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…
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…
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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…