Love Bruce Campbell, I appreciate that it's an homage to B-movie horror. But, oh man, this is one slow movie. Not bad, just slow.
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Love Bruce Campbell, I appreciate that it's an homage to B-movie horror. But, oh man, this is one slow movie. Not bad, just slow.
Yeah, Spectrum has some of the best rental prices. Always has since they went digital over a decade ago. Even before that, they carried the then Pepto Pink PPV that showed movie after movie that had just come out. Though I recall buying some movies 2-3 weeks before their physical release and being able to download them with no issue.
Rogue One, which was better for time #3. I still have issues with a few characters, but I am finally feeling the "war" vibe this time.
Started to revisit Captain America Civil War, but I so dig Bucky as the Winter Soldier, I am finding it hard to move past the opening sequence again because I love it so much.
If I do watch that, I'll probably repeat Cap, along with Doctor Strange and maybe some of the Netflix Marvels since I am at a place that has Netflix right now.
Started to revisit Captain America Civil War, but I so dig Bucky as the Winter Soldier, I am finding it hard to move past the opening sequence again because I love it so much.
If I do watch that, I'll probably repeat Cap, along with Doctor Strange and maybe some of the Netflix Marvels since I am at a place that has Netflix right now.
It was in my email, I get pretty regular offers through Gmail (or G-BizApps): $0.99 rentals, 50% off a purchase, etc. GP movies play through YouTube, so very handy (we play them on an ATV).
Plus, assuming it's consistent across different movies, the rental lasts for 72 hours, so you can pretty easily get in a couple of watches!
Oh, those. I never pay attention to them. Just like the Amazon drops or the Bookbubs. Or Slickdeals. I've used Woot a few times. Quality service. I get their emails, too. And something-something drops. I can't remember the name of the service, but it's a group buy type of site.
Interested in knowing what you think about the Netflix shows.
I keep paying the bill at least till Punisher (see DD S2..) comes to town. As for Soavi, I aleady own The Sect and The Church..but it takes ages nowadays to find time to watch a flic so...already quite happy I'm almost done with Twin Peaks (single best thing that happened to television if you ask me).
Interested in knowing what you think about the Netflix shows.
As for Soavi, I aleady own The Sect and The Church..but it takes ages nowadays to find time to watch a flic so...already quite happy I'm almost done with Twin Peaks (single best thing that happened to television if you ask me).
I decided against the Marvel shows (too bad Punisher hadn't debuted, because I would have watched that no question, or attempted to anyway.) I am not interested in the characters on the Netflix shows.
Ah, good man, you own two more of Soavi. Do not expect much from The Church...that was a weak movie all the way around (Stage Fright is a bit better...but Soavi really picked up steam with the Sect and Dellamorte Dellamore. It's too bad tragedy pulled him out of the director's chair...and eventually into television.)
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I liked Captain America Civil War much better this time, though still feel that Vision, Wanda, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, ditto Hawkeye (though I like Jeremy Renner in the part). All are useless additions. Not quite sure I bought the way Zemo plotted his revenge though (and getting them to that installation in Siberia was still a dumb idea especially for how it was executed), but Winter Soldier stuff, still golden.
Some Like It Hot (1959)- a favorite comedy.
he he he. Best ending of a film ever!
Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz-given name) is great, Jack Lemmon is amazing. But nobody's perfect.
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Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz-given name) is great, Jack Lemmon is amazing. But nobody's perfect.
LOL!
Too bad, the first four episodes of Daredevil season 2 are completely owned by the Punisher and another one (I think) "Seven Minutes in Heaven" is as badass as can be..maybe another time. Bernathal (?) is the perfect Punisher - and it sucks he had to pkay such an underwhelming idot character in TDW.
Seems like I have to read up on Soavi - I know next to nothing about that guy.
I do not have the patience for more than two hours if something does not grab me. Plus, tons of characters has always been tough for me to focus or care.
Glad you dug it though.
Soavi started out as an actor and then grativated to behind the scenes. There's a good interview with him on The Sect blu ray.
Glad you dug it though.
Soavi started out as an actor and then grativated to behind the scenes. There's a good interview with him on The Sect blu ray.
Oct 6 is getting close- Blade Runner 2049. Debating if so should see this in the theater. Will it be worthy?
Wired Magazines be: Inside the Dark Future of Blade Runner 204
It’s a fall morning in 2016, and on a cavernous soundstage in Budapest, Harrison Ford—wearing a gray button-down shirt, dark jeans, and a Ford-tough grimace—is shooting a crucial encounter in Blade Runner 2049. For the first time in more than three decades, Ford is reprising his role as Rick Deckard, the piano-plinking, hard-drinking cop from Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner. The 75-year-old actor has endured several on-the-job injuries over the years—this is a guy who had a chunk of the Millennium Falcon fall on his leg—but he shows little sign of wear as he sprints through Deckard’s almost tomblike condo, shoulders pumping vigorously and a wolfish dog galloping by his side. In today’s scene, Deckard is being pursued by a special agent named K (Ryan Gosling), who bursts methodically—perhaps even robotically?—through Deckard’s marble wall like a slimmer, grimmer Kool-Aid Man. But every time Gosling smashes into the room, it terrifies the pooch, who scrambles out of frame before Denis Villeneuve, the film’s 49-year-old French-Canadian director, can call, “Cut!”
Why K doesn’t just use the front door isn’t exactly clear, as the plot of Blade Runner 2049 is guarded with the kind of intensity usually reserved for Star Wars reshoots. (Even negotiating to get onto the set required more back-and-forth than a Voight-Kampff test. I’m told I’m the only US journalist who passed.) Still, there are a few confirmed details: Thirty years after audiences left Deckard bruised and battered in 2019 Los Angeles, he has disappeared, and Gosling’s LAPD officer is on the hunt (possibly at the behest of his boss, played by Robin Wright, though no one involved with the movie will say for sure). Meanwhile, there’s a new breed of replicants—the series’ term for androids—being built by a mysterious inventor named Wallace (Jared Leto), who’s aided by a devoted employee, Luv (Sylvia Hoeks). That’s pretty much all the 2049team will tell me, no matter how politely I ask. “I’m not even sure I’m allowed to say I had a good time making it,” Gosling jokes.
Wired Magazines be: Inside the Dark Future of Blade Runner 204
It’s a fall morning in 2016, and on a cavernous soundstage in Budapest, Harrison Ford—wearing a gray button-down shirt, dark jeans, and a Ford-tough grimace—is shooting a crucial encounter in Blade Runner 2049. For the first time in more than three decades, Ford is reprising his role as Rick Deckard, the piano-plinking, hard-drinking cop from Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner. The 75-year-old actor has endured several on-the-job injuries over the years—this is a guy who had a chunk of the Millennium Falcon fall on his leg—but he shows little sign of wear as he sprints through Deckard’s almost tomblike condo, shoulders pumping vigorously and a wolfish dog galloping by his side. In today’s scene, Deckard is being pursued by a special agent named K (Ryan Gosling), who bursts methodically—perhaps even robotically?—through Deckard’s marble wall like a slimmer, grimmer Kool-Aid Man. But every time Gosling smashes into the room, it terrifies the pooch, who scrambles out of frame before Denis Villeneuve, the film’s 49-year-old French-Canadian director, can call, “Cut!”
Why K doesn’t just use the front door isn’t exactly clear, as the plot of Blade Runner 2049 is guarded with the kind of intensity usually reserved for Star Wars reshoots. (Even negotiating to get onto the set required more back-and-forth than a Voight-Kampff test. I’m told I’m the only US journalist who passed.) Still, there are a few confirmed details: Thirty years after audiences left Deckard bruised and battered in 2019 Los Angeles, he has disappeared, and Gosling’s LAPD officer is on the hunt (possibly at the behest of his boss, played by Robin Wright, though no one involved with the movie will say for sure). Meanwhile, there’s a new breed of replicants—the series’ term for androids—being built by a mysterious inventor named Wallace (Jared Leto), who’s aided by a devoted employee, Luv (Sylvia Hoeks). That’s pretty much all the 2049team will tell me, no matter how politely I ask. “I’m not even sure I’m allowed to say I had a good time making it,” Gosling jokes.
I bailed on buying a ticket for Suspiria 4k, the price was awesome (seriously I wish all movies cost $6.50 to see because I'd get my butt to the theatre more often), but since I am not commuting on a daily basis it's not a must, especially since it's a DP and in a general theatre. I'll have this blu ray soon enough.
Also skipping Blade Runner 2049 theatrically. I'll rent. Not a fan of the original and while there are some elements in this that look interesting, I will wait.
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Watched all three Captain America movies and I can clearly now see they build up to the third. Even though I have issues with making that an Avengers movie in all but name to set things up with the next Avengers movies, Civil War works best as a Captain America movie where you are with those four characters (I'd add Black Panther as the fifth since his introduction made sense with the Winter Soldier plot), it fails as an Avengers movie though (no Thor or Hulk and too many uninteresting characters for me.) I also think Daniel Bruhl was not a good choice for Zemo...but it took me a while to literally see everything in the third film (including something I only noticed on watch 3 which is duh for me.)
I love the Cap film core cast (Sebastian, Chris, Anthony and yeah Scarlett at least in these) and can kind of see the arc script-wise now. Still, I'd be all over a Soviet era Winter Soldier movie like no one's business (especially the one Joe Johnson had in mind. Still not fond of Hydra being Bucky's overlords, especially since that wipes out Brubaker's awesome Cold War / Soviet mythos for the Winter Soldier, but gotta roll the movie universe so...)
Digressing...
Also skipping Blade Runner 2049 theatrically. I'll rent. Not a fan of the original and while there are some elements in this that look interesting, I will wait.
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Watched all three Captain America movies and I can clearly now see they build up to the third. Even though I have issues with making that an Avengers movie in all but name to set things up with the next Avengers movies, Civil War works best as a Captain America movie where you are with those four characters (I'd add Black Panther as the fifth since his introduction made sense with the Winter Soldier plot), it fails as an Avengers movie though (no Thor or Hulk and too many uninteresting characters for me.) I also think Daniel Bruhl was not a good choice for Zemo...but it took me a while to literally see everything in the third film (including something I only noticed on watch 3 which is duh for me.)
I love the Cap film core cast (Sebastian, Chris, Anthony and yeah Scarlett at least in these) and can kind of see the arc script-wise now. Still, I'd be all over a Soviet era Winter Soldier movie like no one's business (especially the one Joe Johnson had in mind. Still not fond of Hydra being Bucky's overlords, especially since that wipes out Brubaker's awesome Cold War / Soviet mythos for the Winter Soldier, but gotta roll the movie universe so...)
Digressing...
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