Top Gun Maverick is now free with Amazon Prime Video. I watched some last night.
The best part of Top Gun 2: Top Harder is spotting things you shoudn't like how they don't mention the bad guy country's name because they want to sell it internationaly or in the obligatory topless dudes playing sports scene they put Tom Cruise closer to the camera whilst everyone else in the distance to hide Tom's insecurities about his height using perspective.
@jump they could get sponsorship from Wickes, and use some of their tools as weapons. I might email Keanu with the idea.
Speaking of the RZA and films - have you seen Ghost Dog Way of the Samurai? It's Jim Jarmusch's idea of a gangster / ninja film. Very funny and cool. RZA does the music and has a cameo in it, and it's got some very nice homages / lifts from Le Samouri and Branded to Kill (which is one of my favourite films ever).
I remember that RZA film coming out but I've not seen it - sounds like one to check out.
Yeah Ghost Dog is a really cool genre mix up and easily my favourite Jim Jarmusch film. I loved the soundtrack! I had intended to read the book he quotes throughout the film since it's a real Samurai book from ye olden times but I never did.
Which reminds me, as Forest Whitaker does a lot of character work and appears in fancy/interesting films a few weeks ago I decided to watch one of the films he directed Hope Floats. Jebus nailed onto cross it's so awful, I had to turn it off with 30 mins. It's the sort of bad melodrama that makes those CW tween shows look hard hitting dramas which is my own fault as I was expecting something like The Crying Game.
@jump Yeah, one third in, and they're definitley revisiting, or re-making all the famous parts from Top Gun 1. It's like they looked at the youtube timeline for Top Gun 1 for all the most viewed spots, and they stuck thim into Top Gun 2. That's literally what I was thinking while watching it. I still have 2/3 of the movie to go.
@Rambler I think I’ve lost some respect for Forest now.
I actually saw that years ago, I think I was binging teen rom coms with someone I was going out with where it was sandwich in between the much better Easy A and Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. It was very bad, in particular there’s a big plot twist where Katie Holmes boyfriend unknown to her is a security guard dating her so he’s close enough to protect her that made me groan. I wished I had a tomato to throw at the screen!
@WoomyNNYes it’s fine for what it is but my main complaint about it is how paper thin all the characters are even compared to the original. Like when they killed off the guy from ER in the first one you cared he’s dead but here I struggled to remember who anyone is at all so I don’t care about them risking their lives. The planes zipping about are nice though.
Just watched Beasts of The Southern Wild.
I'm going to stick my neck out and state that it's better than Hope Floats and First Daughter, despite not having seen either of them.
Actually, it's one of the best films I've seen in a long while. Hugely atmospheric, beautifully filmed, with astonishing main performances.
Speaking of action movies on Netflix, have you seen...... RRR? It's kind of epic, delightfully over the top at times. Here's the trailer that convinced me to watch it. (the dance scene is pretty sick, too)
@WoomyNNYes That is a movie that was added on my list by accident at one point! I didn't know if it was a good movie or not. It looked kind of unique from the image but didn't know if it would hold my attention. I watched Kate on Netflix recently and loved that movie. Also watched Gunpowder Milkshake and like that one but didn't love it. It had a unique premise though.
@Dpullam What about Love, Death and Robots on Netflix? It's sci-fi. There's like 20 episodes, and I think most are action oriented? I think most episodes are like 20-30 minutes? Most those were very good. The one with the weird dancing bejeweled indian goddess (seen rising out of water in the trailer) was very cool, I thought. Tha'ts an action episode.
@WoomyNNYes I have actually already watched a good chunk of those! I think one of my favorite ones, was one where there was a pirate ship that a monster below deck, and the events that unfolded were both a satisfying conclusion, as well as a grim end. That series is pretty fun to watch. I don't think there were any bad episodes that I have seen so far.
@Dpullam I mainly seek out science fiction stuff. Recently watched Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan.
If you liked Austin Powers, The Pentaverate, by mike myers was decent, I thought. That's on Netflix. It feels like it was partly inspired by The Venture Brothers (from adult swim). I liked it.
@WoomyNNYes I do enjoy both The Mandalorian and Bobo Fett. They were some of the more enjoyable Star Wars content in recent memory. And I am ashamed to say that I haven't watched any of the Austin Powers movies...
@Rambler I’ve just had a looksie at the trailer for Beasts Of The Southern Wild and it does look rather lovely. That’s another film to add to my watchlist.
It’s mental people keep complaining the only action/blockbusters that get released nowadays are Marvel or another franchise when there’s stuff like RRR which gets ignored.
Adam Driver stars has the captain of a deep space exploratory vessel, and after his ship is damaged by an asteroid crash lands on an uncharted planet. Now he & a young girl (the only other survivor) must make their way to the one surviving escape pod while avoiding the planet's many dangerous alien life forms. Of course the big twist (present in all the marketing) is that this planet is Earth, 65 million years ago, and said alien life forms are dinosaurs.
It sets up a tense atmosphere that's effective in keeping you engaged in their struggle to survive, an an oppressive almost horror like vibe with a few jump scares (and of course there's a plot twist towards the end in relation to a significant historical event, that places an extra sense of urgency on the timing of their attempted escape). Some of the dinosaur designs seem a bit wonky (they gave the T-Rex longer arms than typically depicted with so it could be quadrupedal at times, and similarly there was a pack of creatures that were very much more lizard like than dino like. Most of the others were more recognizable though), it was a bit visually hard to see things during night scenes (though this was probably at least partially intentional due to the tone), and there's a specific geyser that comes into play during the climax in a contrive way (just for the fact that it shouldn't have been anywhere near their destination).
That said it was a decent watch, and it's nice to support something in theatres that's not an Uber big blockbuster.
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