Some old school ones.

- Romancing the Stone - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088011/

- Jewel of the Nile - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089370/


- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/
The ammount of Star Wars references in this is amazing for the time. Was E.T. a Jedi?

(December 11, 2023 at 2:42 am)pocaracas Wrote: Some old school ones.

- Romancing the Stone - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088011/

- Jewel of the Nile - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089370/


- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/
The ammount of Star Wars references in this is amazing for the time. Was E.T. a Jedi?

ET was released five years after A New Hope and two years after Empire.  Jedi mind powers not required.

Boru

(December 11, 2023 at 4:35 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(December 11, 2023 at 2:42 am)pocaracas Wrote: Some old school ones.

- Romancing the Stone - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088011/

- Jewel of the Nile - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089370/


- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/
The ammount of Star Wars references in this is amazing for the time. Was E.T. a Jedi?

ET was released five years after A New Hope and two years after Empire.  Jedi mind powers not required.

Boru

Elliot had a Lando Calrissian action figure. That's impressive.

(December 10, 2023 at 12:23 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: Leave the World Behind

Quote:A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices, and two strangers appear at their door.

Julia Robert's as Amanda: I fucking hate people. Off to a good start, at least.

That was Julia?

I thought it was Dennis Leary in drag.


I thought it was okay but the deer?

Come on

We saw Napoleon last weekend.

It wasn't great, but it had its moments. The appeal of Joaquin Phoenix continues to elude me.

napoleon leading a cavalry charge seems a bit over the top. both of ridley scott and joaquin phoenix collaborations were shoddy history

And the Deep Hurting Project is back, at least for a little while. I just decided to give JustWatch a bigger search beyond my usual "check the New to Streaming page every day." I found that two So Bad It's Horrible movies I hadn't covered were currently streaming on Tubi. First was House of the Dead (but it was only available in Canada), and the second is Raiders of the Lost Shark. I decided to do the latter because it's shorter.

• So, are you changing the names because you want to protect the living, or are you legally forced to do so? Oh, so it's just a needlessly long parody on those "all the names have been changed" disclaimers.
  
• Apparently, that one guard was going to keep the two girls in his car until his partner gave him an in. So, what if he never did?
  
• First of all, that's an energy drink, not Bubbly. Second, why did you have everything prepared for a day out when you were so professional before?
  
• Yeah, a random pond on a remote Canadian island in the middle of autumn. Sounds like the perfect time and place for a random swim.
  
• Blah Blah, the shark is supposed to be massive, but it's swimming in shallow waters without being detected. I really shouldn't expect anything else from these shitty shark movies.
  
• Who is this teacher and why is she getting flashbacks like they're supposed to mean something?
  
• Why is the sun so bright? It looks pretty overcast to me.
  
• I'm currently eating an apple, and I swear that the bite I just took would have sounded more intimidating than the sound they chose for the shark's bites.
  
• You know what, maybe it would have been better if the scenes with the two guards on the island covered the flashbacks the teacher had?
  
• Anybody got a microbus? You'd probably need an old hippie for that.
  
• Incredible how that guard already had a bikini ready underneath her clothes.
  
• Wait, they left a fake arm in the water? Why? And how did they even have that available?
  
• You gotta love it that the Canadian police captain is more interested in LARPing as a Southern sheriff (who seems to be played by Kevin Spacey) than doing his job.
  
• I don't know what's more preposterous, that this megalodon can swim undetected in such shallow waters, or that the fact that it's a megalodon got this woman interested in hunting the shark.
  
• At least this old sea dog looks more like a real old sea dog than the one from Jurassic Shark 2.
  
• It was a shark that took my hand. Oh, wait, there it is. No, it's not my hand, even if it moves too naturally for it to be a fake.
  
• The highest rated beach in Ontario is on something called "The Forbidden Island"?
  
• My god, they're not even trying to make the shark look like it exists in the same universe as the humans, are they?
  
• Huh. The French (or is that Quebequois) guy apparently wanted his woman to get eaten by a shark. Maybe that's what happened to Jean-Francois Gariepy's wife.
  
• So, I just freeze-framed the cops' uniform and found they apparently work for the Munster Police Department. Munster is a village that's been part of Ottawa since 2001. Why the fuck do they have jurisdiction over this island/peninsula?
  
• And it's taken over halfway through the movie for anyone to notice that, even without the threat of a shark, maybe an overcast day in the middle of autumn isn't the time to have a swim.
  
• I'm at 1% body fat. I'm just waiting for my organs to fail.
  
• Flying shark? Flying fucking shark?
  
• What the Hell is with the background of this news report? What is this Tyler Durden, "All-Singing, All-Dancing Crap of the World", frame shaking thing even doing?
  
• Captain! Captain! CAPTAIN! Who's piloting the fucking boat?
  
• God, they could have made it a Hell of a lot clearer that they were in contact with their professor. For a minute there, I thought they were just hallucinating her. 
  
• Did this woman just prioritise getting a tan at this "beach" over getting the sample she needed? 
  
• The Sheriff didn't even have his pants on?
  
• We got ourselves a land shark:
  
  
  
• Why the fuck is there an old phone in the middle of a forest preserve?
  
• So, the shark was just a fucking genetic modification experiment? Okay, Dr. Graham Linehan.
  
• Does the Sheriff not know he's in Canada and not the US?
  
• The one responsible for all this? Isn't she supposed to be a survivor of a shark attack? 
  
• Wait, she owns the island? Why is the legal status of this island so confusing?
  
• At this point, my headcanon is that the Sheriff has the same sleep disorder I have. 
  
• You know, I'd balk at the idea of a 30-foot boat with a jacuzzi, but then again, I just found out that somebody's currently running cruises down the Chicago River on boats that are just glorified hot tubs that can move down the river.  And, yes, when I said "currently," I mean even now, when it's just above freezing here.
  
• Brad, Janet, Goddammit!
  
• Fucking Hell, the shark looks even worse as a practical effect than as CGI.
  
• Huh. Getting shot caused that shark to explode, and pour an entire can of cranberry sauce on the deputy.
  

Next time, House of the Dead. And I'll try to set ExpressVPN to Ottawa, in "honour" of this movie. In the meantime, I'll be watching Christmas Vacation.

(December 11, 2023 at 8:26 am)Istvan Wrote: We saw Napoleon last weekend.

It wasn't great, but it had its moments. The appeal of Joaquin Phoenix continues to elude me.

(my bold)

I thought he did a decent job playing a spoiled child/emperor in "Gladiator," but in general, I have to agree.

A Haunting In Venice. Another convoluted Poirot romp. Love Venice.

(December 11, 2023 at 7:51 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: A Haunting In Venice. Another convoluted Poirot romp. Love Venice.

I agree. Of all the open sewers I’ve seen, Venice is far and away the best.

Boru