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Month: July 2017

  • King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword

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    Well, since it bombed, I went in to this with pretty low expectations, but ended up liking it. I’m definitely biased in that I generally like Guy Ritchie movies and the style he gives to them (I even really liked The Man From UNCLE). This, well, it felt like a Ritchie movie — with that sense…

  • The Incredible Jessica James

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    I don’t tend to watch romantic comedies much, but I’d heard good things about this (a Netflix original movie that just got added), and about its star Jessica Williams — I know she’s a regular on the Daily Show, but I’ve never seen her on that (I stopped watching the Daily Show when Jon Stewart…

  • Railroad Tigers

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    It’s been years since I’ve watched a Jackie Chan movie (I think the last one was his Karate Kid movie), and I hadn’t heard anything about Railroad Tigers (that came out last year), but it popped up on Netflix and I decided to give it a try. I ended up enjoying this. I liked the…

  • Black Moon Rising

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    I definitely remembered the poster/VHS box cover for this movie, but nothing else. After watching it, parts sorta came back to me (like the design of the futuristic car) so I’m guessing I probably did watch it, but that it wasn’t particularly memorable to me. Watching it now, it’s fun to see young Tommy Lee…

  • The Mission

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    I remember this being one of the epic Oscar-worthy films of the time, and it still comes off that way. This is a really good movie, even if it is brutal and sad. I will say that Robert De Niro does seem a bit out of place in this — I don’t think it’s because…

  • The Big Easy

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    The memories I had of this movie were that it was a pretty decent drama, with some very sexy scenes with Ellen Barkin. Re-watching it now, the over-acting kinda ruins it — everyone is trying to put on a super New Orleans accent (especially Dennis Quaid) and it comes off bad. The story isn’t particularly…

  • The Karate Kid Part II

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    Movies don’t get much more 80s than this: a silly and simple story, a Peter Cetera power ballad, and it’s a sequel. It’s fun to watch though. The setting for this one was Okinawa, and to me it does look like they actually shot it there — and all the extras do seem to be…

  • The Delta Force

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    This is such a weird movie. You go in expecting a typical Cannon actioner, but then not only is it quite long, you can tell that director Menahem Golan was actually trying to say something here, and although I wouldn’t go so far as saying it goes into drama territory, it does take quite a…