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WALL*E Disney 4K Directed by Andrew Stanton. 2008 In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind. Back in 2008, every Pixar film seemed like an event (I'd get over that later), and while I appreciated "Wall*E", it didn't stick with me the way "Up" or the "Toy Story" films did. "Wall*E" is a terrific character, and I find him more endearing now than I did back then. The first half of the film is Wall*E exploring the abandoned Earth, collecting his trash and treasures and going about his day. Wall*E's life is illustrated with a series of small self-contained gags (Wall*E interacting with a cockroach, playing an old video tape) instead of an explicit story. Eventually he encounters EVE, an AI lifeform seeking signs of life on the planet. Being an animated film, Wall*E forms a crush on EVE and tries to get to know her. Hokey as it is, I love all that stuff. It's very early Woody Allen without the inappropriate horniness. The second half of the film becomes more of a standard Science Fiction Action Film. It's still a Comedy, but it's more about Plot Complications and Breathless Escapes and less about character. Don't get me wrong, the film is wonderfully animated and features amazing work from legendary Sound Designer Ben Burtt ("Star Wars", "Raiders of the Lost Ark"). Burtt is credited as the "Voice" of "Wall*E" and there's a wonderful featurette on his contributions. Overall, "Wall*E" is a good film, very clever and inventive, but I was genuinely touched by the first half of the film, while the second half was a bit routine. |
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K-PAX Amazon Prime Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey. Directed by Iain Softley. 2001 A stranger who calls himself Prot seemingly appears out of nowhere following a disturbance at New York's Grand Central Station. Claiming to come from the distant planet K-PAX, Prot draws the attention of jaded Dr. Powell, whose initial skepticism soon turns to fascination and amazement. Until it turned up today, I had pretty much forgotten this film existed. "K-Pax" is one of those films where you can tell everyone working on it expected it to be something bigger, but it just disappeared. This is another "the mentally ill have so much to teach us" movies and it's very, very sincere. Perhaps that's the problem. The characters are well-written and there are some touching arcs, but it's all in-your-face and obvious about it. Jeff Bridges, -speaking clearly it must be noted, -does well with a buttoned-down role that asks him to be more heartfelt and less eccentric. Kevin Spacey does a nice variation on his patented "I'm the smartest guy in the room" schtick and also play out some vulnerable, emotionally devastating scenes. The cinematography is excellent and gives "K-PAX" an unusual, almost metallic look that kind of plays into the film's Science-Fiction sub-themes. "K-PAX" is based on a series of five books, and I'm wondering if the filmmakers thought they might be doing all of them. |
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K-PAX Amazon Prime Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey. Directed by Iain Softley. 2001 A stranger who calls himself Prot seemingly appears out of nowhere following a disturbance at New York's Grand Central Station. Claiming to come from the distant planet K-PAX, Prot draws the attention of jaded Dr. Powell, whose initial skepticism soon turns to fascination and amazement. Until it turned up today, I had pretty much forgotten this film existed. "K-Pax" is one of those films where you can tell everyone working on it expected it to be something bigger, but it just disappeared. This is another "the mentally ill have so much to teach us" movies and it's very, very sincere. Perhaps that's the problem. The characters are well-written and there are some touching arcs, but it's all in-your-face and obvious about it. Jeff Bridges, -speaking clearly it must be noted, -does well with a buttoned-down role that asks him to be more heartfelt and less eccentric. Kevin Spacey does a nice variation on his patented "I'm the smartest guy in the room" schtick and also play out some vulnerable, emotionally devastating scenes. The cinematography is excellent and gives "K-PAX" an unusual, almost metallic look that kind of plays into the film's Science-Fiction sub-themes. "K-PAX" is based on a series of five books, and I'm wondering if the filmmakers thought they might be doing all of them. I forgot about that but would like to revisit but no Blu-ray release and probably will never be. |
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2024 New on AMC+ "An ice-cream truck driver discovers a secret way to win as a contestant on the game show `Press Your Luck' with Paul Walter Hauser, Walton Goggins, David Strathairn. Brian Geraghty, and Haley Bennett" I did not think it was that bad and Paul Walter Hauser one of the more underrated actors working today. |
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2022 Starz "Set in the underbelly of Los Angeles, a man is drawn into a high-profile triple murder. The two police detectives on his tail soon join him in attempting to uncover an explosive conspiracy." I know Devon Sawa is not in demand but he is 7 years younger than Luke Wilson but looks 20 years older than him. -screwy- |
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This Island Earth Shout! Factory Blu-Ray Rex Reason, Faith Domergue. Directed by Joseph M Newman. 1955 Two nuclear scientists are kidnapped from Earth by aliens, as part of a last-ditch effort to save their planet Metaluna, from being destroyed by neighboring, rival planet Zagon. I 'm a huge fan of the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" series, but when they made an MST3K movie Universal gave them "This Island Earth" to make fun of. That was such an unfortunate choice, because "This Island Earth" is an iconic '50s Science Fiction Film, and while not quite "Top Shelf" like "Forbidden Planet" or "War of the Worlds", -it did not deserve that kind of treatment. It is dated, of course, which makes elements of it a little campy, but it's a reasonably serious, well-produced film. The film's visual design looks like the covers of any Sci-Fi Pulp Magazine of yesteryear. While stars Rex Reason and Faith Domergue are a little stolid, they look like they're right off the pages of any Wally Wood Sci-Fi story for EC Comics. Jeff Morrow, on the other hand, is absolutely terrific as sympathetic alien "Exeter". Being it was a Universal film made in The Fifties, The Suits wanted a "Monster" to promote on posters and publicity stills, so the filmmakers inserted a threatening "Mutant" (pronounced "Mew-TANT") into the final third of the film. "The Mutant" was a really great monster suit and considering the hype it got in my favorite fanzine "Famous Monsters", I was disappointed that it was only in about five minutes of the film. As I got older, I came to realize the creature wasn't necessary at all. Shout! Factory does a nice job with "This Island Earth" providing a comprehensive "Making of" (that includes a discussion of MST3K's treatment of the film), audio commentaries, and even the old 8mm Home Video version that boiled the whole film down to about 8 minutes. |
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The Creator Disney 4K John David Washington. Directed by Gareth Edwards. 2023 Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-Special Forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself. I've got tickets for "Jurassic Park: Rebirth" and I'm locked in, so I hope I get more out of it than many who have already seen it. The film is directed by Gareth Edwards, so I thought I'd take another look at his previous film. Gareth previously directed 2014's "Godzilla" which a lot of people have mixed feelings about, and "Rogue One", which was partially re-shot by Tony Gilroy. "The Creator' is astonishing-looking, particularly for a smaller-budgeted film (by Hollywood standards). "Robot Stories" are pretty much a dime-a-dozen in Science Fiction and this film doesn't add anything new to the mix other than some shameless melodrama; honestly, almost every line the AI Child-Savior speaks is a tagline for a trailer. However, it's a really impressive film to watch. I just don't know if I buy what Edwards is selling. |
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Sinners - :thumbsup: Fun movie. It's on HBO MAX now.
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Great movie. I remember the theme song on the radio at the time. We had two downtown theaters about a block apart. One was showing this, the other The Mechanic with Charles Bronson. On my way to see The Mechanic I stopped to check out the posters, stills and lobby cards of Trouble Man. I really liked the poster. Never saw the movie until last night. It's barely blaxploitation. The basic plot is not different really than Raymond Chandler or Mickey Spillane. I could imagine Jim Rockford getting into this kind of situation. At times I could imagine this as b&w with Bogart. It's a 70s blax version of something like Farewell My Lovely or Kiss Me Deadly. Robert Hooks' "Mr. T" is a great character with a don't take shit off nobody attitude. The actor who portrays "Tee Hee" in Live and Let Die (guy with hook for hand throwing chickens to alligators) appears as "Mr. Big". First I;ve seen him in anything else. There's a product placement Coke machine in the pool hall that gets enough screen time to deserve a supporting cast credit. Maybe it ought to get a new agent. I rate this 100% cool. Unfortunately the version available to stream did not have the original Marvin Gaye score. Rather a "re-imagined" version by different artists. Tacked on to the end were additional music credits for the new score. Tacked onto the very end was a grindhouse trailer for "Black Samurai", a Jim Kelly kung fu flick. This trailer was so outlandish I was thinking it might be fake, like the Machete one in Grindhouse. It's real. Not available to stream. |
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Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League HBO / Max 4K Directed by Junpei Mizusaki, Shinji Takagi. 2025 Batman is confronted by an invasion from an alternate world of Japan, that has its own version of the Justice League. An outrageous film that imagines The Batman and various "Robins" ( Damian, Red Hood, Nightwing) fighting The Justice League heroes re-imagined as a Yakuza Crime Family members in an "Alternate" Japan that floats upside-down over Gotham. Superman, The Flash, Wonder Woman are presented as anime-style figures with revised origins, -and we even get Harley Quinn (who's just as obnoxious in this iteration), -and it's all very clever and quite outlandish. It's easy to appreciate the film as a non-stop crazy salad of ideas and visuals but there's so much exposition required that I found the story impossible to get into. The English-Language script seems to take a tongue-in-cheek approach to the story. I never thought I'd hear Commissioner Gordon seriously say, "It's raining men." |
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The Luckiest Man in America AMC+ Paul Walter Hauser. Directed by Samir Oliveros. 2024 1984, Michael Larson, an unemployed ice-cream truck driver from Ohio, steps onto the game show "Press Your Luck" harboring a secret: the key to endless amounts of money. But his winning streak gets threatened when the executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations. I first learned the story of Michael Larson from a Game Show Network documentary years ago, and now it's an Independent Film from IFC. Essentially Michael Larson memorized the five rotating light patterns used in "Press Your Luck" and used that knowledge to stop the board at the correct time and win prizes. "The Luckiest Man in America" looks a bit cheap, but it has Paul Walter Hauser giving the kind of convincing Everyman Loser role he specializes in, and by the middle of the movie I was pretty engrossed. The movie version of the story is partially fictionalized, and a lot of those elements stuck out for me, particularly Larson accidently stumbling into a fictional Talk Show on the CBS lot that feels more like a fantasy segment to further reveal his character. I assumed the film would end with a text crawl summing up what happened after Larson's two-day run, but you're pretty much left with Wikipedia. Speaking of which, apparently this story was originally intended as a Comedy with Bill Murray twenty years ago. At least the film ends as most "Based on a True Story" films do these days and includes video from the actual broadcast. |
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Jurassic World: Rebirth Universal Scarlett Johansson. Directed by Gareth Edwards. 2025 Five years post-Jurassic World Dominion, an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough. "Jurassic World: Rebirth" is a "rebirth" only in the sense that it does not include any characters from the previous films. It's a fairly self-contained and familiar story that does not ignite a new trilogy. Scarlett Johansson plays a mercenary who leads an expedition into dinosaur country, and that's pretty much all we learn about her character. She's neither too Feminine nor too Masculine, neither straight nor gay, rich or poor, or much of anything that would make her interesting. The same for the secondary lead, Jonathan Bailey, -while he has more personality than Scarlett, he's pretty much a cypher other than he provides The Science, while ScarJo is The Muscle. There's a Big Pharma Rep in the expedition, and of course he's pure EVIL and that's all there is to him. The movie denounces Corporate Greed which always makes me laugh when it comes from a major corporation like Universal Pictures, who doesn't give away anything. That leaves us with the main attraction in "Jurassic Park" series, which is the Dinosaur Attacks. By this time, you've seen it all before, and you've seen it done better. For the dinosaur scenes to work, they need to be clever or suspenseful, and you've got to care about the characters, and I didn't find any of that here. My biggest rule of thumb is "Would I buy "Jurassic Park: Rebirth" when it's on Home Video, and I've got to say, "Once was enough". |
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It is what it is. If you're a fan of this stuff they have to really suck for you not to like them. This one doesn't suck. Best part of this one is the variety of man eating plants. Would have been nice to throw in some quicksand. |
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https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...0b65bf8243.jpg Among my least favorite of the series. Probably why I haven't watched it in 20+ years. Absence did make the heart grow fonder. This one just rubs me the wrong way. I dislike the music score. Every thing has a "plastic" toy look. The battle in the tanker's sub pen is good, that's about it. I've always considered this one the actual beginning of the Moore era. This was the template for the following four Moore films. Live and Let Die and Man With The Golden Gun were more transitional. Both still had the feel, or vibe, of the earlier ones. I've often wondered if the departure of Harry Saltzman after Golden Gun has something to do with it. |
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First time owning. As long as ARROW keeps releasing great releases (special features wise), I'll keep supporting and getting stuff I would never had bought. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Homefront (2013) - Jason Statham plays an ex-cop who moves to rural Louisiana with his daughter. He gets crossways with some local rednecks/drug dealers and a bunch of asskicking ensues, as you would expect. Nothing special here, but it was entertaining. Worth it for the opening scene where Statham has long hair. :lol: The supporting cast is interesting, including Winona Ryder, James Franco, Kate Bosworth, Clancy Brown, and Frank Grillo.
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The Luckiest Man in America AMC+ Paul Walter Hauser. Directed by Samir Oliveros. 2024 1984, Michael Larson, an unemployed ice-cream truck driver from Ohio, steps onto the game show "Press Your Luck" harboring a secret: the key to endless amounts of money. But his winning streak gets threatened when the executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations. I first learned the story of Michael Larson from a Game Show Network documentary years ago, and now it's an Independent Film from IFC. Essentially Michael Larson memorized the five rotating light patterns used in "Press Your Luck" and used that knowledge to stop the board at the correct time and win prizes. "The Luckiest Man in America" looks a bit cheap, but it has Paul Walter Hauser giving the kind of convincing Everyman Loser role he specializes in, and by the middle of the movie I was pretty engrossed. The movie version of the story is partially fictionalized, and a lot of those elements stuck out for me, particularly Larson accidently stumbling into a fictional Talk Show on the CBS lot that feels more like a fantasy segment to further reveal his character. I assumed the film would end with a text crawl summing up what happened after Larson's two-day run, but you're pretty much left with Wikipedia. Speaking of which, apparently this story was originally intended as a Comedy with Bill Murray twenty years ago. At least the film ends as most "Based on a True Story" films do these days and includes video from the actual broadcast. Hope you saw it after I posted about it :lol: Maybe me and you are the only two people that saw it and knew it existed. |
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