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April 26th
Directed by: Sheldon Lettich
Double Impact stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Jean-Claude Van Damme and it's even goofier than it sounds. I do have some appreciation for the fact that there was a lot of effort put into the story, at the beginning at least, people used to actually have to come up with ideas in the 90's. It eventually devolves into every other predictable action movie with useless love interest. The action is not good, the dialogue is terrible, my favorite part is the fact that they explained Van Damme's accent by saying he was raised in France, but that doesn't explain why the one raised in Hong Kong has the exact same accent. There's not much good about this one.
LaserDisc.
6 years ago
CD Smiles added 1 item to Albums Heard in 2019 list
6 years ago
CD Smiles added 1 item to Albums Heard in 2019 list
6 years ago
CD Smiles added 1 item to Albums Heard in 2019 list
6 years ago
CD Smiles added 1 item to Movies Re-Watched in 2019 list
6 years ago
CD Smiles added 1 item to Movies Watched in 2019 list
April 21st
Directed by: Marc Webb
There is literally nothing redeeming about this experience. We have a bad Spider-Man, a bad romance, bad acting, bad villains, bad writing, I mean it, not one thing was good about this movie. I don't even know where to begin, the Sony VAIO laptop hotdogging and grandstanding in scenes where supposedly important things are happening as if I can focus on anything other than the tactless advertisement for a product that I'm not sure is even made anymore. Electro's hilarious arc where he's a big Spidey fan, becomes electric-y, then gets so mad that Spider-Man can't immediately remember his name that he becomes evil and is then dispatched with before the final act begins. How about the scene where Peter Parker creates a conspiracy map on the wall of his bedroom for no reason set to the song "Gone, Gone, Gone" by Phillip Phillips (trust me, you've heard it), one of the most bizarre sequences I've ever seen. This movie is full on garbage, one of the worst ever.
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6 years ago
CD Smiles added 1 item to Movies Watched in 2019 list
April 21st
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Impressively modern, it's really hard to believe this movie is 52 years old. Some of the most memorable images and scenes in cinema history are in this film, some of the most creative editing I've ever seen. There is no wasted second, not one singular moment that wasn't poured over, every character is amazingly deep. This is a serious cinematic tour de force, just as relevant today as it was in 1967, if not moreso.
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CD Smiles added 1 item to Movies Watched in 2019 list
April 15th
Directed by: Yoshitaro Nomura
Sometimes you're in the mood for a boring, straight-laced film, if you are this might be the perfect film for you. It is pretty interesting at first, a classic murder mystery approached classically, it eventually devolves into I-don't-know-what melodrama, I lost track of what was going on at some point, it seemed to completely shift focus and become a different film. I just expected a lot more, it did look fine, but I feel like there was no real care put into the film's visual language, everything just kinda had a camera pointed at it.
Criterion Channel.
6 years ago
CD Smiles added 1 item to Albums Heard in 2019 list
6 years ago