Very nice, warm movie.
I thought both The Favourite and The Shape of Water were terrific movies. As much as I like Frances Mcdormand, I was disappointed that Sally Hawkins didn’t win the best actress Oscar for her performance in The Shape of Water. Mcdormand had already won an Oscar, so I was hoping for a first time win for Hawkins. Of course, awards are rather silly, in the big scheme of things artistic.
I guess it came off a bit too oddly surreal for me. Reminded me a little of “”Big Fish”:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Fish.” Strange. Is it supposed to be a comedy? A mystery? A romance? Well yeah… the latter as it turned out to be. A “Splash” kind of ending. 
I remembered Tom Hanks being able to breathe underwater thanks to Darryl Hannah. 
Paths of Glory.
just like Kubrick
to end most of
his with a song.
That’s a great one. You can see the influence of that movie in “1917” and many others.
Just catching up…
Yesterday’s was “In/Sight”, which was a blast most of the way through.
ER nurse gets zapped when not breaking contact when a Kitty-Genovese-like victim is getting defibbed. From that point on, she starts experiencing the victim’s memories, and knows it wasn’t a random crackhead who killed her, but someone she loved. And the nurse can’t let it go, but pokes through the case to find the killer, much to the chagrin of the detectives working the case.
But what’s the big secret? Why is almost everybody insisting she stay out of it? Watch the movie to find out. 
I really liked the movie but think I need to rewatch the ending, as it just seemed a little bombastic and drawn out (like a coupla minutes straight of slo-mo with “Aha, here’re your answers” music), and left questions unanswered, but at least one reviewer said otherwise, that the questions were answered. Hmmm. I’ll have to go back and find out.
A little treat was seeing Max Perlich and Juliet Landau, both alums of “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”, and both were even in the same episode (“Becoming”).
Other than that, you had some other recogniseable actors like Sean Patrick Flanery, Veronica Cartwright, Daniel Roebuck, and even Christopher Lloyd.
Today was “Tribal — Get Out Alive”, which was pretty awesome. Put a videogame to movie format, and there’s TGOA. It was a fun little romp.
Almost instant action and quick exposition in the first few minutes of the flick, then it sets the stage for the conflict, then bam!, you’re right in the middle of it.
Fight the superhuman cannibal zombies level after level, trying to not lose your entire team getting picked off one by one. Nonstop action and suspense right through the end.
Fairly simple plot, great car2nish violence and gore, absolutely great kick-ass fight scenes, I didn’t check the time even once, that’s how engaging it was. Tune in, kick back, enjoy!
I watch The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer
The last movie i watched…is … can’t remember,
and recently, just watch TV and it’s chinese TV…
just an aside: i use Plex to watch movies for free.
yes, there are ads, but it’s FREE! just click and watch.
we “cut the cord” years ago. we’re not paying for ads.
“Blink Of An Eye”. Just… wow.
All about the day Michael Waltrip won his first Daytona 500 and the loss of Dale Earnhardt, within minutes of each other.
You’ll be wiping away tears of sadness in some parts, and tears of joy in others. Just watch it. Incredibly done.
I actually saw that race on teevee, and DE’s hit, especially on instant replay (over and over), just didn’t seem that hard. I thought for sure he’d be getting out (as all the others around him thought, too). But nope.
Seeing Em Dubya’s earlier hit into the concrete berm and watching his car completely unspool around him, like nothing left, and having him walk away without a scratch, was beyond belief. That was the definition of “miracle”.
This is an interesting one, just finished it. If you are a fan of Lucy Hale (I am), and like very basic Rom-Coms - this one is for you. Because of the topics discussed, I highly advise you not to let your children watch this movie.
The movie had a funnier start, slumped a bit in the middle but it was watchable.
First up, “Desert Warriors: Lions Of The Namib”, which was excellent, at least as far as content. Great documentary about a pride of desert-adapted lions and their struggle to survive in the Namib Desert.
Only real complaint was the somewhat repetitive music that just wouldn’t stop. It was allllllways there, in the background, not always full-blast, sometimes quite subdued, but still ever-present. After a while it got distracting.
Also a really sad tearjerker part that just bothered me. I’m [not] sorry, but if I saw an old lioness starving to death and circling the drain, “researcher” or not, I’d bring the poor gal a rump-roast and some water, and not just stand by and keep watching and filming her last breaths. Chrissakes…
Second for tonight, an oldie, “Adrenalin: Fear The Rush”. Pretty good, incredibly simple plot, gets pretty much right to the action with zero ado. Christopher Lambert and Natasha Henstridge and other actors are cops of some international-ish police force with accents from all over Europe and the ’States. Ostensibly the city is Boston(??), but has a huge prison that looks like it was modeled on the Bastille. The cop leader has an American flag and one other white-with-stuff-on-it flag on his desk, but has a thick French accent that makes Jean-Claude Van Damme sound like David Brinkley. And the little European clown-cars used by the cops had “Policia” on them, so they’re not quite French (“Le Po-Po”?). Point being, I have no idea what universe that was supposed to be in (and I suspect, neither did the moviemakers).
Anyway, some Mystery Virus infects a mutant sporting a wifebeater shirt, and gives him Suleban eyes and Cryptkeeper hair and face, and weird vampire teeth and other mutations. And in 23hrs or so, he’ll turn into a supercarrier and go viral and everyone within windshot will get infected. So, after he starts killing the locals, the cops are sent to kill him, then the Well-Armed Guys In Yellow Rubber Suits follow somewhat late in the movie.
Okay, so it sounds ridiculous so far, but they cut right to the action and you don’t have time to dwell on any of that. The cops think they got the mutant trapped in the Bastille, but haha, he knows all the shortcuts and secret passages, and starts picking off the Expendible Characters with ease.
So after it’s up to Tasha to go get help because everyone else is either dead or in a serious world of hurt, she runs into the WAGIYRS dewds once she’s outside, and then goes back in(!) to get her comrades out.
I’m still in favor of the nuke-it-from-orbit approach, but that wouldn’t make for a very compelling movie.
What does bug me is when someone makes explicit mention “I’m down to my last clip”, then fires repeatedly into nothingness, and/or into a huge metal door as it closes. And then magically has lots and lots more ammo later. And apparently all the cops there get issued the crappiest flashlights ever, which blink sporadically like they have Lightning Mode, and fizzle out at the most inopportune times. You just wanna point ’em at Convoy or Sofirn or something, eh?
Anyway, just shift your brain into neutral and coast through the movie. It’s only 1¼ hrs, and goes by pretty quickly. Here’s the key: Just Don’t Think. Enjoy the ride, the weird random accents, the Bad Decisions made on a regular basis, and try not to think about, well, anything. It’s still a pretty fun ride. And loads of laffs to poke fun of later.
I saw The Irishman on my 60 Inch Smart TV. If anyone would like a review how to choose the best budget 60 Inch Smart TV check the link or check this other review only about Smart TVs
Dunkirk. Amazing Movie
Yeah, I was impressed, even with the artistic license taken with some of the facts. This movie really makes you feel what it was like to be on the beach, or up in a Spitfire, trying to survive. Scary stuff.
As I watched that movie, I kept thinking about the fact that the Spitfire Mk. 1 had a gravity-fed carburetor - not the fuel injection that the Messerschmidt Bf-109 fighters had. So, when they did tight maneuvers in combat, their engine was often starved for fuel at the worst time.
This was the German pilots’ first real opportunity to face the Spitfire in combat, as many of you know. The Spitfire could out-turn the Messerschmidt Bf-109 fighter and impressed Adolf Galland, the German ace and eventual head of the German fighter defense forces, enough that when Reichsmarshall Goering asked him what further resources he needed for his fighter group during the Battle of Britain, Galland replied that he would like a staffeln of Spitfires. That didn’t go over well with Goering, of course. But the early Spitfires were at a distinct disadvantage versus their German opponents when it counted most, with regard to their engines cutting off in certain maneuvers.
“Blue Monkey” tonight. Had the makings of a teevee movie except for mild language. Good mindless fun.
Basically, an old dewd sticks himself on an exotic plant, gets gangrene fast, and dies, but not before puking up what looks like a long white turd (or a nasty-looking weißwurst), actually a bug larva. So in the hospital they bottle the critter, and while two lovebirds go out for nookie after being told to watch the beastie, four of the most irritating kids monkey around and feed the beastie massive doses of growth hormone. Hilarity ensues. Bloodshed, too.
Basically, it’s a praying-mantis hermapolite xenomorph that poops out the female that’s going to lay thousands of eggs in one shot. So after the hospital is in quarantine and gonna get all blowed up by army dewds if it’s not brought under control in 2hrs, the cop, nurse, and bug-guy all go on the hunt for them, lure away the mama-papa xenomorph, and then roast the little beasties.
Well, you know it’ll end up okay in the end, but it’s a fun romp. Just like any teevee movie with killer piranhas or killer snakes or killer any-other-beasties, it’s mindless, it’s predictable, and it’s fun. And even if you love kids, you’ll so want to smack the living crap out of the four little chimps imps, especially their “leader”.
The title of the movie I watched was “Insect!”, which makes hella more sense, but the “official” name is now “Blue Monkey”. Not much is actually blue in the movie, nor are there any monkeys. Kinda retarded, just like the classic “I Come In Peace” being renamed “Dark Angel” (wtf?!?), or very recently, “The Ascent” being renamed “Stairs”.
Okay, no more cocaine for those Hollyweird types… it addles their brains.
Watched American Psycho, a great movie.
Just watched: The Professor and The Madman.
About the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Very interesting. I had no idea how they did it.
Well done, if a bit sad.
All the Best,
Jeff
