Watched the Scooby Doo and Courage The Cowardly Dog crossover.
It was fine, very happy to see more Courage in any capacity but of the straight to DVD Scooby Doo movies I have seen this is the weakest. Somehow the Kiss crossover is much better and I don’t know how.
The last movie I’ve watched had a Shaggy Cameo…coincidence?
Last night I watched Drive (2011).
Great film about a getaway driver taking the wrong job at the wrong time.
It starts out with this awesome cerebral chase between the Driver and the police. Ducking into alleyways, avoiding helicopter spotlights, changing between obeying the rules of the road and breaking them. Tense stuff, and great payoff to this first scene that I won’t spoil.
The movie afterwards is definitely Nicholas Winding Refn delving into fun Neo-Noir themes, backed by a great synthwave soundtrack. It’s about love between Driver and his neighbour, there’s a lot of focus on the dark, nightly crime aspects of L.A. (reminiscent of Nightcrawler – also good) and then the film focuses on gritty, gory elements by the second half, it’s some gut-wrenching stuff.
I can see why Hideo Kojima might’ve been so intrigued by this, and had Refn star in Death Stranding (also including collectibles about Drive). The loner, wandering-stranger character that Ryan Gosling plays, a bit of a badass, and who doesn’t even have many lines of dialogue – reminded me of Norman Reedus’ character Sam Bridges. – though the latter is way more of a pacifist.
I can’t help but wonder if Edgar Wright might’ve been inspired by this too.
Over the past few weeks, I have watched these movies:
Taxi Driver (1976)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Very different movies of different caliber, yet each is legendary.
Long time no see 
That’s such a good movie! I’m glad you liked it.
It’s as if the movie is slowly trodding along and then there are these massive explosions of violence and then back to the slow trod.
Just saw the Sylvester Stallone flick Daylight (1996) for the first time in ages.
It’s a by-the-numbers distaster movie where a tunnel collapses and traps a bunch of people inside. Sly plays Kit Latura, who is (of course) the only one who can get the survivors out.
It’s a fairly competent movie, with some standard distaster movie set pieces and problem solving. It’s kind of like the Poseidon Adventure, but in a tunnel.
I’ll say this, it does a way better job than most modern disaster movies do.
I just saw the extended cut of Escape Room 2. It was a lot better than the theatrical cut, in my opinion. So, yeah. Pretty good.
Just like how my review was pretty good
I had only been looking forward to three movies this year; Justice League Snyder Cut, Godzilla vs Kong, and No Time To Die. Two down, one to go.
You’re not gonna so see the Many Saints of Newark? I’m pumped for that and it’s out in a couple days.
Don’t even know what it is. I was looking forward to only 3 movies this year.
It’s a prequel to the Sopranos tv series. James Gandolphini’s kid is playing a young Tony Sorano and Ray Liotta is in it too.
Only ever watched the ending to see what the big deal was. It’s in my list of shows I should watch.
I always thought it wasn’t quite as good as the wire, but damn close.
And the wire is another, along with the shield.
two movies in two days, both at complete opposite ends of family-friendliness 
To put it simply, I’m going through the entire KP series recently, from start to finish, as I never saw the second half of Season 4 as a kid. It mostly holds up so far, definitely an old Disney gem.
The movie is just a great fun time. You’ve got an evil scheme from Dr. Drakken that’s so bonkers it just might work, plenty of globe-trotting and even more spy action than usual (Kim has to get in disguise and wear a wig!), super good fight scenes (always really well-choreographed), some new CGI elements, kick-ass music from many genres (including some epic choral chanting), and plenty of movie-exclusive character additions and dynamic shake-ups. I really enjoyed the Bueno Nacho subplot this time around.
Even a neat James Bond silhouette-type opening credits, with a slow remix of the theme song.
It’s a bit of a product from it’s time – in the opening in Japan, a sumo ninja enemy shows up, to which Ron immediately states one of his catchphrases: “Augh, that is sick and wrong!”. Not a good look, man.
But apart from that it holds up well as an epic event in the series. Awesome final controntation in the rain, Drakken finally says Ron’s name, and Kim and Ron officially get together! (Plus, they have a full final season to get through afterwards! Something they actually joked would end the series once…)
I watched this movie a lot as a kid, specifically one of the later fight scenes… it’s still an entertaining film.
(the good one, animated, from 2005) 
This is definitely the better, more enjoyable of the SS movies. I have no idea if they share any canon or relation to one another apart from a few returning actors, or if it even relates to other DC movies that have come out – I remembered the existence of the Birds of Prey film while watching this – doesn’t seem like any outside knowledge is required, so that’s good.
Gosh, this movie has great style. Sometimes I think it’s a bit much and is just for the sake of “cool transition/playing around” but it’s got more of an identity and memorable-ness than the… dark, gritty, seen-a-million times 2016 style of film?
The smash-cuts to title cards, demarcating chapters of the film is nice, and lets some VFX artists blend it into environments in nice ways. Plenty of scenes that play with colour and epic lighting, mmm it’s fun all around.
Lots of use of music, which James Gunn loves to use if the GOTG films are any indication. They fit scenes pretty well, especially a Harley Quinn fight sequence near the end.
I really liked how the team under Amanda Waller was showcased a lot more in this film, showing that they have some sort of agency and personal stake in their jobs and the relation to the Suicide Squad they try to keep in check.
There’s gore galore in this film. Dear god. Great work. But dear god.
The main cast of 5 that the film mostly follows is such a fun bunch of people. Ratcatcher 2, King Shark, Polka-Dot-Man, are superbly strange characters that Gunn has dug up, but they have great moments of calm and reflection, and really nice running jokes throughout the film. Specifically the ones involving Sebastian the Rat and Polk’s mother. Former was adorable, latter was hilariously goofy.
Also have to give props to Idris Elba, and especially John Cena and Margot Robbie. Idris is the nice head-strong “leader” of the team, though his childish spats with Peacemaker (Cena) are fun. John Cena has a great role as Peacemaker, someone supremely violent but with the most pacifist name and silly costume. He’s really embraced comedy roles lately and it’s great. Margot Robbie – she’s so good as Harley, as always, so that’s fun. The outfit later in the film is soooo cool.
As spoilers go, I found that the gimmick of “people will die in the Suicide Squad” was a bit too overused in the marketing, given that the majority of the shocking deaths happen in the first fifteen minutes of the movie. The rest of the cast rolls on by pretty smoothly.
The part where Peacemaker was about to shoot Ratcatcher, then it cuts to “8 minutes ago” felt a bit cheap. It was such a tense series of events, I guess we needed the breather, but I would have liked them to be swapped. Would have felt less like tension was ripped away.
Harley murdering all the compound guards with animated animals and flowers appearing everywhere was such a nice scene, stylistically. Mmmm I have no words other than “oh yeahhh”.
(the good one, live-action, from 2021)
As long as they keep using the version of Harley Quinn they’re using, there won’t be a “good one” of these SS movies.
Well, at least we both agree the first one wasn’t that good 
I swear the only people that like the first one are people that want the Snyder-verse restored and are using that film as some sort of proof of concept.
I wouldn’t say that the first one was good, per se, but I think that it gets more flak than it really deserves. Most of the Snyderverse films do. They leave much to be desired, sure, but it’s not like they’re at Joel Schumacher’s level.