Reviews

I read these bad reviews and thought they were just wanting what they've seen before and not something new. I was enjoying the movie, and then the last quarter the woman who the evil warlord wanted suddenly decides for no apparent reaso to sneak away from Conan while he slept to go where her mentor told her to go. I just hate scripts that suddenly toss away logic like that. From that point on there's a series of foolish incidents that defy logic. The biggest is the evil warlord takes on Conan himself with his nasty looking and acting witch daughter who earlier was suggesting letting her take her mother position with him....

There was good acting and great CG and special effects. It could have.been so much better if someone didn't take it down a dumb path about three quarters of the way through. Still. It is a fun watch if you like violent flicks. Unlike the original Conan movies this really didn't sprinkle comedy that was actually funny. Then again Arnold was pretty good with one liners. It became his trademark...

If not for Mads this would have really tanked completely, but he kept it somewhat interesting. If you liked all the mindless violence and killing over nothing in John Wick then this is probably for you, but it's so incredibly stupid...

First off there's this idea that there's a organization like Murder Inc. That's a real corporation who has top notch hit men and women who actually sign a contract to work with the firm and even build up a pension that they must get at 50 when they retire The catch is that if they die when the pension comes due, then it all goes back to the corporation. So the leader (Who is someone nobody would follow. He's more like someone who grew up getting beat up unless he was protected. A more unlikely main brain I've never seen) has his killers killed by hit teams. Teams of psychopath killers who just kill for fun. They overdo everything. There's about seven of them to do a two person job. They have a sniper so that and a spotter and that's all they need, but no...Some sex bomb has a thig about having sex with the person who is going to be killed to set them up someplace in line with the sniper.... So dumb.

First off.... I'm sure hit men would love to have signatures saying they were working for some organization that could be brought down some day. Secondly...What about those sent to kill? It isn't clear that it's going to be the same end for them? Who would work for him? Oh and Richard Dryfess has a minor part where he explains what's happening to Mads and refers to him as us as though he too was a hit man, but who must be in his 60's so how did he make it? Then he slips Mads something that knocks him out. He's captured, tortured, still finds a way out and kills maybe 30 guys, then makes it to a safe house where in a couple days he's good to go again. You do not heal that fast at 50.

All in all it's a lot of foolish killing, but no real substance even though they make a small attempt at it.

I guess those who are fans of the animated version thought the first part was too slow and not enough action. I'm a older viewer. The first had plenty of blood, gore, and amazing sword work. It had something far more important...A story that generally followed some sense of logic and human emotion. A story that was plausible in the end. This story was basically a cartoon version without animation. I'm not sure what was worse...Machine guns (And launch darts) that never needed reloading or the hero being able to move fast enough that he dodged machine guns and regular guns. There's also the issue of the most flimsy material used to build homes in mid 1800's in Japan. I swear if you passed gas too hard something would burst...If you seen the first and liked it you'll probably be gung ho about seeing this one, but you really can do good without it.

I've seen a few very poor ratings and claims to be "Boring." I'm guessing that's because it begins with some extreme violence where the assassin kills ten or so samurai at a time. He does this a few times where he goes through these trained samurai as though they had no trading at all. Then the movie become more of a drama and love story when a very beautiful young lady comes into this killing machines life and gets him to feel. Maybe the subtle transformation was a bit slow at times, but all in all it remained interesting.

As for the action in this movie. The sword work of the assassin was very fast and looked very real as though the strikes was from a actual samurai sword. That had to take a great deal of coordinating to make it look that real. I'm looking forward to watch the next chapter of the story when he goes back to war ten years later.

I've watched all five seasons over a couple weeks at maybe four episodes a night. I really like this show because it really makes the primary players seem like they're 3D instead of just one sided. After a while you almost think you know them because they've done such a good job showing them dealing with life both on and off the job. The difference with how this show handles things is they never become a soap opera. Most other shows do.

What I didn't like was the camera work. Trying to give it that "Cops" feel like a camera crew is following them often just made for bad shaky camera work. That and the way they didn't keep story lines in line. Like how Lidia dated a guy and he dumped her after they hooked up just once I think. Then she went through a couple of deceive partners, hooked up with a cop who she discovered was her female partners son. That and she ended ended up with another new partner. All this must have been a year or two since she hooked up with the first guy. Suddenly he's a family man who is the father her child too. It just didnt make sense.

Otherwise it's a really good series. It's too bad it quit when it did. The way it left things there is easily one more season to tie things up, but I doubt that will ever happen.

Yep! That's the kind of Vincent Price gems are in this scream fest. I kept dozing off only to be woke up by screaming every so often.

I'm 67 so these kind of movies were around in the 1960's when I was a kid. These were scary, but they were cheesy scary. Not like the blood and gore in the movies in the 1970's. Most kids could see these without having nightmares. Vincent Price came across more like a highly educated creep than a real ghoul. This movie is a prime example of that.

In a way though I think there was a great deal of tongue in cheek throughout the movie. Different cheesy lines and very cheesy situations. One of my favorites was someone was hanged off the stair rail, but we don't know who. The young guy is at the bottom where the rope was tied off and the doctor at the top. The doctor has to tell him to "untie the rope." Really? You hear her scream then gurgle as she is being strangled, but you don't think of untying the rope until the other guy tells you too...

This was a great show to watch as part of a Halloween weekend.

I just finished watching Red Dragon. The first effort in the 1980's was called "Manhunter," but they should have stuck with calling it Red Dragon. I read the book first and that was a very scary book. Thomas Harris really made the description of the madness of the mindset very scary without really going for much of the gore. Just as he did in "Silence Of The Lambs." I read Silence Of The Lambs after seeing the movie. But if you want a good scare then I suggest reading Red Dragon before watching it. The movie is ok, but it pales by comparison.

The same goes with Manhunter. I liked it a lot. In some ways it was scarier than this version of Red Dragon. I especially liked the loud playing of "Inagoddadivida" during the final cat and mouse scenes at Wills home. That really made it macabre..

I've listened to the books traveling down the highways. I've liked how Bosch is a no nonsense cop who won't compromise his sense of right and wrong for anyone. As such he's a cops cop to some and despised to others. Titus plays Bosch to a tee.

I've read that they are shooting the seventh and final season of Bosch. I really hope that changes. Especially now that he's off the force and his daughter Maddie will assist him when he becomes a private eye detective. I never heard any books from when he was no longer a cop. I think there must be some interesting angles there too.

I sort of binge watched all six episodes because I never saw Bosch before. Once I saw episode one of each season I'd get hooked, but that's part of the programming. You get to the end of each episode and it's a bit of a cliff hanger...You just had to see what happens next.