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Conan The Destroyer

John Wick 1+2 back to back. Awesome

Things to Come(1936)

Adapted by H.G Wells from his own novel The Shape of Things to Come is still a visually striking sci-fi film directed by William Cameron Menzies.With great performances from Raymond Massey,Ralph Richardson Cedric Hardwick,it takes a sobering look at humanity in the future and climaxes by foretelling humanity venturing into space.

8/10

Brannigan (1975)

John Wayne swaps his cowboy hat for a hair piece and plays a US cop who comes to London to extradite a criminal back across the Atlantic.

8/10

Basically John Wick + Ex Machina (I even googled "John Wick meets Ex Machina" and realized a shitload of other people said the same thing. I don't even have an original thought about this movie). Not the greatest cast, but pretty cool movie. Would watch again. 7/10.

Now I'm waiting for the prequel to "Idiocracy" to come out, "Upgrayyed".

Bad Boys II (2003)

Martin Lawrence and Will Smith return as bickering buddy cops Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey in the Miami Narcotics division - this time they're tracking the flow of MDMA in to the city. Cue several fun car chases and gun fights and the banter between the leads flowing as rapidly as the bullets. The body count is higher than the original and there's a large amount of racism in the dialogue that viewers may find unnecessary and offensive. It's also quite overlong. However, if you're in to this film franchise, and enjoy a couple of hours or so of all out action and thrills and spills, this should still be fun. 3/5

Drive Angry

The ballad of buster scruggs. Absolutely brilliant.

Death Wish (2018) 2/10 - remake of the Charles Bronson vigilante classic but this time starring Bruce Willis, a dreadful film with very little going for it apart from a strong supporting cast.

(27-12-2018 00:51 )Regenerated Wrote:  White House Down (2013)

Terrorists take over the White House and endanger the President in a rip-off of several action films, most notably Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and Air Force One (1997). I found what I saw of it, about an hour, utterly ridiculous. Shit jokes and OTT nonsense at inappropriate times - including a villain asking another villain during a gunfight if he wants some cake, then being told he can't have it because he's diabetic and security agents performing The Matrix style bullet-time slow motion somersaults. Then getting killed anyway. I stopped watching after that so I've no idea if it got better. I won't lose any sleep over it though. 0/5

...if you switched off before it got to them driving around the White House lawn with the President hanging out of the window trying to shoot down a helicopter with a bazooka then you didn't get close to the most ridiculous parts... So ridiculous it's actually admirable in a perverse kind of way.

Mary Poppins Returns

Decent reboot for a new generation with some good actors and cameo roles and some pleasingly old fashioned looking animation.
But imho none of the songs in this will prove to be as enduring as the ones on the original film: the tunes are just not memorable enough and don't pass the "whistle test" - nothing as catchy to rival "Spoon full of Sugar" "Chim-chim-chiree" or "Fly a Kite", a sequence with balloons tries its damndest to emulate the latter but just doesn't quite make it.
(There are a couple of close calls - a sequence with lamplighters on bikes and dancing around fountains comes close to the roof-top "Step In Time" chimney-sweep number in the original; and a melancholy "Where the Lost Things Go" almost evokes "Feed the Birds".)