Movies

A couple from last nights early morning viewing:

Tears of the Sun, with Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Tom Skerritt and a BUNCH of other people I never heard of.

Willis is a Navy Seal lieutenant just back from a mission that is sent into hostile African territory by Skerritt to rescue an American doctor (Bellucci) as well as two nuns and a priest from a Mission that is soon to be overrun by a terrorist army & regime.

Upon his team’s arrival, the doctor refuses to leave without a good deal of the people living at this Mission, many of whom are injured and / or dying. The priest and nuns also refuse to leave.

Willis is under orders to retrieve only the doctor and agrees to take all that are physically able to make the ten click walk to the rendezvous point.

Little does Willis know, one of the refugees is actually the last living member of the ruling government, all of whom were believed to have been killed by the terrorist soldiers.

When they finally get to the helicopters, Willis forces the doctor onto one of them, leaving all of the refugees behind.

Shortly thereafter and after flying over the Mission, which is now on fire with dead bodies everywhere, he gets a guilty conscience and has the birds turn around to pick up as many as they can hold which is only 12.

Once loaded, Willis, his team, the doctor and remaining refugees set out on foot to reach Cameroon which is around 30 clicks away, all while the terrorist armies are closing in on them.

A fairly decent flick which gives a frightening view of how one race can be so brutal to their own people simply for the power to rule. ⚾️⚾️⚾️

The Bay, starring no one I ever heard in documentary style tells the story of a small Chesapeake Bay town that is attacked by mutant larva that are in the bay water.

Turns out there is a large chicken processing plant that is using heavy steroids to get the chickens to grow faster and then tons of their waste is being dumped into the bay.

Despite the town council and mayors assurance that the water is fine, people start showing up with parts missing, holes in the stomachs, legs, arms and necks.

Nasty rashes appear on anyone in contact with the water; the local hospital is overwhelmed with patients, all of who die and the CDC is clueless as to what the parasite is or where it came from.

Some pretty gnarly effects as these “bugs” get inside people and grow from the size of a housefly to a large dung beetle (likely due to the steroids in the water).

Once full sized, they then try and succeed to each their way out of whatever has ingested them, human or fish. Definitely not for the squeamish, but I kinda liked it. ⚾️⚾️1/2.

GO DODGERS!!!

I'm thinking maybe the final answer as to why those alien creators wanted us dead will be religious.

Watching Prometheus right now & both the woman scientist's boyfriend & the ship's cyborg made mention of her crucifix. I think they carbon dated the remains of that ship to 2,000 years ago. What happened 2,000 years ago?

Those silly Ancient Aliens shows say we were genetically engineered. That those engineers built in a belief in a God. Then we came up with a God of our own. This is ignoring previous gods, or the Egyptian / Hebrew God we later adopted. But if they intended us to worship them as gods, then us casting them aside, while making technological advances that might eventually endanger them, makes a bit of sense. We were potential rivals.

And then Belushi asks the table next to them - "How much for your women?" Hehe.

Animal House was on last night. I liked Niedermeyer. So intense. And the scene where Belushi is moving that ladder around outside the sorority house. Boom! Boom! Boom! I liked Niedermeyer so much I put on a couple of old Twisted Sister videos. Of course he played the asshole in those. Same role as Animal House. "Is that a Twisted Sister pledge pin on your uniform?! What are you? Where do you come from? You're weak & worthless!!" 

I just saw they're making a comeback during the quarantine. Anyone who has never been really should go. 

One of the best satires ever. They took a montage of teenage football movies & combined them. 





'Radio' might have been on the very next night. 

As usual, the original is better than the remake. It's British though, right? Like most British productions, it drags at times. But the remake overkilled. That Gatling Gun, or whatever Bruce Willis used, was over the top. Richard Gere's Irish brogue was unconvincing.