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Zendokan

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Loved the "Bad Hand" tattoo scene in the tattoo parlor.
 
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Huntn

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Red Sparrow (2018)- This is an excellent spy thriller, very different than Atomic Blond, lower energy, slower burn, more traditional, a lot of classical music instead of heart pounding 80s rock, but never the less tense and excellent. I read the trilogy which takes the reader to the top of the Russian government.

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Red Sparrow (2018)- This is an excellent spy thriller, very different than Atomic Blond, lower energy, slower burn, more traditional, a lot of classical music instead of heart pounding 80s rock, but never the less tense and excellent. I read the trilogy which takes the reader to the top of the Russian government.

I liked it... Books will always tend to be the better.

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GrayFlannel

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Conclave. Maybe the best movie I saw this year. I give it a 7 out of 10. I would have given it 7.5 but the plot twist at the ending was so typical of Hollywood. The story and acting is very good. No nudity, violence, or action but the story was told so well it didn’t matter.
 
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Mousse

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Godzilla (2014). The scenes with the little Japanese boy in the red cap was superfluous to the plot. But I bet someone banged on the table to keep those scene because the boy in a cap was iconic in the Gojira series. My kids couldn't understand why I was all excited seeing a kid in a cap. Chalk it up to Dad being weird...again.😑

There were several things that detracted from the enjoyment of the movie. 1) The Muto didn't cause hurricane force winds from taking off. Come on, man. And 2), the female Muto carried fertilized eggs before meeting up with the male Muto. Finally 3) Gozilla was supposed to be an apex predator that feed on the Muto. It didn't eat the Mutos.😒
 
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BotchQue

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I'm not a movie buff at all, much less a horror movie buff, but last night a channel featured Poltergeist, which I'd watched a few decades ago, football was done, so I watched it again.
Good flick. Decades later it still pissed me off near the end, house was declared Clean, Mom ran a tub of hot water, the camera kept focusing on the water valve, then the drain, she relaxed into the tub, but nothing happened!! Bastids!
It took off again when she got to her bedroom, but what an odd suspense build-up, in the tub, that never materialized. There's probably a word for that.
 

Mousse

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If you're a fan of the Dark Knight version or the campy 1960's version or the original DC version, you'll want to give this movie a pass. If you're an anime fan who likes movies with a plot, you'll want to pass too.

This is a Batman remake (aka fan fiction) of the Dark Knight using every anime trope in the book: gang of five (Power Rangers), giant robots, transforming giant mecha, combining giant mecha, super human ninja fighting techniques, Sengoku (Warring States) era, isekai and more. While it sounds awesome, it only sounds awesome.🤨

Every villain except the Joker become nothing more than glorified mooks.😒
 
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pachyderm

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If you're a fan of the Dark Knight version or the campy 1960's version or the original DC version, you'll want to give this movie a pass. If you're an anime fan who likes movies with a plot, you'll want to pass too.

This is a Batman remake (aka fan fiction) of the Dark Knight using every anime trope in the book: gang of five (Power Rangers), giant robots, transforming giant mecha, combining giant mecha, super human ninja fighting techniques, Sengoku (Warring States) era, isekai and more. While it sounds awesome, it only sounds awesome.🤨

Every villain except the Joker become nothing more than glorified mooks.😒
It's bad.
 
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Huntn

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Transformers (2007)- The first and arguably the best of the franchise. A well defined and executed story about a conflict involving opposing groups of alien AI come to Earth with a high humor quotient. Definitely a Michael Bay high energy production. The integration of CGI into live action is impressive almost 2 decades later.

Amazing Mechanics 🙂

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