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Post by Blunashun on Nov 20, 2023 23:48:02 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. ⚾️⚾️ GO DODGERS!!! Yeah. It's like Monster's Ball. So depressing you feel like swallowing a gun halfway through. The twisted hitman who flipped a coin to see if you lived or died. Killing Brolin's wife out of principle. If only he hadn't taken water back to that dying Mexican.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Nov 29, 2023 20:00:49 GMT
Ambulance, the latest blockbuster from Michael Bay made its debut on Starz this weekend and I was able to catch it last night.
It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mareen II as estranged brothers from a different mother who grew up on the mean streets of LA.
Danny (Gyllenhaal) grew up to be a world class bank robber with over 35 successful heists, while Will (Abdul-Mareen II) enlisted and served as a Marine.
Will’s wife required an experimental surgery that was going to cost over $200 large and a procedure the VA would not cover. They also have a newborn baby.
Danny talks Will into joining him on one last heist that will net their crew $32 million. Reluctantly, it is Will’s only alternative to get his wife’s surgery.
The robbery goes bad (of course) and Danny and Will end up shooting a young rookie cop.
As they are being chased on foot through an underground garage by LAPD, SWAT & the Feds, an ambulance arrives to pick up the wounded cop.
Danny sees this as an opportunity to escape the garage and holds the unit at gunpoint until he is able to grab the driver out and have Will don his EMT jacket after knocking the driver out cold with his gun butt.
With Danny hidden in the back and the injured cop being tended to by the VERY HOT Eiza González (Cam), Will is able to get thru the blockade of police vehicles.
Stupidity reigns at this point as a criminal as tactful and successful as Danny was wouldn’t have left the driver laying on the ground like he did.
As soon as the police reach and revive him, they immediately know the robbers are in the ambulance.
What follows next is typical Michael Bay, with multiple car chases resulting in multiple wrecked cars, shootouts and explosions and a subplot involving Danny’s fathers old “running partner” (A. Martinez), who Danny contacts to assist in his escape by promising half of the $16 mil he and Will were able to secure.
More car chases, more shootouts and more explosions. It all ends at a hospital where Danny has driven to for Will who was accidentally shot in the process by Cam.
The ending was a bit anti-climatic and I won’t spoil it, as usual. If you like heavy action, shoot-em-up, car chases and explosions, this one doesn’t fail to satisfy.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Dec 8, 2023 5:46:43 GMT
As a sucker for any movie that contains N (nudity) and SSC (strong sexual content, which isn’t ALWAYS a good thing due to its inclusion of male “units”), I stumbled across “Spread” last night, billed as an adult “comedy”.
It stars the terribly good looking Ashton Kutcher who plays a terribly good looking LA grifter who has no job, no car, no permanent home or address and no ambition, other than picking up and screwing hot babes.
It begins with him telling a small narrative of himself much like the above and his meeting of Anne Heche (in what might have been one of her final starring roles before her untimely and still suspicious car accident and death) at a bar / nightclub.
Nikki (Kutcher) immediately hits on her and winds up driving her to her multi million dollar home in the Hollywood hills.
He then proceeds to move in and take full advantage of her and the lifestyle she provides him with new clothes, usage of her Benz and AMEX card, etc.
While she is away on business, he throws a huge party and screws one of the party goers. Samantha (Heche) come home early to find him getting blown by yet another different tart.
They fight briefly, but she’s pretty much so addicted to his Johnson that all is forgiven and their sordid relationship continues.
Nikki meets Heather (played by newcomer Margarita Levieva) and suddenly finds himself smitten by her, only to find out she’s a female version of HIM.
She rejects him at first, but eventually succumbs to his looks and charms and he ends up leaving Samantha and moving in with Heather who lives paycheck to paycheck with another hottie after leaving her latest mark.
They both continue to be “players” always looking for that next big score that will allow them to return to the lavish lifestyles they previously had while continuing to fall for each other.
Turns out Heather got engaged to one of her former marks and his dad just happened to be the owner of the Rangers (NY hockey).
Nikki comes home one afternoon to find Heather gone and only a note saying she had to go to New York to straighten things out with her fiancé.
Her roommate and Nikki’s best friend (who he previously had lived with but had a huge falling out which got him thrown out) convince and finance him a trip to New York to get Heather back.
I won’t give up the ending, as usual. But as far as this being a comedy, I don’t think I even cracked a smile and found the whole thing, especially the ending VERY sad.
There is plenty of nudity, including Heche (who looks pretty damn good for her age) as well as Levieva and several others hotties Nikki beds.
No Johnson shots, although Kutcher’s ass does make a number of appearances for the ladies.
Not the worst thing I have spent a couple of hours on, but certainly not anything I’d watch a second time.
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Post by Blunashun on Mar 28, 2024 2:07:32 GMT
Last shootout scene from Unforgiven on.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Jun 21, 2024 6:26:30 GMT
So I just saw a commercial for a new movie coming out called “Fly Me To The Moon” which is about the faked moon landing.
Is the truth finally coming out?
It all seems completely absurd that it was even plausible, let alone possible for the US to have actually accomplished this back then, based on what we know now.
Yet no one questioned it back then and they continued to make Apollo missions for nearly a decade after that first “landing”.
I still question why Russia and China discontinued their space programs. Was it because they didn’t want to be “seconds”?
Or was it because they both discovered it wasn’t possible?
China and Japan were and continue to be far ahead of the US technology wise. Yet neither of them ever got close to a moon landing.
Russia was the biggest competition - yet they stopped trying after the US supposedly accomplished the impossible.
And again - how’d they get that rover vehicle there? I don’t remember seeing a separate rocket or lunar module going up to dispatch it.
There was barely room in those modules for the three astronauts, so it couldn’t have gone along with them.
There wasn’t a pull behind trailer and I don’t imagine there was a rover dealership already there on the moon.
So much about this program makes ZERO sense and it makes one think about just how long the government and media has been lying to us.
Pearl Harbor, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Bobby Kennedy, UFO’s / Area 51, the OK City bombing, 9/11, the 2020 election - those are just the ones off the top of my head.
Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like. But it seems to me like more and more of these “theories” are becoming “truths”.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Jun 23, 2024 5:54:37 GMT
Just started watching “Love and Sex” with Jon Favreau and Famke Jansen. The SC (Strong Sexual Content) logo was shown, but the N (Nudity) was not.
Something tells me I’m going to see a weiner tonight.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Jun 23, 2024 7:14:44 GMT
Okay - no weiner. And I’ve seen stronger sexual content on Grey’s Anatomy. Absolutely zero nudity.
Typical rom-com. Not bad; not great. Famke Jansen was pretty hot.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Jul 15, 2024 7:58:00 GMT
Just watched Out of Time with Denzel Washington. Don’t know how I missed this one that came out a number of years ago and being the Denzel fan I am.
Pretty decent story with quite a few twists. But damn - that Eva Mendes was / is SMOKING HOT!!!
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Post by jrgreene6 on Aug 22, 2024 5:29:14 GMT
Can’t believe I forgot to post this - but caught the new Deadpool / Wolverine movie opening weekend in D-Box seating.
It was everything as expected. Heavy on the gratuitous violence opening scene (just like the first two), with substantial in-jokes and lines that had the entire theater laughing out loud.
Surprise appearances by several other from the Marvel stable of superheroes.
Decent story and plot. Not nearly enough or former love interest Morena Baccarin, but you can’t have everything!
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Post by Blunashun on Dec 1, 2024 13:30:27 GMT
No Time to Die is the bestest Bond flick ever. I watched it several times over the last few days. Daniel Craig is definitely the best James Bond. He's human.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Dec 1, 2024 19:28:25 GMT
No Time to Die is the bestest Bond flick ever. I watched it several times over the last few days. Daniel Craig is definitely the best James Bond. He's human. That’s REALLY funny - I just watched it again the other night on Pluto (a free streaming service with a TON of free uncut movies, including one channel that shows nothing but Bond movies 24 / 7. Only problem I have with it is they have a LOT of commercials and sometimes the feed freezes or glitches). Also one of my favourites that we saw originally on the big screen in D-Box seats. And although her part is brief, Ana de Armas has to be one of the hottest babes on the planet. Even that new Revlon commercial she’s doing has me drooling. I saw her in an older flick called Knock Knock with Keanu Reeves (she was much younger and blond); he’s initially the luckiest dude in the world after having a three some with her and another hottie. But that one nighter comes back to bite him in the ass, as they almost ALWAYS do, She was hot in that, but has really evolved into what I would describe as stunning. GO DODGERS!!!
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Post by Blunashun on Dec 1, 2024 22:04:49 GMT
No Time to Die is the bestest Bond flick ever. I watched it several times over the last few days. Daniel Craig is definitely the best James Bond. He's human. That’s REALLY funny - I just watched it again the other night on Pluto (a free streaming service with a TON of free uncut movies, including one channel that shows nothing but Bond movies 24 / 7. Only problem I have with it is they have a LOT of commercials and sometimes the feed freezes or glitches). Also one of my favourites that we saw originally on the big screen in D-Box seats. And although her part is brief, Ana de Armas has to be one of the hottest babes on the planet. Even that new Revlon commercial she’s doing has me drooling. I saw her in an older flick called Knock Knock with Keanu Reeves (she was much younger and blond); he’s initially the luckiest dude in the world after having a three some with her and another hottie. But that one nighter comes back to bite him in the ass, as they almost ALWAYS do, She was hot in that, but has really evolved into what I would describe as stunning. GO DODGERS!!! The dark-haired beauty with three weeks training? More or less? Yeah. She stood out. I liked the way Bond just shot that psycho in the head at the end. He didn't need to spend his last moments listening to him babble on. Just nonchalantly killed him.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Dec 2, 2024 5:32:50 GMT
That’s REALLY funny - I just watched it again the other night on Pluto (a free streaming service with a TON of free uncut movies, including one channel that shows nothing but Bond movies 24 / 7. Only problem I have with it is they have a LOT of commercials and sometimes the feed freezes or glitches). Also one of my favourites that we saw originally on the big screen in D-Box seats. And although her part is brief, Ana de Armas has to be one of the hottest babes on the planet. Even that new Revlon commercial she’s doing has me drooling. I saw her in an older flick called Knock Knock with Keanu Reeves (she was much younger and blond); he’s initially the luckiest dude in the world after having a three some with her and another hottie. But that one nighter comes back to bite him in the ass, as they almost ALWAYS do, She was hot in that, but has really evolved into what I would describe as stunning. GO DODGERS!!! The dark-haired beauty with three weeks training? More or less? Yeah. She stood out. I liked the way Bond just shot that psycho in the head at the end. He didn't need to spend his last moments listening to him babble on. Just nonchalantly killed him. That’s the one. Loved that evening gown as well. I thought it kinda sucked that the agency gave hid 007 number to someone else. Should’ve retired it just like in baseball. When they announced Craig as Bond after Brosnan, I was skeptical. But he turned out being my favourite as well. Not a “pretty boy”, but not objectionable looking. There was just a “cool” about him that the previous actors didn’t have. Connery is probably my number two; but his set of movies seem SO cheesy compared to those of the last couple of decades. Brosnan did a good job in his couple. Moore kinda took the role too seriously and began to think he WAS James Bond, from stories I have heard / read. Dalton was less than memorable. Wonder how they’ll explain his “return” when the next one comes out. They’re not planning on changing his name. Will he be an offspring? Somehow survived being killed? How does he get his 007 number back? Maybe they just expect us to forget the ending of No Time To Kill? Craig will be hard to replace. GO DODGERS!!!
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