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I do have Prime!
Excellent! I guess another series for you to queue up
BTW, after the talk about it, I put on [original] The Matrix
(Vudu HDX conversion from the DVD for $2.50, playing on the PS3)
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Excellent! I guess another serious for you to queue up
BTW, after the talk about it, I put on [original] The Matrix
(Vudu HDX conversion from the DVD for $2.50, playing on the PS3)
My son was crazy about the movie and dragged me to it. It took a while to get a handle on what was happening, but after I got acclimated, I loved it. My wife disliked it, but she has an issue with virtual reality movies, don't think she actually gets them and consequently did not care for Inception either. I've got the house to myself for a couple of days, will probably put that on this evening.
My son was crazy about the movie and dragged me to it. It took a while to get a handle on what was happening, but after I got acclimated, I loved it. My wife disliked it, but she has an issue with virtual reality movies, don't think she actually gets them and consequently did not care for Inception either. I've got the house to myself for a couple of days, will probably put that on this evening.
I've been really wanting to watch Inception again, don't currently own it, but been keeping an eye for a deal. Part of the motivation is the not-so-random Simpsons random mode on FXNow Simpsons World has selected a few times the Homer wetting the bed EP that's a Inception parody.
I've been really wanting to watch Inception again, don't currently own it, but been keeping an eye for a deal. Part of the motivation is the not-so-random Simpsons random mode on FXNow Simpsons World has selected a few times the Homer wetting the bed EP that's a Inception parody.
I'd love to see that , but don't imagine it will match the original.
For a deal? Amazon $10 or less.
300. Seen it before a few times, but enjoy the style. Worth watching if you've not seen it, but my wife would describe it as a boys film.
Inception(2010)- Creative story, planting an idea in someone's mind via a dream, with supporting visuals. Fun!
Don't think about the mechanisms as portrayed, just go with the flow. Despite the long list of unresolved questions and comments, inexplicably I enjoyed this. Stability of the dream, clarity, and purpose might be explained by a special sedative, but the story requires a hefty dose of suspension of disbelief. Most of below is a leap of faith.
If anyone has an opinion on any of the above points feel free to interject.
Don't think about the mechanisms as portrayed, just go with the flow. Despite the long list of unresolved questions and comments, inexplicably I enjoyed this. Stability of the dream, clarity, and purpose might be explained by a special sedative, but the story requires a hefty dose of suspension of disbelief. Most of below is a leap of faith.
- How to design and implement a fixed layout of a dream?
- How to pipe everyone participating into a common dream space?
- Having control of yourself, being able to remember and coherently act out out a plan while dreaming.
- Dreams are first person or third person, how could a dream space exist outside of the space occupied by the dreamer?
- Insuring the dream world to be realistic and avoid introducing fantastic elements?
- That projections in the dream will act rationally in a coherent manner based on simple and predictable motivations.
- How to teach your subsconcious to produce soldiers to protect you in a dream?
- How to disguise yourself in a dream to look and sound like someone else.
- Why having a fatal injury in a dream ensures you or a projection would die in the dream?
- Multiple dreams stacked on each other, that must be navigated out of to wake up.
- How dreamers could be awakened by a kick versus ignoring a kick, which they do 3 dreams down.
- Why a kick on one level of a dream would be registered on a different level of dream, when kicks are described as something registered by the inner ear to awaken the person? Although a sensation of falling can be experienced in a dream regardless what the inner ear feels.
- Why a kick sends you up to a higher dream level, but a bullet in the head while sedated sends you down into limbo?
- Why dripping a chemical on someone that is inhaled in a dream would cause them to fall asleep and create a second dream within a dream?
- Ensuring the needed sleep equipment would be available on the each level of a dream besides ensuring the sleep equipment would put you to sleep in a dream creating another dream within the dream.
- Why debate with a projection, a figment of your subsconscious about what is the dream vs what is real?- Because she was a person he felt guilt about her death, he could not simply shoot her for fear of damaging himself. If he could help her find peace, he would also find peace.
- How existing in a dream for 50 years (perceived) would damage the brain when actual time is 9 hrs? Interesting that Cobb and Saito were down there for a life time and chose to come back as Siato reaches for a gun? After all the fear introduced by the prospect of falling into limbo, unconstructed dream space, apparantly they were not damaged. Didn't they just wake up after the sedative wore off?
If anyone has an opinion on any of the above points feel free to interject.
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Deadpool (2016)
6.5/10 (maybe 7/10 on a good day for me)
Worst X-Men entry ever or at least Top 3 worst. Worse than both Kick-Ass films. They made Colossus a wuss vs a female UFC fighter. If you are in your 20-somethings or lower and don't mind the Ryan Reynolds shtick, you could enjoy it more. To me, it isn't any funnier than Tom Green comedies in-between Freddy Got Fingered and Road Trip.
Most entertaining were the actual opening and closing credits and the best cameo ever by Stan Lee. The trailer explained everything you needed to know on what happens. I wanted to like it because it is a Rated-R X-Men film, but just couldn't because Ryan Reynolds has never been funny to me since Van Wilder, story is predictable, and the villian sucks. Worse than any MCU including Iron Man 3 and Incredible Hulk. None of the characters stood out.
At least I can appreciate X-Men Origins: Wolverine more because Deadpool has no mouth and gets beheaded at the end. And I expect Batman v Superman to be better. Deadpool has no real connection with X-Men films except through name dropping, Colossus, and the teenage girl.
- Punch, quip, punch, quip
- Too much slo-mo action
- Too much fourth wall nonsense
- Too much sex jokes
- Laboratory scene took way too long
- Villain was weak
- Story was predictable as you can see it in the trailer
- TJ Miller is less annoying than Ryan Reynolds
- No graphic nudity except seeing Ryan's a** and strip club
+ Best line is when Ryan says he keeps seeing those two X-Men because the studio couldn't afford the others.
The whole point of Deadpool was to find the bad guy for making him look like Freddy Krueger because he is insecure his chick will see him that way? LOL!
Deadpool (2016)
6.5/10 (maybe 7/10 on a good day for me)
Worst X-Men entry ever or at least Top 3 worst. Worse than both Kick-Ass films. They made Colossus a wuss vs a female UFC fighter. If you are in your 20-somethings or lower and don't mind the Ryan Reynolds shtick, you could enjoy it more. To me, it isn't any funnier than Tom Green comedies in-between Freddy Got Fingered and Road Trip.
Most entertaining were the actual opening and closing credits and the best cameo ever by Stan Lee. The trailer explained everything you needed to know on what happens. I wanted to like it because it is a Rated-R X-Men film, but just couldn't because Ryan Reynolds has never been funny to me since Van Wilder, story is predictable, and the villian sucks. Worse than any MCU including Iron Man 3 and Incredible Hulk. None of the characters stood out.
At least I can appreciate X-Men Origins: Wolverine more because Deadpool has no mouth and gets beheaded at the end. And I expect Batman v Superman to be better. Deadpool has no real connection with X-Men films except through name dropping, Colossus, and the teenage girl.
- Punch, quip, punch, quip
- Too much slo-mo action
- Too much fourth wall nonsense
- Too much sex jokes
- Laboratory scene took way too long
- Villain was weak
- Story was predictable as you can see it in the trailer
- TJ Miller is less annoying than Ryan Reynolds
- No graphic nudity except seeing Ryan's a** and strip club
+ Best line is when Ryan says he keeps seeing those two X-Men because the studio couldn't afford the others.
The whole point of Deadpool was to find the bad guy for making him look like Freddy Krueger because he is insecure his chick will see him that way? LOL!
Described as an R Rated action comedy. Red Flag!
I never read The New Mutants where Dead Pool first appears (I think). You are responsible for me waiting to stream this. Are there X-Men around in this movie? I realize these are all mutants, just like The Avengers, and I assume the only Deadpool tie-in to X-Men as you mentioned was the Origins Wolverine movie which I loved, primarily because of 1)Wolverine and 2)serving as a prequel and including a vibe that returned me to the first two X-Men movies.
Yeah, my wanting to see this has pretty much gone kaput with every bit of new footage I see. Not surprising though. Thanks for the thorough review and why it didn't work for you. I like Ryan Reynolds and think he's a good match for Wade, but from what I've seen it looks like they're trying way too hard to be offensive and failing on an epic scale. And since Fox have royally karked up the X-Men (with the exception of X-Men First Class and the Wolverine for me anyway), it doesn't surprise me they couldn't even get Wade right except for the fourth wall and leud jokes. Deadpool is all about breaking the fourth wall.
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If you're going to do homage and slight parody of a genre, Gallants (2010) is a very fine example.
Gallants (2010) So a Napoleon Dynamite looking young real estate nebbish from Hong Kong has to travel to a remote village to settle a property dispute. Well, said nebbish accidentally becomes a part of the folks' click behind that disputed property. These folks are two aging kung fu students, a young lady and their comatose Master. The trio are trying in vain to keep the Master's place open (as a tea parlor now) in spite of the local gang wanting to take over the Master's property.
The now 60 something loyal students of Master Law, Tiger (Leung Siu Lung) and Dragon (Chen Kuan Tai) aren't having some young turks try to do more than pee on their lawn (okay, the gang members don't literally pee on the lawn, but you get what I'm saying...I hope.) Anyway, an attack on the property and abuse of the comatose Master Law accidentally revives the old sifu with hilarious results (at least for the first half an hour, Teddy Robins' Law is awake anyway.) About 70 minutes in the film looses it's sweet, funny homage tones and gets a little too sappy.
I'm not there for sap, I'm here to watch Lieung Siu Lung (who nearly kicked Chan Wai Man's butt in Broken Oath) and Chen Kuan Tai throw down against Lo Mang and some younger fighters I couldn't care less about. Oh and Chan Wai Man is in this too, but not fighting. Pffft.
Let me just say it is stupid inspiring to see two men deep in their 60s doing some amazing martial arts hand and footwork (and also making fun of all the arduous training they had to do in real life and in their old movies). If you love Crippled Avengers (the oh so politically incorrect Venoms mob film about Chen Kuan Tai and Lu Feng crippling the rest of the Venoms including Lo Mang), the role reversal here is a lot of fun. Lo is an absolute ****** and that only makes you utterly love the dogged Chen Kuan Tai and crazy Lieung Siu Lung even more.
Thankfully the nebbish real estate kid takes a back seat to the elders for most of the film and when he's on, Gallants kind of loses it's momentum. Still, it's one of the best and most entertaining love letters to genre cinema I've seen. I just wish Ti Lung was in this (he would have been even funnier as Master Law I think. And he seems to be a-okay with making fun of himself as in the awful Tiger on Beat and the adorable Shaolin Prince.)
Very entertaining for most of the running time before it loses the courage to continue to have fun with its stars and the kung fu film. Probably the best modern martial arts film I've seen too.
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Watched black mass last night , though it was brilliant loved depp in it
Started watching Pray for Death (1985) - Arrow films just released a beautiful blu ray with a nice print and lots extras of Sho Kosogi's ninja retooled take on Death Wish. Felt a big awww at seeing Sho Kosogi and his real life sons (awwww) and stopped watching. I knew where it would go and Sho would be amazingly amazing as a realistic ninja.
But I stopped because that's not what I want in ninjas. I want Shaw Brothers period ninjas in their gold and earth colored suits and the coolest Hokage leader around. Or a Ninja warlock who summons Kabuki and traditional ninjas to fight his Chinese counter part. SB have utterly spoiled me on the type of ninja I want. Not the realistic, awesome folks like Sho, but the technicolor, insane delightfully over the top ninjas of Five Elements Ninjas and Ghosts Galore (the former featuring Chan Wai Man as the Hokage King of the Ninjas, the latter Hwang Jang Lee as said Japanese ninja sorcerer. Plenty of Naginata use too which makes it even more fun.)
If you want a seriously gonzoid grindhouse ninja take on Death Wish, Pray for Death is just for you. I realize it's not for me. I will be watching the extras though as Sho has some fun things to say about the utterly awful Enter The Ninja the little movie he did with Franco Nero.
But I stopped because that's not what I want in ninjas. I want Shaw Brothers period ninjas in their gold and earth colored suits and the coolest Hokage leader around. Or a Ninja warlock who summons Kabuki and traditional ninjas to fight his Chinese counter part. SB have utterly spoiled me on the type of ninja I want. Not the realistic, awesome folks like Sho, but the technicolor, insane delightfully over the top ninjas of Five Elements Ninjas and Ghosts Galore (the former featuring Chan Wai Man as the Hokage King of the Ninjas, the latter Hwang Jang Lee as said Japanese ninja sorcerer. Plenty of Naginata use too which makes it even more fun.)
If you want a seriously gonzoid grindhouse ninja take on Death Wish, Pray for Death is just for you. I realize it's not for me. I will be watching the extras though as Sho has some fun things to say about the utterly awful Enter The Ninja the little movie he did with Franco Nero.
I'll just say my wife, me, and the 4 friends who all saw it last night loved it and have mentioned it's an automatic buy, yet hide form the kids.
And nope, not a twenty something.
Sorry it dissappointed you but it jumped to my number 1 Marvel movie. Already looking forward to seeing it at least 2 more times in the theaters.
Just finished the directors cut of Once Upon A Time in America.
Good movie but almost painful to watch musically.
There's maybe 5 actual songs in it and the rest is just the same musical "theme" repeated for 4-hours with different tempos and orchestrations.
It's not even a catchy theme. I finished the movie just yesterday and today I can't even recall it accurately.
Good movie but almost painful to watch musically.
There's maybe 5 actual songs in it and the rest is just the same musical "theme" repeated for 4-hours with different tempos and orchestrations.
It's not even a catchy theme. I finished the movie just yesterday and today I can't even recall it accurately.
