Exorcist Believer.
It made me not believe in this planned trilogy.
Legacy Characters are glorified cameos that ultimately bring the movie down and sequel bait after a strong first half. Bad Exorcist Movie didn’t even put a in memoriam for the man who made the original.
Wait til it’s streaming on whatever platform.
And watch Legion instead. It’s a better movie.
Just watched 2 Fast 2 Furious. It was… better. Not a high bar to clear considering the first film, but credit where it’s due, they actually did improve on the first film.
It had most of the same problems: bad acting; people too pretty and too scantily clad to be in such a grungy criminal underworld; characters that go from scowling and shouting in anger in one scene, and then the next scene that literally takes place in the amount of time for them to walk around a corner, the same characters are smiling and patting each other on the back or giving complicated handshakes; vehicles having a nitro boost that makes the view through the windshield look like the Enterprise is going into warp drive; shifting in places where there’s no need for shifting, so much so I’m surprised the sticks don’t break off. Still a very poor film.
However, it at least has a coherent story and some believable and understandable motivations for the characters, unlike the first film, where I didn’t know who was doing what or why they were doing it. Here at least, from almost the beginning, I found myself understanding what the point of the film was, where it was going, and why it had to get there. It’s a step in the right direction. Only a single step, but still progress.
Ok, just watched The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. The whole time watching it, I’m thinking: one step forward, half a step back. Although it ditches the grungy feel of the first two movies, as well as the warp speed-effect of that stupid nitro boost nonsense, it still has its meaningless car-worshiping street race culture, it’s motivation-less characters who are as pretty as a diamond chess set and as shallow as a sidewalk gutter after the lawn sprinklers go off, and we get more shots of drivers shifting gears even when they shouldn’t be than we had ass shots of Scarlett Johansson throughout the entire MCU. And the lead? Wow, I thought Paul Walker met the criteria for boring-ass white guy protagonist, but Lucas Black makes him, Armie Hammer and Jai Courtney all look like Robert Downey, Jr. (and is it just me, or does he look like he could be the son of Thomas Jane from certain angles?). The fact that it doesn’t even connect to the other two films just makes it seem like a cash grabbing spin-off.
Then, the last 45 minutes happened. And I’ll admit, I was like, what the fuck, what was that other shit I was just watching? This is the movie. The tension increased, motivations appeared, conflicts arose, the racing had an honest-to-God point to it, and the acting actually became believable. The coolest part of the movie only arrives during this stretch: the main antagonist’s Yakuza uncle. The guy had the suave style of a classic mob boss, looking and acting like a Japanese answer to Raymond Reddington. And then the surprise twist at the end with Vin Diesel; I’ll admit, that did something the first two movies didn’t come close to doing. It made me actually want to see the next one and find out more. I’ll praise the last 45 minutes of this movie of taking two steps forward from where the second one was, but the rest of it is just a more glamorized version of the same senseless noise as the first film.
I’m glad you enjoyed at least some of Tokyo Drift. Considering from 4 onwards, the franchise becomes about Vin Diesel and Paul Walker again, Tokyo Drift is a bit of an oddity. A potential different future where the franchise followed these new characters, or hell, perhaps became a sortof anthology series with street racing as the theme.
This is where the good and bad(?) news comes in. Tokyo Drift was directed by Justin Lin, and he directed F&F 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9. So perhaps you may like his filmmaking? The potentially bad news is the timeline: Tokyo Drift is the third film in the franchise, but chronologically, Tokyo Drift happens between 6 and 7, with all the other films being linear in order. The reason for this is that the mentor character Hans, who is killed in the car chase half way through, appears in 4, 5, and 6, because Justin Lin was fond of the character. Lucas Black and Vin Diesel’s meeting actually gets expanded upon in F&F7.
It’ll be interesting to see what you think of future films, if you do decide to keep pushing through. Worth noting that F&F4 actually has a tie-in 20 minute prequel short film called Los Bandoleros, directed by Vin Diesel himself. It’s… interesting, no action in it, serving more as this little slice of life thing about Vin’s characters before F&F4 happens. It’s on the F&F4 physical release but I’m not sure how you are watching these movies. F&F4 though, I am very interested to see what you think of it. It basically is the direct sequel to F&F1, mostly ignoring 2 and 3.
Well, right after the third one, I went and watched Fast and Furious. Still not the best of movies, but now we’re getting somewhere. It starts with an interesting opening, then hooks you with a mystery (albeit a rather shallow one), and then leads into the conflict of whether or not Dom and Brian can trust each other while they figure out who the bad guy is. The reason why this particular “can I trust you” plot works better than the others is that we’ve seen the history play out, whereas in the previous films, we’re thrown in blind just having to take the word of characters we don’t know for why they are doing the things they do. By this point, knowing the characters and what went down in the first, and seeing what became of Brian after the second, and a bit of what’s to come in the “third,” it all falls into place and makes some sense. And the races in this one were at least a bit new and imaginative, and they’ve truly ditched the warp speed nitro boost effect, thank goodness. Can I just assume they’re never going stop shifting?!
All in all, the series is picking up steam, and while I don’t understand how it was popular enough at the beginning to launch such a huge series, I can see how it managed to gain and keep popularity at a certain point to allow it to work.
(Sees that four of the first five FF movies are going to leave Netflix by the end of October, might as well finally watch them after all this time)
Heisenberg: (watches the first four movies) Why is this series popular enough to now have more entries than the Nightmare on Elm Street series?
Also Heisenberg: (watches Fast 5) Oh, this is why!
That one was good. We finally got to one that’s honestly good. I love heist movies! And I had no idea how much I needed to see Vin Diesel and The Rock engage in a slugfest. How did Zach Snyder make Superman’s fight with Batman so bland when he had this as an example? Damn, Tyrese was hilarious in this one. And the nitro-boost actually had a purpose; I’ll let it slide this time.
Ok, I’m finally starting to get it now.
Glad you enjoyed Fast Five. Your more upbeat on the 4th film than I am, personally, it might be my least favourite. Did you watch the end credits stinger for Fast Five? 6 also has one too.
Of course. The series is using a sequel hook method now since TD. Gotta make sure I don’t miss any.
Awesome. Your making me want to catch up with the rest of the movies now. I binged movies 1-7 and took a break from it. I own 8 and Hobbs & Shaw but they’re somewhere in my house, I’ll need to dig them up and will probably go buy 9 and 10. 11 is meant to be the final movie, but apparently they might stretch it to 12, guess we’ll see. I’m sure anyway the F&F saga will last past Vin Diesel and co anyway.
I just want Diesel to finish it up so he can get back to his real franchise: Riddick.
My dad and I watched ‘Sisu’ tonight.
It’s a WW2 action movie, basically if you crossed John Wick with an old man and a nazi-killing one-man-army.
An Old Man finds gold in the finnish wilderness and gets crossed by some greedy nazis. He then gets hunted and also hunts those Nazis to their doom.
It was really fun.
One of the accolades they use in their trailer is “The most fun you can have watching Nazis get destroyed” and that’s pretty true, there’s a pretty gruesome but entertaining scene involving a minefield.
Some really great makeup and stunt-work, as the old man performs impressive combat tricks, goes through some inventive nail-biting moments of tension, and a lot of blood gets traded.
Highly reccomend if you want a fun movie to watch big explosions and bad guys getting killed.
Also, since ‘Sisu’ is noted to be a finnish word with no english translation, and Remedy games is finnish, I wondered: “huh. Maybe that word will appear in AW2 in some form”.
It took one second to look at the Trophy List and I found this. Sweet! 
I want to see someone make a movie about that Russian lady whose husband was killed by the Nazis, so she got in a fucking tank and just started to slaughter the entire Easter front, and then got the other widows in on it by training them to meet up with Nazis and act like they wanted to sleep with them and then once they were vulnerable murdered the absolute hell out of them. That would a good revenge flick, and based on a legit true story.
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning.
Meh.
I watched Fast and Furious 9 last week.
Ethan Hunt and the characters from Fast and Furious are immortal 
or they are super luck
Just watched entries 6 and 7 in the Fast and Furious series, as well as The Purge: Anarchy.
As to the first two, a little ridiculous where the stunts are concerned, but really good plots in my opinion, and excellent casting choices for villains. Now caught up as far as timeline goes, I do like how, in hindsight, the events of the movies aren’t strictly in order by their release, being somewhat reminiscent of what worked in the later Saw movies. I will say though, I’m calling absolute bullshit on Hobbs’ bit near the end of 7. I know it’s the Rock and all, but nobody is gonna break their cast by flexing, especially when they’ve only had it for a few days and so have done exactly zero healing, and then be able to use that same broken arm to hold a gattling gun by hand and hold it steady enough to actually hit targets. I’m sorry, but even 47 can’t pull off shit like that with a broken arm, no way, no how. I’ll believe Dom’s highway super dive to catch Letty midair and walking it off over that.
As to The Purge: Anarchy, wow, talk about a sequel that improves on the original in nearly every way. The original film was one of those movies with a really interesting idea that was squandered for the sake of making a generic genre film (in this case, home invasion), and didn’t really explore the nuances of its founding idea. This film actually explores the real implications of a concept as simultaneously frighteningly plausible yet laughably absurd as the Purge. And what I like most is that it leans into the idea that, yeah, the Purge really doesn’t work! The only reason it’s able to continue year after year with the belief that it works is because the powers that be have rigged the game to make it seem like it has, and all the assholes who like their violence or just thumbing their nose at laws give it it’s public support. So much more enjoyable than the first film, and from what I’ve heard, the sequels continue to get better, or at least further explore the implications of the central concept, showing just how corruptly flawed the Purge is. Definitely want to check out the rest.
The super Mario bros movie I mainly watched it because jack black really enjoyed it I liked Charlie day as Luigi Chris Pratt was a lot better then I was expecting and I don’t know anything about the other cast members guess I will reply to this again whenever the sequel comes out and whenever I watch it
Watched a bad ass movie - Leo.
Its is the 3rd movie of Lokesh Kanagaraj Cinematic Universe (after Kaithi and Vikram)
Violence Bad Ass Violence - Bloody Sweet
I worked up some courage to watch It Follows tonight. It was good!
A woman inherits a curse after sleeping with a guy, where a monster disguised as a human will constantly chase her, until she’s killed. And only she can see it. Very interesting mystery and some cool camera-shots, music, and build-up to some frights. Ending was a little weird and abrupt, but overall it was pretty cool.
(atmospheric)
(spooky)
I love this movie. It has such an 80s vibe. Like a John Carpenter flick (including the synth music).
This and the Guest are both great throwbacks to that style.
If I recall correctly, the chapter titles were used to further differentiate between the color scenes and the black and white scenes. “Fission” was for the color scenes while “Fusion” was for the black and white (or maybe the other way around; it’s been a minute) and it’s just implied that they just carry over when the corresponding scenes are playing.
