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Post by Blunashun on May 12, 2023 18:33:06 GMT
Support Your Local Gunfighter is on. James Garner was such a smartass. He was snark before snark was even a word. GO DODGERS!!! Been binge watching The Rockford Files. I was a teenager when my father worked as a service-writer for a Ford dealership. James Garner used to always bring his cars in to be serviced & insisted on my Dad as his service-writer. Honestly, Dad wasn't in to mechanics. But he could tell by listening to a car what was wrong with it. Plus, you just had to know Dad. He made some of my friends cry with his abrasive sense of humor. Garner drove a Ford. Not a Firebird. I met James Garner as a bellhop at the Tucson Hilton. He may have been filming a remake of one of his Maverick movies. |
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Post by Blunashun on May 14, 2023 3:01:33 GMT
Sergio Leone is neck & neck with Quentin Tarantino as most overrated director of all time. I'm watching a bunch of Italians playing western types right now in Once Upon a Time in the West.
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Post by jrgreene6 on May 14, 2023 7:08:34 GMT
Sergio Leone is neck & neck with Quentin Tarantino as most overrated director of all time. I'm watching a bunch of Italians playing western types right now in Once Upon a Time in the West. Spaghetti Westerns - never got them, don’t ever expect to. GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by jrgreene6 on May 23, 2023 3:21:06 GMT
Fast X, the latest but certainly not last in the Fast and Furious series opened this weekend and of course, we were there in our D-Box seats front and center last night.
I could go into details about the plot and twists, but I won’t bore everyone with that.
I will say that the fights, stunts and driving continue to surpass each predecessor and each movie gets even more far fetched as well.
But this ain’t rocket science or Nolan or even Tarantino.
This is sheer action entertainment that has worked for ten films and undoubtedly an eleventh, based on the cliffhanger ending and as expected, additional scene during the credits.
The D-Box seats were almost constantly in motion throughout the two and a half plus hours. As usual, we really liked it.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Jul 17, 2023 5:49:14 GMT
Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One is the latest Tom Cruise vehicle as Ethan Hunt in yet another mission which has more twists and turns than the PCH.
The action is nearly non-stop from the opening scene on and the stunts and special effects are exactly what you’d expect from this series and seventh installment.
Cruise supposedly did most of his own stunts and I can honestly say being the same age as him that I was worn out just WATCHING him and would have been done about a minute into his first.
The story revolves around an AI system that has gone rogue (ala Terminator 2) and a two piece interlocking key that controls it.
The acquisition of this key would give power and control of basically EVERYTHING in the world. Banks, defense systems, transportation, etc. could all be in the hands of a single person / country.
EVERYBODY wants the key, including the US, however, we’re not sure if they’ll use it for the evil we KNOW other nations will.
And that is also Hunt’s dilemma. This key in the hands of the wrong person, even his boss & the head of the IMF is too much power in the hands of ANYONE.
Hunt is haunted by an AI image named Gabriel (played by Esai Morales) who was created in the image of the man who killed Hunt’s wife & forced him into the IMF.
Gabriel is the only “person” who knows where the system is located and what it actually does / can do.
Simon Pegg & Ving Rames are back as Hunt’s partners in crime and for comic relief. As is Ilsa (Rebecca Ferguson), the rogue MI-6 agent and love interest from the last two or three films.
We saw it in D-Box seating (as usual) and they never stopped vibrating and moving throughout the 2 hours and forty minutes that went by in what seemed much shorter time.
The ending was a perfect set-up for Part Two and we anxiously await its final production and release, whenever that might be.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Aug 1, 2023 14:30:55 GMT
Inside Man, a Spike Lee joint which came out in 2006 was playing on Starz last night and for some reason, I had never seen it.
I say this because I’m a huge fan of Denzel Washington and I don’t think there’s a movie of his that I’ve ever missed.
After just over two hours, I now know why. Someone must have told me what a convoluted mess this one was and I believed them.
Now, as far as the acting goes, Denzel, along with Willem DaFoe, Jodie Foster, Clive Owen, Christopher Plummer and others were all excellent.
It was the movie and plot itself that I’m still scratching my head over.
It starts with Clive Owen describing the who, how, what, when and why of a precise and detail oriented bank robbery he pulled off.
From what I could tell, he is doing so from a prison cell, yet even at the end of the movie, he has yet to be arrested.
And at that end point we still don’t what the end game of the robbery was about or who ended up with the documents bank Chairman (Plummer) was so desperately trying to hide and keep from going public.
Fosters role was brief as a “fixer” with an “in” with the NYC mayor who somehow is able to get her into the bank to “negotiate” with Owen.
This entails the mayor pretty much telling Washington, the lead detective and hostage negotiator to stand down.
There are numerous scenes of he and his partner, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor interviewing hostages following their release, again, most of which are never shown and both detectives trying to intimidate them into confessing as being “inside” on the robbery, as we later find out SEVERAL were.
There’s also the discovery of the safety deposit box which previously contained not only the secret documents, but also multiple bags of what we can only assume are cut diamonds.
By the time the detectives get it open, they find only an open pack of Juicy Fruit (which Owen chewed), one VERY large diamond ring and a note stating “Follow the ring”.
Again, this is toward the end of the movie and never explained.
I may have to watch it again and see if it makes any sense the second time around.
For now, and strictly for the acting:
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Post by Blunashun on Aug 1, 2023 21:04:02 GMT
Inside Man, a Spike Lee joint which came out in 2006 was playing on Starz last night and for some reason, I had never seen it. I say this because I’m a huge fan of Denzel Washington and I don’t think there’s a movie of his that I’ve ever missed. After just over two hours, I now know why. Someone must have told me what a convoluted mess this one was and I believed them. Now, as far as the acting goes, Denzel, along with Willem DaFoe, Jodie Foster, Clive Owen, Christopher Plummer and others were all excellent. It was the movie and plot itself that I’m still scratching my head over. It starts with Clive Owen describing the who, how, what, when and why of a precise and detail oriented bank robbery he pulled off. From what I could tell, he is doing so from a prison cell, yet even at the end of the movie, he has yet to be arrested. And at that end point we still don’t what the end game of the robbery was about or who ended up with the documents bank Chairman (Plummer) was so desperately trying to hide and keep from going public. Fosters role was brief as a “fixer” with an “in” with the NYC mayor who somehow is able to get her into the bank to “negotiate” with Owen. This entails the mayor pretty much telling Washington, the lead detective and hostage negotiator to stand down. There are numerous scenes of he and his partner, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor interviewing hostages following their release, again, most of which are never shown and both detectives trying to intimidate them into confessing as being “inside” on the robbery, as we later find out SEVERAL were. There’s also the discovery of the safety deposit box which previously contained not only the secret documents, but also multiple bags of what we can only assume are cut diamonds. By the time the detectives get it open, they find only an open pack of Juicy Fruit (which Owen chewed), one VERY large diamond ring and a note stating “Follow the ring”. Again, this is toward the end of the movie and never explained. I may have to watch it again and see if it makes any sense the second time around. For now, and strictly for the acting: ⚾️⚾️ That's actually my favorite Spike Lee movie. Malcolm X is second. I believe Owen was in prison as a prequel. He had a lot of time on his hands to plan a bank job. He constructed it so the case wouldn't be pursued. He found out Christopher Plummer had started out his successful banking career dealing with Nazis. He had jewels in a safety deposit box that didn't even exist on HIS bank's records. Those were blood diamonds from the Holocaust. Owen & his compatriots took over a bank & held hostages, while digging a closet into a storage room during the standoff. That was Owen's escape plan. Remember him telling Washington that when it was time, he would just walk out of the bank? That's precisely what he did. The guns they had were toys. They faked an assassination of one of the hostages to drive home the point how dangerous they were. They didn't take a vault full of money. Not a dime. Only diamonds that weren't supposed to exist. Plummer hired Foster because her job was to get things done with minimal fallout. More than anything, Plummer didn't want his past getting out. So Foster tried bribing & cajoling Washington, but not before having a conversation with Owen. Foster knew Plummer's secret. At the end she named some terrorist next on her list to help. Plummer smiled & wished her good luck. Foster said she was using him as a referral. The police finally storm into the bank to find hostages & kidnappers dressed exactly alike. Everyone was a victim. Owen was hiding in a cubbyhole in the storage closet. After a week, the case was dropped under pressure from city hall & Owen walked right out of the bank. It just so happens Washington & Owen pass each other. Owen bumps into Denzel & drops a diamond in his pocket, because Washington had told him he was getting married. Watch it again. Sometimes I don't get all the nuances of a movie the first time. |
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Post by jrgreene6 on Aug 1, 2023 23:21:51 GMT
Inside Man, a Spike Lee joint which came out in 2006 was playing on Starz last night and for some reason, I had never seen it. I say this because I’m a huge fan of Denzel Washington and I don’t think there’s a movie of his that I’ve ever missed. After just over two hours, I now know why. Someone must have told me what a convoluted mess this one was and I believed them. Now, as far as the acting goes, Denzel, along with Willem DaFoe, Jodie Foster, Clive Owen, Christopher Plummer and others were all excellent. It was the movie and plot itself that I’m still scratching my head over. It starts with Clive Owen describing the who, how, what, when and why of a precise and detail oriented bank robbery he pulled off. From what I could tell, he is doing so from a prison cell, yet even at the end of the movie, he has yet to be arrested. And at that end point we still don’t what the end game of the robbery was about or who ended up with the documents bank Chairman (Plummer) was so desperately trying to hide and keep from going public. Fosters role was brief as a “fixer” with an “in” with the NYC mayor who somehow is able to get her into the bank to “negotiate” with Owen. This entails the mayor pretty much telling Washington, the lead detective and hostage negotiator to stand down. There are numerous scenes of he and his partner, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor interviewing hostages following their release, again, most of which are never shown and both detectives trying to intimidate them into confessing as being “inside” on the robbery, as we later find out SEVERAL were. There’s also the discovery of the safety deposit box which previously contained not only the secret documents, but also multiple bags of what we can only assume are cut diamonds. By the time the detectives get it open, they find only an open pack of Juicy Fruit (which Owen chewed), one VERY large diamond ring and a note stating “Follow the ring”. Again, this is toward the end of the movie and never explained. I may have to watch it again and see if it makes any sense the second time around. For now, and strictly for the acting: ⚾️⚾️ That's actually my favorite Spike Lee movie. Malcolm X is second. I believe Owen was in prison as a prequel. He had a lot of time on his hands to plan a bank job. He constructed it so the case wouldn't be pursued. He found out Christopher Plummer had started out his successful banking career dealing with Nazis. He had jewels in a safety deposit box that didn't even exist on HIS bank's records. Those were blood diamonds from the Holocaust. Owen & his compatriots took over a bank & held hostages, while digging a closet into a storage room during the standoff. That was Owen's escape plan. Remember him telling Washington that when it was time, he would just walk out of the bank? That's precisely what he did. The guns they had were toys. They faked an assassination of one of the hostages to drive home the point how dangerous they were. They didn't take a vault full of money. Not a dime. Only diamonds that weren't supposed to exist. Plummer hired Foster because her job was to get things done with minimal fallout. More than anything, Plummer didn't want his past getting out. So Foster tried bribing & cajoling Washington, but not before having a conversation with Owen. Foster knew Plummer's secret. At the end she named some terrorist next on her list to help. Plummer smiled & wished her good luck. Foster said she was using him as a referral. The police finally storm into the bank to find hostages & kidnappers dressed exactly alike. Everyone was a victim. Owen was hiding in a cubbyhole in the storage closet. After a week, the case was dropped under pressure from city hall & Owen walked right out of the bank. It just so happens Washington & Owen pass each other. Owen bumps into Denzel & drops a diamond in his pocket, because Washington had told him he was getting married. Watch it again. Sometimes I don't get all the nuances of a movie the first time. I feel a little better now with this explanation, but I still question who ended up with the folder and papers. Did Foster get those back for Plummer, or did Owen keep them? And why did he leave the huge diamond ring and note? My other thought was did Owen take the deal offered by Foster and was actually caught and arrested after walking out of the bank? And what was in the duffel bags he was carrying as he exited? Did he decide to load up some of the cash as well as the diamonds? Lastly - who was the dude passed out on the couch when Denzel finally hooks up with his girlfriend at the end? SO many unanswered questions - I’m definitely going to have to catch this one again. I had to watch both Tenet and Inception a couple of times to get them and I’m still a little shaky with Tenet. GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by Blunashun on Aug 2, 2023 2:03:01 GMT
That's actually my favorite Spike Lee movie. Malcolm X is second. I believe Owen was in prison as a prequel. He had a lot of time on his hands to plan a bank job. He constructed it so the case wouldn't be pursued. He found out Christopher Plummer had started out his successful banking career dealing with Nazis. He had jewels in a safety deposit box that didn't even exist on HIS bank's records. Those were blood diamonds from the Holocaust. Owen & his compatriots took over a bank & held hostages, while digging a closet into a storage room during the standoff. That was Owen's escape plan. Remember him telling Washington that when it was time, he would just walk out of the bank? That's precisely what he did. The guns they had were toys. They faked an assassination of one of the hostages to drive home the point how dangerous they were. They didn't take a vault full of money. Not a dime. Only diamonds that weren't supposed to exist. Plummer hired Foster because her job was to get things done with minimal fallout. More than anything, Plummer didn't want his past getting out. So Foster tried bribing & cajoling Washington, but not before having a conversation with Owen. Foster knew Plummer's secret. At the end she named some terrorist next on her list to help. Plummer smiled & wished her good luck. Foster said she was using him as a referral. The police finally storm into the bank to find hostages & kidnappers dressed exactly alike. Everyone was a victim. Owen was hiding in a cubbyhole in the storage closet. After a week, the case was dropped under pressure from city hall & Owen walked right out of the bank. It just so happens Washington & Owen pass each other. Owen bumps into Denzel & drops a diamond in his pocket, because Washington had told him he was getting married. Watch it again. Sometimes I don't get all the nuances of a movie the first time. I feel a little better now with this explanation, but I still question who ended up with the folder and papers. Did Foster get those back for Plummer, or did Owen keep them? And why did he leave the huge diamond ring and note? My other thought was did Owen take the deal offered by Foster and was actually caught and arrested after walking out of the bank? And what was in the duffel bags he was carrying as he exited? Did he decide to load up some of the cash as well as the diamonds? Lastly - who was the dude passed out on the couch when Denzel finally hooks up with his girlfriend at the end? SO many unanswered questions - I’m definitely going to have to catch this one again. I had to watch both Tenet and Inception a couple of times to get them and I’m still a little shaky with Tenet. GO DODGERS!!! The paperwork I honestly can't recall right now. The big diamond was easily traceable. Back to the Nazis & it's original owners. Remember the jeweler in the car asked what happened to it when Clive Owen got out? He didn't realize that was Owen's plan all along. To ensnare Christopher Plummer. No. I think the prison scene was a prequel. He might have been carrying his own shit. The guy was locked up in a closet for a week. Maybe a change of clothes. The guy on Denzel's couch was her deadbeat brother. I think that was the story. I watched 'Old Henry' about four times before everything fell into place. The complicated plot of who were outlaws & who were the lawmen. |
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Post by Blunashun on Sept 13, 2023 16:44:33 GMT
Watched Unforgiven & Hard Times yesterday. Clint Eastwood & Charles Bronson. Unforgiven was undoubtedly the best western Clint ever made. Hard Times & Death Hunt were the two best movies Bronson was ever in.
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Post by Blunashun on Oct 2, 2023 22:24:48 GMT
I am watching a movie on the Daltons. This motion picture must have cost thousands of dollars to make. I especially like the quick-witted repartee amongst the characters. You can hardly tell they are acting.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Oct 22, 2023 4:08:39 GMT
From the man who brought us House of 1,000 Corpses, its sequels The Devil’s Rejects and Five From Hell as well as remakes of both Halloween and Halloween II, Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem was on Starz again last night.
Now I’ve been a fan of his productions in the past, including most of the above which I found as having an adequate, if not great amount of gratuitous nudity, sex and violence while being equally as disturbing as horrific. I wish I could say the same about The Lords of Salem.
I actually started and got through around 30 - 40 minutes of this one a few months ago. But it was on very late and I was falling in and out of sleep the entire time. I should have taken that as a sign.
In re-watching, I found it to be a convoluted mess with very little redemption for the now nearly three hours I wasted on it.
It stars, of course, Zombie’s wife, Sheri Moon Zombie who I believe has been in every single production he has been involved with.
She stars as Heidi, a late night DJ on a local Salem, MA radio station with two other partners, one of whom (Whitey) is in love with her.
She receives a bizarre package containing an album by a group called The Lords.
When she takes it home and plays it (with Whitey) she goes into a trance which transports her back to the period of the Salem Witch burnings.
Whitey stops the record and she comes out of the trance, but the very next night when they play the record over the air, this trance not only affects Heidi, but also a number of other women who are listening.
There is a backstory involving a guest on their show as well as three creepy older female neighbors (I’m pretty sure they were witches, but cannot say for certain), but very little of any of movie made much sense to me.
And as the credits rolled depicting a newscast describing a mass suicide involving 35 + women, I was left only with the feeling of WTF did I just watch.
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Post by Blunashun on Oct 22, 2023 18:03:20 GMT
Saw 'Outlaws and Angels' a while back. Sick, twisted plot.
These ruthless bandits rob a bank & make off with the money. They hold up in a preacher's house. Turns out the preacher was having sex with both of his teenage daughters. The wife was just out there. Babbling scripture & such. Like she was in denial. The robbers break the family apart. The hot daughter shoots her sister & beats her father to death, while her new boyfriend, the leader of the outlaw gang, watches. She leaves her mother with some money & is now part of the gang.
Luke Wilson was the local lawman & he formed a posse to chase the bandits. He was pretty warped too. By the time he reaches their hideout, the gang had already left. Only the mother / wife of the slain family remains. She shoots Wilson as he walks away.
On reaching Mexico, the girl turned bandit shoots two of her new compadres. Then her boyfriend shoots himself. She chops their heads off to collect the bounty.
Don't waste your time watching this. The author should be in therapy.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Nov 1, 2023 5:49:26 GMT
Under The Silver Lake starring Andrew Garfield (Spider-Man), Topher Grace (That 70’s Show) and Riley Keough was on the other night, so I gave it a go.
It started off well, with some gratuitous nudity and sex, but soon thereafter waded into Bizarro world.
Sam (Garfield) appears to be a slacker and bit of a perv who watches his neighbors via binoculars.
He spies Keough one afternoon in a white bikini by the complex pool and is immediately smitten with her.
They start to hookup in her apartment when her three roommates return and they have to stop. They make plans to get together the next day.
When he goes down and knocks on her door, no one answers and as he looks through the windows, he sees the apartment is completely vacant.
He then spends the rest of the movie trying to find her via following / stalking three women - I’m still not sure who they were.
The movie then tried to delve into David Lynch oddities, with numerous scenes and characters that make little to zero sense in the initial plot.
To tell the truth, I didn’t make it thru the ending, but after around 90 minutes, it was very early in the a.m. and I was nodding in and out.
I have no idea how it ended, but I can only imagine I’d have been left with the same WTF as I have after most of Lynch’s works, which I admit I like, even though I sometimes don’t understand them.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Nov 20, 2023 19:29:51 GMT
Academy Award winning No Country For Old Men brought to you by the Coen Brothers was on the other night, so I finally got around to watching it.
Now I’m normally a pretty big fan of the Coen’s and their sometimes dark and sarcastic humor, but this film was just dark.
The acting by Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem was top notch, as expected.
But the story itself and especially the ending just didn’t do it for me.
Brolin plays a small Texas town loser who stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad while hunting. There are multiple casualties, including a dog.
He finds a briefcase full of $100 bundles amounting to over $3 mil and decides to keep it.
Bardem is a “fixer” sent in to get the money back and most of the rest of the movie involves his pursuit of Brolin, with sheriff Jones in pursuit of solving the crime.
If you blink, you’ll miss Woody Harrelson’s brief appearance as a hit man hired to take out Bardem, Brolin and anyone else that gets in his way of recovering the money.
There was very little, if any of the usual Coen humor and I found this one to be just another in the long line of Oscar winners that left me scratching my head.
Of course it didn’t help that our “new & improved” Fioptics, which now runs via TIVO & our high speed Wi-Fi decided to take a dump around halfway in.
After @ 15 minutes, it finally re-engaged and I was able to pick it back up right where it left off.
But this is one that I’d pass on if given the chance to get those couple of hours back.
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