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Bastille Day (2016)
Follows the standard action flic template. A good watch.
It's got all the mandatory 'stuff'. Foot chases, car chases and shoot-'em-ups. For the most part they are well executed. Add a couple of little twists plus an interesting storyline and for me it was worth the hour and a half I invested.
Idris Elba was in his usual form. Richard Madden and Charlotte Le Bon were good supporting characters. The pickpocket angle worked. And Kelly Reilly was super cute as usual. I think she made me decide to raise my 6 rating to a 7.
I didn't mind the subtitles, but I found them a little hard to read at times. The white letters didn't show up well when they appeared in scenes with light backgrounds.
Zeros and Ones (2021)
Nothing to get your attention
Three is the worst rating I've ever given a movie on IMDB.
Dark scenes of Hawke wandering around talking to people and doing things that for the most part aren't all that interesting. This is all accompanied by an endless droning music in the background that gets on one's nerves eventually. Some reviewers here have stated the longest they could watch was 10 minutes The best I could do was 45.
Zone 414 (2021)
Was worth the watch
I'll keep it short. Was definitely Blade Runner-ish. It wasn't a big budget production, but the acting carried it. There were a couple of slow spots with a little too much dialog, but overall I found it interesting.
There was one thing I found odd... It was kind of strange seeing them using circa 2010 Ford Crown Victoria taxies to travel about in. One would expect them to use more futuristic vehicles much akin to those used in blade runner.
I must admit I was somewhat enamored by Matilda Lutz' extremely pretty face.. Perhaps that's why I gave six stars instead of five.
Don't Look Up (2021)
An allegory for climate change
The movie was well done with talented actors doing what they naturally excel at.. It does a great job lampooning the politics and pettiness of modern society.
But I can't get it out of my mind that the actual point of the movie (without it being stated) is to nudge the public into doing something about climate change. After all, the scientists are saying that we only have nine years left to end fossil fuels...Yet few want to give up driving gasoline burning cars and all the other nice perks that come with emitting CO2. Even with global climate conferences (like the one recently held in Glasgow), little is being accomplished. So really, instead of a comet, it's climate change and we have nine years left instead of six months fourteen days as stated in the movie.
But, the ending was really good. I was getting bored with the length of the movie, and was considering giving up at the 3/4 mark. But I'm glad I stayed to the end.
The Outer Limits: The Invisible Enemy (1964)
Frustrating episode
I've been binge watching Outer Limits for the last couple of weeks. (I was 12 years old when it first aired on TV, and I actually recall a lot of the shows).
First off, to address the bad looking monster(s) in this episode. ALL the monsters on the series were pretty cheesy. Outer Limits definitely wasn't a big budget production and special effect technology back then wasn't anywhere near what it is today.
The complete lack of discipline exhibited by the astronauts made the whole thing frustrating. Out of all five, you'd figure maybe one or two could follow orders. Shaking my head at all the stupidity during the show put me right off the plot.
There was what seemed to be one plot hole.... The first ship was found to be torn up, presumably by the monsters.. So why did the monsters only pick off the crew members who wandered out of sight against direct orders? Why didn't they just tear apart the second ship as they did the first?
Willy's Wonderland (2021)
Stupid, but watchable
Lot of reviews on this one already, so I'll be brief.
It was definitely different. Cage was playing one of the quirky rolls he tends to gravitate to. It was billed as a horror movie but I never found it scary at all. I actually got a few laughs out of it. Especially when he was battling the gorilla in the washroom. The script, acting and editing were adequate. Was a half decent way to pass an evening.
Without Remorse (2021)
Wasn't all that bad
I never read the book, so I'm just rating this movie on its face value. Not a bad action flick. It follows a standard plot. "Elite military type has loved one(s) killed and seeks revenge". It's something to watch to pass an evening.
What bothered me was Turner-Smith's shaved head. I could handle her playing the roll of a SEAL team leader, but to me a woman with a brush cut is just plain ugly. The thing is that she is an attractive woman.. I don't know why they had to mess her up that way. I grimaced at just about every scene she was in. I would have given the movie a 7 had it not been for that.
Holmes & Watson (2018)
Comedy is in the eye of the beholder
What is funny to one person isn't always funny to another. We're all individuals and have different tastes. In my case, I found the dialog to be just an endless stream of not-so-funny stuff.
I don't usually read IMDb reviews prior to watching a movie. In this case, about 20 minutes in I checked and wasn't surprised by the current overall rating of 3.8.
Ferrell and Reilly have a niche audience who will always like their style of humor, and there are also those who won't. There's no real right or wrong.
Upgrade (2018)
Worth the watch
Caught this on Netflix last night. Lots of good reviews here so I'll be brief. The basic plot is the standard "Bad guys hurt good guy... Good guy seeks revenge". The 'Upgrade' bit breaks the mold and puts an interesting spin on it.
It's a good action flick. A little slow at the start, but it moves along later. The twist at the end was a real surprise. Never saw it coming.
Alien Warfare (2019)
Not that bad. Give it a chance.
I don't review many films, but had weigh in to this one in order to challenge some of the reviews here. OK, very low budget and not the most stellar acting,.. But, it managed to shine a bit despite all this.
The directing and an cinematography were actually pretty good. I liked the characters played by Daniel Washington (Jonesy) and Scott Roe (Thorpe). The ongoing conflict between Clayton Snyder (Mike) and David Meadows (Chris) was a bit annoying. Obviously the element was there for dramatic effect, but I found the constant bickering throughout the film was distracting.
One let down was the alien costumes. I think another reviewer best described them as third rate power ranger outfits. They were pretty bad. Plus, it seemed that all they did was shoot at the aliens who had some sort of force field that stopped the bullets. Since they knew they couldn't kill the aliens with guns, whey did they keep shooting at them all through the film? Why were they worried about running out of ammunition?
Anyway. despite of the shortcomings I don't see it as a '1' or '2' rating. I'd recommend giving Alien Warfare chance. It's not all that bad.
Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
Will be a frustrating watch if you read the book.
LOTS of Spoilers follow.
I've read the book a couple of times and I've seen Truffaut's 1966 version of the movie. I didn't expect the HBO version to adhere strictly to the book or to copy the original movie. But, it missed by a long shot. I found myself saying "That's not how it goes" many times during the movie.
Ok, where do I start?
- There was no profanity in Bradbury's novel. I guess they had to include a few F bombs to bring the movie up to today's 'standards'.
- There was no rounding up people and bashing them in the face with the stocks of their flame throwers. But again, the extra violence was probably needed to satisfy today's viewers.
- In the book and in Truffaut's cinematic version, Montag was married and lived with his wife.
- Montag's relationship with Clarissa was brief and took part at the beginning of the novel. She 'disappeared' early on and her fate was never known for sure, It was posed that she might have been run over by a car.
- The term OMNUS doesn't appear anywhere in the novel.
- As in Truffaut's version of the movie, there is no mechanical hound (that they used to help track down Montag). I suppose in Truffaut's time, the special effects required to create one would have been difficult. Today it would have been trivial. It would have liked to have seen Bahrani include one.
- There were some missing characters that played a significant role.. There was no Professor Faber and no Granger, (the 'head' of the book people). Although it was interesting that in this movie Montag kept an old fashioned fire helmet that had the name Granger Montag printed on it.
- And finally, the ending was nothing like the book. I loved the chase in the novel. It's actually one of my favorite parts. The movie chase was short and flat.
There were some good points.
It was interesting to see how Bahrani addressed modern technology. None of what we have today existed when Bradbury wrote 451. So, piling up and burning computers and other digital fare rather than just books made the move more relevant to 21st century audiences.
The scene with the old woman burning along with her books was pretty true to the book and very similar to Truffaut's cinematic version. But as I alluded to above, she never uttered Omnus.
It was also interesting to see that the firemen were all men. Unlike modern cinema, there wasn't the mandatory slight and attractive woman 'fireman' showing lots of cleavage.
Despite how far the movie strayed from the written version, I never found it a complete waste of time. The acting wasn't bad. Michael Jordan and Michael Shannon carried their rolls well. Although I can't call myself a fan of the movie, it was interesting to see another interpretation of Bradbury's fine novel.