Be Excellent To Each Other

Went to see The Naked Gun last night.

Very funny throughout and retains the spirit of the originals.

38 - The Hard Way. Early 90s buddy cop thing where a cop has to babysit an actor who is researching a role. Oddly, I'd never seen it before. Proper film though. Just super legit. Stars Michael J. Fox, likeable as ever, and James Woods who might be a tosser now but in terms of his acting, is probably my favourite actor to watch. 4/5

39 - Night of the Hunted. Unlikeable woman pinned down by a sniper in a petrol station. Came close to spoiling things with the American politics of it all (she's Big Pharma he's right wing) but it played out quite smartly and I love me a chamber play. The users on IMDB hate it. 4/5

KPop Demon Hunters. Really liked it.

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The windscreen gag is absolutely hilarious.

40 - Osiris. Your mileage WILL vary but I liked this. Imagine somebody trying to do Predator but on the Nostromo. A crack team of soldiers up against a ship of intergalactic bastards. It's all very much Temu Predator but a lot of silly but not always enexplained fun.

Then cover-star Linda Hamilton shows up late with a bunch of confusing exposition and a shitty Russian accent. More shooting, more fun. I ask you, could it possibly be worse than the latter Predator and Alien films? For me, it's better. Not great by any means but not lame, pretentious and shit. So it had that going for it.

The ending wraps things up a little confusingly but whatever. It did at least explain a giant plot hole that was bothering me THE WHOLE TIME.

Yeah. Whatever. This was alright. Pure, unadulterated, weaponised okayness. It helped that I had snacks but I wasn't tempted to pick up my phone during it so it was pretty engaging. I can't recommend it but it's my sort of thing anyway.

3.5/5

Moar films I watched.

1) Final Destination: Bloodlines

Loved it. Gotta be top 3 of the Final Destination series. I’ve never wanted a fat kid slinging pennies to die more than in this film. It’s dumb, it’s more of the same, it’s great.

2) Venus Wars

Can you remember when you used to buy a Manga UK film on VHS and it had that same song and clip show at the beginning of each tape? I’ve watch all the films but 4 of them. This is one. Unfortunately I can’t find the subtitles so I only watched 5 minutes… Boo. So I watched…

3) Appleseed

Which wasn’t even on the Manga films. And it’s only an hour long and not very interested. Boo x 2.

4) Role Models

Paul Rudd & Stiffler have to take care of two annoying kids. It’s fun, it’s funny and goddamn why don’t they make more films like these anymore!?

41 - Bleeding. You know that awful trope? The one where two characters are talking but ineffectively. So one of them is asking a question and the other one isn't really answering and then when the person asking gets annoyed, the other one gets more annoyed and is like 'WHAT THE FUCK?' and they've just started an argument that didn't need to happen, especially as there was never any reason to withhold any information and a bit of clear talking would have sorted out the whole thing in five seconds. Breaking Bad did that a lot. But anyway, this film pretty much exclusively does that. It's a sort of slow-burning mid-west misery thing where vampire blood is a drug.

A junkie gets into bother with a local drug dealer when him and his cousin (the two aforementioned incessant bickerers) break into a house to steal money to make it right but find a vampire girl tied up.

I liked it though. Sure it was annoying but the actors did okay, the story was reasonably compelling and it was a fresh take on the whole vampire thing. But it was a bit dull and, for me, it fumbled the ending a little.

3.5

42 - Superman (2025). Firstly, let me just say that when I score a film, I do it based on how it makes me feel about it, not so much the production quality. Secondly, let it be known that Superman 2 is my favourite superhero movie of all time.

With that said, Superman (2025) is FUCKING SHIT.

What an absolute piece of trash this is. The tone meanders from aggressively-stupid James Gunn comedy to a sort of hyper version of whatever the fuck is going on in America these days. With some sort of Russia vs Palestine (more so than it seeming to be an allegory of Ukraine) subplot.

Almost everyone in it is useless. Lois and Supes/Clark especially. Every moment of screentime with either of them is just unwatchable. The only thing worse is that piss-poor CGI dog.

In terms of redeeming features, Lex makes for a powerful, if whiny, foe. He weaponises his genius a bit and that makes for a solid bad guy that you really want Supes to kill with just a full on laser vision stare (not that Supes does fucking anything in this film).

And the other heroes in the film, as shit as they are, actually do stuff which makes them more compelling than Superman who is basically a victim for most of the movie. Nathan Fillion is better than Supes here and that's Nathan fucking Fillion. The guy who was in Castle and The Rookie, two of the worst shows since Bones.

Add to that the fact that most of what you see is just revoltingly CGI/green-screened shit and the fact that there's at least five scenes that made me actually say 'oh fuck off' during the film's run-time (especially his fucking cousin and the giant pokemon looking thing) and this is second only to Superman 4 as the worst in the series.

And that's a series that hasn't really had any good films since 2 (apart from okay bits of 3).

This is bad. This makes you want them to never make another superhero movie. Some people like this movie but they're fucking clueless. They've been raised on DC/Marvel shit and don't know any better. It's like how people thought Terminator: Dark Fate, Prey and Romulus were good when they were proper shit. This film shows us just how far we've fallen as a fucking species. Maybe, Lex is right. Maybe we're too shit to live now.

Superman? Shit, man.

1/5

Blucey that is my favourite thing I've read for ages

I really enjoyed a lot of Superman, there were some really shonky CGI stuff that I wasn't happy with (the dog, lava and black hole stuff specifically)

A few story line bits weren't what I would've done, but it's a solid 13 out of 20 imo.

It was better than Fantastic four and it's the best DC film since The Batman, and better than any dceu film since the James Gunn Suicide Squad film (I'd need to rewatch to be sure)

I think I may just have different tastes to you because I really liked Castle, and The Rookie was (I've not watched the last two series as I felt it was getting a bit too ridiculous with the wedding/honeymoon of Nolan and the firefighter)

I liked Prey and Romulus, but not as much as the first two films in their respective franchises.

I saw the live action "How to train your dragon" today and it was good! Better than I was expecting that's for sure.

Yeah didn’t hate Superman either. Completely forgettable but better than most of the Marvel dogshit. Liked the dog.

It might have helped if the dog felt even slightly real. You know that bit where they release that stupid Pokemon looking thing and then it became massive? The dog looked as real as that.

Malc, Castle started off okay. But eventually the lack of chemistry between the stars and the lazy storytelling got too much. But the big problem was with tropes. Basically Castle, Bones and Leverage had this thing where they'd have these episodes that they all did the same thing. Lucifer probably did some of them also. Wouldn't surprise me.

Getting the actors to play characters in the 1920s or whatever. Film Noir episode. Check.
Stuck in a bank robbery episode. Check.
Locked in some sort of vault/container/whatever as your air is running out and the partner has to find you. Check.
They find a dead body dressed as Santa but all the signs make it look like it could be Santa, except of course it isn't. Check.

I think I bailed on The Rookie at the start of season 3. I couldn't take anymore. Again, it started off okay but eventually felt contrived and ridiculous.

I watched Sinners.

Really enjoyed it but I was sickeningly reminded of Bran the Broken having the best stories like that guy having the best music in his veins or something. Anyway, visually it looked great, sounded great, and everyone gave great performances. I was fully committed after the first hour even though that’s an awful lot of setup. The second half however, although decent, lacked “something” to elevate it. Maybe it needed more killing and bloodshed or maybe just some fancy deaths or something, I don’t know, I watched it and felt strangely cold on what happened. Weirdly the epilogue did however make me like what I’d seen a bit more.

Anyway, From Dust Till Dawn did it before and did it better. And shorter even, with much less faffing about. So it’s good but ultimately forgettable.

Then I watched Superman.

I didn’t mind it at all. It had James Gunn’s stamp all over it, but it just didn’t have that something that made Guardians so special and memorable.

I did feel bad for Supes getting his ass kicked throughout but, really, what could they do differently for a hero that powerful? I enjoyed that he was almost pathetically saving everything and had genuine concern that people were safe. But his journey had too many people doing his job for him…some dog, a black guy in a chair, a whole cast of characters that were largely just … there. Or a bunch of other characters … evil guy in a suit, a cast of news people, some inexplicably hot woman with massive knockers called “Cat” who randomly just appears or stands in the background, Lex Luther’s missus, random bad guy made of nano machines, bird person, other folk…It was a bit messy really. Mind you, Lex Luther was great though. He really did a bang up job of hating superman. I could have done without him shouting C28, H5, J12, Square root of pie again and again, mind.

So Superman: I didn’t hate it and found it mostly enjoyable but very messy until it settled into actually telling a story. A bit meh all being told.

How does the new Superman compare to the previous superman?

I recall there being a lot of negativity around Man of Steel and Batman Vs Superman, but I didn't mind them really. I do have low-ish standards though.

Also, the Superman before that (Brandon Routh)? - I forget the title of that particular film but it was OK for me too, but at the time I recall it was viewed poorly.





Supernatural (which I overall really liked) was quite prone to that sort of thing too. Also way too frequent use of the 'in medias res' narrative where the episode would start with someone in deep shit and then cut to '48 hours earlier'

Man of Steel was visually a bit of a mess. A real victim of basically making a crumbling CGI city which then means that none of the action has any impact because they've tried to go too big with it. I'll take Terminator 3's stunts and set pieces over any Marvel/DC film in that respect.

This new Supes/Clark actor isn't the one. He's playing it for laughs too much. But then Cavill was the exact opposite. Far too stoic. Routh was okay but mumbly and that film tailed off hard after the brilliant opening sequence.

I think my issue with them is that while I've seen Superman 2 dozens of times (1 and 3 also many views), all the other ones I've only ever watched once. If I remember rightly, BvS only had two moments that I thought were any good.



Supernatural (which I overall really liked) was quite prone to that sort of thing too. Also way too frequent use of the 'in medias res' narrative where the episode would start with someone in deep shit and then cut to '48 hours earlier' [/quote]

ARGH! THAT BULLSHIT.

I hate it. Especially in films. They show you a guy looking a bit battered or whatever and then it goes back in time and now you know he's got absolute plot armour. It's so unnecessary. The equilavent of the bullshit 'coming up on this episode' nonsense that we've inherited from US television. Like I have to fast forward on things like Bake Off because, guess what, I want to see the events of the show in linear order.