatsFarmer ! Wrath of Man had good action, a decent plot, and was pretty entertaining, so for a Statham movie, that’s doing pretty good having all that….you really can’t expect much more from his movies. But that’s why I watch his movies, I just want to watch some ass kicking, fighting without a lot of deep character development/dialogue.
Also, I laughed at your last sentence as I was just watching Snatch last night! It was on Showtime I believe and I caught it while surfing channels. For me, it’s one of those great movies where, if you’re surfing channels and come across it, you just HAVE to stop on it and watch it for awhile (similar to full metal jacket, Rambo part II, Roadhouse, ANY SEGAL FLICK, etc. I love Guy Ritchie movies and Snatch is no exception, Lock Stock to me is like mandatory watching along with Snatch.
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Next movie on the watch list:
Statham has a new one coming out in January
Shelter
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I swear - A very poignant and at times funny film about a young man with Tourettes growing up in Scotland (in the 80’s) and all of the crap he went through.
The Creep Tapes; Season 2 (not a film, but sort of a prequel to the two Creep films on Netflix…..much like the films), not to everyone’s taste and a bit hit and and miss tbh…..but at times, still, oddly brilliant. The first film, to me was a bit of cult classic genius IMO.
Big George Foreman - Apart from Rocky 4, probably my favourite boxing movie, partly because it doesn’t have the same the same cliched feel a lot of other boxing movies often have had and it was more than just about boxing in some ways.
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My Lady has stated that Men in tights is a better movie than The Princess Bride….. fucking inconceivable!
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I have to disagree with your lady. However, Men in Tights has some pretty great parts.
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So many finny characters and great one liners.
Snatch, Layer Cake, & Lock Stock & two smoking barrels are like the trifecta of British movies of that genre. All superb and if anyone hasn’t seen them, watch them, you’ll thank me later.
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Not exactly sold on the cast.
We went to see Avatar in 3D tonight. It was an Avatar movie and my least-favorite character from the last one was still somehow alive on a planet with poisonous air thanks to a pair of flimsy gas masks that somehow still work while traveling at high speed underwater.
I was hoping for a new biome like the desert, a vast cave network, or a chain of volcanic mountains, but it was more of the same ocean and jungle.
It was worth the $12 admission price but I wasn’t blown away like I was by the first one.
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