Bliss with Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek. It’s this years Uncut Gems. A well done move with a full blown comedic actor whose wandered into a serious drama role and knocked it out of the park.
Worth your time.
My new habit of watching all the weird straight to DVD Scooby Doo movies of the last 10 or so years continued with stop number 3. And no this isn’t one of the WWE ones, maybe next time.
I just saw FrankenCreepy. It is heavily based on Frankenstein obviously. It was also a surprisingly good movie. Had pretty nice writing and everything but the editing was really on point, kind of reminded me of Edgar Wright’s editing in the Cornetto Trilogy, weird comparison I’m sure but the video below will illustrate what I mean.
Also while not representative of the film itself the opening scene used some really nice and unique visuals, this was used again in a later chase scene.
So yeah, good movie. Does use the slur for Romani people once in the film so just a head’s up. But it is better than the Kiss one but not as well animated. Both excel in different areas.
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Freezer having a blast watching the straight to DVD films.
Don’t get me wrong I love Scooby Doo, but it really depends on the era. Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase was the last project before Willam Hanna died. Meaning it was the last Scooby Doo project where Hanna Barbara were still alive.
The William Hanna and Joseph Barbara era of the franchise is very special to me given the hand drawn cells is timeless and can’t be recreated in with digital ink and paint animation that the 2000’s picked up on.
Two notable Scooby Doo things I recommend investing time into is not actually films, but TV shows.
- What’s New Scooby Doo?
The first Scooby Doo cartoon since the babyfication era of the late 80’s with A Pup Named Scooby Doo. This show essentially saved the franchise and modernized it for a new generation.
- Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated
Literally the Twin Peaks/ X-Files of the series. I recommend this one to anyone. While yes this is a children’s cartoon it does delve into dark themes and has subtle call backs to numerous incarnations of the series.
Flim Flam is a little shit btw
Of course nothing will top the original incarnation of the series with Scooby Doo Where Are You? Always a joy to go back and watch those original two seasons since the humor and jokes are dry, but that’s my type of thing that I find funny.
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What’s New Scooby Doo is cool but it is vanilla. It’s just a modernisation of the classic and I love it for keeping the series alive for a new generation but it’s just that.
Mystery Incorporated is cool and the darker tone is nice.
Honestly hot take alert but my favourite show of theirs is Be Cool Scooby Doo, the one everyone dismissed but it’s a great take on it. Also Pup Named Scooby Doo was good and nothing like the babification that every franchise did.
By the way the Happy Halloween Scooby Doo movie I first watched to start this trend is also set in Crystal Cove so that’s a nice call back for fans of Mystery Incorporated.
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It’s not my personal cup of tea since it deconstructs the usual formula and takes a more comedic approach, but I have no issue with someone liking it.
Agreed, my only issue is the lack of Frank Welker, but the theme does hit differently.
Coolsville and Crystal Cove are two key locations in the Scooby-verse. People tried to connect all incarnations of the series and essentially made two canons one where the gang grew up in Coolsville and the other where they grew up in Crystal Cove. This theory gets really bonkers and some people managed to connect it to practically every other cartoon known to exist.
I present to you the Scooby Dooniverse
Basically blame this graph on the one Johnny Bravo episode.
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We’re getting into deep scooby doo lore now 
I can’t say I’m a huge fan of the property as a whole, but the 2 live action films from the 2000s and Cyber Chase are absolute classics for me, could happily watch them any time
Also, I really like Ryan Hollinger’s film analysis videos and he did a great one on the straight to video SD films. Worth a watch
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That video was how I found out about those movies. I assumed nothing happened between Scrappy Doo era and What’s New era for a long time because I wasn’t too deep into the lore years ago.
Now I know too much. Help me.
Also Billiam on YouTube has been watching every incarnation slowly over the last few years. He is a Scrappy Doo apologist like me and we have to stick together. Scrappy was a symptom, not the problem.
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I dont have any (legal) opportunity to watch it yet, since its on no streaming service in Germany available yet and the cinemas are still closed 
Even worse i also can’t see Mortal Kombat for the same reasons. Damn you, Corona Virus.
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Zombie Island was such a blast to watch when I was a kid. 
Ghosts, zombies, furries, this ones has it all 
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My friends and I were on 48 hour MK theme song lockdown when we drove down to Cape Cod in 2016. Good times…
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There is no old theme in new movie 
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This isn’t the first time I’ve watched this movie, but whatever. I just saw The Untouchables again and I still adore it. What a wonderful movie, really. It’s a movie about how Elliot Ness and his group of “untouchables” managed to encarcerate Al Capone.
Everyone is great. Sean Connery steals the show, but he doesn’t overshadow the rest of the cast as much as you’d think; Kevin Costner’s performance is fantastic and it has a lot of nuance, and seeing him lose his cool is geniunely shocking. Robert De Niro plays one of his most memorable roles as Al Capone, and he’s fantastic. He’s a complete asshole, but you can’t help but smile or even laugh whenever he speaks. He’s got charisma, but you still hate him for what he does, so he works perfectly as a villain. Andy García is also great as George Stone. His introduction is so good you’d think that’s his best scene, but he tops it and by a long shot (no pun intended) later on. I won’t go into details; if you’ve seen the movie you know what I’m talking about, and I don’t want to spoil it if you haven’t. Lastly, Charles Martin Smith plays a relatively minor character who, even though he does some very important things, he doesn’t get enough sceen time. This doesn’t matter, however, since he’s just so fun to watch. You look at him and you’d think he’s not the right person for the job, but man is he badass in his own way.
Oh, and let’s not forget Billy Drago as Nitty. To many, he’s the real villain of the film. As soon as he shows up, you already hate him. Truly one of the most cruel, intimidating villains in a movie like this, you just can’t wait to see him die. A perfect performance for such an evil role.
Anyway, just watch it for yourself if you haven’t already, or watch it again if you haven’t watched it in a while. Everyone should see this movie at least once in their life.
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Ages back I bought a boxset of the first 7 Fast & Furious movies, and have started watching the first movie. Real far cry from the sortof kid friendly blockbusters the movies have become lately, when you’ve got someone being called a “f*****” and a “n****”, and a woman getting groped. Just with a quick Google, F&F9 will be coming out this year, the 20th anniversary of the first movie.
To be honest I really want to watch these movies just to see how dumb and how ridiculous it gets. I’m only half an hour into the first movie and so far the highlight is this hilarious line from Michelle Rodriguez: “RAWR! Skanks! Get away before I put tyre treads all over your face!”
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I’d say it gets pretty bad in the middle but if you completely turn your brain off (which really is a requirement for any F&F film tbh) then I’d say 6-8 are fun romps
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Oh absolutely. I just kindof want to see how silly it gets, I know F2 is meant to have some really terrible CGI when they could of just used real cars. Not to mention the absurdity of the F&F timeline, isn’t Tokyo Drift meant to be the first film chronologically for some reason? It’ll probably take me a wee while to get through them, but I will post about them, if purely just to quote the most insane and dumbest parts.
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Tokyo Drift is set during the 7th movie. But of course, it was just to fit Han’s death into the series, even though Dom’s reason of visiting Japan doesn’t match the final scene of Tokyo Drift, and everyone in the movie using flip phones in 2015 doesn’t make any sense too.
Well anyway, it’s pretty interesting to me as well, to see how this franchise changes so ridiculously much from its earlier titles. I am still interested to see what cars will be in the latest one, but we all know the series will never go back to its street racing root. After all, ‘family’ matters. 
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I always had a soft spot for Toyko Drift compared to the rest of the series.
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I’ve never watched a full movienof this series and to be honest i dont think i missed out something 
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Yea man Untouchables is well done all around. Lots of artistic liberty taken to make the story more fun (Ness and Capone likely never met each other until after Capone was arrested… thing like that) but it’s a lot of fun. I especially like the scene on the Canadian border where Ness changes from being disgusted with the way Chicago cops bend the rules to all of a sudden defending the practice when the Canadian Mounty voices his distaste for it.
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