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…
Movies Seen Recently: Dragon Fighter, Sharks in Venice, Shalako
Dragon Fighter (2003) – There used to be some standards around Aliens ripoffs, didn’t there? Nope. In this one, Dean Cain and a bunch of people you’ve never heard of star in a pseudo-government-funded cloning facility deep underground where the project manager is tired of mice and puppies and instead clones… a dragon. Yup. One…
Movies Seen Recently: Ant-Man and the Wasp, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, Castaway on the Moon
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) – Doubles down on what characterized the first movie, both good and bad. The humor and creative uses of shrinking/enlarging are played up, and the science gets even stupider. The “quantum zone” is even more ridiculous than last time: There’s not just the “how to people see if they’re smaller…