Sinners

 

            

             A year ago, this was the biggest movie of 2025. My first impression when seeing this movie is that it's a vampire movie so, if you've seen one vampire movie you've clearly seen them all. Also, I'm curious of all Hailee Steinfeld dirty talk in the movie does she at least use that dirty talk to her hubby Josh Allen? Anyway, I decided in the month of October to finally sit and watch Sinners and see if this movie lives up to the anticipation. 

             Basically, twins both played by Michael B. Jordan decide to buy an old shack by a member of the KKK. Decide to build their own blues nightclub, unfortunately evil aka Vampires upon which things go from bad to worse and must last the night in hopes that the vampires will leave. 

              Now as I've said earlier, yes, if you've seen one vampire movie or every vampire movie you've seen them all, for which is an understatement because for me, I've grown up with the Blade movies and Underworld movies and Dracula 2000. Furthermore, the closest thing to a different kind of vampire I've seen was 30 Days of Night and that movie the vampires look terrifying, and with this movie it's sort of terrifying but the same cliche you've seen in every other vampire movie. Now having watched this movie whole, I have so many questions, and there's more questions I have with this movie than any other movie combined, like with this movie the vampires are supposed to have this hive mind where everyone of the vampires are connected in terms of memories or the mind and it feels like if you kill the main vampire everyone feels pain, and it's almost like a strange vampires combined with Zombies or voodoo zombies where you have to kill the main antagonist everyone dies and to me it just doesn't make any sense and it goes to when a human is wondering in the woods and they're normal human beings but when they come back they've suddenly turned and they're like nothing happened and yet the rule in this movie is that vampires need to ask permission to enter a house or residence, and so, really if I'm a black man in the early thirties, in Mississippi with Jim Crow law all around me and white man who maybe a vampire is asking me to enter in my house I would seriously say "GET THE F**K, OUT OF HERE" because in logical sense no black families or night club owners would want white people in their house. Look I could go onto so many things but in closing, the films logic just gets out of proportions where nobody makes the best decisions and the vampires are like zombies from the way I see this film, and this film could be better if I'd be seeing something I've never seen when it comes to vampires but with Sinners it really feels like I've seen one to many vampire movies moreover I'm really getting old when watching these kind of films because today's youth or society I don't believe they've seen any blood sucker movies. To the films credit it does have some killer music and that credit goes to music composer Ludwig Goransson, whose now really becoming the new movie music composer next to Hans Zimmer and legendary John Williams and if you don't believe me Goransson, who composed the iconic Mandalorian music and the epic Book of Boba Fett them as well as The Odyssey and with this movie he does have some great moments especially when the head vampire does the awesome river dance while Rocky Road to Dublin playing and it does have that great sense of Irish feel that I can't stop but watch. To anyone who love Sinners look if you love this movie that finally gave Michael B. Jordan is first Academy Award then keep watching this movie a billion times if you appreciate it, me I'm at that age of my life where I personally feel that vampires are already becoming a distant memory or a typical movie cliche for great reasons nobody wants to live forever and even if you to be a vampire you have to either be goth or live in the darkness to avoid sunlight and never eat any garlic and even if you tend to live forever your probably going to live long enough if the earth does become dust hence the world ending. It's an interesting watch no doubt in fact it was a good once over type of film for me so, if you don't have a blu-ray copy then be sure to watch the film on HBO Max this Halloween season.

    

Street Fighter

 

           After the deeply/brief disturbance while watching Obsession hence me just thinking to myself no more movies, no more, no means no Harvey Weinstein. But then my subconscious gave me a shinning message and said "Joe wake up Street Fighter is out now" then everything came back to normal at last. Ever since the first trailer appeared around a couple of months ago, I was no doubt intrigued in terms of wanting to see this movie especially when the characters look a lot better than they did in the early 90's movie, not to pass judgement deep love for the original.

           Estranged street fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) get thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament -- a brutal clash of fists, fate and fury. However, behind the battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons from their past.

           If you were a child from the nineties you'd know the game Street Fighter II and it's many versions and yet the strange thing is the second installment is more Iconic than the original game and for good reasons, now I have great memories of the game I would always go down to the local arcades and see the arcade game being played as well as going to my Grandpa's home town and trying to play the cabinet there, unfortunately I couldn't even win a match because it was so intense moreover couldn't land a single special move so deep down I couldn't continue on with this game. Now maybe a year ago I did talked about how amazing reliving the original Street Fighter: The Movie and I still hold it in high regard unlike some people, though I still say it's not as bad as Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Coming into this film I did love the expectations as well as the look and feel of the movie especially when a good portion of the characters are taken serious, great examples Blanka (green, electric, monster) has improved a ton since his appearance in the original movie as well as Dhalsim is excellent as well for which again is an understatement considering the writers and filmmakers of the original movie didn't have a lot a money so, you can cut them slack around that perspective. From the actors to the characters and feel everything looks great and Callina Liang who plays Chun-Li in the movie was committed to her role by bulking up and eating 12 eggs a day so, deep down that's commitment, hell even 50 Cent was awesome as Balrog like that man fit the part top to bottom like if there was anyone who got Balrog right 50 Cent to me was the best choice in that role. All the excellence of the movie a side, there were moments where I feel like they crammed way too many characters and they could of just settle on a few of them like some of the street fighters are good and have M. Bison with three or two henchmen in Vega and Balrog, that way you can include the character of Akuma so we can understand each, of the characters motives and what drives them to participate in this tournament. And granted this film is a Ryu and Ken story with Chun-Li in the middle of the story for which you understand them clearly and maybe just include some of the least unrecognizable characters in the first Street Fighter game that way you can at least have some sense of gap in terms of carrying for the main characters that way you can introduce more characters in the next movie. The other thing that slightly irked me a little bit was the ending to the film I just never expected a cliffhanger ending to which again I was shocked but then was like "son of a b***h", "that's not how you end a movie" for which is the same reaction when watching Dune 2021 but that was until the second movie came out on HBO Max, so, hopefully there's going to be a sequel in the foreseeable future otherwise I'm going to be pissed. To say which is better between the 94 version and the latest movie is a bit near sighted because each of them has their own unique positivizes as well as it's convenient billion characters the writers and filmmakers had to cram in, but I say each film is even par in terms of positive and negative sides about the movie and I surely hope some fans can come back and re-watch the original film. I do in fact enjoyed the movie from beginning to the end well, a side from the cliffhanger ending I still think it's a big improvement from the original movie and more importantly you get to see Jason Mamoa as Blanka and even he was the best part of the movie as well. So, if you’re a Street Fighter fan, I hope you take the time and go see it in the theaters or if you want you can wait till it comes out on Blu-Ray for which I would recommend taking your kids to see this entertaining movie because Halloween is coming up and they need inspiration for what they’re going to be for grabbing some candy. And as for me, I’m going to wait till it comes out on Blu-Ray because the more I see the awful preview that is Meet the Fockers I'm going to lose my s**t and sorry not sorry that movie needs to be pulled and thrown in the trash can or blacklisted, furthermore I'm going to stick to my opinion on that movie till the day I day and this is the third time this whole year.  

      

           

Obsession

         Well, after some serious convincing from my own brother I decided to press on and watch the entire movie of Obsession. Like Backrooms this was another film that was made by a first-time director from YouTube but only this time this wasn't in the original idea of sense this was mostly taking the idea out of a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode.  

         After breaking a mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win the crush's heart, a hopeless romantic gets exactly what he asks for. However, he soon discovers that some desires come at a dark and sinister price. 

         To be truthfully honest this maybe the first film where I literally gave up and wanted to watch something else, then being convinced to push through, because through the course of the beginning part of the movie I was just so, appalled by the bad acting from the male lead whose supposed to be insecure and don't know how to talk to girls and then we cut to him seeing his cat dying from getting into pills for which what idiot doesn't fix his own glass cabinet? Either way this film was literally turning me off and wanted to give up so, again my brother told me I needed to push through and he was right, the actress who plays the disturbed, possessed, stalker aka Inde Navarrette is literally the best part of the entire movie her presence once she becomes a possessed psycho, is just so unsettling and so, disturbingly terrifying that you can't help but watch this movie from beginning to end and even I was just so, taken aback when she gets all crazy that even I through the course of the movie as well by the end was just thinking to myself "if I get done with this movie I'm going to be a good boy and not get involved with the crazies!" And it's literally the same WTF feeling I had when watching Promising Young Woman where the course of the movie is just so unsettling that you as a male audience member feel terrified and want to run for dear life, furthermore Inde Navarrette does a fantastic job at playing a possessed/stalker that I praise for her to have a successful acting career for futures to come. Now with Navarrette being the best part of the whole movie, everything else was a bit hit or miss at times specifically the two central male characters in the movie, while the male lead is supposed to be of course the insecure type character but the problem is, that we've seen this before and I'm not sure if the writer/director Curry Barker was writing the character as this evil, shy, guy that's literally taking the advantage his crush or just decides to continue on with this relationship with not having the faintest idea of his actions till it's too late or, he's just dumb hell I don't know in all honesty, but if Barker's intention was to make Bear a horrible person, then how could he not know how it was all magic or wanting to get out of it because to me the films logic is just way off the charts in terms of sensible logic, because even I couldn't tell if the character of Bear was supposed to be a manipulative character and that's why if the director is explaining his movie then we have huge problem in ways of the writer/director doing a bad job. As great of a performance Inde Navarrette portrayed in the film, the film's story and logic just doesn't make any sense and sure this film's budget was only 700,000 but it was shot in LA, where everything is expensive and more importantly the story was meh and the male actors were also the worst part of the whole movie. A side from the great female performance this film does deserve credit for showing that anything is possible but at the end of the day I think that if you show this to a group of people who are either feminists or liberals, they will of course praise the movie just like Blade Runner 2049, but if you showed this to people who don't care about any politics and just love movies then they would most certainly ask a ton of questions in what the films purpose. The film is worth watching in terms of Navarrette’s performance, so if you have a Peacock account, I will watch it for the month of October. But personally, I look at this movie as a good one over just something you must experience and lose your mind in terms of what is going on or what would be the best way to make this movie even better. 

  

         

Halloween II

 

           

               At first I tried to watch the movie Obsession, and I couldn't get through the massive, bad acting from one of the male leads, then it I literally tried to watch Scary Movie and it was getting to the point where I was like "okay where the hell is Ray, Ray should be in every scene on the scene", then I went to desperation and so, scrolling my Peacock account literally went to desperation and so, I landed on Halloween II.

               After failing to kill Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) and taking six bullets in the chest from Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance), Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Hospital and, well he goes on a kill crazy rampage. 

               I love the first Halloween movie saw, the Halloween movie and Halloween: H20 on TV and that's pretty much the only Michael Myers movies I've seen. And so, diving into Halloween II, I knew I'd seen bits and pieces of the film especially the infamous scene of Michael Myers on fire as well as picking up where the first film left off and that's basically it, so, basically watching the film all the way through I slowly realized how awful it truly was, like when you think of the original Halloween movie, you think of it as a perfect low-budget slasher movie and everything John Carpenter used or improvised especially with the music was just perfect in every step of the movie. With this movie, and of course it's a sequel you'd imagine sequel being bigger and better, well, this movie they tried to improve everything especially remixing the music to which I was extremely bumped because I felt like "why would you mess with that perfect theme music?" And at times it felt like Jaimie Lee Curtis was just not doing a who lot of anything and granted there were times when I was a bit off with the movie and choose to ignore some of the characters but she was either not saying a word or saving all that energy for the climax of the movie and to be truthfully honest I'm not quite sure if she even knows if Michael and her are related either that or I didn't pay attention. Speaking of Donald Pleasence there were few times in the movie where he does a great job in terms of chewing the scenery and there were some good moments especially when he tries to shoot the not-Michael Myers and for some reason gets run over as well as explodes into flames that was pretty much the best part of that whole movie. And yet they kill off Loomis? Or planned to kill him off but then I suddenly realized wait didn't he return for the other sequels? I admit I do feel the need to watch Halloween 4 and 5 because their what supposed to be Pleasance final movie roles until his liver, gave out because the man was paid in booze money, but after watching Halloween II, I think I'm going to wait till next October. Most sequels to horror films or any genre, are supposed to be bigger and better but this film it was like the intentionally made it to be the worst sequel I've ever seen and granted not as bad as the first three Friday the 13th films because they're not even close to being films, now if you feel the need to watch Halloween II, just think of the Dare program and just say no. 

  

Night Killer

 

                   

            I had a long shift of work and slept an entire day till night hit and so, knowing that I'm not going to be going back to sleep any time soon I decided to watch an Italian slasher movie, and I'm not joking when I say Italian slasher movie I mean it's like of all things one Italian director did right in terms of westerns other Italian directors can't follow up in terms of Sergio Leone's success. Anyway, Night Killer is a great example of Leone to this day rolling over in his grave.

            A murderous maniac who wears a rubber mask kill women. A sort of young woman hears about these murders, not knowing the murderer is coming for her.

            Sadly, this was another one of those films that Red Letter Media reviewed in their Best of the Worst series on YouTube and luckily finding it on Tubi was no problem considering you can find almost anything on Tubi these days. And of course they warned this film being Italian though I didn't realized it would be this boring like sure most of these has some funny moments like the infamous man streaking around in his undies and the hotel guy asking "hey bud what happened to your clothes?" then the guy reply's "I got molested in the little BOYS room" and if you haven't seen this movie apologies for spoiling it though not a whole lot to spoil considering this film is ninety minutes long for which is fine but everything else becomes boring through the course of the movie, and the strange toxic relationship between what is supposed to be a husband making his wife remember s**t but doing screwed up things is funny? But still in the confused stage, like watching this film all the way through I felt like I said "what is this" or "what's going on" several times, and yet I'm still just wondering how the hell the studios of Italy agreed to this or did they read the script? Or did they run out of money to make this film? Like there are so many questions I have about this film even though this was made by the same guy who made Trolls 2. And when it comes to the Hollywood system sure, you must make these weird, dumb, bad movies to keep the lights on but the last time Italy made a great movie was when Sergio Leone was still alive. Though to be fair I'm showing slight sarcasm because there is the film Life is Beautiful, upon which I haven't seen, but with films like these it still gives me a huge headache in terms of who green lit these strange, dubbed movies? Look if you’re looking for some entertainment to turn your brain off from today's bulls**t then I would defiantly recommend watching Night Killer on Tubi, though to be warned you'll feel a bit bored and so, I would just stick to watching Evil Toons but make sure your wife and kids aren't watching. 

 

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

 

            

           Well, it's been a long month since this sequel came out, and I was a bit wary about whether this was going to be better than its predecessor. Although my sister is a negative Nancy when it comes to movies and this is the same sister that worships Harry Potter for which I have nothing against but she also has copies of all four 50 Shades of Grey books, and so, saying Ready or Not 2 to make my sister negative always gets me off in a not so, creepy way.

            After surviving an all-out attack from the Le Demos family, Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers she's reached the next level of the nightmarish game, and this time with her estranged sister, Faith (Kathryn Newton), by her side. To survive, Grace must keep Faith alive and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the World. Four rival families are also hunting her for the throne, and however wins will rule it all. 

            I'll even admit when I first saw the trailer to the sequel, I was a bit weary in terms of okay you made a perfect movie in first Ready or Not film, why mess with perfection? And to the films credit yes, this sequel is basically the same as the first film if you pit these two together frame by frame, they're basically the same structure just with bigger things or bigger risks as I would say in a better way to describe it. Tough to the films credit this film really does hold its own in terms of story and more importantly character development and a lot of that goes to both actresses Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton. Originally the writers/directors both had the idea of Grace having a sister in the first movie, unfortunately that didn't happen so when Searchlight Pictures asked them about a potential sequel both men behind Radio Silence and the first film told them about the sisters storyline and each party agreed. And I personally believe that both Weaving and Newton really hold their own in terms of character development as well as something to root for, furthermore I just love a good sibling drama/comedy like the same way Thor: Ragnarök has with both Thor and Loki. The other thing in what makes this film so great is that it has a satisfying ending, and I'm going to stop with that because I want all of you to watch this entertaining sequel from beginning to end, so, just think of it as John Wick killing the devil cult. Shawn Hatosy who plays one of the main antagonists does a great job, because through the course of the movie he at first looks like he's weak but then evolves into a unlikeable psychopath which is great exploration of a antagonist if you ask me and even Elijah Wood does a great job playing a mysterious lawyer who works for the devil whose both charming and serious but more importantly respectful to the fellow protagonists. No doubt the sequel has the same story structure as the first film with the same gimmicks as well as jokes but for me personally what holds the film all together is the sister storyline and the ending for which I still say is fantastic and I'm not going to spoil anything because I watched this film a twice as well as watching the ending a bunch of times and so, I would strongly suggest checking the film out on Hulu or watch the film on your kids Disney Plus account in case of you wanting to pull a derange prank on your wife and kid though if you don't want to that's perfectly fine, I mean personally it's not like you’re going to have him watch these films back to back. 

      

Wes Craven's A New Nightmare

 

             

            And so, we conclude the seventh and final movie of the Freddy Kruger movie universe. Furthermore, is the seventh film that how I would say it kind of killed the Freddy Kruger binge in my personal opinion granted they're maybe some out there that may or may not have loved this movie but this film in my professional movie watching opinion was like well okay, but I'd rather watch the OTHER Freddy Kruger movie.

            Reality and fantasy meet in unsetting ways in this installment of the long-running horror series, which finds director Wes Craven and actors Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund, all portraying themselves. As Heather considers making another film with Craven, her son, Dylan (Miko Hughes), falls under the spell of the iconic disfigured villain Freddy Kruger (Robert Englund). Eventually, Langenkamp must confront Freddy's demonic spirit to save the soul of Dylan.

            In a strange turn of events when a year ago I claim that out of the five Nightmare films I'd pointed out that the odds were better films than the even films mainly because they had better actors well, sort of better actors as well as a backstory to Freddy Kruger's past and especially his mother. Now the sixth installment was more entertaining than the seventh film and I never expected this to happen, especially when Wes Craven is trying to make Freddy Kruger back to is original form as a scary dude which in all seriousness is a bad idea. I mean sure the first film I would say is a much better film in my personal opinion because Freddy was supposed to be a mysterious character that roams around furthermore you don't have a fully developed Freddy which makes it interesting and also in a sense scary and yet I would still prefer the original Nightmare over Jackie Earl Haley's movie despite not even seeing it. Prior to the films pre-production yes Craven actually wanted to take Freddy serious instead of being a cartoon character but the problem with that is, audiences wanted to see the cartoon version of Freddy that's basically what made him entertaining as well as the only thing worth watching from the second film to the sixth film, and now watching this film with a serious Freddy loses it's flair and more importantly it's worth the watch and having spent four dollars and twenty-seven cents I do feel like this was a terrible idea in terms of renting a movie on my phone, though I'm expanding the horizons of Freddy Kruger so, I had to at least find out. The fact that they even try to keep Freddy in the shadows through the course of the movie kind of like Jaws and Alien also, loses its flair because we all know what Freddy looks like so, why are we keeping him in the shadows? Furthermore this film after watching Freddy's Dead loses it's comedic flair almost like your searching for a woman on craigs list and you see that this woman is extremely hot and you have a massive erection and then later you actually go on this date and it's either Joy Behar, or Whoopi Goldberg looking woman or a woman like the soccer player Megan Rapinoe whose a massive liberal and thinks woman are superior than men, then you realize your erection is deflating like a balloon that's basically what Wes Craven's A New Nightmare is basically. Now having watched A New Nightmare I would strongly suggest if you want to watch 80's horror movies that have comedic taste I would suggest watching Nightmare on Elm Street 1-6 and just forget the seventh movie even existed because right now I wished I never watched A New Nightmare and would say that Nightmares 2 and 4 are way better than A New Nightmare though that's not saying a whole lot to say though look either way I need to get this movie out of my head right now. 

 

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

 

           A year ago, I went on a Nightmare on Elm Street binge going from the first film directed by Wes Craven to its successors for which before you say anything New Line Cinema at the time had to make sequels because they we're an up and starting studio. But with sixth installment to Freddy's adventures, I have to give this film a ton of credit because this film is an example of doing 3D right and unlike Friday the 13th part III who did the absolute worst job of creating 3D and it's been a year since I've seen that movie and I have nightmares seeing the bad 3D effects.

         Murderous ghoul Freddy Kruger (Robert Englund) has slaughtered every child in his hometown. He ventures on to a new location, scouting fresh young victims to hack up with his finger blades. Basically, reunites with a long-lost daughter (played by Lisa Zane related and sister to BILLY ZANE) furthermore, creates more rampage than you can possibly imagine also, Springwood, Ohio has turned into the worst places on earth although it's like New York or LA and Chicago being a complete disaster compared to what Springwood is now in the film.

          Like I've probably said this a year ago and I'll say it again, Friday the 13th part III is one of the worst 3D movies ever made although enjoyable to watch at times, but the 3D effects are just, a complete, disaster almost like if you go to Muppet 3D in Disney World or any 3D movie that just pops out of the screen and creates that out of the screen 3D effect, it's like that but without the 3D glasses for which makes it sad and pathetic. Compared to Freddy's Dead, this movie is of course awful but the 3D effects are at least decent compared to Part III of Friday the 13th, and so, this isn't say much but I will rather watch Freddy's Dead over the third Friday the 13th film if it comes to best 3D effects between those films combined. At first watching the movie a band sounds familiar from my youth and I slowly realized that the "Goo Goo Dolls" wrote a song for the film and I was like "holy crap, I haven't listen to them in a coon's age", and that's the same band I use to listen to along with Matchbox Twenty and Creed and some of them are like reliving your favorite movies at your teen's age and are just flat out bad, that's what "Goo Goo Dolls" are like. Like the previous movies there's not a whole lot to say other than I feel like this film is the definitive film where we finally see Freddy Kruger who we all know and love kind of like Jason Lives and I feel like if you bring back Freddy now he's got to be played by a comedian as well as make it a dark comedy either way it's been 16 years since the last Freddy film has been made and I doubt anyone is going to make that possible. If you take away the first Nightmare film and just focus the sequels to Elm Steet in terms of what is the best I would say the third film is the best one out of all of them then Freddy's Dead is second best and then we get to the fifth film for which explores more of Freddy's backstory and to close this all out some of these films are a great breath of fresh air and this was a great comedic piece of unintentional comedy as well as trashy sets that become somewhat of why is that town look like a trash sewer? Or why does Springwood now become like a worst part of Chicago, New York City and LA and this film has all those elements in terms of trashy sets. And Freddy's Dead was a great conclusion to this Nightmare adventure but then we finally get to the seventh installment for which was like Bill Lumbergh repeating "ooh, yeah" then proceeds to leave. 

  

           

The Crazies

 

                So, now having watched the documentary about George A. Romero's Resident Evil. I decided to watch a George A. Romero movie that's NOT Night of the Living Dead. And quite frankly I haven't seen any of George A. Romero's work that's not Night of the Living Dead, for which in all fairness I wasn't all big but I'm pushing the age where I need to expand my horizons. Turns out the Crazies caught my eye, upon which Romero originally directed and created the Crazies for which I had no clue until now. 

                 A Military plane crashes near a small town, infecting the water supply with a deadly virus that causes insanity then death. The army moves in to control the situation, only for the civilians to treat them as invaders and then infect them all. 

                 I won't sugar coat it if you get past the overacting or confused eating an orange, this film is fantastic and shocking horror movie. I remembered another movie titled “The Crazies” sometime around 2010, and I wasn't all big into the horror movie genre because most of them were not great or just lame on so many levels, bottom line didn't have an interest in watching the REMAKE to the Crazies. With Romero's Crazies, this film has a ton of relevant as to today's world especially when we had the Pandemic, we were all forced to stay indoors as to having forced to wear masks all the f**king time and more importantly being two feet away from the other person, so, watching this film almost feels like re-living the pandemic again only no military declaring martial law. So, maybe George Romero was preparing us for the worst and we didn't listen so, now I'm declaring to find many George A. Romero movies for this entire month. Now this movie is not entirely scary but this is one of those films like Night of the Living Dead, Romero is one of those directors that again I respect a lot because when you’re making a horror movie especially making a lower budget but making it work in the best way possible and having did Night of the Living Dead, Romero decides to do the opposite and make psychopaths with an infection but also explores themes of sickness and military forcing in door laws and citizens fighting to survive the government and more importantly having great scenery with limited resources, so, in a strange way George Romero is like the Stanley Kubrick of horror although I can't back that entirely up, but just saying after Night of the Living Dead and the Crazies. The original Crazies is on Tubi for which, yet again Tubi is still the king of hidden gems so, if you’re looking for a shocking horror movie as well as directed by George A. Romero then I'd recommend spending an entire month watching George A. Romero movies until Halloween hits in 2026. 

    

George A. Romero's Resident Evil

 

   

             After watching the latest Resident Evil movie as well as considering it the greatest horror movie of this entire year. I decided to watch another Resident Evil movie, though, not the Paul W.S. Anderson film, GEORGE A. ROMERO'S RESIDENT EVIL. Yeah, apparently George A Romero was hired to write and direct Resident Evil, unfortunately studios and legends have different ways in terms of control. 

              Filmmaker George A. Romero redefines the Zombie genre with "Night of the Living Dead," but his vision for an adaption of the video game "Resident Evil" was never realized.

              Like most documentaries you get to know a lot about the gaming franchise of Resident Evil as well as George A. Romero's film career and strangely enough there's a ton of films in George A. Romero's filmography that I didn't realized he directed such films like the Crazies hell even, I didn't know that was even an original movie to begin with. Though this documentary goes to great lengths of telling the story of how George got involved with Resident Evil such as directing a commercial to the second installment and especially getting involved with Constantin Films a German movie studio that bought the rights to the games of Resident Evil at the time were still making their third installment (though I could be wrong), now I haven't read George A. Romero's script for Resident Evil but having watched Paul W.S. Anderson's version I would most certainly preferred Romero's. Although this was during the early days of Hollywood studio system not knowing how to adapt these video games into movies from Street Fighter to Mortal Kombat and even the Super Mario Bros, they have a different viewpoint or want to go at a different direction now from what I've learned Romero's adaption was of course faithful to the games as well as dark story, but Constantin films wanted a different approach for which is convenient and this is an important lesson tip to all up and coming writers, if your planning pitch a video game adaption, you’re going to have a ton of battles to get the film right and at times video game adaptions aren't always a winning battle. If you’re a huge fan of the Resident Evil games as well as a big fan of George A. Romero, then I would highly recommend watching this documentary for the Halloween season and maybe playing some Resident Evil on the side. 

    

Resident Evil

 

               Well, everyone it's October the month of nothing but scary movies, B-scary movies, scary action movies, hell anything scary we begin to watch on the month of October to get us ready for Halloween. And luckily for me I had the opportunity to finally go to my local Golden Ticket Cinema in my local area, to sit down and finally watch the newest Resident Evil movie and holy crap this makes the last six Resident Evil films look like B-movies but in a good way.

               Tasked about delivering a package to a remote hospital, a courier (Austin Abrams) gets trapped in a sudden outbreak and must fight mutated creatures to survive.

               This is strangely becoming a year of video game movies being taken seriously furthermore being good and great. I mean sure we've had Mario Galaxy movie for which both movies are great I mean they were meant to be cartoon moreover Yoshi was the scene stealer of that entire movie, then we had Mortal Kombat II, I mean sure it was good and entertaining at times though I would wish that there was MORE SCORPION! Like look any Mortal Kombat fan would know that we need more Scorpion it's like a necessity. Then we have Resident Evil for which maybe the best horror movie I've seen this entire year close to Backrooms but this movie is actually scarry and creepy furthermore disgusting for which is everything you need to have in a horror movie hell it's the reason why A Nightmare on Elm Street a great movie. Though with this movie there is really no expectation like, you've obviously seen all the other Resident Evil films and there sure scary but with more action to it which is okay, yeah, you can do but what Paul W.S. Anderson did was just not good, nor taken seriously. But with director Zach Cregger did with the movie is make the movie like you’re playing a game but more modernized, give you great examples taken more from the recent Evil games like RE 7: Biohazard, make the sets as well as the look and feel creepy and disguising that you don't even want to set foot in that place even though you have to set foot in that place because you have no choice but to enter it the disgusting rom and more importantly the monsters look terrifying and so, this film has all of everything you want in a horror movie. I will put a word of warning if you do feel like you ate a whole meal before you go to the movie theater to watch this latest Resident Evil movie, I would highly recommend throwing up before you sit through it because you may feel disgusted or an upset stomach because I order a tub of popcorn and I only ate halfway through. I'd defiantly recommend watching Resident Evil and putting your twenty bucks or even forty bucks if you want to take the kiddo's if you want to teach them a lesson about the end of the world and just see something disturbing. And what's crazy is that this maybe the second-best movie I've seen this entire year first of course is the Odyssey, but with a horror movie like this if you take the time to take the scares seriously as well as the environment and landscapes creepy and disturbing as well as disgusting to see on screen. That's basically all you need to make a great horror movie worth seeing. Now granted I know the latest Street Fighter is going to be great but I wouldn’t hold enough expectation in that movie being better than Resident Evil, if you ask my own personal opinion. 

    

Football Recommendation: Blue Mountain State

 

             Well, it's like this I was just enjoying my typical Sunday afternoon just watching NFL football, along with my brother and his son and as always, we always have are typical gibberish in talking trash and stuff that going to be left in the closet of our minds as well as my brother and son's mind, basically not sharing personal stuff. And then once I brought up Blue Mountain State, and my nephew blurt out that he actually binged on the show and once I heard that I actually felt like a proud uncle in hearing that while my brother felt disgusted for which for me is like trillion points of a lifetime if you ask me. 

             Basically, if you take Animal House with College Football you literally get Blue Mountain State. Where the story centers around a bunch of college football players doing crazy and outlandish things that somehow crazy and stupid but long the way the funniest show to ever watch. 

             I honestly can't tell you when the first time I actually watched this show but I believe it was during the time of 2020, where of course we we're all cut out of the outside world and so, this show came on which I believe to be Netflix and it was strangely funny that I couldn't help but be amused, now I don't know funny would be a right word I would say that this show is like a train wreck, where you don't want to watch but you just have to see the chaos and destruction that these players cause. Speaking of bringing chaos and destruction, this is the show that introduced me to Alan Ritchson who plays a fictionalized well, maybe real-life portrayal of Brian Bosworth although that's sarcasm in terms of real life but you'd know what I'm talking about if you watched College Football back when it was awesome to watch instead of today. Ritchson to me is the reason why this show is a success I mean this guy brings a ton of comedic talent as well as bringing to life a character that I would immediately ban from playing football forever and yet gets away with murder, upon which in all honesty makes the show even better and it's not just Ritchson's character it's everyone that gets away with murder. When I finally purchased this show on my phone I actually showed it to my brother and after two episodes of the first season he couldn't continue to watch because it brought back terrible memories of hazing in high school football for which I wouldn't denning that fact and I would almost say College Football is also responsible for hazing as well but when I played high school ball I didn't think much of it considering I figured it was normal unlike the show where there is a ton of s**t that I would doubt happen in today’s college or high school but that's Hollywood for everyone in terms of storytelling. Even in like season finale of the third and final scene they actually bring up the term the "Death Penalty" which means killing of a college program though not killing it more suspension along with a ton of punishments, and so, if you compare this show with a ton of real life college football teams from the 80's to early 2000's, this show is extremely in the realism if you ask me I mean I could see a ton of the 80's Miami U, to the Boz and Oklahoma Sooners team and this show was made in 2010's so, I would rank this in the realism of craziness and College kids doing the most extreme and stupid things possible. There is a Movie so, if you feel like watching the show I would most certainly recommend watching the show and just avoid the movie version because that didn't need to be made at all and so, that movie alone can me put in the trash can in someone's mind and pretend that movie didn't happen. The show is both on Tubi and Amazon Prime which is a shocker that it's on Amazon Prime for subscription so, if your needing a College Football booster I'd recommend checking out as well as binging on Blue Mountain State as well as being traumatized by Alan Ritchson's high pitch screaming because after watching other stuff he's in I can't unsee him in anything without replying "GET OUT" like a girl through the course of the movie he's in, and to me that's like PTSD if you know what I mean.

            

The Sheep Detective

 

                 My Mom for the past couple of months have been urging me to watch this movie called the Sheep Detective and I've been hearing about this movie prior to Amazon Prime releasing it or MGM Studio's, I mean look there both one in the same studio just like 20th Century Fox merging into Disney and yet they don't a point Corporal Klinger as a Disney Princess. Look at the bottom line is, I finally watched the Sheep Detective, and I have to say that this was defiantly one of the most adorable and fun movies to watch on Prime.

                 George Hardy (Hugh Jackman) is a Shepard who loves to read murder mysteries to his flock, never suspecting they can understand him. When George is found dead under a mysterious circumstance, the sheep (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) decide to solve the crime themselves, even if it means leaving their meadow for the first time and facing the fact that the human world isn't as simple as it appears in books.

                 This is one of those family films that I never quite expect in terms of the amount of really good actors and actresses that would be able to provide a great performance in one movie and the thing about this movie that impressed me the most, is the recognizable actors that my brains begin overriding and slowly recognizing who these actors are like for the sheep you have Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the courageous sheep that's determined to solve the case and is so blinded by the human world and has all the flaws in what makes a hero go onto a hero's journey theme from Luke Skywalker or King Arthur storyline that you can read Joseph Campbell's "Hero's Journey" then you can see the theme of this movie through Dreyfus character, and strangely enough I was hoping for a ton of Veep quotes of her replying "Tuck your shirt in okay, your d**k is hanging out of your pants" though granted this is a family movie so, can't do that I guess. But not just Louis-Dreyfus but Sir Patrick Stewart, Regina Hall, Bella Ramsey aka Lady Mormont from Game of Thrones as well as Brett Goldstein aka Roy Kent as due sheep for which of course while watching clips on YouTube Roy Kent is like my favorite I'd want to be reborn as. And more importantly you have Bryan Cranston as the loner sheep for which again all of these actors and actresses deliver great voice over work that to me is what makes for this family movie to be believable and worth watch because if you had unknown actors playing it would almost be like a meh family movie that you would find on ABC or the Hallmark channel then it would be disappointing to even sit through and watch. Even the human cast deserves a ton of credit and of course you got Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson but Nicholas Braun actually steals the entire movie especially the climax of the movie and for those who haven't seen Succession he was the guy that always hanged out with Matthew Macfadyen through the course of the show. Now I don't want to go into a ton of details on what makes this film great because I want you all to watch this film and enjoy it with your kids, but with this film it strangely has great comedic flair and great Christian themes but more importantly has a great hero's theme that plays great through the eyes of Julia Louis-Dreyfus's character for which I love most. So, if you’re ever looking for a film to watch with your kids then I'd highly recommend watching The Sheep Detective for its pure heart and great comedic talents through the course of the entire film. And more importantly you can find this movie not just on Prime but you can also purchase the film on Blu-Ray if you feel the need to own it as well, for which I would do so, especially when Christopher Nolan tells us that we should all own our own favorite movies and Nolan is always right. 

         

30th Anniversary of Muppet Treasure Island

             Another film in the Tim Curry remembrance is Muppet Treasure Island. Now, when you think of Muppets you think of them as the rock stars of old when it comes to childhood memories especially in media, and like Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island was another film that I also remember growing up and watching from elementary school years. Moreover, I thought about which movie to use in the monthly recommendation and since I realized that Muppet Treasure Island has reached its 30th birthday then I must make this a special one right?

              A reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale in which The Muppets take to the high seas in search of buried treasures. Young Jim Hawkins is given a treasure map by a mysterious sailor and sets sail with his friends the Great Gonzo and Rizzo the Rat. Among the crew is a mutinous sea dog Long John Silver (Tim Curry), who has his own plans for the loot. 

              After the success of A Muppet Christmas Carol, Disney Studios at that time decided that the next Muppets film would be adapting another classic tale for the next Muppet film, co-writer claimed that the only two tales he had in mind were either Treasure Island or King Arthur. Originally Gonzo and Rizzo were to play Jim and Hawkins, but the studios were nervous about not holding the emotional heart of the movie so, Thatcher just stuck with a human character to play Jim Hawkins and Gonzo and Rizzo to be his companions. A fun fact about the film Frank Oz couldn’t help with the puppeteers with his directorial career, and so, he later provided the voices of the characters while Kevin Clash helped with the Muppets. Brian Henson (son of Jim Henson as well as director of the film) was a big fan of Tim Curry and said that he should be the right actor for Long John Silver, and even Tim Curry wanted to sign on for the movie because he was also a big fan of the Muppets as well, for which explains why this movie is a classic. Unlike Tim Curry's scheming villainous role in the Three Musketeers, this film shows a lot more compassion for Jim Hawkins, furthermore, provides a father and son type of scenes between Silver and Hawkins for which has that great flair almost like a family film of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in a very strange way. I do love Curry's performance in the film just because he's of course having fun with the Muppets but has that great sense of humor of being able to manipulate the Muppets, especially in the scene where they tie him up and give him the black spot from a page of the bible for which is the joke but the way he's able to deliver his lines on screen brings a huge smile to my face. And even when you have that great moment with Kermit and Miss Piggy and Kermit holds Piggy from falling we see his eyes bulge and it's funny but you feel for Kermit and when you mind feels bad for a Muppet than it becomes funny and not just Tim Curry stealing the show but Kermit and his fencing fight with Curry and again it's just so, funny you can't stop but chuckle at that and it just brings back so great memories when these films we're amazing during my childhood, and a year after that the release of Star Wars Trilogy, Special Edition came out for again that's what made the 90's such a great decade. Like sure any of Tim Curry's past films are memorable from Rocky Horror Picture Show to Stephan King's It but, nothing special about them and to me Musketeer's and Muppet Treasure Island are so fun and great comedic moments that you can't help but love it from beginning to the very end. So, if you’re a fan of the Muppets I would highly recommend watching Muppet Treasure Island on Disney Plus and like A Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island is going to be traditional movie for I don't know when but I might watch again and again or maybe when I'm tired and bummed from work I'll put on Muppet Treasure Island although maybe in the summer movie season either way watching this movie again I really want to watch the film again until I'm tired of watching it, though I don't want to overdo it it's like having your favorite pizza and don't want to eat it again if you know what I mean. 

     

September Recommendation: The Three Musketeers

 

             For the past month or two I've been thinking a lot about the late great, Tim Curry, actor most famous for The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the TV mini-series IT. And sure, he most famous for those movies for sure but I was born in the late 80’s, and I didn't even know Curry played a strange drag queen and killer clown. I mostly remembered him from playing Cardinal Richelieu in Disney's Three Musketeers in 1993, as well as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island. Now Muppet Treasure Island will get to that later, but The Three Musketeers was one of those films I remembered watching in my high school years and this film still brings back great memories furthermore was Pirates of the Caribbean before Pirates of the Caribbean became a thing.

             D'Artagnan (Chris O'Donnell) travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French King's elite bodyguards, only to discover that the corps been disbanded by conniving Cardinal Richelieu (Tim Curry), who secretly hopes to usurp the throne. Fortunately, Athos, Porthos and Aramis (Keefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt, Charlie Sheen) have refused to lay down their weapons and continue to protect their king. D'Artagnan joins with the rogues to expose Richelieu's plot against the crown. 

             I honestly don't remember the first time I sat down and watched the movie all the way through I do in fact remember watching parts of the film after school or on the weekend this would most certainly be on the Disney Channel on Dish Network or any Cable Channel that we would switch every three-ish years and granted it could be my final elementary school years and junior high school years, somewhere between the late 90's or the early 2000's moreover it was a time when Disney wasn't the Galactic Empire we know today as well as purchasing Twentieth Century Fox, basically back when those years and decades we an amazing time to watch movies. And like The Musketeer and Man in the Iron Mask, The Three Musketeers was one of those films that was just fun to watch from beginning to end and sure this film is in fact cliche and I remember Tim Curry chewing the scenery but that was all I remember of Tim Curry in this movie was chewing the entire set, and rewatching the film again on Disney Plus, you can tell that Tim Curry was just having the time of his life, with great lines like after killing a prisoner he reply's "One less mouth to feed", for which I chuckled at that because I thought that was funny coming from him and his two infamous lines when he places a bounty on the Musketeers he says dead or alive and then later says "I prefer dead" which I could tell that he was like wait let me rephrase that sentence. and more importantly his greatest scenery chewer is using the queen by his side and she reply's I'd rather die, he out of nowhere just shouts "THAT CAN BE ARRANGED" like he's trying to be scary but for me as a teenager I always replied, "YOU, EIGHTEEN?" And for some reasons it's just funny personally because you can tell that Curry is doing is all playing a scheming antagonist with an evil laughter and all especially being British also, and yet you can tell this man is just having fun and more importantly had that reputation of playing colorful/theatrical villains for which really, he was born for the role especially the way the script was written if you asked me. Granted if you look at this movie for what it was in the mid-nineties, it's basically Disney's answer to 20th Century Fox's Young Guns and surprisingly enough, producer Joe Roth produced both Young Guns as well as this version of the Three Musketeers so, technically Roth was probably up and out of Fox and Disney asked him to produce a movie of his choice and he pitched them young guns meets Alexander Dumas and Disney was like "Sure". Now granted everyone would for sure think of it as Young Guns including Leonard Maltin but I would prefer this movie over the Young Guns movies because this film was at least fun and entertaining and a Disney film that wasn't evil Disney also, this film includes up and coming actor in Chris O'Donnell before he ruins well, Joel Schumacher ruin his career but that's a whole other story and Julie Delpy before she made one of the Sunset films for which I remember watching and was bored out of my mind, though let’s not forget Tim Curry in the best cliched villain ever. The other thing in what makes this film so, nostalgic is that this film brings back to the Errol Flynn movies of the late thirties and early forties as well as almost reminds me of Pirates of the Caribbean where it has that sort of Pirates flair of you being transported into this world with a ton of great production sets and it has that great feel of your reliving your favorite swashbuckling film from the past. I will admit that this film is not perfect in anyway it's a hundred percent in the cliched realm of things but of all the movies I remember Tim Curry in this film I would most certainly choose to remember him the most as well as his great cameo in Psych. So, if you have a Disney Plus account, I will highly recommend in watching this with your kids and see if they can love this movie as I did although none of my parents showed me this movie this was the Disney Channel back when I'll say it again, the Galactic Empire. 

   

Uncle Buck

 

 

              Just browsing through my Netflix account finding at least something to watch in terms of movies I've not seen. And after a huge success with watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off, I figured I give another John Hughes film a chance to watch or rewatch, granted Uncle Buck use to air on the Disney Channel back when they weren't an evil Empire of today and so, deep down I've seen bits and pieces but I haven't really seen all of the film until now.

              When Cindy (Elaine Bromka) and her husband, Bob (Garrett M. Brown), must leave town for a family emergency, there is only one person available to babysit for their three kids: Bob's lazy, carefree brother, Buck (John Candy). While he immediately gets along with the two younger children (Gaby Hoffman, Macaulay Culkin), Buck must change his bachelor lifestyle if he wants to be a responsible caregiver for the angst-filled teenager, Tia (Jean Louisa Kelly. 

              At first I'm not going to lie that this film does have some sluggish moments in terms of sure this could be funny but not ha-ha funny, and at times I felt like the car and his life style is almost like he's living in some sort of trash apartment and sure the fact that he's living next to Wrigley Field is pretty funny but at the time of the film’s release this Cubs were already trash to begin with so, not a whole lot of ha-ha moments, I mean if you’re at least going to make a film set in Chicago in the 80's or late 80's to 90's you can at least show the Chicago Bulls or John Candy wearing a Michael Jordan jersey at least because if your showing a bachelor character and he's a slob as well as wearing an old worn down Ernie Banks jersey, it kind of loses it hilariousness I mean Hughes was a popular director at the time he couldn't at least have a cameo appearance with Candy and Harry Carey at a bar or at a bowling alley because they film at a bowling alley either way there's a million things you could do but really when you have moments of a character living a slob lifestyle and the joke is he's living next to Wrigley Field it just doesn't seem funny at all, and that's all I'm saying. With all the jokes about his car and lifestyle a side this film does have some heartwarming moments and when we get to the midst of both the second and third act, you do see Candy being more responsible and getting along with the kids as well as putting his foot down and telling the teenager no at times and it shows that of all the bachelor lifestyle he has he's trying to improve himself and especially with his girlfriend aka Amy Madigan aka Annie from Field of Dreams and through the course of the movie it does become a heartwarming story for which there is a plus side to Uncle Buck other than the mediocre comedy a side and I think that both of Hughes films in which he directs he at least shows some sense of warmth and care but in all fairness Ferris Bueller is much better comedy than Uncle Buck if I had to rank these films. I would most certainly recommend Uncle Buck if you’re a big fan of the late John Candy and love most of his films or a 49er's fan then I would highly recommend watching Uncle Buck on Netflix. 

         

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

            Well, I'm sure all of you know by now that everywhere you go in terms of stores like Walmart or Dollar General hell, any store around the states or all over planet Earth you'd probably know that Halloween season is already coming around the corner. And granted I don't know what's going around the world in terms of Halloween, but I would doubt the Middle East. And so, I decided to watch Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood? Look, all you know is that it's Jason vs Carrie but it's not Carrie.

            Years after the strange drowning death of her father, Tina Shepard (Lar Park Lincoln) returns to the site of his demise, Crystal Lake. Her developing psychic were responsible for ending his life, leaving Tina riddled with guilt as an adult. While deceitful Dr. Crews (Terry Kiser) tries to manipulate her abilities for his own ends, both physician and patient are in for a shock when Tina's powers unwittingly free camper-killer Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) from his watery slumber.

            I got to say typing in the plot of the movie as well as talking about it now kind of makes sense in terms of a refresher I mean sure they're a lot of things that I would most certainly forget but a few things about the plot of the film and yet to the films credit it does give you a little refresher in terms of what you can get caught up after watching Jason Lives. And it's been close to a year since I last watched Jason Lives and so, this was a good refresher as to what I missed at the end of the film. While watching, The New Blood I did begin to realize through the course of the movie, of this being a sort of Carrie vs Jason type of a film? And looking up the film on Wikipedia, it says that after failed concepts writer of Part VII, Daryl Haney says that Carrie vs Jason came into light for is one of those minor accomplishments in guessing the entire plot right. This film also introduces Kane Hodder in what everyone knows to be as the true Jason Voorhees and there's really not a whole lot to say in terms of what makes his performance great, a side from his performance in Jason X was much better because that film is the creme dela creme of amazingly bad entertainment so, there's that. Like most of the Friday the 13th films there's really not a whole lot to say other than whenever you’re having a s**ty day and nothing going your way I would highly recommend just sitting down and have a Friday the 13th movie marathon because in all honesty these films are just made to be pure entertainment and stupid at the same time and if you take these films seriously then you're just missing the sense of these films and especially the 80's culture in what movies back in those days we're made for. Moreover that's kind of the same reasons as to why the remake of Friday the 13th failed miserably because the producers tried to make it scary but all these films are nothing but terrible teenagers just being horrible to either fat people or nerdy people and Jason does us a favor by taking them all out, for which really when you think about especially when you’re getting older your just rooting for Jason at the end and if it we're me I would remake Friday the 13th as a dark comedy with horrible teens and Jason taking them out although that's already been done because the 80's has already done it. Like the previous Jason films, the pure fun and entertaining to watch from start to finish although the first three films are okay you can watch them only once but if it were me, I would say New Blood, Jason Lives and Jason X are the best Friday movies in my opinion. So, if you’re getting ready for Halloween, I would highly recommend watching the Friday the 13th films and even have your kids watch them because they're going to be going to high school and they should at least get some experience in terms of what they have to experience and these films are at least realistic than the High School Musical movies. Although I would say kids today are making good choices although nowadays kids could possibly be doing at least dumb stuff. Now, New Blood was fun to watch with satisfactory deaths but I'm looking forward to watching Jason taking Manhattan, and hopefully that one will be fun before I get to the nineth film. 

         

 

Number 17

 

           Still going in the simple movie watching sense, mostly finding some movies in the 90-minute range, decided to watch an early Alfred Hitchcock film that was made in the early 1930's England. Moreover, since my Stanley Kubrick journey is coming to an end, I figured it's time to go on another journey but this time finding famous directors’ earlier films that no one has even touched or presented, furthermore Number 17 came into my radar, especially when is sixty-five minutes of runtime. 

             In an empty London house, a hobo named Ben (Leon M. Lion) looks for shelter yet instead finds a corpse. When Detective Fordyce (John Stuart) shows up, he questions Ben but is interrupted when a girl (Ann Casson) falls through the roof. Her father has vanished, and she's received an instructible telegram that mentions both the house and a missing necklace. Soon more suspicious characters turn up, all looking for the necklace, and none of them who they claim to be. 

             I think if you set aside the fast action sequences of the 30's films where the robber or the banker is being chased by the cop and they shot the sequences in a fast pace where they're running in a comedic fashion like someone rescuing a woman from being run over by the train. You'll see a lot of it in this movie, but in all honesty this film has that great flair of being an importantly, good example in knowing how to make your first movie or short film and make it into simplest form possible like you have a warehouse bunch of characters after a robbery or friends hanging out and get caught in the cross hairs of a bunch of killers or bank robbers and their taken hostage and you simply have it set in a warehouse and create drama as well as start your story there. And while watching this film a bunch of times I have to say that this is one of those films that inspire me to want to write a short film and just create a simple story of a hostage situation or an after bank robbery and either way I love the way this film was constructed. While through the course of the film, I had to admit that this entire film was just going to be set in the warehouse and a struggle happens and then that's it that's the film, what I didn't expect is a high octane chase between a bus and a steam engine and of course this is thirties style of filmmaking and you would probably use a train set and small bus toy to make it look like that their driving so fast, and again it's amusingly funny because of what they had to make and the same goes with the fight scenes because I would at least imagine that Hitch had a way to make a normal fight but I guess not, though still believe that these high octane sequences are amusingly funny but is also amazed on how they were able to shoot the movie with very little resources on what they had at the time. This film is free on all types of streaming services with ads from YouTube to Tubi and even Amazon Prime, and so, if you’re looking to watch any of Hitchcock's earlier works then I would highly recommend watching Number 17, it's a great watch of early thirties cinema and more importantly amusing with the action sequences but more importantly I would highly recommend anyone to watch this if you’re looking for a way to start off your film by doing a short film by making it thirty or sixty minutes long for the audience. 

        

The Last Boy Scout

 

           Kind of lost track this past week in terms of movie watching, mostly getting a little off the sidetrack in terms of real-life shenanigans like work and trying to get back on that right track. Anyway, the only way I can get back on that track is watching an entertainingly bad action movie, and so, Tony Scott's the Last Boy Scout came into fluctuant while browsing through my Tubi account, so I figured why not give this movie a shot and surprisingly I actually remembered seeing clips of this movie though it's more of the opening scene where the running back is shooting the entire defense which is the same way O.J. destroyed the entire bronco defense.

           Once a first-rate Secret Service Agent, Joe Hallenbeck (Bruce Willis) is now a gruff private investigator who’s the latest gig is protecting a pole dancer (Hallie Berry). When she's murdered, he grudgingly teams up with her boyfriend, Jimmy Dix (Damon Wayans), an ex-quarterback with a gambling problem, and the two go after her killers.

            Surprisingly enough if you heard of the name Shane Black writer and director of hit movies like Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang and The Nice Guys, as well as creator behind the first Lethal Weapon movie as well as the first guy to get knocked off by the Predator in Predator, and fun fact both films came out the same year in 1987. Sometime after these two successes, Black went on to write which would become The Last Boy Scout after a bad relationship in which Black in his own words says, "I was busy mourning my life and, in many ways, the loss of my first real love. I didn't feel much like doing anything except smoking cigarettes and reading paperbacks. Time passed and eventually I sat down and transformed some of that bitterness into a character, the central focus of a private eye story which became The Last Boy Scout. Writing that script was a very cathartic experience, one of the best experiences I've ever had. I spent so much time alone working on that. Days in which I wouldn't speak. Three, four days where I maybe said a couple of words. It was a wonderful time where my focus was better than it's ever been. And I was rewarded so handsomely (1.75 million) for that script, it felt like a vindication and like I was back on track". So, look everyone if you’re having a bad day or taking time off after bad relationships gone wrong, writing what you love to write about, will grant you an amazing come back on life that will be so amazing than a great sports moment you've witnessed on Television. I would say that this is hands down one of the best Tony Scott films a million times better than Top Gun and most certainly Days of Thunder furthermore what I'm trying to say is that any film that consist of Tom Cruise playing the same hot shot and it's in the late 80's is not the movie worth watching. More importantly if you've seen films like Lethal Weapon or 48hrs, as well as just wanting entertaining action and unnecessary explosions that come out of nowhere, and it almost feels like when they cut to a car explosion it almost feels like they shot that car explosion from a different location especially when it's D-Day aka Bruce McGill getting blown up. If you love a fun and entertaining buddy cop movie with less of the police force and more of a rip off of both Lethal Weapon and 48hrs with tons of action than I would highly recommend watching The Last Boy Scout, it's fun as well as crazy action and explosions and more importantly it has the greatest opening of a running back gunning the entire defensive line, which in all honesty is how O.J. got those rushing records because he gunned them down and while testifying at court he hold onto the gun and says, "it's not mine.". And the film is also on Tubi for which setting up an account is free and despite having to sit through a ton of ads, you can also find hidden treasures that you wouldn't believe could be personally good. Also, Tubi is so great that you can also find a ton of entertaining mindless action movies, that would still stand the test of time and for F-sakes this film has Bruce Willis punching a guy’s noise into his entire skull, I mean if you don't find that awesome, I don't know what can keep you entertained.