Moby Went to See…Run All Night?

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Mar 212015
 

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Forgive me for I have sinned…I went and paid money to see Run All Night. And you know it was not all that bad for a 2 hour long commercial pitch for handguns.

The movie is very well made and has a great cast. Liam is his usual, gun toting self. I think at one point he must have had several guns in his possession. Good for him.

Liam plays the part of a washed up mob hitman who likes guns, keeping them hidden and within reach all over the place. It’s as if every time he’s in trouble, he has a gun or gets one from a convenient hiding place.

Is this a great country or what? Continue reading »

Moby’s Idea For…James Bond

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Mar 202015
 

IdrisI’ve had this idea for a while now, but with the revelations in the Sony emails about the possibility of a black man, Idris Elba, being considered to play the role and the controversy surrounding the idea…I have a few thoughts.

Again, nothing new. My idea is a bit simple and came from, of all places, Star Wars. Disney’s plans for the Star Wars franchise include one-shot movies in between the main movies of the series featuring things like space fighter pilots.

So I got to thinking one day of all those actors who are considered by many to be the ideal James Bond but will never get the role. What if they did? Continue reading »

Moby Went to See…CHAPPiE?

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Mar 142015
 

Chappie_posterForgive me for I have sinned…I went and paid money to see CHAPPiE. And you know it was not all that bad overall.

The movie can best be described as being better in total than it’s separate parts would indicate. There’s plenty to not like about the movie throughout, but all in all I actually enjoyed it.

Of course, Spoilers!

There’s plenty of thuggery and lawlessness, and perhaps that was not necessary. Why the producers decided to make this film the way they did…I just don’t know. Perhaps there is some meaning to it, some sort of man vs machine version of moral equivalency. The movie seems to be saying that we humans are no better than machines, that we are all messed up too.  Continue reading »

Things You Learn by Watching The Hunted

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Feb 192015
 

Shamelessly re-blogged from the comments section of IMDB for the movie The Hunted (1995), posted by ksjazzguitar on Sat Jun 26 2010.

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1. Ninja leaders and high priced call girls have really bad Japanese accents (which I’m sure has nothing to do with the fact that they are played by Chinese actors.)

2. If I kill Kinjo, I become his heir.

3. When fighting your ninja master for control of the clan, just raise your sword as high as you can and charge him – I’m sure he won’t think to step aside and slice you across the belly. After that fails, try it again – I’m sure he won’t slice you across the belly a second time.

4. Paul REALLY doesn’t like pachinko.

5. Little Japanese girls will happily get in a cab with a strange gaijin, as long as he’s nervous and bleeding from the neck (that’s how you know they are safe.)

6. A taxi driver in a major city doesn’t understand the word “train”, even though it has cognates in several European languages. It probably never gets mentioned in his line of work.

7. Takeda is impressed. No one has ever escaped the Makato, Racine has done it twice.

8. If you see half a dozen young men getting on a train with golf bags, they are probably ninja.

9. When ninja attack a train, they always color coordinate with the drapes. It’s just part of ninja etiquette.”

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Moby Went to See…Jupiter Ascending?

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Feb 122015
 

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Forgive me for I have sinned…I went and paid money to see Jupiter Ascending. And you know it was not all that bad for a sequel to The Fifth Element.

There was a sort of ‘Fifth Element’ feel to the Galaxy, or was that just me? The movie itself was alright, but again…and this keeps happening lately…I am reminded of what I don’t like about the state of movies nowadays.

There used to be art in making films. If the script was not right you simply did not go ahead until it was. It was understood that the story was the most important thing, but not so much anymore. Now it seems like it’s all about visuals and stars and money concerns. I get that movies need to make money but there used to be artists making them, artists that did not want their names on a polished turd, just to get ahead or make money. They gave a crap about their craft.

I guess what I am trying to say is that this is no Indiana Jones, but it’s not all that bad either. At least it wasn’t a sequel or something derived from another property just for the sake of a recognizable name, like Battleship or High-Ho Cherry-O.

I liked that it was original and it did feel like the filmmakers were taking a leap. I kept telling myself ‘this is Space Opera’ and that went a long way towards forgiving what at times was simply not otherwise impressive. The visuals were top notch but the aliens themselves are one dimensional, just the usual bad guys are very bad and the good guys fart lightning. Continue reading »

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