What movies have you seen recently?

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Last night we watched:

Edge of Tomorrow [2014]
<=>"LIVE. DIE. REPEAT."



Unusual Tom Cruise film. There is a war with interstellar invaders...and he is an Army major in Public Relations.

He does not want to fight, he does not know how to fight, and does not want to go anywhere near where other people are fighting. When a general decides to send him to the front-lines to do his next story he tries to desert. The general uses force to prevent desertion. When the Army major regains consciousness he is a private in a unit going into battle at the front-lines...and he is trapped there. And he is soon dead.

When he regains consciousness he is a private in a unit preparing to go into battle at the front-lines. And he is soon dead.

LIVE. DIE. REPEAT.

Through continual repetition, he learns.


EXCELLENT SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE

EXCELLENT ACTION MOVIE

EXCELLENT MOVIE

Robot Dreams

Arcadian.

A father in a post-apocalyptic world has to protect his two sons from man-eating monsters. Then the situation is reversed when he is severely injured, and his sons try to save him.
Pretty decent sci-fi/horror film.

Poseidon Rex

so bad it wasn't even entertaining

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010 film)

Lilo and Stitch (2025 version)

Predator: Killer Of Killers.

Animated Predator movie, in which fighters from different periods of time - a Viking woman seeking vengeance for her slain father, a ninja who has to face his samurai brother, and a WWII pilot - all having survived predator hunts, are made to fight each other.
First rate story, left on a cliffhanger.

The Andromeda Strain

I saw this years ago (sometime in the 1970s). Watching it again I noticed what should have been some obvious flaws in the "science".

The Andromeda particle has a crystalline structure and it can mutate. In the movie, the initial organism killed the victims through the blood. Then it mutated and dissolved skin-like rubber causing an airplane to crash. Apparently, it all mutated exactly the same so that there was none of the original form left to kill people through the blood. What we should expect, though, is for mutations to not affect the non-mutated organisms. There should have been a good deal of the original version remaining and it would continue to keep killing.

Second, it then mutates in the laboratory in exactly the same manner. But why would different samples mutate in precisely the same way? Simple -- they wouldn't do that. They actually referred to this when they talked about how a nuclear weapon would cause huge numbers of mutations at the same time -- not causing it to all mutate the same way at the same time.

Last night we watched:

The Little Shop of Horrors [1960]
<=>"The flowers that kill in the Spring TRA-LA"



Excellent low-quality over-acted fun movie.

With a young Jack Nicholson.

Last night we watched:

Undead [2003]
<=>"Prepare Yourself"



It holds my interest.

Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance.

Even with Nicolas Cage resuming the title role, I had no idea this movie even existed till last night. There's a reason why. While somewhat entertaining, it's hardly a great movie.

The original "Friday the 13th" where the killer turned out to be Jason's mother in the end

I think she was far creepier a villain than her son.

Reminder: Some of us watch old movies. So, here, it is still possible to spoil a movie...even if it is old.

The [spoil] tag can protect people from spoilers they do not want to see.

Thanks!

Freddy Got Fingered. Long live manic humor!

Prey.

Predator movie, in which the alien big game hunter comes to earth in early 18th century America, where it battles a Native American tomboy and hunters from her tribe.
Pretty decent movie.