Last Movie You Watched

Saw this as I was going to see the next one & John Wick 4 back to back this week.

 

One of those movies from my childhood that didn't hold up, but it held up so poorly it's actually become funnier unintentionally.

 

Movie called Luck and Finch, both on Apple TV,

Luck, good but not for me. We all have good and bad Luck. It like a Disney/Pixar flim, cos it made bty someone that used to work for Disney/Pixar.

Finch, story of a man, a dog and two robots, and surving. There some sad moments, like Finch get angry at robot, another robot got destory by bear trap and Finch pass away and unable to see The Golden Gate Bridge, It a good flim. Don't like that robot name Dewey get killed off/destoryed, and should be at the end with Robot named Jeff and the dog. Never get over the Dewey death believe it should get destory and nearly ruin the flim for me abit well can't have all, even just a movie but did enjoy the flim even it's emotional.

 

saw this one on netflix based on a fictional story but based on true story of BTK Dennis Radar only the character names have changed

 

Always a fun watch. Like quite a few people I actually saw the series in reverse though it really makes no difference. Saw this one in middle school when a friend rented the tape and brought it to a sleepover. We didn't even know it was a sequel to anything. Then sometime in late high school found out there were two previous movies but was only ever able to find Evil Dead 2. It wasn't until college that I was actually able to find the first film and finally watched that one.

 

I had myself a little double feature of movies from 1986 (the year wasn't planned I just noticed the coincidence actually) that couldn't be more different. The first was this "film".



I have not sat down and really watched this movie since I was a kid and my first reaction was... I USED TO WATCH THIS AS A KID?!?!?!? I mean I didn't have the VHS or anything, nor do I remember being a huge fan (I remember it scaring me at times) but it was always on HBO, it was the 80's and it was a Stallone movie so you watched it. According to the Wikipedia entry (which is more entertaining than the movie) they had to edit down a bunch of violence to get the rating from X to R. The movie is basically like "let's combine Dirty Harry with a Slasher movie". They even snag up a couple of actors from the first Dirty Harry movie in case the audience needed it spelled out. The funny thing is that this is basically Stallone's vision for "Beverly Hills Cop" which he was set to star in, then rewrote the script to be all violent and serious so they sent him packing and he took his ideas from that script into this one.


Anyway I had to watch something a little more cheerful afterwards, a nice story about a kid building an atomic bomb.



Some people kind of consider it a WarGames ripoff as it's another "Genius 80s kid almost causes Armageddon" movie but I actually enjoy it a little bit more than the other. John Lithgow is really great in it, so is the kid (Christopher Collett) who surprisingly didn't go on to do much afterward and became a pilates instructor while Stallone somehow managed to survive following up Cobra with Over The Top.

 

Saw these two recently telling of the downfall of Charles I King Of England. I preferred Cromwell of To Kill a king as things were wrong in to kill a king it was preferred as a brotherly relationship between Fairfax & Cromwell but the cromwell movie they were at odds over the king's fate. Cromwell was 6ft height in history but Tim Roth was 5.7ft much smaller,

 

Because the second one was always on TV when I was growing up and the first one never was (or I never encountered it) I'm actually a bit more nostalgic about the second one than the first. I enjoyed the remake as well, particularly David Tenant as Peter Vincent and changing him from a Horror Host (which aren't very big anymore) into a famous magician of the Criss Angel variety was pretty funny. And Collin Farrell made a pretty good Jerry the vampire but really no match for Chris Sarandon in the original. I love how casual and laid back he is for a vampire, except when he turns into his monster form and he's over the top

 

Seen this many times but this was the first time I connected the dots that it reunited Perkins and Balsam from Psycho.

 

watching these movies on Tubi

Goddess of Love
St Elmo's Fire
Body Melt
the old 1987 horror sci fi The Curse. the one with Whil Wheaton

 

Still waiting on Buckaroo Banzai vs The World Crime League. There's actually a book but I avoided it because it's supposed to be awful and actually has the lowest rating I've ever seen on Goodreads. I imagine a sequel at this late of a date wouldn't be much better.

 

An old favorite and great 80s horror/comedy that managed to do both very well...



With a Star Wars connection. Director Dan O'Bannon worked on A New Hope doing the graphical displays that show up on all the computers and screens in the movie.



He also wrote Alien and Total Recall (loosely based on the Philip K. Dick story) and co-wrote and starred in John Carpenter's USC student film turned first feature film Dark Star, part of the story of which was reworked into Alien.

 

finished watching Police Story 2004 on Tubi last night. it was alright. Just wish it didnt have to be 2 frikkin hours.

also this weekend I'm watching these

Batman
Batman Returns
The Wizard
Beastmaster

 

I love those 2 Batman movies but The Wizard should be thrown in jail for making the Power Glove look cool.



It was bad, just not the way they meant.

 

Eraserhead, Revenge Of The Sith, It's Pat!, Virtuosity, The Last Crusade, The lighthouse and Up.

It was a slightly less depressing last few days.