Author Topic: What movies are we watching: B-Movie Blitz (Read 157584 times)

rebs · « **Reply #1320 on:** 11 July 2020, 22:38:30 »

Tonight I watched A Most Wanted Man. Philip Seymour Hoffman was convincing as a German intelligence operative in the war on terror. Not a bad flick by any stretch.

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #1321 on:** 12 July 2020, 00:41:30 »

Rewatched Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.

Still one of the best comic book movies of all time.

garhkal · « **Reply #1322 on:** 12 July 2020, 02:25:14 »

For me, i re-watched a golden oldie, Virus, from 1980 with Robert Vaughan.. Man that film was dated as hell...

Nav_Alpha · « **Reply #1323 on:** 12 July 2020, 07:39:26 »

Just watched the new Tom Hanks flick, Greyhound. As a CS Forester fan, I was very impressed.

truetanker · « **Reply #1324 on:** 13 July 2020, 13:24:30 »

Quote from: garhkal on 12 July 2020, 02:25:14

For me, i re-watched a golden oldie, Virus, from 1980 with Robert Vaughan.. Man that film was dated as hell...

I have the Sonny Chiba version. Really good movie, Virus.

TT

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #1325 on:** 13 July 2020, 16:53:18 »

"Next Saturday night, we're sending you Back To the Future!"

rebs · « **Reply #1326 on:** 14 July 2020, 23:45:27 »

Watched Star Trek: Beyond earlier tonight. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. I'm normally not a fan of reboots, but this was a pleasant surprise.

garhkal · « **Reply #1327 on:** 15 July 2020, 00:05:03 »

The third was funny as heck, Rocking the beastie boys... :thumbsup:

marauder648 · « **Reply #1328 on:** 15 July 2020, 00:52:49 »

I saw Greyhound too. It's rather decent actually and is well-acted. There's one thing about it that is unrealistic but oddly enough it's not the bit from the trailer where you see the U-Boat and Greyhound alongside one another. As an incident like that did really happen, a damaged U-boat, unable to dive took itself in right against an attacking escort that couldn't depress its guns enough.

Definitely recommend.

Dubble_g · « **Reply #1329 on:** 15 July 2020, 02:39:42 »

Anybody else watched any of the new Netflix action movies. I caught Extraction and The Old Guard recently.

Extraction impressed more of the two, mainly on the strength of a first-act car chase that is an absolute beast, a veritable cinematic juggernaut of nonstop action. It gets a bit John Wickensian as it goes on, and the climactic final scene isn't up to the same standard as the car chase, but I thought overall it was enjoyable fluff.

Less impressed by The Old Guard, with Charlize Theron as the leader of a kind of SEAL team made of Highlander/Deadpool/Wolverine style immortals. The action is also very Wicky, but not quite as adrenalinicky as Extraction and the plot was a bit too predictable for my taste.

I thought both kind of suggest a strategy for Netflix original movies--pick one big name Hollywood star, focus on bodies per minute (bpm) and go easy on the script. As though they were aiming for "just good enough" rather than "great."

https://one-way-mirror.blogspot.com/2020/04/wickensian-action-extraction.html

https://one-way-mirror.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-old-guard.html

Sharpnel · « **Reply #1330 on:** 15 July 2020, 03:18:07 »

Watched Old Guard and was underwhelmed. Which for me is not unexpected when it comes Theron's more recent works. And judging by the end a sequel is already in the works.

truetanker · « **Reply #1331 on:** 15 July 2020, 08:01:17 »

Was cleaning out the DVD draw and found Colossal.

Where a girlfriend has a bad day and decides to go to the park and swing... and " things " go wrong on the other side of the world.

Except for the stupid parts, it more of a redemption film. Weirdly non-comical, but the boyfriend gets what he deserves!

Cheesy, fun, non-humorous but a weird love story.

TT

elf25s · « **Reply #1332 on:** 15 July 2020, 08:22:22 »

Quote from: truetanker on 15 July 2020, 08:01:17

Was cleaning out the DVD draw and found Colossal.

Where a girlfriend has a bad day and decides to go to the park and swing... and " things " go wrong on the other side of the world.

Except for the stupid parts, it more of a redemption film. Weirdly non-comical, but the boyfriend gets what he deserves!

Cheesy, fun, non-humorous but a weird love story.

TT

yah that one was fun going to korea to make a mess back in us...lol

garhkal · « **Reply #1333 on:** 15 July 2020, 14:42:30 »

The special effects were weird, but it was a funny film..

grimlock1 · « **Reply #1334 on:** 16 July 2020, 13:52:38 »

Quote from: truetanker on 15 July 2020, 08:01:17

Was cleaning out the DVD draw and found Colossal.

Where a girlfriend has a bad day and decides to go to the park and swing... and " things " go wrong on the other side of the world.

Except for the stupid parts, it more of a redemption film. Weirdly non-comical, but the boyfriend gets what he deserves!

Cheesy, fun, non-humorous but a weird love story.

TT

Yeah, that was an odd one.

I rewatched Man From Earth recently.

elf25s · « **Reply #1335 on:** 16 July 2020, 22:57:00 »

ok my buddy came over had bad day...decided to make it worse
we watched ...trancers
while drinking nasty beer
yah i am ashamed dont hurt me!

garhkal · « **Reply #1336 on:** 17 July 2020, 00:42:44 »

Quote from: elf25s on 16 July 2020, 22:57:00

ok my buddy came over had bad day...decided to make it worse
we watched ...trancers
while drinking nasty beer
yah i am ashamed dont hurt me!

Don't think i've ever seen Trancers.. Do remember seeing scanners, scanners 2 and scanners 3 back in the day.

truetanker · « **Reply #1337 on:** 17 July 2020, 07:51:47 »

Screamers and it's cousins are a great B rated horror with a nice even A rating.

TT

Sharpnel · « **Reply #1338 on:** 17 July 2020, 09:51:02 »

Trancers was great. Tim Thomerson was awesome as Jack Deth.

elf25s · « **Reply #1339 on:** 17 July 2020, 11:58:52 »

Quote from: Sharpnel on 17 July 2020, 09:51:02

Trancers was great. Tim Thomerson was awesome as Jack Deth.

you should seen him in quark...still get a chuckle from his jeane and gene

Wrangler · « **Reply #1340 on:** 26 July 2020, 18:59:48 »

Scott Pilgrim vs The World. 10 year anniversary this past week. What crime the marketing failed the film. It was funny / surreal film. The music was awesome and what movie has lead make make the future Captain Marvel cry, kicked both Superman and Captain America butts?

garhkal · « **Reply #1341 on:** 27 July 2020, 00:35:35 »

For me, i did a watch of Christopher Reeve's Superman 1, 2 and started on 3.. BUT the disk was shot.. BUT then since it was almost 20 years old, that's not surprising..

Wrangler · « **Reply #1342 on:** 27 July 2020, 14:46:22 »

Make sure you don't want watch 4. It will hurt your brain.

elf25s · « **Reply #1343 on:** 27 July 2020, 22:58:27 »

ok i finally got around to watching two old polish comedies...yah poles have a sense of humor who would had thought? and they were rather sophisticated
vabank and seksmisia both you can catch on helltube
vabank is about how to make revenge even sweeter and have people help you do it
seksmisia is a scifi romp with a rather tounge in cheek what happenes when all men die off and 2 remaining speciments are uncovered 50 years later from forgotten suspended animation experiment...

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #1344 on:** 28 July 2020, 00:32:11 »

I think I've heard of Seksmisia.

garhkal · « **Reply #1345 on:** 28 July 2020, 01:37:36 »

Quote from: Wrangler on 27 July 2020, 14:46:22

Make sure you don't want watch 4. It will hurt your brain.

Well that won't be a problem. My disk for 3 and 4, froze up after 48 min into #3.. So i had to toss it.

elf25s · « **Reply #1346 on:** 28 July 2020, 11:13:15 »

Quote from: garhkal on 28 July 2020, 01:37:36

Well that won't be a problem. My disk for 3 and 4, froze up after 48 min into #3.. So i had to toss it.

consider it a blessing by whatever gods are around...i still hold down vurps when i think of superman 4

battlelukas1 · « **Reply #1347 on:** 30 July 2020, 08:31:37 »

I personally loved Zombieland - thank you for your input - without it i would have just missed such a nice movie :D

garhkal · « **Reply #1348 on:** 30 July 2020, 16:04:06 »

I loved the first one, the 2nd was meh..

Finally caught rises of skywalker.. Decent. NOT as bad as i was led to believe by all the naysayers, but NO WHERE near as good as even the prequels..

rebs · « **Reply #1349 on:** 30 July 2020, 16:10:54 »

Quote from: garhkal on 30 July 2020, 16:04:06

I loved the first one, the 2nd was meh..

Finally caught rises of skywalker.. Decent. NOT as bad as i was led to believe by all the naysayers, but NO WHERE near as good as even the prequels..

Lucas *might* bring us Thrawn. Finger crossed and chickens sacrificed.