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And you thought Conan the Destroyer was bad...

Badly written, badly shot - I don't remember a good movie by Fleischer -, badly edited. This looks like a knockoff Hercules/Xena crossover by Temu's Sim Roimi. And lower budget SFX.
With worse fight scenes. Bloody crap, nobody in this movie has any experience with a sword. Except maybe the kid. He kicks like TKD.

Schwarzenegger plays Kalidor, because the rights to Conan were too expensive, and is probably the only actor in this. Limited screen time, though, cause budget I guess.
Nielsen debuts in this movie. She's one tall bird and easy to look at, but she can't act a dog's fart. And every scene with Arnolt is a duel of akksents. Her physique does not make up for her lack of skill: she barely looks fit, and moves like a monkey with arthritis. The She-Devil with a Club Foot. Her stunt/action double is so obviously a man, it's painful.


Bergman was a fantastic Valeria in the first Conan, but she acts barely better than Nielsen. Same for Thorsen. Or Smith. Except for being a smashing Valeria, obviously.


A piece of 80s anti-feminism: Sonja "hates men", but fails to be strong and independent.


A par for the course movie: the first Conan was a fluke, the franchise has been consistently abused in cinema.
Oh well, the upcoming Red Sonja is shaping up to be even worse.

Escape From The Evil Dead Into the Fog Of Dawn

Rodriguez directs as usual: frantic, balls to the wall, no apology rowdy fun. Cartoonish, really, from the guy who had both the balls and the talent to adapt Sin City.
He proposes here a luxurious B-movie, gloriously shot with (then) modern means, and oodles of know-how.
There's a scratch-free version on the other DVD; as much a I find guitar relicing ridiculous, this movie without the artificial analogue artifacts looks to me about as legit as a clean 4x4.

McGowan I knew only from her (atrocious) participation in Conan (the new one, not the good one). She works pretty well in her jaded character. Or she was already wilting inside. From what little I know, she got the short end of the stick, big time.

Willis never was a serious actor. Good, but always tongue-in-cheek. He fits right in. And, OK, he's done some drama also. He's just likable. Despite all the shite he's spewed recently.
Biehn is good as usual. Spoiler, he dies, as usual. (Freddy) Rodriguez I found lackluster.
Fahey is hardly recognizable; Savini is there, because Rodriguez. Ditto for Parks. Ferguson and Shelton play mostly eye-candy. Shelton was quite good albeit incommensurately less hot in Matlock, 30 years later.


This won't win any awards because it's not that kind of movie. But I sure had a good time.

Don't know what movie Ben was watching. The girl was cuntish? seriously?
The first movie was 'gritty'? Daniel, in the first movie, couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag. This karate kid had some serious skills as did his opponent. Good story line though not original.
I guess Ben's a delicate flower who's easily offended.

What has happened to M. Connelly's stories?

I've read every Michael Connelly novel and short story. Most of them at least twice. There's no apparent agenda in any of his written works, or even the movies, such as Blood Work, and The Lincoln Lawyer. The TV series have been getting progressively worse. In Ballard, the story starts up when Rene is in Cold Cases. That's book 5 in the series. That's too bad. There are some great stories in Rene's night shift times. Maggie Q does a great job of portraying the character from the book. Her supporting actors in her ragtag group of volunteers do a great job. The wokeness became apparent a couple of episodes in. A strong, masculine character was revealed to be married to another man. In following episodes, he became more apparent. Also, Rene was attacked in her sleep by a combat-trained bad guy. He's an ex-cop working for cartels. He's bigger, stronger, trained in fighting, and has the advantage of starting the attack by strangling her while she's sleeping. She still bests him, lethally. Connelly stories are great material. It's depressing to see the agenda ruin the show. The character in the book got by with her patience, wisdom, determination, and intelligence.

Very lopsided, much too long.

4 parts, 4 directors, not all of equal worth, unfortunately.
The first act is weak and juvenile; the second barely better. But it gets good with Rodriguez and Tarantino.
Tarantino's piece is pretty experimental, honestly, but it works.


The whole piece is reminescent of Italian or French cinema of the 70s, complete with the gross over-acting and the uncertain pacing.
It works for Banderas and Tarantino, a lot less for Roth and the other actors/actresses. Possibly because his act is a lot more cartoonish.

Speaking of actresses, it may be nostalgia talking, but leading ladies of the 90s were a lot more lady-like. Be it Beals, Tomita, Golino, Tomei, or even Madonna (it's an old movie), they look a lot better than current-day actresses. Or simply more feminine. Well, not Tomei, it's the role, not her. But her deadpan is just brilliant. Griffin was ugly early on; she's in her 30s there, already look into her 60s. Talk about precocious. Still trying to learn comedy, though. Or acting.

This movie is basically Rodriguez-Tarantino double feature, feel free to skip the first 40 minutes or so. This then makes an average 1 hour movie.

It’s fine

No wokeness in the film itself

Huge let down

Huge Dexter original fan, was very excited for this series only to see them putting gay couples in not even 10 minutes in, dancing around the white man bad narrative the entire 2 first released episodes, and random thrown in illegal immigrants that are nice to him to push positive immigration sentiment, this is literally more than half the show. If you don’t want Dexter ruined for you just stick with the original.

Finally a real Rated R true horror movie. The only real woke would be the token Asian character and half Puerto Rican character. The only white male character is the typical coward, selfish beta. There is also a single comment about a female character dating another female. It's minor and even the white male being an asshat is only really a couple scenes. The acting, writing and story are all decent. I am not familiar with the game this is based on so I don't how close it is to that. The kills are pretty good and there is some great gory death scenes. Overall one of the better horror movies I've seen in a while.

Well, at least it took a while.

I try extra hard to avoid all these shows, the modern binge-type show with mild to excessive liberal propaganda, but ended up watching The Pitt regardless. It's actually a good show. I'd even rate it higher if not for the inevitable late-in-the-season wokeness where we see gay men, of course, mixed, with their surrogate in the story. And I really want to just ask, why? Is there a reason we have to go all in on this stuff? Ugh.

James Bond as The Prisoner?

Connery's character is an enigma. And a British top spy. So, maybe.

Connery. Harris. Cage. Morse. Biehn. And they're all in top shape. Star-studded cast. The movie has room for more character development, especially Harris, but hey, plenty already, and it's already over 2 hours.

Bay from back before he jumped the shark. The music video origins show in the frantic camera work, but it fits the movie. Also, explosions. Huge. Lots.

Zimmer doing what he does right.


A smashing action flick. Enough testosterone to turn the frogs back straight.
Winners go home and fuck the prom queen!

Woke slop

Beside being woke its also just a cheap looking movie unfunny and unoriginal.
Perry white is perry black (again)
All costumes look ugly, unnecessary characters unrelated to superman, mid castings

It's a predictable kind of magic.

Cage works well as an oblivious, too intense wizard. Molina is a fantastic villain, as usual, suave and utterly psychopathic. Kebbel is fittingly fabulous, and plays well off Molina.
Baruchel does an OK job in very predictable interpretation of the Hero's Journey. It's hard not to hear Hiccup, though. Kids are fans of his. Voice.
Palmer was picked for being disarmingly charming and devastatingly attractive. She succeeds on both fronts. But her role is not that deep either.

The usage of magic is actually pretty creative and entertaining, making up for a pretty unsurprising script.
Disney violence, no blood, no gore, although implied deaths.

A good movie to watch with the younger ones.