I saw Whip It the other day.
It's about roller derby women and their competitions, in Texas I think… probably Austin. Starring a lot of people Kristin Wig Elaine Page (Eliot now?), Juliet Lewis, even Jimmy Fallon when he was still cool and not a fat faced needy talkshow host XD
It wasn't bad, it had some good music.
The idea was that this young 17 year old girl is trying to fit in and find her passion. Her mum wants her to be a beauty queen but she finds herself in roller derby, skating with all the older women.
The team she joins are just playing for fun, but with her joining and actually being really good it gives the team new energy and they start rising through the ranks.
It was an ok film. Not amazing, but fun and well done. A good little airbrushed hollywood version of that early 2000 or late 1990s hipster rollerderby culture.
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moizmad wrote:Sounds like a film in the "john Wick" style. I hate that. They're boring and silly.
SAS: RED NOTICE (alternate title SAS: Rise of the Black Swan) Ruby Rose, Sam Heughan, Andy Serkis and a cast of thousands. Endless shooting and killing got it the kybosh about 1/2 way, getting a goose-egg on the Moizmeter.
People used to make jokes about Schwarzenegger films like Raw Deal and Commando back in the 80s, but those were art films compared to the level of moronic shooting and endless dead bodies in the films of that style now.
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I actually saw Twilight yesterday.
It wasn't as bad as the criticism it gets. It's a romance action film with vampires aimed at teen girls. I've seen was worse, especially in this wish fulfilment young teen genre. I mean, something like Coyote Ugly was way more fanciful and negative in the message it sends.
The acting was fine, the writing was mostly fine… The only reallllly dumb thing was the vampire special effects.
Edward looked hilarious when he was moving at super speed. The wire tricks looked stupid, as they almost always do in movies. And the high speed piggyback ride he gave Bella was too stupid to be funny.
Obviously most of the criticism it gets is because it's aimed at teen girls. That's not cool.
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EDGE OF TOMORROW - Emily Blunt, Tom Cruise, Noah Taylor, Bill Paxton. With a cast like that how could you go wrong? Easy, gave it almost 1 hr. got the kybosh, a huge goose-egg on the Moizmeter. Others liked it, gives one pause….
It's generally a widely lived film. I quite liked it, but not the masterpiece many claim. Different strokes for different folks and all that. Actually I like reading your opinion in films because they are usually so different to mine.
Ozone was saying about the John wick style of action movie, I have to mostly agree but I think it's just the state of movies all round at the moment. The bigger, better faster more thing has got a bit silly. Fast and furious movies anyone?
moizmad wrote:Tom's getting killed over and over *and over* in various hilarious ways was funny though, he must have a sense of humor to sign up to something as nuts as this. "Wait, my character gets crushed to jelly?" "Just keep reading, Tom."
EDGE OF TOMORROW - Emily Blunt, Tom Cruise, Noah Taylor, Bill Paxton. With a cast like that how could you go wrong? Easy, gave it almost 1 hr. got the kybosh, a huge goose-egg on the Moizmeter. Others liked it, gives one pause….
My family just got a Paramount+ subscription, so I can watch quite a few newer series I missed out on and binge some childhood favorites for nostalgia.
Currently checking out the 2019 Twilight Zone. The first season was mediocre, pacing felt a little off, like each episode was a scene too long and "twists" didn't have much punch. No real duds, but no gems either. (As opposed to the 1990s Outer Limits, which swung wildly from amazing to awful). A lot better than Black Mirror (which seemed to be a one-gimmick show, tbh). I'm three episodes into the second season. So far, the writing is much better in season two. Better pacing and good punchy twists that I saw coming but only as they got closer to the end. Also, there's no body horror or jump scares.
Anyway, it's not a particularly groundbreaking anthology series, but it's solid, and I'm enjoying it.
I saw 5 or six episodes of Only Murders in the Building on Disney plus.
Staring Selina Gomez, Martin Short and Steve Martin. With cameos by Sting, Nathan Lane, Tina Fey, and many others.
It's ok. Pretty fun. The drama is light, the comedy isn't over the top the way it often is with Martin Short…
Interesting to see Steve Martin as an actual old man instead of an eternally 40 year old with white hair. He looks ok but he needs thinner glasses so his nose doesn't look so big, needs to ditch the porkpie hat because those look shit on anyone, and needs a few more centimetres on his hair. It's too short, makes him look threadbare.
usedbooks wrote:
My family just got a Paramount+ subscription, so I can watch quite a few newer series I missed out on and binge some childhood favorites for nostalgia.
Currently checking out the 2019 Twilight Zone. The first season was mediocre, pacing felt a little off, like each episode was a scene too long and "twists" didn't have much punch. No real duds, but no gems either. (As opposed to the 1990s Outer Limits, which swung wildly from amazing to awful). A lot better than Black Mirror (which seemed to be a one-gimmick show, tbh). I'm three episodes into the second season. So far, the writing is much better in season two. Better pacing and good punchy twists that I saw coming but only as they got closer to the end. Also, there's no body horror or jump scares.
Anyway, it's not a particularly groundbreaking anthology series, but it's solid, and I'm enjoying it.
I watched the first couple of episodes and it was pretty forgettable. actually I can't remember much except the thinking the remake of nightmare at 20000ft was weak and something about a comedy show. Give me black mirrir any day, even the most recent season which was fairly weak. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
I've started rewatching the orville as it's now on disney plus. I've previously watched season 1 and part of season 2. It seems better second time around.
I've also been watching Star trek lower decks which is great. One aspect I'm finding amusing with season 2 is that there are elements in common with my star trek comic Albion. Ferengi harkening back to their first appearances in TNG, a Kzinti crew member and things like that. They even had the mugato show up which is something I had been considering.
I finished the 2019 Twilight Zone, and here's my verdict. Skip the first season. Season two is solid, and I enjoyed it. There's nothing particularly deep or original, but it is well done. It was refreshing that it wasn't all "the dangers of scientific advancement" or modern technology themes. Some magical realism, some aliens, some time manipulation stuff. Excellent acting and production. It didn't feel like Twilight Zone, but it is a good anthology series (half of it anyway). Season two writing is very well done with good twists.
Oh, and one episode did get kinda gory nasty, which isn't my cup of tea. I'm glad it was just one. There was a lot of variety in the stories and themes.
HUNTER HUNTER - Camille Sullivan, Devon Sawa, Summer H. Howell, Nick Stahl.
A total waste of 1 1/2 hrs. Camille drabbed up (she's usually gorgeous)out in the Canadian wilderness, husband Sawa goes wolf hunting, ends up dead, Stahl arrives, whoa, Camille does a butcher job on him and they still don't catch the wolf! I've seen Camille in Vancouver several times, liquor store, race track etc. This gets a 1 3/4 on the Moizmeter.
MUNCHHAUSEN (1943) Huge Agfa color extravaganza made by UFI to celebrate their 25th anniversary jubilee. In the flavor of Korda and other early fantasy spectacles and including fantastic cinematography inspired by Menzies work for Gone With The Wind.
Venice sequences for an 18th Carnival were filmed on location in Venice in 1942. The Terry Gilliam movie owes a lot to this one which in many ways is superior.
Though produced in Nazi Germany Goebbels meant this film as pure escapism and any politics is kept in the 18th century setting with Catherine the Great, the Turkish Sultan and the Doge of Venice.
As a German film it was not held in by the Hollywood Hayes Code so surprisingly the uncut domestic version has navels and female breasts.
It's on YouTube and worth seeing if you love old pre digital fantasy films. With today's effects this art of filmmaking is nearly forgotten.
KNOCK KNOCK - Keanu Reeves, Ana de Armas, Lorenza Izzo, Ignacia Allamand. Keanu's wife and kids are away and that night a terrible rain storm brings 2 crazy women, Ana & Lorenza to his door looking for a phone. Poor Keanu lets them in and they almost kill him and make a huge mess of the home, altho I had no idea why or what for. A 1 3/4 on the Moizmeter.
bravo1102 wrote:OK… I didn't realise that version of the story existed O_O
MUNCHHAUSEN (1943)
moizmad wrote:That was a really icky movie :(
KNOCK KNOCK - Keanu Reeves, Ana de Armas, Lorenza Izzo, Ignacia Allamand. Keanu's wife and kids are away and that night a terrible rain storm brings 2 crazy women, Ana & Lorenza to his door looking for a phone. Poor Keanu lets them in and they almost kill him and make a huge mess of the home, altho I had no idea why or what for. A 1 3/4 on the Moizmeter.
Icky!!!!
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I saw Free Guy on Disney plus the other day.
It was fun- it's one of those movies where most of the action takes place IN a computer game, in this case it's an NPC getting awareness… which goes back in a long line of films to Tron and probably before.
Anyway, Ryan Reynolds is good as the hapless boob Guy. Interesting to see Jodie Comer from killing Eve staring in this too, not looking as giant and terrifying as she does in that series XD
It was a very fun, very enjoyable movie. It was bright and happy and colourful which was lovely to see since digital colour correction started to be widely used 80% of movies and shows became super drab because editors are uncreative lemmings and just copy what everyone else does.
I felt the film suffered in the last quarter and the ending in that it went from an interesting and creative game based story to inserting and relying on very old and tired conventional tropes-
–Spoilers–
Those tropes are a love plot between the two main programmers, the baddy physically destroying servers with a fire axe, and people all over the whole world watching the in-game action on TV. And other things.
–Spoilers–
It was a fun film but the ending was a bit floppy.
For some reason I decided to rewatch How I met Your Mother…
I gave up on the show in about 2010 I think, because I got tired of waiting for the next season and finding streams was annoying. But I liked it back then. It was just too much work to get back into it.
Now I'm watching it all again from the start so I can catch up and finally finish it!
I'm finding it pretty hard to get through though. Ted Moesby is such an awful character, at least in the episodes I'm watching now in the first season. He's such a wimp as well as being so sickly obsessed with marriage and "the one".
The whole show is about elevating meaningless transient relationships to the status of a search for "true love" and deeper relationships are elevated to a sort of sacrosanct, holy and unassailable purity status. While Barney who is a silly sleaze is the other extreme, who has an endless series of meaningless liaisons.
It only offers these two crazy extremes. The focus on love lurv looooove loOVE LOVE is a bit much but I'll stick with it.
Binge-watched Squid Game due to the hype. The hype is justified, there were parts of that show which were intense. I ended up binge-watching it in one night (and well into the early AM). The filming and set was also amazingly well done, plus the music. Super creepy and unsettling. It was fascinating to see the main character turn from a loser to a hero in just a few days.
The squid game is in the style of dark gameshow animes that've been popular for a few years. They're extremely brutal and all follow the same formula… so I know that show is not for me. Too dark.
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Speaking of formula… I watched Piccalilli Jim the other day, it's a 2004 comedy movie staring Sam Rockwell and set in the 1930s.
The action is divided between London and New York. There's a bit of 30s fashion on show, great outfits and design, as well as Rockwell's awesome dancing.
The story is pure vintage 1930s formula farce, which was weird in a movie from 2004- it involves a playboy falling in love with a feisty woman who hates him but has never seen him so he pretends to be someone else, meanwhile his father is pretending to be a butler so he can escape his controlling wife… and other farce staples.
It was a fun little film and I'm surprised it exists. Very weird and anachronistic.
HYPNOTIC - Kate Siegel, Jason O'Mara, Dule Hill, Lucie Guest. Kate has suffered loss of baby, and boyfriend in coma, goes to Jason to get hypnotised to feel better, doesn't know he's a nut case looking for women to replace his dead wife, and Kate is perfect. But she resists his advances and goes to police. Supposed to be in Portland, Ore. but filmed entirely in Vancouver, BC. An almost 2 on the Moizmeter.
I watched "Surf Party: summer Unleashed"
It soooounds like one of those stupid sex comedies from the 80s. It wasn't, though it thought it might be, I think it had a bit of an identity crisis.
What it turned out to be was a movie about the memory of an incident that happened one day in summer.
It starts out showing a surfboard being made and showing scenes of surfing. We get an intro to some of the protagonists during their high-school graduation, all told from the point of view of one of them-
So it starts off like an old sex comedy AND we know it's all from the point of view of one person. Also it's set in the 1980s.
These people are friends who live in Ventura California and like to surf. They hate "the Valley".
The main protagonist picks up the surfboard that was just made for him. He goes surfing with it. It flips away from him and he loses it. He looks everywhere but it's lost…
It seems to shape up to be a "dude, where's my surfboard" sort of thing. But it turns out that a Valley kid stole it and the gang has to go on a road trip to get it back.
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What was set to be a sex comedy turned into an extremely facile coming of age story with a bit of roadtrip thrown in. It's not a very good movie. All up it's dull and doesn't really know where its focus is.
I only mention this film AT ALL because it occurred to me that it's the exact equivalent of all those nostalgic sex comedy/coming of age stories that were made in the late 70s and early 80s but set during the 50s and 60s (Porkies, Stand by met etc). It feels really weird that they're STILL making that genre and have updated it to a time when I remember being a kid, haha!
I just watched Disney's Jungle Cruise.
It's trying for a Mummy/Pirate's of the Caribbean thing. It really is. It's going for exactly that.
Does it succeed? Maybe. It's as formulaic as the first Pirates' Film, but no where near as good as The Mummy.
A few annoying things:
All the comments on the female protagonist's trousers, as if it waa unusual for a lady to wear them. In the time the film is set it was completely normal for a woman to wear jodphurs while working or adventuring. No one would think it was worthy of comment. They were unisex.
Straight trousers would have elicited comment.
Her brother is careful about clothes, being clean and looking good and he doesn't know how to do physical things like drive boats etc and he's gay…
I see that they really want to be inclusive and forward thinking by including a gay person but that is a moronic stereotype. They should have made the Rock's character gay instead.
All in all this is a formula retro adventure move with waaaaay too much CGI. The writing was dull and I found the movie uninteresting. It was not a bad film though and I hope they make it into a franchise like The Pirates series because I think it could get better with iterations on the idea.
YouTube has the 1960s Godzilla movies for free(with ads) in Japanese and wide-screen and the original Japanese plots.
Even one with the little kid was tolerable! The effects and Godzilla becomes campy by the 1960s and it some fights have slapstick bits. But hell of a lot better than the cut, dubbed ones of my youth. But then I like silliness.
I saw Babylon AD the other day, staring Vin Diesel.
One of those overly violent action movies staring an invincible muscleman…
The name reminded me suspiciously of a 90s anime… There were animes with "AD" in the name and "Tokyo Babylon" etc.
And it was a VERY 90s anime premise and plot!
Vin is a super mercenary who's stuck living in a dystopian poor future Russia. He gets picked captured by a mercenary army and taken to a huge APC with a turret on top. He gets forced inside and all that's in there is a fat Russian mob boss wiith what looks like his wife and daughter I think. They're all relaxing on couches that surround the sides of the thing, it's all upholstered in deep furs, and there are TV screens surrounding all the walls showing what's happening outside so it's like looking out of a glass car…
Very anime!
There are so many anime type touches like him being transported to the job they want him to do in a limo slung under a hind gunship that flies him to his destination. Also a pseudo Christian cult that wants to take over the USA (the theme of every second 90s anime), refuges being transported on a giant Russian Akula class submarine, having to transport a psychic girl…
I'd be surprised if it wasn't adapted from an anime.
It was ok. Too violent for me really. The ending was lame.
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