What movies have you seen recently?

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Earlier today I watched an over-the-air broadcast of: Navy Seals vs. Zombies [2015] (trailer)

Our movie collection includes some movies of questionable quality but I see no reason to add a copy of this film. I do not recommend seeing the film. Its IMDb user rating is 3.3...and that sounds about right to me.

OK. I'm willing to say one nice thing about it: It is not as stupid as Redneck Zombies [1989] (trailer)--which is in our collection!--but that is a very low bar because Redneck Zombies isn't as good as it sounds (and I think it was trying to be stupid).

Grumpy old men.
Very funny

Men in Black International
Very good

Last night we watched:

Split Second [1992]
---"He's seen the future...Now he has to kill it. He'll need bigger guns."

Shallow and forgettable. We both agreed it was trash and that we enjoyed watching it.
I got it because it was a 1992 film set in London of 2008 with a setting explained by an opening crawler:

---------+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5-
-------After forty days and nights of torrential rain,--
-------the city is largely submerged below water, a-----
-------result of the devastating effects of continued---
-------global warming. The warnings ignored for---------
-------decades have now resulted in undreamed-of--------
-------levels of pollution where day has become---------
-------almost endless night . . .-----------------------
---------+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5-

Selfie From Hell.

Somewhat illogical film where a young woman tries to help her comatose cousin and finds the whole problem leads back to the cousin having been tempted to a forbidden site on the dark web which is reached through taking thirteen selfies. While some of the film hardly makes sense (she keeps her cousin in her guest room instead of taking her to the hospital, she won't call the police even though all the doors and windows of her house are opened at night, etc.), it was still entertaining.

Street Fighter.
The one from the 90s. fun

Last night we watched:

Happily [2021]
---"A killer romantic comedy."

About an hour into the film my bride declared "This is really good!" I'll go as far as pretty good. But it held my attention even though I think at its core it was basically a strange, leisurely drama.

IMDb lists its genres as: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller.
It was a "Comedy" but it was restrained. The "Crime" would be murder but it is unclear whether there was one murder or two. The "Romance" isn't two people finding each other, it is a married couple very much in love with each other. I disagree with "Sci-Fi", I think that should be "Fantasy". And I'm not sure about "Thriller", I don't think it was thrilling, I think it had undercurrents of weirdness, or strangeness, or uneasiness, or creepiness...it was eerie and faintly disturbing!

A good watch, though!

the Expendables
On TV last night. Fun

Open Season 2.

I love the Open Season movies.