TV/Movies Megathread

[The Larch]

I meant the cellphone function by which it "corrects" what you've written if it thinks it was wronglt written.

I meant movedizas.  I looked up the meaning, but I don't recognize the tense.

Ah, gotcha. Movedizas is a bit of a strange derivation of "mover", meaning something that moves, it is employed almost exclusively in the phrase "arenas movedizas", meaning quicksand.

[Syt]

Willis had 8 movies come out in 2021 and I didn't hear about any single of them? He's finally entered the Stephen Seagal phase of his career, it seems. A pity.

And "movedizas" means shifting. As in shifting sands (arenas movedizas).

I heard very tangentially of two of them (Switchgrass and Out Of Death). IMDB (for whatever that's worth) has the highest rated at 4.4 (Midnight in the Switchgrass), the lowest at 2.5 (Cosmic Sin), and most of the others in the 3 point something range.

I like the elevator pitch for Cosmic Sin, though: "Seven rogue soldiers launch a preemptive strike against a newly discovered alien civilization in the hopes of ending an interstellar war before it starts." Cold be a cool action thriller if done right. Based on the photos on IMDB it seems to have been predominantly shot in exotic alien locales like "pine forest" and "badly lit industrial halls."

Looking at Wiki it gets even cheaper: the aliens use parasites to control humans. That's a good way of keeping the make up budget low, I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Sin

[celedhring]

I like the elevator pitch for Cosmic Sin, though: "Seven rogue soldiers launch a preemptive strike against a newly discovered alien civilization in the hopes of ending an interstellar war before it starts." Cold be a cool action thriller if done right.

The trailer will probably disabuse you of that notion 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNxsB6o6DJs&ab_channel=MovieTrailersSource

[Syt]

I like the elevator pitch for Cosmic Sin, though: "Seven rogue soldiers launch a preemptive strike against a newly discovered alien civilization in the hopes of ending an interstellar war before it starts." Cold be a cool action thriller if done right.

The trailer will probably disabuse you of that notion 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNxsB6o6DJs&ab_channel=MovieTrailersSource

I remember "Bruce Willis in: Out of Death" popping up on my timeline at some point, and I thought it was a parody or spoof announcement at first.

[Syt]

Love the Polygon review for Cosmic Sin quoted on Rotten Tomatoes:

There is still a lot of visceral fun to be had in movies that dare to dream big and manipulate sci-fi conventions toward original ideas. Neither of these is what Cosmic Sin does.

From another:

To suggest that Bruce Willis is phoning in his performance in Cosmic Sin would be an insult to telephone communication, which can be an effective means of conveying important information and genuine emotion.

[celedhring]

Reading the plout outline on wikipedia it seems that Willis' character is tormented by having dropped a superbomb on a seceding human colony, wiping out millions. And he redeems himself by dropping a superbomb on evil aliens, wiping out millions. 

[The Larch]

Does Bruce Willis have a secret Faberge egg addiction to mantain that we don't know of? Several secret families that depend on him for sustenance? It seems that since 2019 everything he's done is cookie cutter thriller-action films, with a couple of sci-fi stuff for good measure, that all goes straight to video (or straight to streaming platform nowadays, I guess). And he seems to be ramping up, he had 7 movies out last year, has 8 scheduled for this year, and 3 still TBA.

[celedhring]

Does Bruce Willis have a secret Faberge egg addiction to mantain that we don't know of? Several secret families that depend on him for sustenance? It seems that since 2019 everything he's done is cookie cutter thriller-action films, with a couple of sci-fi stuff for good measure, that all goes straight to video (or straight to streaming platform nowadays, I guess). And he seems to be ramping up, he had 7 movies out last year, has 8 scheduled for this year, and 3 still TBA.

It's so odd. I mean, aging action stars going the B-movie route is hardly a new phenomenon, but Willis has a bunch of truly iconic films, and was a bit of an indie darling in the 1990s-2000s (Pulp Fiction, Moonrise Kingdom, What Just Happened, Fast Food Nation, Looper, etc...). I feel he could have parlayed that into a better late career. Then again, Cage was in a similar position and that didn't save him (but at least he seems to be enjoying doing crap, Willis looks truly miserable).

[The Larch]

It also reminds me a bit of the "wacky comedy" period of Robert de Niro.

[celedhring]

It also reminds me a bit of the "wacky comedy" period of Robert de Niro.

I remember an interview at the time where he spoke about realizing that he couldn't show the movies he made to his children, and that's why he wanted to do more comedy and PG stuff.

But I don't think I would show them Rocky & Bullwinkle, either.

[celedhring]

Also, DeNiro got involved in a lot of business and real estate at that time. So I can see why he wanted to cash in.

[Josephus]

Reading the plout outline on wikipedia it seems that Willis' character is tormented by having dropped a superbomb on a seceding human colony, wiping out millions. And he redeems himself by dropping a superbomb on evil aliens, wiping out millions. 

Spoiler Alert 

[The Larch]

It also reminds me a bit of the "wacky comedy" period of Robert de Niro.

I remember an interview at the time where he spoke about realizing that he couldn't show the movies he made to his children, and that's why he wanted to do more comedy and PG stuff.

But I don't think I would show them Rocky & Bullwinkle, either.

Reminds me of the comment by Dennis Hopper on why he made the Mario Bros movie. Apparently his son asked him why he did the movie, and he answered that it was so that he could have new shoes, and his son answered that he didn't need shoes that badly. 

[viper37]

A trio of 90s movies
Passenger 57
With Wesley Snipes, the dude who did jail for smoking too much pot instead of paying his taxes.

A British terrorist is transported in a civilian airplane with only two agents as his guardian.  Even though it was a last minute transfer and supposedly secret, he had time to smuggle weapons and crew on board.  These are the good old days or airplane travel, I guess

So, obviously, Snipes is not having any of it.  Kills the bad guys one by one until the end, with the final showdown between him and the bad guy.

Pretty generic action movie, nothing really interesting.


Air Force One

You remember the days when the only Russians we needed to fear were in Hollywood?  yeah, these were the times

So, back then, aerial travel was so unsecure that terrorists & criminals found it easier to hijack Air Force One than storm the White House.

With the help or a rogue agent, for reasons unknown, President Harrison Ford escapes the bad guys and kills them one by one until the showdown with their leader, and the rogue agent.

Pretty decent movie. Second best of the lot I've recently seen   It really rests on Harrison Ford's shoulder though.  There's no notable roles outside of his, no one that really shines, except the lead bad guy, Gary Oldman.  Now, that is one hell of an actor.
Glenn Close is VP, on land, negotiating with the Russian terrorists.

Notable appearance from Jürgen Prochnow (of Beerfest fame ) in an epic silent role as the emprisoned Kazakhstan leader the Russian communist-nationalist (it's confusing who they are, exactly ) are trying to free.


Executive decision

With Steven Seagal and Kurt Russel.  Probably Seagal best movie to date.

Muslim terrorists hijack a plane and hold the passengers hostages (I know, such an 80s concept ).  Seagal and Russel devise a strategy to board the plane in flight using an experimental tech.  Does not work as expected, Seagal is killed within 30 minutes of the movie, the aerospace engineer is caught on the airplane with the soldiers, as well as Russel, since he's the only one who can identify the bad guys.

So, not only were terrorists able to smuggle themselves on board, with their weapons, but they could also smuggle a very sophisticated bomb with a lot (a lot) of integrated counter-measures.  Why would they need such sophisticated measures for a bomb that would only be discovered inside an airplane midway between Europe and Washington DC?  Anyway.  Bad guys are killed, bomb is disarmed, hero walks with the girl and lives happily ever after. 

Nice action movie.  Also stars Halle Berry as a flight attendant.  Very decent acting from her.  The best of the current lot, imho.

[Tamas]

If you are doing plane hijack action movies then Delta Force is a must.