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John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Willing suspension of disbelief !
Coleridge must have had a dream about John Wick ! What is it but bodycount ! Keanu is like Mel Gibson ! Neither will ever be able to act but people like some things about them. I like Keanu and I like the gimmick with the gold coins. We've been being trained for sensory overload and this is it ! Totally unbelievable but it throws in all the little things that we've come to delight in ! Whatever it is meant to be ( making money not withstanding ) people who enjoy action will get mindlessly drawn into it ! I haven't seen 3 but I'll be sure to get in line at my library ! Lights ,music , statues and gunfire ripping into your brain...who cares...go for it !
Platoon (1986)
Best war movie
What brought this movie home to me was the division and infighting among the juicers versus the heads while "off duty or downtime"! Everyone was so stressed that we went at each other ! Fortunately we all came together when it counted ! Great movie !
Chicago P.D. (2014)
Took a while !
Closing on 70 I've had trouble accepting such young actors as seasoned hardcore cops but there's the target audience ! Nowadays that cops are young but Mideast vets ! In my generation they were Vietnam vets but crazy criminals ! I've come to like all the cast and really disappointed that Sophia Bush guit though her replacement Spiradakls is great too ! Good scripts... great show !
Spectre (2015)
Grew up with Connery ! Like Craig better!
I'm having a hard time believing I'm saying this but the only drawback to the movie is Waltz as Spectre's super-villian ! His monotone delivery is beyond sophistication and seems to drag scenes on forever ! All of Craig's other antagonists are much more interesting characters ! But that's hardly enough to not like the movie !
Apt Pupil (1998)
Cult classic
Great idea and acting by McKellen and Renfro (RIP) !
Nikita (1997)
Still love reruns
This was so ahead of it's time I felt ! And Peta Wilson did a great job ! So did Roy Dupuis as Michael ! I watch hours of syndication early in the morning ! I'm going to have to get all the episodes for my DVD collection !
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
Brainless anyone ?
The movie left me fondly recalling a childhood bout of hepatitis !
London Boulevard (2010)
Made me like Colin Farrell
I have a weakness for movies shot in England ! Mostly the architecture I think. David Thewlis stole the movie with his portrayal as the always stoned protector of Keira , who I believe I caught at her most lovely age ! Ray Winstone was good as the over the top crazy mob boss ! Which brings me to the fact he hooked up again with writer/director William Monahan in THE DEPARTED ! Monahan loves the 60s and 70s and the feel and language show it ! We've got plenty of new cyber- mostly words and quips but the period he likes I believe was the last period for true colloquial - speak ! If not the ONLY period ! Thewlis alone is worth sitting through the movie ! The Eye , The Tower...the London skyline in general...plus Bacon's screaming Pope's made the photography appealing ! In another over-the-top performance you have Ben Chaplin as Farrell's weak weasel used-to-be friend ! Great to hear The Yardbirds , Heartful of Soul through out too !
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Willing suspension of disbelief !
Coleridge must have had a dream about John Wick ! What is it but bodycount ! Keanu is like Mel Gibson ! Neither will ever be able to act but people like some things about them. I like Keanu and I like the gimmick with the gold coins. We've been being trained for sensory overload and this is it ! Totally unbelievable but it throws in all the little things that we've come to delight in ! Whatever it is meant to be ( making money not withstanding ) people who enjoy action will get mindlessly drawn into it ! I haven't seen 3 but I'll be sure to get in line at my library ! Lights ,music , statues and gunfire ripping into your brain...who cares...go for it !
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Willing suspension of disbelief !
Coleridge must have had a dream about John Wick ! What is it but bodycount ! Keanu is like Mel Gibson ! Neither will ever be able to act but people like some things about them. I like Keanu and I like the gimmick with the gold coins. We've been being trained for sensory overload and this is it ! Totally unbelievable but it throws in all the little things that we've come to delight in ! Whatever it is meant to be ( making money not withstanding ) people who enjoy action will get mindlessly drawn into it ! I haven't seen 3 but I'll be sure to get in line at my library ! Lights ,music , statues and gunfire ripping into your brain...who cares...go for it !