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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023)
Loved it
As fan of Godzilla and it's folklore (except the Mathew Broderick one).
I really enjoyed this series as an extension of the recent monster verse movies.
I know it was a little slow in Parts, and the character development could be better ie the younger members..the kurt Russell and his son gave it an edge and their roles were great.
But as I didn't expect much from the start and was pleasantly surprised,
I liked the story, I liked the place where they come into our world from theirs, liked the stuff set in the 60's as opposed to the current time line.
Wide open for season 2, so I await the next installment.
One thing did nark me off a little bit.
It's 2015 and there was mention of (I do a podcast)..
Hardly anyone was doing podcasts then, like the huge thing it is now.
But anyways, I'm easily pleased where GZ is concerned...
He's my boy..
Night Hunter (2018)
Going off the rating.
5.9 ok..
I gave it 6, but in truth that's a strong 6.9 maybe a 7 to be quite fair.
Thought it was very good.
Good performances from Henry cavill, Stanley tuchi and Ben Kingsley.
Decent enough story, even though it skips around a little.
And enough to keep us gripped.
The guy who plays main antagonist is pretty good too.
It has elements of other films in this genre but that's not a bad thing, pace is good, character development for the main players is good enough.
Obviously it's not going to win a Oscar.
But there been bigger budget movies with more hype behind them that are not as good as this.
Maybe a little under the radar as it goes.
But sometimes a little gem pops up.
Well worth a watch in my opinion.
Reacher (2022)
As a fan of the books view.
I've always liked the Lee child Novels from the first one I read.
They are easy to get into, slightly predictable in you know what you're going to get and just a good read.
The vision painted in your mind, is not one of 5 foot something tom cruise.
All though I didn't think he did a terrible job as reacher.
But Alan ritchson is everything I imagined reacher to look like and be like.
Built like a brick outhouse, still has charm, smart, quick witted ,sarcastic.
And mean son of a gun when the needs be.
So I had high hope for the series going forward.
My wife and I sat down friday evening to watch episode one.
Around 2 am we decided after the end of ep4 we should go to sleep.
We were both gripped, I know the story of course but was still enjoying the unfolding of the story in front of myself.
It had good enough depth, good pacing and for me it 'felt' like jack reacher should be.
As a fan of the books, I was not left disappointed but quite the opposite.
I was disappointed that I've already watched them all and now have to wait for season two.
Give me more..
1917 (2019)
Phenomenal
It's taken me awhile to get to 1917.
Not even in lockdown did I get the chance to just sit alone and put it on the big TV downstairs no kids, and just for once have a few hours on my own.
And for this moment it was the perfect film.
I really don't have words to do it justice.
But the raw emotion and the continuous shot by the camera and the cinematography were just incredible.
A beautiful thing in the telling of a story in the most horrible of time.
Those boys were made of something else back then.
The horror of the trenches, and battlefield, but the comradary of the man next to you and the focus of sheer will and determination of the story is quite simply epic.
I felt as if I was clenching my jaw for the most part due to the building tension, to a end that surely left tears in my eyes.
I'd like to think will got home to his wife and daughters.
Thank you Sam mendes.
The Pharmacist (2020)
Tragedy to crusader Dan Schneider's story
Day off work with a sickness bug and I stumbled across the pharmacist.
The true story of a familys loss of their son to a murder and crack deal gone wrong.
To the father's mission to solve the murder and then began a journey of redemption.
Redemption for those who this man must surely have saved from oxycotin.
I'm in the UK so we don't have this drug. But I guess tramadol would be a equal and if a drug can be abused the it will.
But the so called pill farms and the greed of doctors who prescribed this to epidemic proportions is quite shocking.
And thus steps in Danny .
And not wanting to see more young folks die from drugs he starts to question as a pharmacist where and who are all these prescriptions going.
This was absolutely compelling viewing with a twist from how it starts to its end.
I have nothing but admiration for this man, and his power of will to not stand by and just let it happen.
It's a incredible story.
Mind Blown (2016)
What a cheeky movie..
This film was filled with the usual cheese and corn that you would expect.
If you need to just stare at the TV for a hour or two then it's perfect.
But the cheek of it is, towards the end .
The baddie was fighting our hero's.
And he used the line.
"Young fool, only now at the end do you understand".
Now colour me stupid but that's the emperor's line to Luke in return of the Jedi...
That's a bit naughty.