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2014

Starz

"After losing his job, an insurance adjuster (Wes Bentley) throws morality to the wind and turns to a life of crime to support his family."

I did not think it was that bad though kind of slow.

Jason Isaacs was also in it.

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Godzilla vs Biollante Criterion Blu-Ray
Directed by Kazuki Omori. 1989
Godzilla is freed from his prison in Mt. Mihara just in time to face a genetic experiment gone wrong in the form of Biollante, a huge hybrid monster made from plant, human, and Godzilla's DNA

I put a hold on this because of the Criterion connection, and it sounded like fun. Ultimately, it was disappointing. As often is the case, there's not a whole lot of "Godzilla" in the film; of course, there wasn't much Godzilla in "Godzilla Minus One" and I loved that film. It's just the story around the monster involves a Political Espionage story that's pretty rinky-dink, if I'm allowed to get that technical. Other than the majestic "Godzilla March" the score sounds like old "Adventure Themes" pulled from some cornball "Swashbuckler" and doesn't fit the film at all. The other big problem I have is that while the "Man in Suit" work and the miniatures are impressive, they never create the illusion of size and scale. On the plus side, I will say that the Criterion disc is a quality product, and it looks great. Nice cover.

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HBO

It is a documenntary that is the length of 2 movies.

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Days of Thunder Paramount 4K
Tom Cruise. Directed by Tony Scott. 1990
Talented but unproven stock car driver gets a break and with the guidance of a veteran driver turns heads on the track.

I always thought "Cole Trickle" might be one of the worst characters names ever, -little did I realize that there actually was a NASCAR driver named "Dick Trickle". Don't I feel foolish.

For a long time, I looked down my nose at "Days of Thunder" as just a knock-off of "Top Gun". I still think it is, but when I actually sat down and watched it, I was entertained. Tom Cruise's sincerity is nicely matched by Robert DuVall's special way with a character. You also get Michael Rooker in a less crusty than usual featured role. Honestly, there's not much to the story, despite having Robert Towne's name on the script. When the idea of "drafting" is introduced early in the film (using Sweet 'n' Low and Nicole Kidman's bare leg), you know this concept will be key to winning the big race at the end. The film struggles a bit to find enough dramatic filler to pad the middle of the film. The one clever notion is that Cole admits that he knows nothing about race cars or cars in general, much like 80% of the audience, which allows for audience identification and excuses a lot of exposition. It's a good-looking disc for the most part, sometimes colorful and sharp, but with some soft patches that just might go back to the source.

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Cold Sweat Amazon Prime
Charles Bronson. Directed by Terence Young. 1970
A former smuggler living incognito in France with his family is discovered by an old associate who needs him for a drug run.

"Cold Sweat" is one of those films that played on the bottom of the bill at Drive-Ins and Second Run Houses back in The Seventies. It's one of the rare Charles Bronson films I've never seen. I didn't know it was based on a novel by Richard Matheson, a prolific author who wrote some of the best "Twilight Zone" episodes as well as the early Roger Corman "Poe" films with Vincent Price. Terence Young directed "Dr. No", "From Russia with Love", "Thunderball" and a personal favorite "Wait Until Dark" with Audrey Hepburn.

"Cold Sweat" is a decent Thriller, with a credible escalation of events at a measured pace. Bronson and his family are held hostage by James Mason and his crew and Charlie has to take them out one-by-one as opportunity provides. The physical action is kept in a believable range. "Cold Sweat" has one big flourish and that is a bravura car chase that pretty much comes out of nowhere, but it is impressive. Charles Bronson is more gregarious than usual, and I was a bit surprised to see Ingmar Bergman's muse Liv Ullmann as Bronson's wife. James Mason sports the same florid Southern drawl he used in "Mandingo", though he's otherwise restrained and chews scenery with his mouth closed. Jill Ireland, of course, gets a small part as Mason's Hippie-styled moll. Excellent picture quality, though the credits are all in French.

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As far as these things go, this one pretty damn good.

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Timecop Amazon Prime 4K
Jean-Claude Van Damme. Directed by Peter Hyams. 1994
Max Walker is an employee of the Time Enforcement Commission, a federal agency that polices time travel technology. Walker learns that the corrupt Senator McComb is using time travel to win the Presidency.

I still think "Timecop" was one of JCVD's better films. Jean-Claude had developed the presence, if not the acting chops, to lead a film, and it's an effective, sincere performance. It helps that he's surrounded by pros like Bruce McGill, Mia Sara, Gloria Reuben and a very oily Ron Silver. Peter Hyams was a somewhat underappreciated director ("Capricorn One", "Running Scared") but he could put together a fun Thriller with a great look. The film was ripe for a sequel, but Hyams wasn't interested. Instead, Hyams and Van Damme immediately re-teamed for his next film, the "Die Hard in a Hockey Arena" Film "Sudden Death".

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Octopussy (1983)

My long, slow, Bond marathon continues with this, Roger Moore's sixth turn at the role. The opening song is "All Time High" sung by Rita Coolidge. It's not bad, but fairly forgettable. The opening scene is pretty fun, with Bond flying around in a nifty little mini-jet with fold-up wings. The main plot is largely set in India, and they sure tried to cram in all the clichés about India they could. One actually clever one is when a snake charmer starts playing the classic Bond theme on his flute, to let Bond know that he's his local contact. Some of the attempts at humor are pretty cringey, though.

The plot is about an exiled Afghan prince, Kamal Khan, trying to set off a nuclear warhead at a US military base in Germany. His (unwitting?) accomplice is Octopussy (played by the beautiful Maud Adams). She runs some kind of cult on a floating island, complete with henchwomen in bright red body suits with black utility belts. They also have a traveling circus! Her character doesn't make much sense. But she's hot, so who cares? Khan has some of the franchise-norm gimmicky henchmen: A huge strong guy in a turban, knife-throwing twins, and a guy that has a deadly yo-yo with a circular saw blade.

Several moments in this movie feel like there is some back-and-forth synergy with the Indiana Jones movies. At one point Bond runs through a big spider web with a tarantula in it (similar to Raiders of the Lost Ark) and in another scene he is a guest for dinner at an Indian palace and is presented with a boiled goats head, complete with eyeballs (similar to the dinner scene in Temple of Doom, which came out later).

The action sequences are pretty good for their time. The aforementioned mini-jet scene is fun. There's a tuk-tuk chase scene through crowded streets. There is a sequence where Bond is running along on top of a moving train (another Indiana Jones similarity). And another pretty cool plane scene where Bond gets on top of a small plane (a twin engine propeller plane this time) as the villain tries to make his getaway. In fact, the train scene and this plane scene remind me a bit of the climactic scenes in the last two Mission Impossible movies.

To wrap it up, this isn't one of my favorites. It has a lot of the usual trappings of a Bond movie, but it doesn't all come together for a very satisfying film.

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2015

Starz

"A musician (Anton Yelchin) returns home after eight years and reunites with his brother (Chris Marquette), a slow-witted hit man who works for a local gangster (Vincent D'Onofrio)."

I think I saw this before but forgot and then revisited and remembered why I forgot since this movie sucks.

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2024

Paramount +

"A story of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s."

Not a lot of action or gun shooting but I liked this and more people should see it.

Better than what I expected after a slow beginning.

Solly McLeod who looked like Seth Rogan was such a prick as Weston and he stole the movie.

Krepps was good too,

Viggo if you want to continue to write and direct I will be there.

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My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay HBO / MAX
Directed by Mariska Hargitay. 2025
The life and legacy of Mariska Hargitay's mother, Hollywood icon Jayne Mansfield, who died tragically in a car accident at age 34 when Mariska was only three years old.

60 year-old Mariska Hargitay has become a Television fixture with her 20+ seasons on "Law and Order: SVU". Her mother was Jayne Mansfield, a Hollywood Blonde Bombshell of the Fifties and Sixties. I mostly remember Mansfield from talk shows when I was a kid as well as the gruesome car accident that took her life (urban legend was that she was decapitated while her children watched from the back seat). Hargitay's documentary explores the life of a celebrity that has pretty much lost to Time, and a woman that Mariska was too young to really know. Jayne Mansfield tried to emulate the career and appeal of Marilyn Monroe, and like Marilyn, she was a gossip column fixture who struggled with being taken seriously and had complicated relationships with a lot of Men.

"My Mom Jayne" is a very emotional exercise as Hargitay explores her own feelings as she interviews family members and her mother's associates. While Mariska expresses a lot of love for her father and appreciation for her mother, there's a lot of repressed anger that bubbles to the surface. Hearing the whole story, it's understandable. The last third of the documentary reveals a long-held secret of Mariska and explores an ill-fated affair Jayne had with an Italian singer. Mariska would learn years after her mother's death that the singer, Nelson Sardelli, was her biological father and not Jayne's husband, bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay. Her Present-Day encounters with Sardelli are touching but also carry a bit of an edge. "My Mom Jayne" is well-constructed but will mostly appeal to those who are interested in dusty Hollywood history.

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Often humorous mid-life crisis drama. Nothing special. When it's funny, it's very funny. The humor kept me interested in what happens.

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I thought the Weather Man was a really good movie that got overlooked or just not for everybody and only for a select few individuals like me.

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The Suicide Squad Warner Bros 4K
Idris Elba. Directed by James Gunn. 2021
Super-Villains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X where they are heavily-armed and dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.

I thought David Ayer's "Suicide Squad" (2016) was passably entertaining for about 100 minutes, but the Final Act was just routine. The further I get from the film, the less I like it. My feelings about James Gunn's "The Suicide Squad" are a little more complicated.

Much like "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 and Vol. 3", the endless childish bickering between the characters just drives me nuts. It's like having two teenagers in the back of the car who just won't shut up. And yet James Gunn loves his Comic Book Heroes, -the more obscure and eccentric the better, -and he's able to create some great Character moments that really impressed me, such as a throwaway moment with King Shark's delight with some colorful fish in an aquarium, or Ratcatcher II's story of her father seen through the window of a bus. His running gag with Polka-Dot Man is really quite clever, though he later brushes the character aside with a literal thud. I really grew attached to Ratcatcher's little rat pal, but that might be Gunn's shameless pet-pandering, just like "Krypto". I don't know if Gunn can write a straightforward hero without giving into the temptation to undercut it with a laugh or a dollop of cynicism, and that's what scares me about his upcoming "Superman".

The movie is aggressively ugly as well, and for a while I thought that ugliness extended to the picture quality of the disc. It's just awash with these sickly yellows and greens and pale flesh tones. But suddenly Gunn will pull out these scenes of great color and lyricism, such as Harley Quinn's escape from her Corto Maltese prison that explodes into flowers, or her graceful dive into the eye of Starro near the finale that really captures the "Comic Book" of it all in a way that's both outlandish and sort of beautiful ( and I say this as a person who's been sick to death of Harley Quinn since "Batman: The Animated Series"). By the middle of the disc, I began to see past the surface ugliness of the visuals and see just how well that ugliness was rendered, and from there on I was impressed.

"Suicide Squad" is far from a perfect movie, -it's just wildly over-indulgent in its cynicism, and it just can't shut up with the jokes and the mean-spiritedness. It's all a little much, but every so often there's a moment that's just perfect. The thing is that for better or worse James Gunn knows how to make a Comic Book Movie that's a real Comic Book Movie and not just a pretender.

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Story of Dock Ellis, most famous for pitching a no hitter on LSD. While he led a fascinating life what I found even more interesting was the look at the lives of Black baseball players in general during the 70s. I was a baseball fan as a kid but had lost interest by the late 60s so I wasn't familiar with any of the events in this movie. The film gets bogged down in the 3rd act as an anti-drug sermon but fair enough that's where his life led him. I was inspired to watch by a recent episode of Poker Face which was partially inspired by the LSD incident.

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Saw this at the drive-in in 1969. It was tacked onto Valley of Gwangi. Haven't seen it since but I remember it vividly.

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I have to give Goonies85 and DWilson some credit for taking the time to compose such thorough reviews of movies they’ve seen and put a lot of thought into them.

I know most in this forum don’t like to read long compositions or would be too lazy to write that much.

Not everything you write about interests me, but I appreciate the time you both take.

I just wanted to let you know that I noticed these and you’re not being ignored and talking to yourself.

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Monster From the Ocean Floor - Tubi

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F1 for a second time. Saw it in IMAX 70MM last Monday and today 4DX.

4DX was a hell of a good time.

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F1 Apple/Warners
Brad Pitt. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. 2025
Racing legend Sonny Hayes is coaxed out of retirement to lead a struggling Formula 1 team—and mentor a young hotshot driver—while chasing one more chance at glory.

Never once during "F1" did I say, "Wow! I never expected that to happen!" It's a fairly predictable Sports story, -but it's also very entertaining, whether you see it in IMAX or not (and I didn't, though I'm sure the soundtrack thunders in every version). Brad Pitt presents a likeable, masculine hero, and age has only made him more charismatic. The film has a lot of visual flair, showing the races from every possible angle. On the downside for me, Damson Idris as the driver Pitt mentors never quite developed into a likeable enough character that I would want to follow him into another film. Also, as someone who knows nothing about racing and hasn't played a lot of the games, a lot of the rules and jargon was hard to keep up with. Still, I had a good time.

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Even though it drags in the middle, I still think this is one of the better Italian gothic horrors. There is some great stuff at the beginning and end. One flaw in the script. Barbara Steele has a dual role as step sisters with no biological connection, yet look identical.

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I remember the hype surrounding this movie when first released. It was supposed to be epic. It was exclusive to a single screen in the area. Biggest theater in the area with biggest screen. {{{{360}}}} Surroundsound, and I believe a 70mm blowup. Same theater that previously had exclusive of Jaws, and later, Empire Strikes Back. Doesn't live up to that level of hype, but still a good sci-fi movie.
Jan-Michael Vincent gets top billing over George Peppard. Two actors passing each other on the ladder, one going up, the other down.

I've seen this a handful of times but misremembered one detail. When in cockroach infested Salt Lake City. I remembered the survivors noticing there were no bodies anywhere and one of them saying, "I wonder why there's no bodies". Must be some other post-apocalyptic movie. Now it's bugging me what that movie ie.

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The Playgirls and the Vampire (1960) — Watchable but still your typical 1960s vampire movie featuring some lovely ladies but a rather dull plot that picks up slightly at the end. Nothing I'd ever watch again. **¼/***** (Blu-ray)

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Have watched all three in the past couple weeks, listed in order that I watched - Jaws 3, Jaws, and Jaws 2

Jaws 3 is still fun to watch with a great cast but some laughably bad “3-D” special effects.
Jaws with Steven Spielberg intro is of course a classic for the ages.
Jaws 2 is underrated and Collider highlights the profoundly sad Tina’s Joy boat kill scene that comes late in the film.

I remember that some folks on this site in another thread called Jaws 2 a bit of an underrated sequel and I agree.

I also watched Independence Day on I believe Tubi last weekend.

Near the 4th of July it is almost required viewing to watch ID again and the Jaws films.