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The Punisher (2017)
Better than expected
I am not into comic books. I have tried to follow some of the movies a little bit but didn't watch them all to know what was going on with everything. What I like about this show is that it can stand alone as it's own show without anything to do with comics.
I only remember Jon Bernthal in The Walking Dead and The Punisher. I know I have seen other shows he was in but I don't remember what he did in any of them. I thought he was a mediocre actor at best in The Walking Dead. Just an ordinary actor nothing really made him stand out. Then in The Punisher it's like night and day difference. Maybe he needed to be the star of the show in order to bring something out in him. I think he does better than the other guys that have played the character in previous movies. I think this character fits him very well. I kind of doubt he could play more subdued characters as good. Like a lot of tough guy movies the main character doesn't have to say very much at a time.
Then there is Josh Stewart, I have seen him in a few shows and always thought he looked really creepy.I remember him from Criminal Minds. He is another one that doesn't come across as much of an actor but excels in this show. Maybe he will be the new creep in slasher movies.
Netflix puts on some excellent quality TV shows. Far better than their movies. Their movies are usually kind of lower quality and not always very entertaining.
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Brutal killing of real animals
I watch a lot of movies each week and I find this movie to be the most disturbing of the hundreds I have watched this year alone.
There are several scenes that very unnecessary and very brutal. This movie should be banned because of the actual killing of six animals. They are not glancing shots either, close-up's of animals being killed just to make a movie.
It's a disgusting film.
The plot to the movie has been used several times before. Lost in the Amazon and someone comes to the rescue. What they find is a little different.
I imagine it has it's cult following of whack-o's, doesn't most of the controversial movies?
Alaskan Bush People (2014)
The truth by a local.
In real life back in 2008 in Port Protection, the "boys" would use the word dad all the time. "My dad said to come get these things" and would hand the Trading Post clerk a scrap of paper with a few things written on it. The "boys" would always be in pairs and there would just be a few items written on the scrap of paper, things like: toilet paper, paper towels, milk, bread, 2 Banquet fried chicken, pot pies, burritos, 12 Dr Pepper, 6 Pepsi, Marlboro's, camels, chocolate ice cream etc. They never bought alcoholic beverages but I did often see the "boys" including 16 year old Noah, down on the dock drinking beer and smoking pot with the fisherman. Matt was down there on the dock the most and often none of the other "boys" was with him later in the evening. Matt and Josh and I think Sol and Gabe smoked cigarettes, and they all 5 smoked pot at times. Matt always had a pack of cigarettes with him and smoked a lot including roll your own Top and Bugler tobacco. At the store, the "boys" would say, " oh and dad said we could get these things" and they would grab some snack items and junk food like cookies, Dr Pepper, chips like Funions etc. Then sometimes, just a short time later, another two of the "boys" would come in and do the same thing. In one day, this would happen a dozen times, always just a few items on the list, including items like paper towels and toilet paper and canned goods that were picked up more than once a day. Some friends of mine saw where the Browns later stashed boxes and boxes of things in the woods hidden under a tarp with brush and branches over it near where their maroon SUV was parked. When the Browns left, they had the roof of that vehicle piled high with boxes and covered with blue tarps and the inside packed with lots of things and all nine of them going down the logging road. They always said "on dad's account". The "boys" would always be in pairs, (Matt is the only one I ever saw alone and not often), always have a scrap of paper with items written on it by "dad" and always would get a few junk food items for themselves also. I was there every day and this happened every day for the more than the two months they were there that summer of 2008. People saw that SUV on the logging load loaded with boxes a few times before they left, so they were stashing boxes of things someplace else down the road. Every few days, Billy and some of the boys would leave in the SUV down the logging road for a few hours to most of a day sometimes. Billy ordered lots of things through the Trading Post on it's account, I unloaded the float plane with hundreds of pounds of boxes from the A&P Ketchikan grocery store, for the Browns. Many times after Jack, (WWCTrading Post owner) went home or when Jack was up at a community meeting, the Brown "boys" would load up the skiff and go over to the landing by the logging road and stash a bunch more boxes of things like cases of paper towels and cases of canned goods. At the end of the first month, a check came from TN for a couple thousand dollars towards the Browns' account, but then Billy had a sad story on how his good friend in TN that was his "backer/investor" had suddenly died but he had another "backer/investor", a lady in California and the Browns went on charging things for more than another month. By the then, in more than two months there, Billy's bill was over $40,000 including the rental of 4 skiffs for 3 months, lodging, charged on account groceries, fuel, other supplies and things came to head between in the office with Jack's office worker and Jack asking about the payments now way overdue on Billy's bill and Billy, who had all 5 "boys" in the small office yelling and threatening Jack and my friend, Jack's office worker. Billy was red faced, yelling, cursing, threatening Jack, Solomon jumping up and down bouncing and Gabe with fists clenched and raised. Fishermen friends on the dock heard the commotion and came up to outside the office and the Brown males left and went back upstairs to the lodge. I saw Matt and Gabe just a little while later out on the porch of the upstairs lodge laughing. TheBrowns left a few days later, not paying their bills, leaving a mess in the lodge and piles of garbage inside and outside and at another place that they had set up a tent at and trashed and garbage over on the parking area by where they loaded up their vehicle as well as in the woods nearby where they had stashed lots of boxes. Billy is a very good con-artist, amazingly, incredibly good at scamming people and getting what he's after. He has done it for decades and has been very successful at it. Billy's 5 sons and and his wife and the two daughters he has raised are also very good and week trained, going along with Billy on everything as a family. Billy is a very smart man when it comes to reading people and getting what he wants. I believe that he has even successfully conned Park Slope and Discovery as he has also conned producers, investors and backers over the last decade.