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Sept 23, 2019 15:00:20 GMT -5
Post by kemp on Sept 23, 2019 15:00:20 GMT -5
I'm probably gonna watch this next week, sometime. RAMBO 5 LAST BLOOD Final Trailer Red Band (NEW 2019) Sylvester Stallone Action Movie HDThis is one that I'm going to watch.
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Sept 23, 2019 23:39:42 GMT -5
Post by mindboggled on Sept 23, 2019 23:39:42 GMT -5
I went and watched a great movie called READY or NOT...I was the only one there but I really enjoyed it a bunch. The girl in the movie is so out there...its INCREDIBLY violent by the way. Graphic violence is usually not my thing so much but this was a hoot. Don't miss this little flick I watched this on a whim with my sister and her friend, I thought it was pretty bad, my sister thought it was bad to, and her friend enjoyed it as comedy. Mainly because of how over the top she found it to be, and cheesy to. Which it is, of course.
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Sept 23, 2019 23:43:27 GMT -5
Post by mindboggled on Sept 23, 2019 23:43:27 GMT -5
I am rewatching Excalibur. The fight scenes are... not great. Besides that, is the film any good? I've had it on my radar for quiet some time. It looks visually stunning.
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Sept 24, 2019 1:47:49 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2019 1:47:49 GMT -5
I'm probably gonna watch this next week, sometime. RAMBO 5 LAST BLOOD Final Trailer Red Band (NEW 2019) Sylvester Stallone Action Movie HDThis is one that I'm going to watch. Watched it last night. I dunno what the critics are talking about this is a great movie. Yeah, it's violent, the bad guys are a little one dimensional, so what. What I like about Stallone's movies is that he's not afraid to do his own thing.
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Sept 24, 2019 2:05:08 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2019 2:05:08 GMT -5
I went and watched a great movie called READY or NOT...I was the only one there but I really enjoyed it a bunch. The girl in the movie is so out there...its INCREDIBLY violent by the way. Graphic violence is usually not my thing so much but this was a hoot. Don't miss this little flick Yeah, this looks like fun.
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Sept 24, 2019 4:49:03 GMT -5
Post by kemp on Sept 24, 2019 4:49:03 GMT -5
This is one that I'm going to watch. Watched it last night. I dunno what the critics are talking about this is a great movie. Yeah, it's violent, the bad guys are a little one dimensional, so what. What I like about Stallone's movies is that he's not afraid to do his own thing. That's exactly the kind of review that I wanted for this film. Looks like an 80's to early 2000's style violent action movie, bad guys are just bad guys, and the good guy slaughters them left and right. Sometimes that is just fine. Kind of cool to know that you can still go out to the movies and watch Rambo with a 73 year old Stallone still playing the lead.
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Sept 24, 2019 6:21:25 GMT -5
Post by Char-Vell on Sept 24, 2019 6:21:25 GMT -5
I am rewatching Excalibur. The fight scenes are... not great. Besides that, is the film any good? I've had it on my radar for quiet some time. It looks visually stunning. It IS visually striking. great costumes, great lighting, sets etc...
There are some good performances by the actors. It's worth a watch for sure.
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Sept 24, 2019 7:13:24 GMT -5
Post by emerald on Sept 24, 2019 7:13:24 GMT -5
Just added Avengement to my DVD library. Going back to the direct-to-video days of the 1980’s, I’ve been a watchful fan of low budget action flicks, and this is one of the best I’ve seen in years. It’s a fight flick tied to a nasty gutter-level crime story, and it’s short (87 minutes), smart, mean and brutal as hell The star, Scott Adkins, has built a reputation as one of the more dependable stars in this kind of movie so I expected to be entertained, but Avengement raises the bar across the board. The performances are convincing and Adkins is a wonder. His character is a tormented monster on a relentless quest for revenge-- he’s going to serve it up dripping blood and after that nothing else matters. Plenty of ferocious, well-choreographed fights should please action hounds, but the climactic battle is flat-out savage and so well put together that it seals the deal. I had to have the DVD. If they make the Blu-ray available in my part of the world I’ll buy that, too. This one is a keeper.
It's streaming on Netflix now. If you can appreciate a film that doesn’t have big budget Hollywood gloss and don’t mind some wincingly intense violence, you might want to check it out.
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Sept 24, 2019 8:03:24 GMT -5
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Post by thedarkman on Sept 24, 2019 8:03:24 GMT -5
Just added Avengement to my DVD library. Going back to the direct-to-video days of the 1980’s, I’ve been a watchful fan of low budget action flicks, and this is one of the best I’ve seen in years. It’s a fight flick tied to a nasty gutter-level crime story, and it’s short (87 minutes), smart, mean and brutal as hell The star, Scott Adkins, has built a reputation as one of the more dependable stars in this kind of movie so I expected to be entertained, but Avengement raises the bar across the board. The performances are convincing and Adkins is a wonder. His character is a tormented monster on a relentless quest for revenge-- he’s going to serve it up dripping blood and after that nothing else matters. Plenty of ferocious, well-choreographed fights should please action hounds, but the climactic battle is flat-out savage and so well put together that it seals the deal. I had to have the DVD. If they make the Blu-ray available in my part of the world I’ll buy that, too. This one is a keeper. It's streaming on Netflix now. If you can appreciate a film that doesn’t have big budget Hollywood gloss and don’t mind some wincingly intense violence, you might want to check it out. Thanks for the heads up John! I’m a big fan of Adkins. He is probably the best action star working today; a shame he isn’t an A-List star in major Hollywood productions as he is far superior to the likes of Johnson. But I’m glad he’s still working hard and producing great low-budget gems like this .
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Sept 24, 2019 11:21:40 GMT -5
Post by andys on Sept 24, 2019 11:21:40 GMT -5
I so wanted Adkins to be cast as Iron Fist for Marvel. They need to cast actual martial artists to play characters like that instead of trying to give slow-footed actors a quick makeover and training camp. Ah well.
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Sept 24, 2019 11:46:56 GMT -5
Post by Char-Vell on Sept 24, 2019 11:46:56 GMT -5
I so wanted Adkins to be cast as Iron Fist for Marvel. They need to cast actual martial artists to play characters like that instead of trying to give slow-footed actors a quick makeover and training camp. Ah well. I want someone to read an Iron Fist comic for Marvel.
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Sept 24, 2019 15:32:00 GMT -5
Post by KiramidHead on Sept 24, 2019 15:32:00 GMT -5
I liked Rambo: Last Blood a lot. A few things could have been a bit more fleshed out, but otherwise it was a solid watch.
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Oct 3, 2019 9:06:48 GMT -5
Post by Char-Vell on Oct 3, 2019 9:06:48 GMT -5
I enjoyed Ad Astra, a lot.
It's very dry, hard sci fi.
Mild spoiler: it's HEAVILY influenced by Apocalypse Now.
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Nov 5, 2019 12:24:43 GMT -5
Post by almuric on Nov 5, 2019 12:24:43 GMT -5
Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961) - Oh boy. Just one year earlier, George Pal directed The Time Machine, which was a big hit and is still loved today. Then he did this movie which is . . . memorable in other ways. After a cool stop-motion prologue with lots of outdated Atlantean speculations, we start with young Greek fisherman Demetrios (Anthony Hall) rescues a castaway Atlantean princess, Antillia (Joyce Taylor). He brings her back to his home and nurses her back to health. The first words out of her mouth when she finally wakes up?
"Where is this miserable hovel and why do I wear the garb of slaves?"
Our heroine, ladies and gentlemen. Just why she was sailing so far from home is one of many plot points which is never brought up. Antillia eventually manipulates Demetrios into sailing beyond the Pillars of Hercules. Along the way Demetrios has a vision/hallucination of Neptune. Note, not Poseidon. Neptune looks, frankly, a bit flabby and his green makeup and wig look awful. It has no bearing on the plot and could have easily been cut out. They are intercepted by an Atlantean submarine (a very nice miniature) and taken to Atlantis. There Demetrios learns that the Atlanteans are highly-advanced dicks (John Dall's Zaren chief among them) who reward the fisherman for saving their obnoxious royalty by enslaving him. He really shouldn't be surprised. He's met Antillia, after all.
Oh, and their High Priest Azor (would you believe Get Smart's Edward Platt?) has discovered monotheism. Sure, why not? None of the Atlanteans seem to notice that the leader of their religion doesn't follow their religion. It's one of the many things in the plot which ends up having little to do with the plot. I note that the idols on display in the temple are all from different cultures, time periods, and movies.
Some slaves are taken to the House of Pain Fear where they are turned into men with plastic animal heads. Demetrios is saved from this and gets a chance to win his freedom in the peplum-eque "Ordeal of Fire and Water" where he wrestles an obese giant in a steam bath. The Atlanteans, despite their idolatry of science, also fervently believe in astrology. There's a prophecy about a Greek fisherman causing their downfall which proves correct. Which creates more problems. Why the hell does Zaren trust Demetrios to not only give them intel for their invasion of Greece, but to be the overseer for their slaves (whom he organizes for revolt)? The astrologer raises some objections, but never tries to stop Demetrios despite the fact he has every reason to believe he'll destroy them (and does). And oh, by the way, astrology works. What does the One True God have to say about that?
The metaphysics of this movie are deeply confused.
Anyhow, Demetrios leads a revolt, volcanoes blow up, stock footage crowds panic. Zaren goes mad (I guess) and starts randomly vaporizing people and ships with a death ray until he's stabbed in the back (by Azor, of all people) and is turned into an articulated classroom skeleton complete with flip-top skull and a hole where the hook would go in. Cue The End (of The Beginning).
The script and visuals are frequently at odds. A slave in the House of Fear is being turned into a "boar", despite the fact that he already has the ears, nose and horns . . . of a bull. We're told more than once that crystals are used for lighting in Atlantis. But what do we see used for lighting? Torches. The Atlanteans don't know much about the Mediterranean because their ships have trouble with the Pillars of Hercules . . . but they've been shown to have submarines. And why does a scientifically-advanced culture have no curiosity about the rest of the world at all? We're told the survivors will spread Atlantean culture across the globe, but all the survivors we see (save Antillia) are escaped slaves, people unlikely to want to recreate Atlantis in their homelands. And then there's the stock footage, culled from earlier MGM movies. During the arena scene we see Roman centurions in long shot, Mongolian-style Atlantean soldiers in close up. It goes on and on. Part of the problem was a writer's strike, which meant they went into filming with an incomplete script. And what a script! Based on a stage play (which there is no record of ever being performed), there's some absolutely priceless bits of unintentional hilarity peppered through the mock-Shakespearean monologues. Lots of plot holes, loose ends and half-baked ideas that lead nowhere. The other problem was a budget cut, which is puzzling considering George Pal had a good rep as a producer and director. I wonder what happened?
All in all, it's definitely worth seeing at least once and is long-overdue for the MST3K treatment.
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Nov 11, 2019 8:28:51 GMT -5
Post by kemp on Nov 11, 2019 8:28:51 GMT -5
'Box Office: ‘Joker’ Becomes The Most Profitable Comic Book Movie Ever With $304.2 million in North America after five weeks in theaters, Joker’s new global cume is around $953 million. That means DC Films and Warner Bros.’ Joker is the most profitable comic book movie of all time. In a skewed way, Joker represents every studio’s dream, in that it’s a mid-budget, 2-D title that’s pulling top-tier blockbuster business without relying on China. That it happens to be an R-rated psychological drama is a bonus of sorts, as it’s the third-cheapest $900 million grosser of all time after Bohemian Rhapsody ($905 million on a $52 million budget) and The Lion King ($968 million on a $55 million budget in 1994). When it tops $1 billion worldwide in the next week or so, it’ll be the cheapest movie to do so, with a budget just under the $63 million spent by Jurassic Park back in 1993. ‘ www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/11/08/box-office-dc-films-joker-tops-955-million-to-become-more-profitable-than-deadpool-venom-and-batman/#7381cfe518ffThere are times I like to sit back and enjoy watching goofy looking aliens snapping their fingers and wiping out half the galaxy in some caper ( was ok actually ) ,but it’s good to know that a more mature oriented superhero ( villain ) movie that looks like it kind of came out of the 70’s era when they made films like Taxi Driver, The Godfather and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest taking in the earnings. Hope Hollywood gets the message and keeps the better stuff coming.
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