Order "Deadly Mantis", 1957. It will be bad!.

"Aquaman" was downright purdy!

Last night; Highwaymen, Netflix. Kevin Costner and Woody Harelson, both starting to look their age.


The film is about the tracking and killing of Bonnie and Clyde, from a police and political viewpoint.

The protagonist is real life legendary Texas Ranger, Frank Hamer. Seems he was legendary because he had killed over 50 men. This pretty much agrees with my understanding of the history of the Texas Rangers. Those guys were obscenely badass. (tried' badarse'; doesn't work).

No hypocrite, he made it clear from the getgo that he and his mate were going to track down Bonnie and Clyde and kill them.

I thought the general 'ambience' of the time was well done. (1931-34)

About 3 stars I reckon; good but not especially memorable.

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Francis Augustus Hamer (March 17, 1884 – July 10, 1955) was a Texas Ranger, known in popular culture for his involvement in tracking down and killing the criminal duo Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. Hamer acquired legendary status in the Southwest as the archetypal Texas Ranger. He is an inductee to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hamer

Double feature Antman and Antman and Wasp.

Fun films.

(April 1, 2019 at 4:21 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: Double feature Antman and Antman and Wasp.

Fun films.

Michael Peña only made them better.

(April 1, 2019 at 3:47 am)fredd bear Wrote: Last night; Highwaymen, Netflix.  Kevin Costner and Woody Harelson, both starting to look their age.


The film is about the tracking and killing of Bonnie and Clyde, from a police and political viewpoint.

The protagonist is real life legendary Texas Ranger, Frank Hamer. Seems he was legendary because he had killed over 50 men. This pretty much agrees with my understanding of the history of the Texas Rangers. Those guys were obscenely badass. (tried' badarse'; doesn't work).

No hypocrite, he made it clear from the getgo that he and his mate were going to track down Bonnie and Clyde and kill them.

I thought the general 'ambience' of the time was well done. (1931-34)

About 3 stars I reckon; good but not especially memorable.

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Francis Augustus Hamer (March 17, 1884 – July 10, 1955) was a Texas Ranger, known in popular culture for his involvement in tracking down and killing the criminal duo Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. Hamer acquired legendary status in the Southwest as the archetypal Texas Ranger. He is an inductee to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hamer

I was going to review this as well.

I thought it was dreadful, start to finish.  It was dull beyond belief, there was no chemistry between the two leads (who were supposed to be best mates), and all the performances seem to have been phoned in (which I expect from Costner, who can't act for beans.  But Harrelson knows better).

Two aging, legendary cops set out to kill two legendary psychopaths.  It takes significant lack of effort and/or talent to fuck up a great premise this badly.  Awful film.

Boru

(March 27, 2019 at 9:09 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:

(March 25, 2019 at 12:28 am)Sal Wrote: Fahrenheit 451 - 6/10

I haven't read the book, so I don't know if the movie made the book any justice. It was OK, mediocre though.

The Truffaut one or the new one for HBO? Because the former is a good, if flawed (due to Truffaut having to shoot it in a language he couldn't speak) representation of the book, and the other one... well, it would be 45.1% better if they just jettisoned the Fahrenheit 451 name, because it did about as good a job of representing the original book as Barb Wire did Casablanca.

(March 28, 2019 at 12:52 am)fredd bear Wrote:

(March 27, 2019 at 9:09 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: The DVD lists for $30 and the Blu-Ray for $40. Where did you find it for $7? I mean, if you can find them at the right time on Criterion or Barnes and Noble, you can get them for half off (I know this because I've been following Criterion's half-off sales like a hawk for many years and even got the DVD and Blu-Ray of M during separate sales), but $7 seems almost too good to be true. Still, M is one of my all-time favourites.

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The Truffaut one or the new one for HBO? Because the former is a good, if flawed (due to Truffaut having to shoot it in a language he couldn't speak) representation of the book, and the other one... well, it would be 45.1% better if they just jettisoned the Fahrenheit 451 name, because it did about as good a job of representing the original book as Barb Wire did Casablanca.

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I saw Fahrenheit 451 when it came out, in 1966 or so..  Thought it was great. Saw it again years later on TV. Still thought it was great. I may have been distracted by my lustful thoughts of  Julie Christie.

'M'?  Ebay. I think it was $7. I'll check again. Just rechecked. Yep, Ebay   $7. I think it might be second hand. The cover was not sealed.

It was the HBO one. It was an interesting concept, but I kept feeling like it went an unoriginal direction and focused too little on the concept behind the book burning and too much on the bland characters.

This week on the Deep Hurting Project is The Apparition. I'm going to show you the trailer for this one before I go into it:





Why show you the trailer? To give you an idea of what we're in for? No, because that plot is not really in the film. The whole "the monster can only attack you if you believe it's real" thing is never mentioned in the film. That would be original, and the only novel thing in this film is that CostCo is actually part of the plot. Yes, really. That tent in the end of the trailer is housed inside a CostCo and the woman's pretty much resigned to her death. The scientists are only supporting characters (Hell, practically bit parts until the last third of the movie [it's about 74 minutes without credits]), and the bulk of the film is another haunted house movie, like The Disappointments Room.





To be fair, at least it has some idea of how a plot is supposed to progress, unlike that film; no major revelation scene followed by haggling over a handyman's paycheck in this film. When sommething creepy happens in the house, it keeps building up, and they don't add meaningless scenes to undermine the entire flow of the film. I suppose that when you keep ripping off movies like Paranormal Activity without coming up with anything new on your own, except leaning on other horror tropes, like the evil-detecting dog who runs into a specific room to growl at something and then lay down and die. That said, the creature in The Disappointments Room may have something on this film, because, in this film, the spirit that haunts the house is mostly represented by mold. Yes, mold. And it's coming for the house Sebastian Stan lives in because... I have no fucking idea. He used to run with the scientists who brought it into the world, but it's never explained why it latched onto him and why it would wait several years before moving to the same home he and his girlfriend decided to move to.

And with shitty jump scares and boring acting all around, there's really nothing to recommend it.

Went to see it with my brother-in-law.  A good time was had by all.

(April 4, 2019 at 11:05 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:

Went to see it with my brother-in-law.  A good time was had by all.

I'm looking forward to seeing it, eventually.

(April 4, 2019 at 11:06 am)Kit Wrote:

(April 4, 2019 at 11:05 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:

Went to see it with my brother-in-law.  A good time was had by all.

I'm looking forward to seeing it, eventually.

I found it "ok"