(Skipped a day for Christmas.)
Movies Seen Recently: The Undefeated, John Dies at the End, A Christmas Carol
The Undefeated (1969) – At the end of the Civil War, northerner John Wayne is happy to take the remaining cavalrymen who followed him into war out West to catch wild horses to sell to the Army. Southern officer and gentlemen Rock Hudson, meanwhile, burns his plantation house rather than let it fall into northern…
Movies Seen Recently: Deep Blue Sea, Death Rides a Horse, Gamma People
Deep Blue Sea (1999) – At least this movie proposes a reason for breeding super-smart sharks that isn’t the standard “EE-vil military uses” one: Because shark brains show no deterioration due to age, this research project in the middle of the ocean is conducting experiments to see how those effects can hold true in more…
Movies Seen Recently: The Bad Batch, The Edge of Tomorrow, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
The Bad Batch (2016) – I can’t decide if I liked this one or not. It’s sometime in the future, when everyone who is determined one of the “bad batch” by the unseen government is tattooed with a number behind their ear and dumped in a walled-off section of desolate Texas and forgotten. We never…
Movies Seen Recently: El Dorado, The Great Silence, Fail-Safe
El Dorado (1967) – This Western, showcasing a 60-year-old John Wayne, a 50-year-old Robert Mitchum, and a 27-year-old James Caan (good lord, I didn’t know he was ever young! He didn’t even have a combover back then!), also brings the biggest difference between domestic Westerns and contemporary euro-Westerns to the forefront: Everyone in American Westerns…