Last Movie You Watched

Ah, that's disappointing.

The trailer looked bonkers.

 

Just watched The Terminator again. Such a cool movie. Doesn't hold up as well as I remember, though. Some of the effects are REALLY bad, even for the time. This was seven years after A New Hope, and A New Hope WAY outpaces it in terms of visual effects. And the plot is pretty much "run, exposition, run, exposition, run, exposition."

But it's still super cool and a blast to watch.

 

But seriously, it's not for everyone.
MANDY is amazing. It's a psychadellic throw back to 70s and 80s phantasmagoria. It's loud, melodramatic and obnoxious in the best way possible. It's a bad trip brought to life.
It is by no means an easy watch or if you expect something more linear like John Wick or Taken...you are in the wrong place.

 

Oh the trailers definitely sort of played this as more of a John Wick revenge tale and not the trip that it actually is.

 

I finally watched this after years of avoiding it, even after recording it on my DVR it took about 6 months for me to finally hit the play button. I'm a big Asimov fan and there aren't many film adaptations of his work (besides this there's only Bicentennial Man which I also haven't seen and a Russian version of The End Of Eternity) so I decided to watch it. I remember seeing the trailer when it came out and thinking they just took the title of Asimov's book and attached it to a big dumb CGI/action spectacle. And that's mostly true but I found it an entertaining way to pass a Wednesday night. There are some minor nods to Asimov's robot stories and the Three Laws do play a role (before tossing them aside) but for the most part it has nothing to do with the source material. Though in hindsight I don't think a faithful adaptation of "I, Robot" would have made the most entertaining movie. I didn't care for the look of the special effects when I first saw the trailer and 15 years hasn't been kind to them, it also seemed like there was a lot of Matrix-like slow motion (an effect that I've always found more stupid than impressive), and there were some other things I didn't care for but overall I thought it was fun.

 

Watcher Monster for the first time last night.

Super intense.

 

Re-watched a classic, some people call it "Soylent Green" but I call it "Humans vs Garage Trucks: The Motion Picture"

Spoiler: Spoiler Alert

Soylent Green is STILL people

 

Oh yeah, loved that movie! Good thing that everything played out differently IRL too.

 

Well it's not 2022 yet so we're not quite out of the woods. And there IS a company called Soylent that makes meal replacement products. I work at Amazon and came across some one day, the ingredients didn't list "People" but I shouted it anyway. None of my co-workers had apparently seen the movie and just looked at me like I was insane.

 

Still, I would suggest avoiding their green products. Just in case

 

Today I saw Faces Places, a French documentary (?) anout Agnès Varda, one of the most prolific French dirdctors and her journey across France with an artist known as JR, with whom she makes photos of people, animals and objects and posts large versions of them on buildings and other publically visible spaces. A truly heartwarming film. Watching it will for sure improve your move. The hype is real.

 

Eventually watched Cars 3. Can we just rename it Cars 2 and forget about the other one with that name.

 

The Predator - At least they tried to do something different? I feel like there's a studio movie choking the corpse of what could have been a great Shane Black movie.