Be Excellent To Each Other

Went to see The Naked Gun last night.

Very funny throughout and retains the spirit of the originals.

38 - The Hard Way. Early 90s buddy cop thing where a cop has to babysit an actor who is researching a role. Oddly, I'd never seen it before. Proper film though. Just super legit. Stars Michael J. Fox, likeable as ever, and James Woods who might be a tosser now but in terms of his acting, is probably my favourite actor to watch. 4/5

39 - Night of the Hunted. Unlikeable woman pinned down by a sniper in a petrol station. Came close to spoiling things with the American politics of it all (she's Big Pharma he's right wing) but it played out quite smartly and I love me a chamber play. The users on IMDB hate it. 4/5

KPop Demon Hunters. Really liked it.

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The windscreen gag is absolutely hilarious.

40 - Osiris. Your mileage WILL vary but I liked this. Imagine somebody trying to do Predator but on the Nostromo. A crack team of soldiers up against a ship of intergalactic bastards. It's all very much Temu Predator but a lot of silly but not always enexplained fun.

Then cover-star Linda Hamilton shows up late with a bunch of confusing exposition and a shitty Russian accent. More shooting, more fun. I ask you, could it possibly be worse than the latter Predator and Alien films? For me, it's better. Not great by any means but not lame, pretentious and shit. So it had that going for it.

The ending wraps things up a little confusingly but whatever. It did at least explain a giant plot hole that was bothering me THE WHOLE TIME.

Yeah. Whatever. This was alright. Pure, unadulterated, weaponised okayness. It helped that I had snacks but I wasn't tempted to pick up my phone during it so it was pretty engaging. I can't recommend it but it's my sort of thing anyway.

3.5/5

Moar films I watched.

1) Final Destination: Bloodlines

Loved it. Gotta be top 3 of the Final Destination series. I’ve never wanted a fat kid slinging pennies to die more than in this film. It’s dumb, it’s more of the same, it’s great.

2) Venus Wars

Can you remember when you used to buy a Manga UK film on VHS and it had that same song and clip show at the beginning of each tape? I’ve watch all the films but 4 of them. This is one. Unfortunately I can’t find the subtitles so I only watched 5 minutes… Boo. So I watched…

3) Appleseed

Which wasn’t even on the Manga films. And it’s only an hour long and not very interested. Boo x 2.

4) Role Models

Paul Rudd & Stiffler have to take care of two annoying kids. It’s fun, it’s funny and goddamn why don’t they make more films like these anymore!?