I’m watching “bend it like Beckham” this fine Sunday afternoon, a classic CH4 movie.
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Stallone was also excellent in Rocky Balboa and Creed, both of which were surprisingly excellent and enjoyable sequels. Cop Land was important to remind us Stallone has more than one note.
Plus I mean come on, Cop Land was an early James Mangold movie. Who doesn’t like James Mangold movies? Without Cop Land, we wouldn’t have gotten Girl, Interrupted, Kate & Leopold, Identity, Walk the Line, Logan, 3:10 to Yuma. But we would have been spared Ford v Ferrari, so maybe it would have been worth it.
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Rourke has had a bizarre career but when he’s on oh man. Classic example of high peaks.
Yeah that’s a pretty good resume, although this worries me greatly:
Which is the last movie that Harrison Ford didn’t phone it in? He’s been cashing checks for 25 years now. These blatant cash grabs really make me the original trilogy less.
Blade Runner 2049 was pretty fantastic, but Ford was just replacement level Ford in it, still not bad, he’s at least 75.
Speaking of Harrison Ford, I hadn’t seen Air Force One since it came out and watched it recently on Netflix. It was terrible, I can’t even like it ironically. But that year he was also in the Devil’s Own, which was great.
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Exactly. The last time he looked like he gave a shit was maybe “Clear and present danger” or “The Fugitive”. After that it was “if the check clears I’ll be on set and fulfill my contractual obligations”.
To be fair, I’ve only seen The Expendables once, while I’ve seen Demolition Man a bunch of times, so it has layers of appeal to me. Plus, I think it does an admirable job playing with Brave New World themes while also delivering in terms of pace and comedy.
Now I don’t remember disliking the first Expendables, but I literally can’t remember anything specific about it. The best I can do is recall that Van Damme was a villain named Villain in the second one.
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Not his typical role, but he was good in this, but yeah, that’s 2000
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Shouldn’t he be filthy rich from Indiana Jones and Star Wars alone?
The Fugitive is a pretty well acted shitty movie. TLJ was very enjoyable in that.
I really like David Jansens acting in the original series. Its hammy TV acting from another era but pretty good.
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It’s awful unless it’s good. I’m willing to give Mangold a shot and dunk on him if it stinks.
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Mulan (2020)
Not worth the 30 dollars. I appreciated that they attempted something other than a shot for shot live action remake but the animated movie is just so much better of a movie in every aspect. This one scenes just jump from one to another and were really disjointed, there’s no comedy it remains the same dire tone all the way throughout, the addition of the Witch character did nothing, etc.
If you liked the original don’t watch this one.
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)
I naturally had to have my kids watch this before the new Bill & Ted. It’s so dumb, dumber than the first one, but it’s still fun, partly because it’s so dumb. Just goofy, brainless humor with a heart. Starts a bit slow (the timing of the dialogue seems weird, doesn’t flow well), but picks up when they meet the Grim Reaper, who steals the show.
Also Station butts are hilarious.
My youngest loved it, as expected. My oldest I think liked it. My wife hated it.
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I remember this as being really disappointing, although to be fair, it’s hard to followup on the masterpiece that was Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. I will say, the idea of Bill and Ted challenging Death to a game of Twister is fundamentally a great gag.
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It’s certainly not as good as the first and objectively, without the benefit of nostalgia, it really is stupid, but it’s still fun.
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Word has it that Christopher Nolan’s new film, “Tenet,” is hard to understand. Not so. It’s a cinch—no more difficult than, say, playing mah-jongg inside a tumble dryer, while the principles of quantum mechanics are shouted at you in fluent Esperanto.
“Tenet” is a two-hundred-million-dollar charm bracelet, strung with one shiny set piece after another.
Ouch
Makes it sound like Citizen Kane.
Yeah I loved that bit in Citizen Kane when they blew up a plane while maintaining focus on the stamp collection in the foreground. The depth of field was sick!