At the Movies!

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'Wonder Woman 1984' Pushes Back Release Date

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So I watched Jackie Chan's Drunken Master. This was the first Jackie film I saw that was produced in Hong Kong; all the others movies I watched until now were made in the USA.

20 minutes in and you can tell that the choreography in the action scenes are better than most of the ones featured in the American films featuring the actor (sorry not sorry). The slapstick comedy was done well and it gave me a few chuckles. Overall, it was a really good old school martial arts film.

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Just finished watching Rock and Rule. I didn't realize it was going to be a PG-13 flick when I went into it xD

But yeah! It's aimed at an older audience! It has some pretty good ideas, and impressive animation for the time, so it just barely falls flat. It has some really bad pacing problems as the story takes some pretty big leaps in areas. I honestly think this film could be really good if it were to be remade.

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So I watched two more old school action movies.

Winners and Sinners/5 Lucky Stars: I liked the interactions between the main cast, the actors had a good sense of chemistry. The amount of action and comedy scenes was balanced really well; and while the quality of the humor may depend on the viewer (personally it gave me a few chuckles here and there), the quality of the action scenes cannot be disputed.

Oh, and unlike Policewoman, Jackie Chan has a more active role in this film, being a private investigator rather than just a puny thug, which is a good thing.

James Glickenhaus' The Protector (Aka The original American release): it was.... Okay. One one hand, the main stars Jackie Chan and Danny Aiello did a decent job with their roles of Billy Wong and Danny Garon, respectively. The movie also has some nice cinematography, featuring some nice shots of Hong Kong.

On the other hand, the performances made by the rest of the cast were sometimes a little robotic. The pacing was humdrum, and the climatic fight had the potential to be much better compared to what we got. Is a shame James never took into account Jackie Chan's suggestions.

Fun fact: the relationship between James and Jackie during production was so contentious that not only Jackie Chan decided to make his own edit of the movie for distribution in Hong Kong (including new footage not present in the original release), he also decided to direct his own film know as "Police Story" as a direct response to James Glickenhaus' The Protector; to show him how action movies should be done.

Sources:

https://listverse.com/2014/09/05/10-awes...ckie-chan/ (number 4)

https://www.framerated.co.uk/police-story-1985-1988/

https://mubi.com/es/notebook/posts/revie...lice-story

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The new Venom movie was as entertaining movie... And that's it.

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On the good side, they got Venom's personality right, by Venom I mean the specific union between Eddie Brock and the Symbiote. From referring themselves as 'we' rather than 'I' since they are basically two people inhabiting the same body (I'm looking at you, Sam Reimi's Spider-Man 3!), to his goofy remarks (yes, the character always had a goofy side). The movie primarily focused on the relationship between these two, and they nailed it. Oh, and the action was fun, at least.

On the downside, I must say that the villian was boring, Riot was ok-ish, and at one point the movie suddenly stars rushing through all it's plot points. In fact, I must say most of the characters besides Eddie and the Symbiote are rather forgotable.

And last but no least, if they are really going to bring Carnage to big screen, then that film must be rated R. There's no way that thing is going to be PG-13.

EDIT: did you know? One of Venom's lines in the film, "Eyes, lungs, pancreas... so many snacks, so little time," was lifted unaltered from The Amazing Spider-Man #374.

That was a nice shout out to the source material.

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The Scene Stealer in Venom was Woody Harrelson wig.

Worth a ticket just for that.

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The Scene Stealer in Venom was Woody Harrelson wig.

Worth a ticket just for that.

To be completely honest with you, I didn't knew that was a wig until I checked out and everyone on the internet mentioned it.

Maybe is just because I didn't know/recognized the actor at the time when I saw the film.

EDIT: it could also be that I just didn't pay attention to the guy's "hair".

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The Scene Stealer in Venom was Woody Harrelson wig.

Worth a ticket just for that.

To be completely honest with you, I didn't knew that was a wig until I checked out and everyone on the internet mentioned it.

Maybe is just because I didn't know/recognized the actor at the time when I saw the film.

Had no idea what was going on during that scene til he mentioned Carnage. All I could think about was "what the hell is going on with his hair" and being offput by it.

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So, Thoughts?

My first thoughts are the Pokemon look really jarring in live action. Especially Mr. Mime, which may be giving me nightmares. I don't know. It's just really weird seeing a furry Pikachu and a feathered Psyduck since they have never been this detailed before.

My second thought is that I don't care, and I'm going to watch live action Pokemon on the big screen. I'm not even a Pokemon fan anymore, but I'm still excited to see live action Pokemon.

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That Detective Pikachu trailer is both terrifying and amazing at the same time. Another plus considering that all gens are acknowledged.

One of the writers is actually the Creator of Gravity Falls, so actually optimistic about this.

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So I watched the new Halloween movie.

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I liked it.

The performance of Jamie Lee Curtis as an older Laurie Strode, a Laurie that trained herself in case Michael came back was really good. You can tell how traumatized she was after that one night. As for Michael Myers? He was beast! My favorite scene has to be the one where he pushed the cage in the police car and pressed it into the doctor's back, followed by the doctor getting his head crushed like a watermelon in one stomp. You can tell that Michael never skipped leg day!

I can't really comment on the whole Laurie being Michael sister thing being written off the story given the only Halloween movies I have seen where the original from 1978 and the new one, that and because apparently this brother-sister relationship was introduced in the second movie. The only thing I have to say is that... Michael didn't specifically targeted Laurie. He was killing random people because that is what serial killers do. In fact, it was the doctor who brought Michael into Laurie's house, and even if he didn't do that, Laurie would hunt Michael down (rather than the other way around) anyway. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong in this one.

And last but not least, there is the post-credits scene (more like a post-credits sound effect, since they pretty much pulled off a Star Wars episode 1 if you know what I mean). About which I have to say the following:

Of course Michael is alive! What kind of question is that?

In fact, I counted up to three times where Michael could have been killed once and for all but he didn't die because... Plot.

Sure, the second one where Michael falls downstairs could be explained as the characters having their 'flight' mode on rather than the 'fight' one (you know what they say about humans having a fight or flight response to something terrifying?), but the third and final one, where Michael was finally captured inside the basement? They could have shoot him down and then burn the house. Rather than burn the house while Micheal is standing still in the stairs.

So overall, I can say that this is a solid sequel to the original.

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^ Really enjoyed this movie(watched it on opening night with my family), and my favorite kill was with the teenager dressed as a Vampire.

Laurie Strode role was very upsetting and the best part of the movie.

Another plus is that John Carpenter supposedly scored the music for the movie, and that dude is a legend.

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So I finally got around and watched Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

What isn't there to like about this movie? From the sheer absurdity and "logical irrationality" so to speak, to the excellent performances of Peter Seller (probably the most versatile acting I've seen in a long time), George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden (performing the most comically over-the-top yet serious role in the film), this is easily one the best films in Kubrick's repertoire, as well as one of the best satirical films of all time.

I applaud everyone involved in this project for releasing such a film in 1963, the year in which paranoia over a nuclear holocaust was at it's height, partly thanks to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Why? Because of the intention behind it. This movie wanted to tell it's audience the following message: "calm down, people. The end of the world is NOT upon us!".

Needless to say, they were right.

"yo, the movie sounds funny but it also sounds very political. Is it propaganda?" - Maybe back in the day (when the film first came out) it could have been seen as propaganda, but in retrospect it is not. I mean, does it counts as propaganda if the movie was right all along? The fact that the world did not end back during the cold war proves the point of the movie.

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British film director Nicolas Roeg dies at age 90

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I hope they make a reference to this thing in the second Hulk movie.... If that ever becomes a thing, that's it.

No specific reason, I just want to.

EDIT: another thing. If Blue Marvel is ever introduced into the MCU, I hope he is portrayed by Denzel Washington. Either him or Will Smith. Morris Chestnut would be nice, too.