Jumanji 2017

Zone of Interest - 7/10

Enjoyed it

Fully watched? Hmmm that would be James Bond Golden-eye.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend

It's an interesting take on the super-hero genre.


Baby Driver

I thought this would be a mindless action movie with lots of car chases. However, it's more of a drama with some driving and action scenes to establish the story.

Furiosa - better than expected, some good action scenes, if you liked the last one then this is worth a look. All movies I watch at https://123movies-safe.net/. There are various movies in different genres that are available for free. I like that the collections of movies are structured, and I can use any filter to sort movies by genre, year of release, actor etc. And it's easy to find an interesting movie to watch.

Revolution (1985)

Directed by Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan), this is the tale of a fur trapper (Al Pacino) and his son who try to stay out of the goring American Revolution, but in the end they can't escape the conflict.. and in fact come to believe in the cause of freedom.

Financially and critically a huge failure, but IMHO this is a brilliant film and one of the absolute best fictional films about the American Revolution; to me, this film proves that great movies sometimes release at the wrong time and are simply overlooked and misunderstood.

Daybreakers (2009)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433362/

Watched it on the free RakutenTV streaming service that my OLED TV seems to have.

I am unsure if I have seen this movie before. Either I've seen a trailer or part of the movie because while the premise of the movie rang a bell, the ending etc. didn't. Probably I've seen it partly before. At least the strong beginning scene was very familiar, and some scenes here and there. Maybe I've fallen asleep watching it before, shit like that happens you know?

The premise is pretty interesting, most of the world's population has become vampires, but humans, whose blood they crave, are becoming rarer and rarer. You see the dilemma here, right?

The vampires have a working society etc. so they are scientifically trying to come up with artificial blood substitute so that they wouldn't necessarily need human blood anymore.

However, nothing is so simple of course due to capitalism and greed, and then there is social commentary about which kind of life is more precious and worth it, human life who die off anyway or vampiric life which is supposedly eternal but has its own problems (like the need for blood, and what happens to you if you run out of it, the sun being your enemy, how not aging can be a curse if you were turned into a vampire as a child, etc.). Some want to be vampires while some want to be humans, some vampires even end up committing a suicide because they can't stand living as a vampire etc.

However, the execution and too simplistic deus ex machina plot devices ruin the movie partly, and make it less interesting. The "solution" to the vampire problem just seems dumb, that's all they could come up with?

When I first started watching the movie, I envisioned what I would have liked to present in the movie. For instance, if humans had become such a rare commodity, I would have expected that would have elevated their status a lot in the society, like they would have become some kind of fragile "elite" of the society because the vampires need something that only humans have, and humans are becoming rarer and rarer. But no, this movie mainly just presented humans as hunted and harvested, if precious, animals. Then again I guess that was also maybe social commentary on how we use (and don't spare) earth's resources, ie. we let our shortsighted urges affect our decisions.

I give the movie 3 out of 5 stars. Not an awful movie, but in some things they've chosen the dumbest, easiest and safest solution for the story.

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Dunkirk, I feel asleep… say no more

:( I loved Dunkirk

i can't say if I liked or disliked it, but at least it was somehow painful to watch, that hopelessness... But I guess that was the point of the movie so I guess it worked on me.

Suddenly I didn't have an urge to go wage war, like I did after Midway, Independence Day, Top Gun, Starship Troopers and maybe even Saving Private Ryan.

yeah. the atmosphere built in the movie is probably the best part about it.

i mean the depictions of war in saving private ryan were pretty grotesque...

The Breakfast Club. I re-watch it every now and then. I love the film and it's one of my all time favorites.

Philadelphia Experiment 2,Oppenheimer.

The City of Lost Children.

If someone can recommend me a good French film, I have seen only a few and I would like to watch a few more.