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Post by Swindle on Mar 7, 2022 5:20:55 GMT -8
The Exception
I don't claim to be historically in the know on a lot of things, but some things going on in this movie seem very hard to believe. It's very much built on sentimentality.
Premise: Captain Brandt is guarding the Kaiser, stashed away in Holland and has to find a British spy while Germans are invading. Of course, he ends up sleeping with the spy and soon enough knows she is the spy. Mieke's mission, it turns out, is to simply relay an offer to Kaiser his position as king in Germany once they lose the war.
There's not a lot of internal tension as I never questioned the captain helping her. She had him pussy whipped and good. That said, Lily James is very attractive, so who can blame him? LOL
Performances are fine, but nothing outstanding and the movie never once takes any chances. Or maybe period piece/romances aren't really for me? 2 1/2 out of 4 stars.
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Post by Felix on Mar 7, 2022 17:53:40 GMT -8
Recently rewatched "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man". I'd forgotten it was set in the near future of 1996 (it was released in 1991). We even have Hollywood fear science "ozone layer is gone" stuff. Reminds me of VENOM and THE PREDATOR talking about humans being extinct in a generation or some crap. Would've been funny if one of the live action GI JOE movies had Don Johnson as General Falcon. That would be so dope!
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Post by Bravo on Mar 8, 2022 16:47:24 GMT -8
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (New CGI show) season 2 Episodes 6, 7 and 8. - Webstor is quite monstrous, not aligned with Skeletor and I don't care for his design. - Lot of actions scenes that go on too long and made me drowsy. - Okr-O spread his program, the Orkenning happens, so more flying robot think they are Orko. Yeah...WHAT? - Jilted Stratos forms his own team with Mosquitara, Webstor and giant dragonfly but it amounts to a brief joke...what was the point? - Skeletor is seemingly defeated in episode 7 leaving nothing but his lifeless skull. The evil masters are reduce to their free will depowered selves. - But Skeletor survives as a havoc ghost and haunts and taunts Krass/Ram Ma'am, because the crystal in her helmet is proto-havoc in nature. - Krass is already emotional and easily triggered, and Skeletor convinces her to go full heel. Ram Ma'am is now Rampage. She frees the undead ? snake-men. That's the cliffhanger of episode 8.
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Post by Swindle on Mar 13, 2022 17:13:34 GMT -8
Spider-Man No Way Home. Spoilers obviously.
I sailed the high seas (my brother and a friend of ours did try to set up going to see it, but it never came through at the time, so now is the point I finally saw it.
Spider-Man's life gets fucked up with everyone knowing he is Peter. He has Strange cast a spell and Peter botches the spell trying to create exceptions. What ends up happening is people from other -verses who know Peter is Spider-Man get pulled into the MCU-verse.
Doc Ock and Goblin are the standouts. Sandman is just sort of there. Lizard is there to give some ground chases. Electro has the I don't wanna give up my power deal.
Aunt May ends up convincing Peter he should 'cure' them all using the MCU-tech. Strange just wants to send them back. Spider-Man uses math to put Strange on ice for a bit of the movie.
Amazing Spider-Man does get to play out the fallout of Gwen dying in his movies, has a moment where he saves MCU "MJ" from falling, also kind of realizes the other two have an MJ, so maybe he should find her in his verse. I thought his stuff pretty good. Toby Spider-Man is there, but not a real story arch, other than impressing on MCU Peter revenge is not the way.
So, Aunt May dies and they do cure them all, but more villains who know who Peter is coming, so the solution becomes casting the spell correctly and EVERYONE forgets who Peter was. That's fucked up. But it does put Peter back in line as being a friendly neighborhood spider-man and not an avengers mascot. He pays a heavy price, albeit, some of it was his fault.
The big downside to this movie is it is loosely based on one of the worst Spider-MAn stories, One More Day, but there's plenty of fan service, and there are stakes and losses.
I'd give it 3 stars. It does lay things on very thick, but its definitely good. I do prefer Spider-Man Homecoming the most out of these three, Far From Home I'd rank last just because at times it felt like Agent Cody Banks with very lame gags in it.
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Post by Bravo on Mar 13, 2022 19:09:39 GMT -8
Star Trek Picard - Okay, I only watched a bunch of clips from youtube, they cannot upload full episodes but can upload 4 minute clips. You can still get the better part of the episodes.
Spoilers
Anyway, despite Patrick Stewart not wanting to be in a uniform in season 1, season 2 opens with Picard an admiral again and most of the cast from season one in starfleet or Federation jobs.
Something's going on with Picard, he has flashbacks to his mom being abused by his dad, because the writers of these new trek shows think every person has a tragic backstory.
Guinan despite being hundreds of years old and looking the same has decided to age physically to make humans comfortable. Sure.
Q sends Picard to a dark alternate reality where's he's the genocidal General Picard. The Federation is the Confederation. Picard has Romulan slaves and it's a bit on the nose with President Annika (Seven of Nine) addressing people as "My Fellow Confederates". It's also the very day he's suppose to publicly execute the Borg Queen, of course he and the the other folks sent to this timeline need her help them time travel to 2024 Los Angeles (sigh) where things started to go wrong...let me guess it's not Gavin Newsom's fault. There's someone there to help them...is it Whoopi Goldberg on THE VIEW?
And Earth has a solar shield in this timeline because some environmental commentary...uh, wasn't the ozone hole thing a 90's trope? Or maybe they just felt like stealing from Highlander 2.
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Post by Felix on Mar 14, 2022 9:27:53 GMT -8
My uncle wanted to treat me to the movies, so we went and saw The Batman. There seemed to be a lot of "woke" propaganda going on in this nearly 3 hour movie. Things I learned from watching this film... Spoilers below
Riddler = Antifa
Cat-woman and Gordan = Black Lives Matter
Bruce Wayne = Spoiled goth kid who hates his money and family history.
Politicians and Senators are all where they are because of "white privilege".
Things I hated:
Cat-Womans mask is laughable...I mean even the worst cosplay has got to be better than this.
Most of the movie is whispering dialogue about what's going on...rather than just showing us what's going on. 3 hours...great way to fall asleep.
Batman has recording contact lenses...basically an updated body camera...big brother is everywhere...this slick new feature must have about 20 minutes of screen time. Hey kids, don't forget to wear your body cameras like Batman does, so the government can always be there to help you!
Batman doesn't really use any gadgets besides his grappling hook, he doesn't need to, because he is completely bulletproof. Oh, he does have a squirrel parachute glider...but fails to land correctly...also walks off his injury and appears to be just fine in the next scene.
Everytime I think Batman is going to just disappear, he doesn't.
Things I liked: Batman was still pretty cool. They made him feel more like he could be anybody.
His Bat-Mobile is more realistic.
He rides a motorcycle primarily (more of that could be anybody factor).
Bruce Wayne doesn't always hide his batman makeup when the mask is off, looks like spoiled goth kid...somehow this works.
Joker appears at the end and meets the Riddler, pretty cool.
Overall, I liked most of the movie...but I don't think I will ever rewatch this film. It's probably 2 1/2 star worthy, but I'm feeling generous and I'll give it 3 out 5 stars ***. I would have given it 4 stars had there not been this push with the not so subliminal "woke" agenda.
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Post by Swindle on Mar 15, 2022 4:43:07 GMT -8
Yeah, I figured the new Batman comes down to how much woke stuff you can stomach...
Scream 2022.
Saw this on Paramount Plus app.
This Scream is very much a passing a torch/'requel.'
Scream has always been meta commentary/who done it. This one kind of poses the question of today's youth who do not really care about 80s slashers and how they'd react to being put in this situation. The first girl, Ghost Face is talking to her on the phone, she says, oh I like elevated horror. The killer scuffs.
Some spoilers... Alot of the victims/suspect list have connections to the orginal characters. So, you end up with alot of nieces and nephews of this or that character. There's also a lot of talk about the Stab movies (the Scream movie within a movie). Rian Johnson apparently makes Stab 8 (called only Stab) and pisses off the real fans. You briefly see a bit of it, there's sort of a muscle-bound gold face Ghost Face with a flame thrower. The killer(s) are pissed and decided to create new material for Stab. So, Rian just keeps ruining movies for people. LOL
There is alot of info dumps this movie has to do and it can get quite dense. So, you have Samantha/Sam as your new central girl who is lured back to the town after her sister is attacked by Ghostface. Turns out Sam is the daughter of Billy Loomis, there is a thought she could be what Tommy Jarvis was teased in Friday the 13th, a "New Beginning." She is ok. But I don't see movie star like Neve commanded in Scream 1.
Negatives are... info dumps, some things are clunky in terms of scene movement and the actual rules of surviving a requal horror are not clearly laid out.
Overall, I do think this is fairly solid, just as all Scream movies are very solid. There's never been a laughably bad one (Scream 3 the worst, but still watchable). There are things dangling from this movie if they want to continue. 3 stars out of 4. Enjoyable fun.
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Post by Bravo on Mar 21, 2022 10:42:29 GMT -8
Disenchantment Season 4 or season 2 part 2 as they call it. If there's a year between releases, it's a new season. Good for the most part, except for a gross parasitic worm episode, because all sci-fi/fantasy shows have to have an episode like that. Also, the show is still overall Bean centric, it always was. And the show's weakness..it never really was an ensemble, even Futurama wasn't so Fry-centric. They ended on cliffhangers without a renewal. So will there be more?
I watched the story scenes from Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order and that was a long watch. I was curious about it and won't probably ever play the game. Debra Wilson's character's got some bug eyes (more than even the actress). Star Wars overplays the giant creature trope. Here there's a giant bird and a giant bat, of course one is a "boss" because it's a game. They probbaly overplay the fallen Jedi card, too, but again level bosses.
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Post by Swindle on Mar 21, 2022 12:49:07 GMT -8
I actually got Jedi Fallen Order on sale. It is very much in the Souls realm of hard, but it does have a difficulty choices in the options menu. I was playing on normal, but to be honest, go to a world, explore a huge map, backtrack, bland characters... I kind of lost interest.
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Post by Bravo on Mar 21, 2022 12:59:10 GMT -8
Yeah, not my kind of game. I'm not a fan of what amounts to playing out a movie.
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Post by Felix on Apr 2, 2022 11:46:10 GMT -8
Started watching the Flash. Because I've got time to kill in at the hotel.
I've read some reviews that the series starts to tank after about season 4.
So far, I'm halfway through season 1. I'm enjoying it, maybe because I'm not taking it too seriously. *A few minor spoilers below*
The Green Arrow appears in a couple episodes. I feel bad for Barry, he's been "friend-zoned" by the girl he's had a crush on his whole life. Also, she has openly told him, she has a "Three-Cheat Rule". Three guys she would cheat on her boyfriend with if she had the chance... And he still has a crush on her...dude needs to realize that is a bullet dodged. Sadly, this says a lot about women in todays world.
I do like that he's a total nerd with super powers, lol.
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Post by Bravo on Apr 2, 2022 15:27:38 GMT -8
Funny. I gave up on the Flash this season. And gave up on Lesbians... er...Legends of Tomorrow before that. Watch Superman and Lois, it's done better...so far. Why'd I quit Flash? Spoiler of sorts... Aside from whole eps where the Flash doesn't appear in costume. And too many supporting characters. And dumping a supporting actor for offensive tweets, the show becomes Barry being wrong all the time, every other character telling him he's wrong, Barry being stubborn and doing wrong until he admits everyone was right...something-something-family-something-don't-kill-the-baddie. This happens again and again. I've been rewatching BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD. Probably the second best Batman cartoon...well, solo cartoon, except the point of the show is he has a partner (or more) every episode. Whatever. The show balances fan-reference and kid-appeal well, I think...but I'm not a kid. I like the lack of Bruce Wayne in the first season. Batman is who this guy is, but he's about the justice, not self-reflective therapy sessions. The downside is that Batman is almost always right. He's the straight man/role model. That's better than him always being wrong and people bitching at him, though. Not many female crime fighting partners in season one, just the Huntress and Black Canary (Fire appears in cameos with little to no lines). The Huntress episode is a thing in itself. She's oversexed and Blue Beetle drools over her. And the villains in the episode are awful: a gangster named Baby-Face, who has a baby head on a large body, and his wife Mrs. Man-Face...you can figure that one out. She'd be call transphobic, but as far as I know, she's supposed to be an ugly cisgendered woman. Not sure they could get away with this episode on a kid-aimed show now. The pair feel like VENTURE BROS. characters. I'd forgotten R. Lee Ermy voiced Wildcat. And the Outsiders were all teenage outcasts. (Odd for Black Lightning to be a teen, but...) Robin only appears once, since this their post-partnership period it seems. The villains, Gorilla Grodd is a recurring baddie, but silver age Flash is no where in sight. But Batman's rogues aren't used much. Only the Joker has a major role in a season 1 episode. Getting into Season 2, we have stories where Batman feels like he's shoehorned in. Like the writers wanted to make a Plastic Man centric story but had to work in Bats. It's not bad, but it's obvious at times.
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Post by Swindle on Apr 2, 2022 15:27:50 GMT -8
Oh just you wait with her depending on how far you go in the show. LOL. At one point she claims "The Flash" is all of them. Like, its a concept, a collective. I do think the actor playing Barry is good even if the show has dips in quality (certainly much better than the idiot they had as Flash in Justice League).
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Post by Swindle on Apr 2, 2022 15:30:11 GMT -8
Funny. I gave up on the Flash this season. And gave up on Lesbians... er...Legends of Tomorrow before that. Watch Superman and Lois, it's done better...so far. Why'd I quit Flash? I've pretty given up on all CW stuff. LOL (though, Stargirl was good, at least season 1). I've been rewatching Daredevil on Disney Plus, trucking away at Quantum Leap, Batman Animated Series, and a bit of Step By Step on IMDB App (the Brady Bunch for the 90s, a show I watched back in the day), oh and Night Court also on IMDB App.
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Post by Bravo on Apr 2, 2022 15:47:00 GMT -8
Oh, Stargirl is good thus far.
Superman and Lois is good but teeters on too much family drama.
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