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The Machinist (2004) Two-thirds of Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Sharian, Michael "da Man" Ironside
The movie for which Christian lost 63 lbs. Do I recommend it? Hell, yes. Would I watch it again? Oh hell, no. Not anytime soon. It's in a category with the likes of Midnight Cowboy and Deliverence.
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Jojo Rabbit (2019) Roman Griffith Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Taika Waititi
I cried.
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Aunt's coming back in a couple days, so clearing out some old stuff from her DVR.
Robocop 2 (1990) Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Tom "Tooth Fairy" Noonan
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They tried to keep the satire, but at least it wasn't the pure cash grab of Robocop 3. Oh, don't get me wrong, it was a cash grab, alright, just not a RC3 level cash grab.
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Kate (2021) Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Woody Harrelson, Miku Martineau
I liked it. More than I thought I would. And I thought I would like it just because of Mary Elizabeth Winstead, whose performances I've enjoyed, that I've seen, even if I didn't particularly enjoy the show. I liked her in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and in season three of Fargo, with her baby daddy. I liked her in BrainDead and the execrable The Thing (2011) (which, according to a "What the Hell Happened"-type show I saw, was almost entirely the fault of the producers who kept interfering). I thought she did a good job with the material she was given in Birds of Prey, also with her baby daddy, and her confused reaction in Tarantino's Death Proof was spot-on perfect.
So, yeah, I liked her performance, but I also like how they took a murder mystery (Who killed me?) story and changed it into a revenge-cum-redemption story.
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Zone 414 (2021) Guy Pearce, Matilda Lutz, Jonathan Aris
As Rotten Tomatoes puts it, ""Zone 414 wastes a game Guy Pearce while ill-advisedly begging comparisons with numerous superior sci-fi thrillers." Can't really add more to that.
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The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2013) Jet Li, Shengyi Huang, Raymond Lam
Based on a Chinese fairy tale of a snake demon that falls in love with a human. Great practical effects, second-rate cgi. A little slow at points, the music was schmaltzy. It was a good love story with sub-par Jet Li fight scenes.
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Deathstalker (1983) Richard Hill, the late Lana Clarkson (murdered by Phil Specter), Barbi Benton
Who would have thought that a Sword & Sorcery movie with so many boobies would be so awful? And there are a lot of boobies.
Fun fact: the two mud wrestling women were sisters.
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The Dragon Unleashed (2019) Chase Bloomquist, Emily Sweet, John Schneider
No, uh uh, nope, non, nyet, nein, nā, nee, la, tidak, bù shì, hoina, nu, mana, nej, ఏ.
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Hawk the Slayer (1980) John Terry, Jack Palance
No, I had never watched it before. Yes, I know how much people in the rpg community love it. I can see why. It's still a bad movie where the wooden plank of a lead is only countered by the scenery chewing of Palance. 4.5/5
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Barbarian Queen (1985) the late Lana Clarkson (murdered by Phil Specter), Katt Shea, Dawn Dunlap
Somehow worse than Deathstalker.
Fun Fact: Katt Shea would go on to direct such classics as Stripped to Kill (1987); Poison Ivy (1992) starring Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, and Tom Skerrit; The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999); and Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019).
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