URGE with Pierce Brosnan, made it half way I guess and it got the kybosh! Maybe it got better in second half but couldn't take it any longer, a 0 rating.
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COME AND FIND ME, sorry didn't know anyone in cast. Woman disappears without a trace and bf goes looking for her. He slowly finds strange clues indicating she wasn't who she said she was. Bad guys trash his house looking for a flash drive with something very important on it. He finds it but I was totally at a loss to what was so important on it. Left me dumbfounded. Filmed around my home town Vancouver. A 3 out of 5.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock. (2013) the CGI/ motion capture Toei animation reboot. Wasn't bad. Lots of action and the dubbing was pretty seamless.
My War (2016) Chinese nationalistic war movie about their participation in the Korean War. About time to see this story told through enemy eyes. And the story is very touching and it doesn't end happily. If you've read about the Forgotten war you may even recognize some of the incidents depicted here.
TRESPASS AGAINST US. Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Sean Harris, and young lad Georgie something (who was very good). Michael lives with his wife and 2 kids in a trailer camp run by his father Brendan. They are all thieves but Michael wants out of the life. Problem is he doesn't know anything else. Does Sean Harris ever get some glamorous roles eh? Pretty good tale, getting a big 3 of 5.
HELL OR HIGH WATER - Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges. Supposed to be midland Texas (actually New Mexico) where Chris & Ben's family ranchland is about to be forclosed by the bank. They decide to rob some banks to get back the homestead and Cop Jeff, weeks from retirement, must stop them. Bro Ben is a loose cannon and kills someone during one heist, while peaceful Chris just wants the farm back. Jeff must sort it out. Noticed not one cigarette smoked during whole film…. were producers sending a message? Very good getting 4 of 5 on the Moizmeter!
PARKER - Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Clifton Davis Jr., Nick Nolte. Jason gets into a fight with his gang of crooks and they leave him for dead. He slowly recovers and goes after them and like most of his films, lot's of fights and violence ensue. J-Lo almost funny as a not so good realtor. A 2 on the Moizmeter.
I recently saw "Dragon Dentist". There seem to be only two episodes to this anime.
It's really hard to describe… But overall it seems to be a nice, arty short anime movie, about war, dentistry on dragons, fate, mortality, and self sacrifice.
It wasn't bad. Thematically it reminded me of a Studio Ghibli film.
GOOD GIRLS REVOLT, a 10-episode series from Amazon.
First episode is set in Manhattan 1969, at a magazine called (something like) The News This Week. It concerns the group of women, the "researchers," who investigate the facts of a story, outline it, often write the article, and then pass it on to the male "reporter" with whom they're partnered, who edits it, or not, and then gets the byline.
By episode 2, the women are thinking that the system needs to change.
Stories that they've covered include the 1969 Altamont Festival, where the Hell's Angels were hired to provide security, the My Lai Massacre, and Hoover's surveillance of the Black Panthers. It's kind of a Newsroom-esque series, but with a groovy/free love versus the remains-of-mod versus the oh-so Betty Crocker component.
I'm diggin it.
I decided to switch over to anime so I am catching up on some old films. Finally saw Lensmen in English. I had only ever seen it in Japanese without subtitles. The original Vampire Hunter D which is still as great as I remembered. So atmospheric and the crude animation really accentuates that. The sequel Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlines is smooth and pretty in that early 1990s shadowy elongated style but really isn't the same.
And I had forgotten there were inside jokes and one-liners. Like one guy has three bimbos and one is obviously Kei from Dirty Pair.
REASONABLE DOUBT - Dominic Cooper, Samuel L. Jackson. Promising DA Cooper thinks he killed a man whilst driving drunk. SLJ gets arrested for the crime and Cooper must prosecute him, thinking he's innocent. But is he? Winnipeg stands in for Chicago. Gets a 2 on the Moizmeter.
USS INDIANAPOLIS - Nicholas Cage, Tom Sizemore. Cage is captain of the ship that delivered the 2 A bombs to the Philippine Island for later use. Once done ship heads back but is sunk by Japanese torpedo. 3/4's of crew lost, most while on flimsy life rafts while sharks have a feast. Finally rescued but somehow Nick is court-martialed for failing to zig-zag? Didn't totally understand the reasoning there. Of course based on true story. A 3 on the Moizmeter.
THE MOST HATED WOMAN IN AMERICA - Melissa Leo, Juno Temple, Josh Lucas, Adam Scott. Loosely based on true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, noted outspoken atheist from 63 to 95, when she was abducted by former employee Lucas, who thought she had access to millions. Film wanders back and forth with poor Melissa wearing tons of make-up and wigs. A generous 2 on the Moizmeter.
UNDER SUSPICION - Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Monica Belucci, Thomas Jane.
From 1999 but a good one I missed. Gene found a murdered girl and cop Freeman wants to clear up a few details, it'll only take 10 minutes. An hour and 3/4 later Gene is caught in one lie after another and he's sweating bullets! Time to confess. I liked it getting a 4 on the Moizmeter. Big twist ending folks!
Sounds like a good film. Freeman has gravitas, but Hackman is a super amazing actor… I imagine he's have a hard time not stealing the show.
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I've been watching the anime Black Butler. It's a very, silly thing set in a weird bishe version of late Victorian England. There's supernatural themes, the butler is a demon and helps his young master solve all sorts of crimes and mysteries. But the most striking thing is how homoerotic the whole thing is.
This is an anime that was aimed at teen girls I think and I would bet money that is was created by a woman.
Not really my thing, but it does make a nice change from the male focussed animes, which get a bit tiring in their obviousness.
Black Butler is very weird.
I started rewatching Martian Successor Nadesco. I haven't seen it since the 1990s, when the video shop had the DVDs. Now I realise I never saw the whole thing. It's a great Scifi mecha anime, lots of spoofs on popular series! And it's nice to watch something that doesn't use bad 3D CGI all the time.
@Moiz- That looks interesting. Maggie is a much better actor than her brother too.
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I found that series a bit barebones. It sort of skipped over all the interesting parts of the story. It's like an anime made up of only every 3rd episode- the other two in between are removed.
Still recovering I am still exploring YouTube. I got tired of the documentaries so saw some 1980s anime movies. Some of them for me the first time in English. Back in the 1980s there were no fansubs and dubbed would get butchered until it made no sense. So you sat with a script or even just a synopsis.
Then I saw "Reach for the Sky" the Douglas Bader story a film biography of the great legless RAF ace of World War II. Bristol Bulldogs, Avro 504K, Hurricanes and Spitfires! This movie would have a BIG influence on the great film Battle of Britain Some of the sequences were so prized they were re-staged in color for the latter film.
Then came A Yank in the RAF a 1941 Tyrone Power movie. The aerial sequences are excellent as they were done by second unit with one of the best photographers of the day Ronald Neame (who also did my favorite wartime movie One of Our Airplanes is Missing) Hudsons and Spitfires! I had totally forgotten the movie ends with Tyrone Power flying Spitfires over Dunkirk. Crazy silly model work with planes whirling all over the place but inter-spaced with great aerial sequences. Oh yeah, and there's an insipid love triangle subplot with Betty Grable. And some obvious bits to show off her legs. I'm not a leg man, but legs can be one of the finest and most beautiful things on a human.
Finished watching all 8 episodes of THE HONOURABLE WOMAN with Maggie and Stephen Rea (he was the best character). Series s/b called Don't Trust Anyone. Practically everyone ends up dead. Still not sure what the main story was, getting her kid back or the ad nauseum Palestine/Israel stuff, and if I never hear about that mess again it will be too soon. I give it a big 2 on the Moizmeter.
THE DISCOVERY - Rooney Mara, Jason Segel, Robert Redford, Jesse Plemons, Riley Keough, Mary Steenbergen. Scientist Redford claims to have proven the existence of an after-life. Millions start committing suicide to get there? Movie s/b called Dumber Than A Bagfull Of Door-Knobs. A generous 1 on the Moizmeter.
Hahaha, good description Moz!
Speaking of dumb films-
For some weird reason I started watching the awful American Pie franchise. Interestingly, while the second movie continues with the gross-out 90s/2000s reinvention of the traditional 80s sex comedy, the later films go back to the roots of 80s sex comedies and give us that same sort of experience, so of like how The Darkness was giving us an authentic 80s glam metal experience at the same time.
It was strange to watch them dicking around with land line telephones and older style mobile phones- everything in the films is quite up to date and modern apart from that.
Seeing that though it's shocking how fast technology developed in just the last few years. They even start off with CRT TVs and video tapes.
One big problem with the films I saw was a general lack of any real diversity, so much so that in the later films I literally had trouble telling the actors apart- all white guys with mousey brown hair…
And for some reason they celebrate the concept of the "douchebag bro", who was normally the villain in older sex comedies.
THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS - Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, Rachel Weisz, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson. Michael is WW1 vet recovering as a light-house keeper for the solitude. He meets Alicia, they marry but she's unable to have children. One day a dingy floats ashore with a live baby and dead father. Do they report it or keep the baby as theirs. They keep it and bury poor daddy…who's to know eh? We'll see about that, not bad getting a 3 on the Moizmeter and I've now got a case of Alicia Vikanderitis…wow is she attractive! Beautiful scenery of New Zealand to boot!
SHEPHERDS AND BUTCHERS - Andrea (be still my heart) Riseborough, Steve Coogan, Garion Dowds. Pretoria, S.A. late eighties. Young prison guard Garion goes nuts and kills 7 men. Steve must defend him somehow. Apparently this young guard took part in the executions of approx 164 prisoners in less than 2 years, and Steve uses this as the excuse for his temporary insanity. My heartthrob Andrea is the prosecutor. Pretty good but the execution scenes are brutal. A big 4 on the Moizmeter.
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