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I always get Deep Rising, Deep Star Six, and Leviathan all confused!


The King

My big take away is that Monarchy sucks.

It had some artistic flourish in the cinematography, especially in a few of the establishing shots.

A relatively grim film, and I honestly did not enjoy it all that much.

 Easy E wrote:
I always get Deep Rising, Deep Star Six, and Leviathan all confused!

Deep rising: People fight giant sea monsters in a cruise ship.

Deepstar 6. People fight giant sea monster underwater.

Leviathan. People become giant sea monsters, other people fight them.

 Matt Swain wrote:

 Easy E wrote:
I always get Deep Rising, Deep Star Six, and Leviathan all confused!

Deep rising: People fight giant sea monsters in a cruise ship.

Deepstar 6. People fight giant sea monster underwater.

Leviathan. People become giant sea monsters, other people fight them.

Nice!

Now add the Abyss!

 Easy E wrote:

 Matt Swain wrote:

 Easy E wrote:
I always get Deep Rising, Deep Star Six, and Leviathan all confused!

Deep rising: People fight giant sea monsters in a cruise ship.

Deepstar 6. People fight giant sea monster underwater.

Leviathan. People become giant sea monsters, other people fight them.

Nice!

Now add the Abyss!

James Cameron gets obsessed with the Titanic, decides to make underwater version of close encounters of the third kind with bleeding edge CGI tech.

Bravo! Not as concise, but gives me an easy way to distinguish them all!

 Easy E wrote:
Bravo! Not as concise, but gives me an easy way to distinguish them all!

Well, being fair to me the abyss was different than the other 3 in a lot of ways.

Onto a movie, there's one and only one gamera movie i'll recommend, and it's called "war of the monsters" in america, or gamara vs barugon. (Don'r confuse barugon from the gamaera series with baragon from the godzilla movies, it hurt kaiju's feelings when you mix them up.)

I swear this is the only gamera movie i will recommend watching instead of running screaming from the room when it starts.

It has no kenny it it, and is all in all a pretty dark and grim movie compared to a lot of kaiju flicks. There is a lot of human on human violence, in one scene a man lets another be stung by a scorpion and die slowly from the poison for money, in another the same guy beats a man and his wife to death barehanded. A manis caught on a jaiju's long, chameleon like tongue, pulled into it's mouth like a fly and eaten alive. There is a close up scene of him caught by the tongue and pulled into a full sized mockup of the monster's mouth.



Gamera is more the guest star in this flick and spends most of it frozen solid, appearing in little more than cameo roles.

this is a very violent and dark kaiju movie for the 60's and almost unbelievable that is is a gamera movie since they were mostly kiddie flicks, but not this one

I love Gamera movies!

Eurovision Song Contest

You know, the new Will Ferrel movie on Netflix. It is enjoyable enough for what it is.

Ja, Ja, Ding Dong!

The Family
A movie by Luc Besson, produced by Martin Scorsesee, starring Rober DeNiro as a gangster, Michelle Pfeifer as his wife, and Tommy Lee Jones as an FBI agent. The gangsters are sent to a small town in France to avoid Mob hitmen. It is a comedy. Consider that premise for a moment.

The Kids getting "acclimated" to their new school maybe a highlight of the film. The end is also surprisingly violent.

Otherwise a kind of pointless time kill as their is no character development or plot arc to the film.

Seen War of the Monsters more times than I can recall. it also has a lot of weird 60's "globe trotting" elements to it as well. it is like they mixed a 60's adventure/spy/heist movie with a giant monster film.

Now, I watched a movie that I absolutely adore and consistently evangelize for, but few other people share my view of it. It is the Wachoski's Speed Racer film. This movie is so well done.... it is amazing. Great transitions, excellent exposition reveals, interesting characters, great cast, very quotable, and exciting racing! Why is this movie not more popular? Probably because it is too long.

Starsky and Hutch

Deeply stupid, with only a couple of decent laughs.

There are a lot of cameos in this film, including Har Mar Superstar as a disco dancing duelist.

I am starting to see why Ben Stiller is no longer in movies..... he really is not that funny.

Mandy

If Sam Raimi had made Mad Max it might have looked a bit like this movie. If he'd done a butt load more drugs.

Also, Nicolas Cage is in it, but Nicolas Cage doesn't turn up until about an hour in.

The Old Guard

Entertaining, BUT the fact the leads are immortal starts to drain the tension from action sequences.

I am confused why the baddies did not switch from lethal force to concussive and non-lethal force. Things like tasers, stun grenades, bean bag rounds, gas, etc.

Great cliff-hanger ending.... too bad it will probably go no where.

 Azreal13 wrote:
Mandy

If Sam Raimi had made Mad Max it might have looked a bit like this movie. If he'd done a butt load more drugs.

Also, Nicolas Cage is in it, but Nicolas Cage doesn't turn up until about an hour in.

but as the fup awful City of Angels taught us just because you cant see Cage it doesnt mean he isnt there

Cage didn’t want the world to see him, because he didn’t think that they’d understand/ when everything’s made to be broken, Cage just wants you to know who he ...am.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Cage didn’t want the world to see him, because he didn’t think that they’d understand/ when everything’s made to be broken, Cage just wants you to know who he ...am.

You good sir win the Internet for today

I hated that film so much, mangle a much better film with a dreadful cast and jam Dawson music in (ie softy ballad gak / alanis-esque wailing likely to appear in a 00s teen drama) what could go wrong

Knives Out

This is a delightful little movie. I recommend it, as it is a bit of a throwback to "classic" mysteries, but with some modern twists.

After seeing this and Brick why the hell did they want Rian Johnson to do the 2nd Star Wars Trilogy movie? It was clear he was meant to do the Solo movie instead. Then, they should have swapped Ron Howard in to do the 2nd Star Wars movie! That makes the most sense!

In short, Rian Johnson is a good film maker and writer, just not for the middle of a Trilogy Star Wars film!

Eye of the needle. Maybe Donald Sutherland's best movie.

Nutshell: Nazi germany's greatest spy, codenamed 'the needle' due to his weapon of choice,a stiletto, has discovered the truth about the D day deception and FUSAG. He must escape from england and reach germany with the information.

Rambo, Last Blood

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting a great deal. The last one was gloriously daft, spesh when he uses the 50 cal.

This one? Somewhat more restrained. And whilst you can tell Stallone is well past his prime? The movie leans into that and runs with it.

It’s not going to win any awards, but for a Prime freebie I’ve watched it three times so far, and appreciated it for what it is.

I can genuinely recommend it when you’re at a loose end.

 Matt Swain wrote:
Eye of the needle. Maybe Donald Sutherland's best movie.

Nutshell: Nazi germany's greatest spy, codenamed 'the needle' due to his weapon of choice,a stiletto, has discovered the truth about the D day deception and FUSAG. He must escape from england and reach germany with the information.

Great book too!

 Easy E wrote:

 Matt Swain wrote:
Eye of the needle. Maybe Donald Sutherland's best movie.

Nutshell: Nazi germany's greatest spy, codenamed 'the needle' due to his weapon of choice,a stiletto, has discovered the truth about the D day deception and FUSAG. He must escape from england and reach germany with the information.

Great book too!

That's the truth,

Enemy Mine.

A fun, moving film about a human and his Drakh enemy learning to survive together on a hellish moon. Then there's a tacked on action scene at the end. All in all, a great movie that will have you, too, proclaiming "Mickey Mouse is a big, stupid dope!"

Galaxy Quest

The best Star Trek parody of all time. Also kinda somehow one of the best Star Trek movies of all time.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:


Galaxy Quest

The best Star Trek parody of all time. Also kinda somehow one of the best Star Trek movies of all time.

Cant disagree there I think part of why its awesome sauce is there is a clear love of all things Trek whilst acknowleging its shortcomings, just hating and mocking a thing just doesnt work as those fork awful parody films show, outstanding cast also helped

Reality Bites

Now I admit her acting isnt why I watch Winona films but a recent rewatch of this even her purty cant deflect from her character and nearly everyone, barring maybe Ben Stiller, are fupwitted entitled sacks of gak to the extent you just cant care

[b] Labyrinth [b]

Wuzza wuzza Goblin King Bowie rules some muppets by dance magic although it might all be a dream and if thats the case Sarah needs some pills and voltage calming for those trousers

Alice in Wonderland

This is the Tim Burton one.

Sometimes, I am really mad at the LOTR trilogy because it heralded in a whole lot of by-the-numbers Fantasy movies. This is one of them.

Completely forgettable. I almost forgot to write this little blurb about it, it was that forgettable.

"Billion dollar brain."

A movie ahead of it's time in recognizing the GIGO rule of computers. "Garbage in, garbage out". Even the greatest computer on earth can be fooled by one slick conman.

The political satire of it, and the fact it's a 60's movie, was eerie in how it pre parodied the rule of a recent american president.

Japan Sinks 2020

My daughter and I sat down and watched all the the episodes in one sitting in the evening.

It is basically, 2012 the Anime.

I have to admit, disaster flicks are not my favorite genre, and the mostly unforgiving bleakness is not me cup of tea. Oh, the last episode is a triumphant tourism ad for Japan..... doesn't make up for the rest of the unrelenting bleakness.

The other reason I can not get behind most disaster and post-apoc is that I know my family and I would not be survivors. Therefore, I can not relate to the protagonists at all. In fact, I often watch and think..... I would be dead.... i would rather be dead.....

"Ice station zebra".

Ok, not a fast paced action movie, more of a thinking person's movie that is more like "Slow and Purposeful" in it's pacing.

Once you get past the ridiculous mcguffin ( roll of film capable of infinite enlargement) it's a good cold war movie, if you like 'em long.

My only problem is rock hudson. I have a hard time watching movies with him. No, not because he was gay, but because he knowingly risked infecting an actress with what was at the time an incurable, untreatable, terminal illness who's transmission was at the time largely unknown without telling her he was ill. I considered that to be very despicable behavior.

Antman and The Wasp

2nd time round its one of the weaker MCU efforts that even the big/small gimmick wears thin, also Ms Lillys mere presence irritates me for reasons I cant quite figure

Superman

Still charmingly goofy fully aware of the silliness of Capes, even the opening nudges your mindset with the whole comic book bit (pilfered from an earlier film that currently eludes me)

How Do You Know

A romantic comedy from when they still made those before SmartPhones with Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd, and Jack Nicholson. A pretty killer cast really.

What I liked was the guy Reese was leaving was not a total scumbag, just not the right one for Reese. However, what I did not like was Paul Rudd's "Nice Guy" strategy getting the girl. Totally not OK in this day an age of Incel rage.....

Harmless fun overall, and everyone involved got a paycheck and played their parts well.


Edit: It has been pretty hot during the evenings here with 90+ temps, so watching a family movie is about all you can manage without sweating yourself to death. Expect some more reviews.....

V for Vendetta

This is a pretty fun movie, but it is a bit high on its own stash sometimes. Some great soaring rhetoric at times though. It would probably be fun to watch a double header of this and The Siege starring Bruce Willis.

That being said, in the movie their is a terrorist plague epidemic that kills 80K people and triggers the march to a right wing state in the UK.

As an American i thought, "80K that's nothing compared to the 150K we have lost to COVID so far." That thought humbled me.

V might well be the finest example of Hollywood misunderstanding utterly, and whilst some drift was unavoidable in the transfer I can see why Alan was even more grumpy than usual

No idea where the virus plot came from, maybe the W's chickened out of the book premise of a limited nuclear exchange arguably provoked by the US turning the world to poop

And of course boiling it down to goodies and baddies and removing about half the characters didnt help

I remember when The Siege came out, and everyone was incensed and rolling their eyes. Then by 2005 everyone kind of went back and thought, “Okay, The Siege. I owe you an apology.”