I didn't catch this one at the theater but I did catch it on flight I took to Denver recently. It started off with a decent Indy vibe but somewhere along the way it started to lose me. No so much because it was terrible but more so because it was uninspiring. It was boring at times and I ultimately fell asleep. Had to rewatch it on a return flight and I realized it didn't matter. It didn't get my better. I don't think I needed to see Indiana Jones like this... he seemed like a relic of sorts. Harrison Ford played one of my childhood heros... to see them both in an subpar adventure film like this was disappointing. I guess all good things come to end... Star Wars... Star Trek (aside from a damn good season 3 of Picard), Terminator... everything from the 80s and now Indy....
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Super underrated Quality Docu-series
3 November 2022
Oliver Harper is proof that hard work and passion pays off. I've been a subscriber and viewer for nearly ten year's. Well made passion project that deserves recognition and notoriety. Well done. I have contributed thousands of views to this project. Aliens, The thing, predator, highlander, crow, lethal weapon, batman begins. All are awesome movies made better with this docu-series. Over a hundred episodes reviewed but more importantly retrospectived. It makes an excellent choice for entertainment. So much knowledge and details are included I love it. Keep it up and good luck in the future.10 out of 10.
Tenet
(2020)
See it for yourself.
25 December 2020
I found Tenet to be an experience more than just a movie you watch and forget about. It begs to be discussed and understood.
My 13 year old watched it with me on my third viewing and she found the film captivating and worthy of her time (and that is saying alot for the 10 sec video generation)... And by the way she grasp the concept and most of the story in her first viewing with the occasional "wait what... oh... how could someone think up a movie like this and then make it". I replied "that's what I felt like when I saw Star Wars as a kid in the 80s". Mindblowing. The films concept is bold and refreshing and I for one enjoy films that are crafted with such complexity that serves the story and can completely anesthetize my expectation. This film was like nothing I have ever seen before and I welcome that. I can honeslty say it was vaguely familiar yet completely unpredictable. I knew there would be fight scenes... but not like I thought. I knew there would be a beginning and an end... again not like I thought. I can't help but appreciate a story that makes me feel "new" at movie watching. It reminds me of when I was a child and found every film entertaining and cool. For a while I actually thought my taste in films had become more sophisticated, but in truth I haven't grown any more sophisticated at all, films however, have degenerated into simple, predictable, uncreative simulacrum of originality. I am disappointed by the mediocre ratings and reviews I've seen. It makes me think of the audiences in the 2006 film "Idiocracy" where in the film if the people couldn't understand something, they said it was "stupid" or "dumb". They completely destroyed what they didn't understand behind a wall crude jokes and slapstick humor. But for us viewing the film we knew they were the idiots, hence the title. But this film encourages you to experience it more than once. Surprisingly it gets better with repeat viewing. Not because you "get it now" but because you see it was intended to be viewed and scrutinized repeatedly. Like Stanley Kubrick or Terry Gilliam films, full of hidden meaning and nuances. The film respects and assumes the audience is intelligent and wants to think for themselves. Tenet is well paced, and hums with tension. The cinematography and the score by Ludwig Göransson are awesome. This film deserves an honest review. Like Nolan's previous films this film tries to reach for heights unseen. In 2005 Batman Begins reached and set forth a superhero benchmark that many films later benefited from but dare not reach any higher. In 2010 Inception gave us a film that proved a high concept scifi film could be ultra cool fun. We've had ten years to prepare for what Nolan has crafted with Tenet and I think it deserves more than a reputation for being "confusing".
The Predator
(2018)
Why did they do this to the Predator?
21 December 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Wow... I'm more than disappointed. This was bad. All these cool characters turned into a parody of the bad asses they should be. Continuity is terrible. Jokes in the first predator were part of the arcs in the growth of the group.... campy jokes in the beginning... nervous anxious jokes in the middle... by the end, defiant and triumphantly appropriate in the face of death... in this film what the hell... they were there just to be there and they were bad... soooo bad... Half the time I didn't know what was going on. I don't remember if I ever gave a 1/10 before. But this is the first time I ever did it while watching a movie. Dear God... they just adopted the predator hound as their pet dog... I'm done!
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