What are you watching & why? (splain)

carnifex knifeworks said:
I hate when movies have someone jump over a cloth couch and use it for cover against a bad guy shooting a full auto ak47 or m4. Same when heroes hide behind a thin wooden kitchen table.🙄
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Bruh... you don't add bulletproof panels to all your furniture? It's your funeral, pal...

😂😂😂


Yeah, writers/filmmakers really don't concern themselves about these types of details, much. It's also because the vast majority of viewers are also clueless about it.

Eg. The clueless masses don't really consider that the only part of a vehicle that offers decent cover, is the engine block. Even pistol rounds can pass through both sides of a car/SUV.

Another hilarious one about Hollywood katanas; slicing cleanly through a glass beer bottle, so the bottle remains intact for a split second before one half falls off cleanly 🤣🤣🤣.

Sword must be one of those monomolecular deals I read about in 70s sci-fi, that uses some kind of energy field to support a sword with a nigh invisible blade that's literally a line of material, one molecule thick. Cuz anything thicker would force the 2 halves apart, even if it COULD somehow cut through glass without shattering it.
 
The Crazies (1973)

Not to be confused with the 2010 version. I've seen the 1973 a few times as well as the 2010. It's good for morning background noise.

In case you're not familiar with the Crazies franchise. In this movie, a virus escapes military transport and everyone exposed goes batshit nuts. In a groovy way. Can you dig it? Like far out, man, the military is shooting everyone. As they wear bright white paper overalls and gas masks... To really bring out the red in the blood splashes.

And No. The soldiers don't want to dance with your crazy ass. They got M1 carbines from 1945. You're going to kiss a bullet.
 
Rituals (1977)

A group of friends who are are doctors. Take trips together to new places. Chosen by rotation.

They do a 6 day trip out to somewhere remote to relax. And wouldn't you know there's some WW2 vet with PTSD messing with them.

It's a mild ripoff of Deliverance (1972).
 
Pàdruig said:
You must have loved Chris Hemsworth taking cover behind a ladder in Extraction 2 then. 😁
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Didn't bother watching it.

I guess what bothers me is the lack of effort. It wouldn't take much to break the norm and change the shootouts to be slightly more realistic. I'm talking a 1% increase in realism, I'm not saying turn it into a documentary.

I can live with most of it as long as when they're shooting handguns they don't use the old "cup and saucer" grip.
 
carnifex knifeworks said:
Didn't bother watching it.

I guess what bothers me is the lack of effort. It wouldn't take much to break the norm and change the shootouts to be slightly more realistic. I'm talking a 1% increase in realism, I'm not saying turn it into a documentary.

I can live with most of it as long as when they're shooting handguns they don't use the old "cup and saucer" grip.
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Despite that goof in the movie, the Extraction films are excellent action flicks. Highly entertaining and recommended.

The first John Wick film was pretty excellent in its gun handling and martial arts. In fact, my wife's former jui-jitsu teacher mentioned it was some of the best arts he had seen presented in a movie. That said, the subsequent films got stupider in some of those regards. I couldn't even take the stupid "bulletproof" blazers that were used to great effect in the 4th film. Let's just completely ignore physics, why don't we?
 
Pàdruig said:
The first John Wick film was pretty excellent in its gun handling and martial arts. In fact, my wife's former jui-jitsu teacher mentioned it was some of the best arts he had seen presented in a movie. That said, the subsequent films got stupider in some of those regards. I couldn't even take the stupid "bulletproof" blazers that were used to great effect in the 4th film. Let's just completely ignore physics, why don't we?
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JW4 got pretty tedious. I was actually wanting some of the action scenes to end, they became so absurdly drawn out.

I watched "Sicario: Day of the Soldado" the other night. I saw it when it first came out, and while I was eagerly awaiting the second installment, at the time I thought it was a bit of a let-down. But after watching it again, I have a new appreciation for it. It's interesting to see Josh Brolin's character arc from the first movie to the end of the second - basically from gung-ho cowboy to realizing the whole thing is inherently effed. It's better than I initially thought, although I still think the first one was better. They've certainly set it up for a third movie to go in some interesting directions.
 
Child's Play (1988)

Here's a movie about an adult male in a child's toy doll. Transferred to it by witchcraft. Said man in the doll torments a very young male child. With his mother being stupid.

Something to research about this movie is the creator. The guy who dreamed this up. Pay close attention to his background and current situation.

This movie came out his head.
 
Grasshopperglock said:
Child's Play (1988)

Here's a movie about an adult male in a child's toy doll. Transferred to it by witchcraft. Said man in the doll torments a very young male child. With his mother being stupid.

Something to research about this movie is the creator. The guy who dreamed this up. Pay close attention to his background and current situation.

This movie came out his head.
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He copied that from the Twilight Zone. Not sure what current events it relates to, Super Bowl, war in the Ukraine, Jeff Bezos selling shares, lab grown meat protein in rice, Verona is the place to be on Valentines Day? Help us out. It's not the Chucky in Space finale is it?
 
Danke42 said:
He copied that from the Twilight Zone. Not sure what current events it relates to, Super Bowl, war in the Ukraine, Jeff Bezos selling shares, lab grown meat protein in rice, Verona is the place to be on Valentines Day? Help us out.
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He's a football bat. Read in between the lines. In 1988 he hid it. Then of here lately, 'came out'.

His life and whatever, good for him. Congratulations.

But his psych put to film is a window to what he's thinking or has thought. And...It's dark AF.


They(Hollywood) made this movie into an entire genre.
 
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