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Post by Cop on Dec 11, 2020 13:07:00 GMT -5
Monsters of Man (Download): Pretty decent movie about drone soldiers that could have been good to great if they'd cut it down by some 20-30 minutes because eventually it outstays is welcome at 2 hours and 11 minutes. There's not enough happening to validate that inflated runtime. Other than that it was pretty good. Looked great, not low-budget at all, with very good CG for the robots themselves.
Mank (Download): While it was a good movie, with a great Gary Oldman (look for him at the next Oscars), just like the movie it's about, Citizen Kane, I'll just stick with this one viewing.
Anything for Jackson (Download): Surprising good and amusing little horror flick about an elderly couple using satanism to try and revive their deceased grandson. Of course thengs go sideways and it escalates from there. Good casting for the couple and a couple of genuine disturbing scenes made this a lot better than it could have been...
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Post by Cop on Dec 12, 2020 12:19:22 GMT -5
Crown Vic (Download): Rewatch of the download because I haven't been able to buy this yet. I kind of love this 'day in the life' of 2 cops, a rookie and a veteran, especially when one of them is Thomas Jane.
When They See Us (Download): Ouch... Making a Murderer, the black/rapist-version. 4 hard-hitting episodes, with amidst of it all, one Donald Trump wanting to kill black people... How little has changed in 30 years.
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Post by Cop on Dec 13, 2020 17:02:56 GMT -5
1917 (Bluray): Rewatch, with the family. Solid flick.
Le Mans '66 (Bluray): Speaking of a solid flick. This is one of those perfect Hollywood adaptations of a story that really happened in broad strokes. 2.5 hours that flies by.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Bluray): Perfectly mediocre PG-13 horror that didn't stand out in any way. Looked nice, didn't annoy.
Small Axe (Epi 4) (Bluray): Not the most interesting one to be honest but enjoyable with all the rastafari talk.
Eli Roth's History of Horror - Season 2 (Bluray): 6 more episodes, 6 more categories among which monsters, so finally The Thing shows up. It's been an enjoyable series.
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Post by Cop on Dec 14, 2020 3:41:17 GMT -5
Groundhog Day (Bluray): Such a classic, can't fault it at all.
Dororo (DVD/Download): I knew I owned this movie on DVD but that's about all I would've been able to tell you about it if you'd asked me before tonight. Came across a HD version and decided to give it another go. It was actually kind of amazing. Weird and wonderful fantasy swordplay movie with demons, which makes it even weirder it didn't leave more of an impression on me when I got it, back in 2010. I noticed I got it in july, so chances are I wasn't able to stay awake because that's usually my vacation month, which is generally a bad time for trying to watch movies. Anyway, it's about a guy that's fighting these weird and wonderfully designed demons to get back his 48 bodyparts which his dad promised them before he was even born, which left him as sort of an limbless, featureless blob which a shaman then put artificial limbs on... ...did I mention it was Japanese? Who else, right?
Archenemy (Download): I had high hopes for this after loving the director's previous movie (Daniel Isn't Real) but it didn't quite deliver. It's an alternative superhero movie that's all over the place but kinda lost me when it turned out to be not as ambiguous as it was first made out to be. I guess I'll have to rewatch it someday.
Silence of the Hams (Download): Extremely silly spoof movie from the '90 which I'd never seen before. Can't say it was particulary good, but can't say I didn't find it amusing either, especially the ending with all the Scooby Doo mask-shenanigans. Dumb but fun...
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Post by Cop on Dec 16, 2020 13:46:06 GMT -5
Bloodshot (Bluray): Not the best, not the worst. Overall not too bad an action movie with some cool ideas...
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Post by Cop on Dec 17, 2020 4:49:47 GMT -5
True Detective - Season 3 (Bluray): It's been a while since I downloaded and watched this. With a 1+1-free deal on TV-series seasons it was the perfect time to snag this up and give it a rewatch. I'd forgotten a lot about it, which was good because that made me engaged all over. Good acting, Stephen Dorff is surprisingly good, while Scoot McNairy looks almost exactly like Michael Biehn with his facial hair. The only downside to this season is the somewhat disappointing ending.
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Post by ForRealTho on Dec 17, 2020 18:07:16 GMT -5
The Vietnam War: Good but very long documentary. Been watching it during work. He decided not to talk about some thing which have been shown to death which is understandable but I guess makes it less complete.
Shows how the whole thing was a giant face saving operation and far back as Kennedy they knew they couldn't win the war.
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Post by Cop on Dec 18, 2020 11:46:05 GMT -5
Alien Covenant (Download): I hated this movie when I watched it in the theatre, so much so I never even tried watching it again since, let alone buying it. I had been thinking about giving it another shot recently, but didn't want to waste money on it just yet, and it just happened to be uploaded today when I had some time to actually watch it, which I took as a sign. Sadly, I still think it's shit. At least I didn't fall asleep this time around. I missed a few minutes near the end in the theatre, lol. But I finally figured it out: You know what this movie reminds me of? One of those '80s and '90 Alien and Aliens knock-off movies. Low-budget efforts by second rate filmmakers that wanted to cash in on the success of alien-survival movies, taking basic premises and bad scripts filled with dumb characters and less than amazing alien creature designs... ...only this time it's made with a huge budget AND the original director... ...but it's soooo crappy. Nobody was this dumb in Alien, not even Brett.
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Post by Cop on Dec 18, 2020 14:23:18 GMT -5
The Mandalorian - Season 2 (Download): I wasn't the biggest fan of the first season, too few really good episodes, and didn't really get all the hype, I have to admit this second season became pretty great as it kept going. There seemed to be more of an idea, a storyline, behind the proceedings and it all started too fall nicely into place, with great moments throughout, most of all the finale, which made me giddy with joy. I never knew how much I wanted to see that until I saw it. Well done, Jon Favreau and everyone involved. My inner child thnaks you.
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Post by Cop on Dec 20, 2020 5:20:39 GMT -5
Drunk (Download): Danish flick by Thomas Vinterberg about 4 high school teachers testing the theory humans have a natural alcohol deficiency of about 0.005%. It won some awards and is getting pretty good buzz I watched it with the wife since it isn't the usual horror/scifi shit I tend to watch and I have to admit it was actually pretty good. Follows the standard feelgood-movie tropes but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Lord of Illusions - Director's Cut (Download/DVD): A Clive Barker movie I've seen plenty of times over the years but it had been a while since the last time was on DVD. Got really interested in it again after listening to my favorite band Front Line Assembly in the car over the past few months. They've sampled this movie to bits, so many lines (and just sounds here and there) I recognise. This was the first time I watched the director's cut though.
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Post by Cop on Dec 22, 2020 17:21:25 GMT -5
Re-Animator (Bluray): I bought this bluray a while back for cheap, thinking I'd done a good deal. Before it even arrived I found out an Arrow version had since been released, which I would've gotten (eventually, not at release price) instead. Nothing wrong with this bluray though. It's the Unrated cut in pretty decent quality, basically the same release I had on DVD, just in HD, but the Arrow is an Arrow release, obviously. I might still get it, if I can get it as a 2 for 1, speaking of which: 4 of those (finally) arrived today. Check this thread because I'll probably be watching them soon...
Insert Coin (Download): Documentary about Midway, makers of classic arcade games like Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam and T2 telling anecdotes about their time there in the '90s.
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Post by Cop on Dec 23, 2020 17:49:12 GMT -5
Satanic Panic (Bluray): Fun little satanism horror comedy.
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Post by Cop on Dec 25, 2020 6:14:37 GMT -5
Wonder Woman 3D (3D Bluray): In preparation for the new one that is about to be released. Probably the best movie of the DC universe even though I liked Aquaman a lot as well.
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Post by Coolverine on Dec 25, 2020 11:50:22 GMT -5
Speaking of that...
Wonder Woman 1984 is premiering on HBO Max in less than 10 minutes from now.
I had canceled my HBO Max subscription because it costs too much and I never watch it, but I had read somewhere that HBO was gonna start premiering some movies on their streaming service at the same time as their theatrical release.
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Post by Cop on Dec 26, 2020 7:04:23 GMT -5
Harpoon (Bluray): Completely blind purchase from the 1+1 free Arrow deal. Looked somewhat interesting, a single location horror/thriller and without anything else I absolutely had to have in that deal, I decided to take the gamble... It was pretty good. It only had 3 people in it for the entire movie (2 guys, 1 girl), and a narrator, stuck on a yacht (not the narrator) but it never got too slow or boring. Basically it's a couple and a friend but the guy from the couple is suspecting the other 2 of cheating -> escalation. Purdy gewd.
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Post by ForRealTho on Dec 26, 2020 13:06:38 GMT -5
Dr Sleep Directors Cut: Never got around to watching this, finally saw it last night. I remember some dude talking about how horrible it was and "it turns The Shining into Xmen". I really enjoyed it. I never saw the original version just the 3 hour directors cut. It didn't drag at all. Has some cheesy lines of dialog other then that solid movie. {CLICK FOR SPOILER}The actress who said she was 15 looks 25 years old. I don't get why they couldn't get a real 15 year old when the main girl is played by an actual 13 year old.
Also this is another movie that tards online sperged out over the main character being a black girl "omg The Shining has gone SJW" apparently any movie with a black character is SJW. The Green Mile another Steve King movie was SJW I guess, all movies must have an all white, male, hetero cast. That seems to have died down but it super obnoxious a few years ago
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Post by Cop on Dec 27, 2020 5:57:40 GMT -5
Wonder Woman 1984 (Download): What the hell happened between the last movie and this one? This wasn't a good movie, like, at all and certainly not compared to the first, which managed to be a great adventure movie with all kinds of cool and emotional stuff. This was just way too campy and all over the place. The opening was OK-ish, a bit too clean and CG, didn't feel like the same island as before, but it did the trick... ...but then they went to 1984 and it almost turned into '60s Adam West Batman with a very dumb action scene with the kind of campy acting you see in children's TV-shows and I was like "Ooooh noooo", especially when they followed this up with the introduction of Kirsten Wiig's character that was all kinds of horrible and then they introduce the dumbest plot device I've seen in a superhero movie in a long time, a stone that grants wishes... It never recovered from that tonal shift. For a huge budget movie the CG was also often quite laughable and the finale lacked any kind of stakes. Sure, the world is about to be destroyed by nukes, but it's all just spoken about in quick throwaway scenes, the main characters aren't part of this at all. All we get is another lame fighting scene with laugably bad CG. Damn, what a letdown... I think they knew what they had and feared a theatrical flop so they opted for a guaranteed $15/subscriber rather than having a good opening weekend followed by an incredible dropoff after word of mouth gets out it's a stinker.
I wanted to like it too. Like I said, the first is probably the best of the DCU, but this is very likely the worst.
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Post by Cop on Dec 28, 2020 6:49:14 GMT -5
Colossal (Bluray): Could've been a dry relationship movie, but then they threw big monsters into it...
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Post by Cop on Dec 29, 2020 5:51:21 GMT -5
Terminator - Dark Fate (Download): First off: I had zero interest in this movie. I didn't care about it in the slightest, never watched a trailer, skipped it in the theatre, even skipped it when it first did the rounds on the torrent sites, I just didn't care at all... But then it made the rounds again and I'd kinda told a colleague I'd give it a watch, eventually, and with the backlog of unwatched stuff relatively small at the moment, what better time?
You know what? I kinda enjoyed it. The first half hour took me completely by surprise, it was, quite simply said 'awesome'. Almost like a big budget fan-fiction Terminator action sequence. Sure, we didn't know or really cared about these characters and some of the stuff looked a little too CG, but it was nevertheless great. The entire movie doesn't manage to keep that level, but as a Force Awakens-style soft reboot, it kind of did its job admirably. The new Terminator had some surprises, the new Kyle Reese-character had some surprises, Hamilton and Arnie were kinda good at their respective roles. The finale at the dam (I get it: water instead of fire) wasn't as great as the opening, but I was already sold by that point. Yeah, surprisingly enjoyable action flick and certainly not the worst Terminator movie...
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Post by Coolverine on Dec 30, 2020 0:31:09 GMT -5
Way better than Genisys, that's for sure. The 3rd movie (Rise of the Machines) got a lot of hate, but at least it still had a little bit of that spirit from the first 2. That being said, I still like the 3rd one better than any sequels after it. I hate that Dark Fate killed the first 2 (or 3) movies, I really can't overlook that.
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Post by Cop on Dec 30, 2020 19:43:17 GMT -5
Candyman (Bluray): Classic horror in a very neat Arrow-release.
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Post by Cop on Dec 31, 2020 5:39:04 GMT -5
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (Bluray): Another day, another Arrow-release, this time from a movie I already owned on bluray (and still have the DVD as well). But at least this time it comes with a boatload of extras, which none of the previous version of this movie I had ever had, most notably a commentary track, which I intend to listen to soon... Quick impressions of the movie: that first hour or so is great, all the best bits and most recognisable quotes are in that, and all the stuff I remember, followed by a second hour that is more of the same, just not as memorable as the stuff in the first hour.
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Post by Cop on Jan 1, 2021 16:16:08 GMT -5
Bride of Re-Animator (Bluray): OK sequel that only goes really insane towards the finale. I nodded off so often, it was ridiculous, not the movie's fault though...
An Accidental Studio (Download): Documentary about Hand Made Films, the studio that produced Life of Brian and Time Bandits among other things. I like docs about old people telling stories about stuff that interest me.
Three Identical Strangers (Download): Documentary about a set of identical triplets adopted as kids by separate families that didn't know of eachother's existence until 2 of them ran into each other by accident. There was more going on but I didn't care as much as I think I would.
Magnum Dopus - The Making of Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (Download): What the title says. Making movies with Kevin Smith looks like fun.
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Post by Coolverine on Jan 1, 2021 17:50:17 GMT -5
Cobra Kai season 3 - Unsurprisingly, another very good season of this show. Not perfect but still very good.
{CLICK FOR SPOILER} It goes way over the top even more than the last season did, which I didn't think was possible. I kept thinking to myself "how does all this stuff happen and the cops never show up?" Also the kid who was seriously injured at the end of season 2 seems to recover very quickly, a fall like that would've definitely resulted in permanent spinal injury but he seems to make a full recovery in a very short amount of time.
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Post by Cop on Jan 2, 2021 6:48:06 GMT -5
Shadow in the Cloud (Download): Movie that instantly got a lot of flak because there's a girl in the lead and not only that but she's in a B-17 bomber during WW2 as well, how can this be??? Well, if the people complaining about that would actually watch the movie, you'd get your explanation. I wasn't about to let that spoil my fun in any case and truth be told, I had a lot of fun. The girl in question is Hitgirl and for about 40 minutes of this roughly 70-minute movie she's stuck in the ball turret of a B-17 bomber, with the camera directly in front of her, while shit happens all over the place. I'd try not to spoil it, but they pretty much do that even before all the logos at the start, with a short animation explaining exactly what's going to happen. It's a one-location creature-feature that goes a little off the rails towards the end with one sequence in particular but hey, like I said, I had a lot of fun... One more thing, there's a poster out there that makes it seem like it's connected to Star Wars, with te way the ball turret is positioned and the look of the font, which seems very Star Wars-y...
Soul City (Download): 3-episode anthology horror series with episodes ranging from 15-20 minutes, all based in New Orleans. Typical short Twilight Zone-style tales, not bad, not great but certainly watchable...
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Post by Cop on Jan 3, 2021 6:28:42 GMT -5
Shazam (Download): Another one I just couldn't get interested in at all back when it was released but after WW84 I wanted to see if I'd like it more or less than that movie. Easy to say: waaaaay better than WW84. They get the tone much better in this movie. It's just fun. Don't know if they can do anything with the character after this movie because it needs a particular set of circumstances, without which it would simply be a less powerful Superman, but as an origin story, you can really dig into the fish-out-of-water, boy-in-the-body-of-an-adult shenanigans that made this movie stand out from the pack. After Dark Fate another positive surprise.
Skylines (Download): Another sequel in the Skyline franchise, but unlike the second, which was a surprisingly awesome movie, this one is sadly leaning more towards mediocre, with a plot that's too confusing for something as simple as a Skyline movie. For some reason we have to go to the home planet of the aliens to get something to resolve something on earth, but then there's a double-cross, why? To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what was going on. It still looked pretty good for a lower-budget sci-fi action movie, especially the CG stuff, but at the same time, some of the interiors and sets of the spaceships also looked a bit cheap. Because of stunt-casting, the fighting scenes are still pretty good, but not like the second, which were all about those, and which is what made that movie so great. Watchable movie, but probably the weakest in the series.
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Post by Cop on Jan 4, 2021 12:30:52 GMT -5
Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (Bluray): I wasn't that big a fan the first time I saw it but after seeing WW84 it wasn't too bad in comparison. There some fun to be had, silly fun, but at least nothing of it is awful.
The Lighthouse (Bluray): Another one I needed to give a second go to start appreciating.
Jay & Silent Bob: Reboot (Bluray): Silly but a lot of fun.
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Post by ForRealTho on Jan 4, 2021 12:52:41 GMT -5
Jay & Silent Bob: Reboot (Bluray): Silly but a lot of fun. Kevin Smith and crew came to my city but I totally forgot about it till the night it was happening doh. I saw him when he came to my college years ago.
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Post by Cop on Jan 9, 2021 9:38:41 GMT -5
Hunter Hunter (Download): Pretty good flick about a family living in the woods that gets confronted by a wolf and while hunting said wolf stumbles onto something else entirely. What? You'll have to find out for yourself. Ending is pretty fucked up.
Fire in the Sky (DVD/Download): One of the better abduction movies out there, not in the least because of that flashback finale.
La Planète Sauvage (Download): Uniquely looking French animated movies from the '70s about a world where people are just wild animals and pets for these giant blue aliens. One of the people gets 'adopted' as a baby and starts becoming smarter becasue of the aliens' tech and ultimately leads a revolution against them. Starts of slow-ish, but then ending goes by too quickly with too much story evolution packed in too little time. Still, it was a lot more interesting than I had thought it would be.
Double Vision (Download): Taiwanese cop and American FBI agent (David Morse) have to team up to solve a series of bizarre murders in this Chinese/Taiwanese flick that I almost bought so many times back in the early 2000s but for some reason never did. The cover was intriguing but it just never ended up in my basket when it mattered. Pretty good flick, no Seven, but it certainly tries to be the Asian version of that, until it dives deep into spiritualism during the finale, which maybe wasn't the best part of the flick.
Lupin III - Island of Assassins (Download): Just how many Lupin anime movies are there? I mean, I must've seen a good half dozen by now and they just keep popping up. While I'm still not going to keep it, I have to admit this was probably the best Lupin movie I've seen yet. Less of the slapstick they tend to have and more straightforward action.
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Post by Babel-17 on Jan 9, 2021 21:35:26 GMT -5
Double Vision (Download): Taiwanese cop and American FBI agent (David Morse) have to team up to solve a series of bizarre murders in this Chinese/Taiwanese flick that I almost bought so many times back in the early 2000s but for some reason never did. The cover was intriguing but it just never ended up in my basket when it mattered. Pretty good flick, no Seven, but it certainly tries to be the Asian version of that, until it dives deep into spiritualism during the finale, which maybe wasn't the best part of the flick.
I found the brain fungus part intriguing, I think that might have been inspired by Cordyceps, which IIRC inspired the cause of zombies in a wildly popular Playstation 3/4 game. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us
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