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Young Sherlock (2026 series)

I'm a sucker for Sherlock Holmes stories, and this series has not disappointed. It fleshed out and developed the characters in a compatible (with the books) manner. I'm a bit surprised at Guy Ritchie's involvement considering after one look at the film trailers for his two Sherlock Holmes movies and I knew not to touch them with a barge pole.
 
mikeymikec said:
I'm a bit surprised at Guy Ritchie's involvement considering after one look at the film trailers for his two Sherlock Holmes movies and I knew not to touch them with a barge pole.
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They are only bad if you dislike supernatural elements and visual effects "glitz" in your movies. Ditto for his King Arthur Legend of the Sword movie. However, I can see how a serious, non-glamorous Cumberbatch starring Sherlock movie could be better.
 
A week or so ago I watched The Expendables on Netflix. Then yesterday I felt lazy and watch 2, 3 and 4 back to back. Being retired helps. All the good guys in all 4 are amazing shots. 😊 I also find it interesting they can land their plane just about anywhere with no hassle. And the range their fuel tanks support is amazing!
 
I *think* I watched the first Expendables movie (not very memorable is an understatement). I found his facial hair funny, as if this grizzled old merc gets out the tiniest pair of scissors to prune this seemingly-day-old goatee affair into perfect shape each morning (hair dye aside of course).
 
mikeymikec said:
Young Sherlock (2026 series)

I'm a sucker for Sherlock Holmes stories, and this series has not disappointed. It fleshed out and developed the characters in a compatible (with the books) manner. I'm a bit surprised at Guy Ritchie's involvement considering after one look at the film trailers for his two Sherlock Holmes movies and I knew not to touch them with a barge pole.
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this is not the same, i take it, where there's a girl who is Sherlock's daughter?
 
went and saw 3 movies tonight

Exit 8 - based on a video game I've heard of but never played. Apparently, the game has no story so they made one up for the movie. It was interesting, parts were extremely hard for me to follow. And I'm not entirely sure I understood the deeper meaning. It was a horror I suppose, but it was more of an uneasy feeling. There were a few good jump scares but it wasn't frightening. The fact they turned a video game that takes like 20 minutes to beat into a 90 minute movie and kept it interesting was a feat. Hours after watching it there are a few parts I'm thinking back on still not sure what the fuck happened and what it meant.

Normal - FUCKING GREAT MOVIE. It needs caps, I saw the preview a bunch of times and it looked like it was going to be a crazy flick. I had no idea what I was in for. Bob Odenkirk's perfect here as is the rest of the cast. The amount of violence will be a turn off to a lot of people. There are a lot of gun deaths, and a lot of fucking dark ass humor. One scene a guy was shot with a grenade launcher, a decent amount of the theater erupted with laughter. I would say it's cartoon level violence, but it's also very real looking. This was a wild fucking ride. The 1st half is a regular movie, and it goes from 0-100 super fucking quick. This is like Fargo mixed with I don't even know. But it's a violent rollercoaster of a movie. The plot and pretty much everything about the movie is borderline silly, but it was such a fun movie.

The Mummy - Best horror movie I've seen in ages, and it was actually pretty scary. A small girl's kidnapped and is found like 8 years later. The family takes her home but she's all kinds of fucked up. Movies that have small children as the monster work when they're done right. The little girl's creepy for sure. It was extremely gory and a few of the scenes had me a little disturbed even. I think critics are bitching because of the direction it veered from the original. But I don't remember the original, and that's 90+ years old. I enjoyed this a lot, and the sound was fucking great in the Dolby Theater I saw it in. This isn't a classic, but it's a solid flick.


This is a rare one, but I'll watch all 3 again. I especially need to re-watch Exit 8 so I can maybe understand the parts that I'm still wondering about.
 
DigDog said:
this is not the same, i take it, where there's a girl who is Sherlock's daughter?
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Apparently there's been another "Sherlock's sister" one fairly recently:

igor_kavinski said:
They are only bad if you dislike supernatural elements and visual effects "glitz" in your movies.
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No, more like if a new version of LOTR was released where Gandalf keeps dropping American black gangster slang: That kind of "no, this is completely wrong".
 
mikeymikec said:
Apparently there's been another "Sherlock's sister" one fairly recently:
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My thoughts after watching that were, "How annoyingly clever". She is a Monkey so that explains my annoyance (real life ones are annoyingly cheerful too). You will probably like that movie better due to her accent. I prefer her in Stranger Things and that dragon movie she did. It's kind of weird that I like seeing Monkey girls being distressed or angry. The moment they smile, I'm like, "OK. Stop. Just Stop! Too much!".

mikeymikec said:
No, more like if a new version of LOTR was released where Gandalf keeps dropping American black gangster slang: That kind of "no, this is completely wrong".
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The Ritchie Sherlock movies were entertaining which is what a movie needs to do. End of debate for me. Even Movie 43 did not manage to make me hate it. It was a 6 in my opinion. They took things a bit too far with the nasty neck "ball sack" but I've seen worse.
 
The Substance (2024)

I tried to watch this, twice, a while ago and had to stop because it's so fucking absurd. The protagonist is a woman who by the pickiest of standards may not be visibly top-drawer any more but is still perfectly attractive and apparently wealthy, after having lost her trades-solely-on-her-looks job, decides to risk it all with a very sketchy beauty treatment that has essentially been shoved under her door X-Files style, go alone to "I'm going to get trafficked" part of town followed by the "I'm definitely going to get raped, killed and my organs sold on the black market" alleyway and basement, to get a product that is obviously so far from FDA approval that she may as well have gone to a store selling dangerous chemicals, mixed some random ones together and injected it into herself.

IMO rather than contriving an opportunity to peddle special effects, the story of what realistically might make a person do this, what kind of abyss below rock bottom and nothing to lose level of utter hopelessness have they descended to, might actually be interesting. What the first ~30 minutes of this film conveyed to me is that the writers thought it would be realistic to suggest that say a highly successful, straight-laced and wealthy career go-getter has a bad day at work and decides to go on a crack-fuelled bender. It's just fucking stupid. I think even if they substituted the protagonist for a 15-year-old girl who just got dumped by her "love of her life" and therefore the substance, I'm still a bit dubious as to how credible that is, let alone a 40-50 year old woman.
 
Paycheck (2003)
ben affleck uma thurman aaron eckhart paul giamatti
directed by john woo
engineer who reverse engineers tech for corporate client and then erases his memory of that time. his latest job takes 3 years and upon completion intrigue ensues.

based on a phillip k dick novella.

5/10 for me but probably a 3 or 4 for general public.

the science is a little handwavey, the money amounts seem a little headscratching for 2003, the acting is not compelling but barely serviceable. the strongest part is the gimmick where 'ordinary items' give it some mystery/puzzle solving interest. the action is in no way bad, but the stunts dont wow you.

i'm beginning to think john woo isnt that good of a director.
the story does its setup of the premise and set some stakes but it is slow and a little cliche. affleck doesnt really inspire much reaction. the plot really ramps after he completes the job(mcguffin) where it gets slightly intellectual, but that isnt enough to make it involving even when wrapped in the woo staples (doves, car chases, glass windows shattering and slow mo gunplay.) if done as proper scifi project with a slower build and proper framing of the brain twisting concepts, it could have been good. but as a shakey framework for a ho hum action movie, it doesnt hold up. affleck isnt tapping any depths in his performance and everone else doesnt have enough screentime or significant scenes to do anything.

the movie does solve the plot/messaging problems with the PKD novella but doesnt add anything more. in this day and age, you cant present such a limp fish to the audience and expect buy in.

if they did it as a 6 ep mini series with the tautness of Severance it could be something really impressive. ironic as this movie probably inspired some of Severance.
 
DigDog said:
oh mikey. you were on a thumbs-up streak, and then you had to go and lose it all.
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Let's be fair The Substance is not for everyone - in fact, there's several scenes with "turn off" potential. You would need to be special to survive the final scene.

But it's not really supposed to be a believable story, it's surreal. The core of the story is how a starlet is being spat out by "the system" the instant she starts aging, and wants to maintain the admiration she gets from her job; but the "themes" are irrelevant, the idea of the film is "how far can you push a trope", with the climax of the film taking this well beyond exageration.
None of the characters ever make any sensible decision, they are all mad their own way.

'm sorry you didn't like it. Don't watch Rubber.
 
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