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Intrinsic said:

We need to do that. I showed Blood and Ice Cream movies to wife and she liked them all. She hasn't seen a lot of the others on the list and I haven't seen Baby Driver.

Since we did all the Rocky's she wanted to do Rambo to see how Sly acts in those.

Rock 1 - 3 are probably better movies than Rambo 1 - 3, but I've enjoyed watching John Rambo. Realized that I'd never actually seen Rambo 1 and was really surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Was very surprising after only knowing the Rambo 2+ character. His breakdown at the end was pretty good and it put a lot of perspective to the character.

Rambo III.... whooo boy. Watching that from a 2024 perspective is something else. Wife was blown away hearing the backstory of the Afghanistan v Russia situation and how it tied in to modern politics. She had no idea about any of that. And the 1988 representation of the mujahideen and that conflict is very interesting. Wasn't as good as Rambo II though. Nothing beats the intro of those explosive tip arrows and the ending.

We'll probably get to the final Rambos this week.

We did watch Family Plan tonight and it is enjoyable only being at the 42 year old having a family point of life. Officially can laugh at the dumb dad jokes and the kid's doing stupid stuff / being out of touch / etc because of living the experience now. Was kind of dumb that it turned in to a big Valorant commercial in the middle.

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I love First Blood. I never watched 2 or three or 4 if there is one. I also love Rambo. Wasn't crazy about the last one though.

Candy Land- Wat.

6.5/10. Weird as fuck will probably not watch again.

You just don't turn it off!

Spy Kids - What a completely bizarre movie. I need to read the story behind how this got made and why everyone was attached to it. Not going to complain about Carla Gugino. The whole thing is strange even for a kids movie. Some real nightmare stuff. Very strange 6/10.

Watched Top Gun Maverick against last night. Damn that movie is so well put together. A tad bit too long, but otherwise nearly flawless.

We watched Predator 2 last night and it is really hard to know where to start rating this thing.

It accidentally came very close to predicting what a “near future” or undefined time looks like, even watching in 2024. They decided to throw hilariously large lasers and optics on every weapon. Turned out to be accurate. IMFDB had the best pictures. These are hilarious.



Also putting AUGs in the Colombian gang's hands was great. Karl having one in Die Hard and then bam here's 50 in Predator 2.

Then you have the escalation of all the gang wars. It felt very Robocop 2 almost (also 1990). And is strikingly close to some of the big city issues and inner city killing. We aren't seeing automatic weapons battles in the streets of LA, yet. Plus the Heat Wave stuff seems relatable to all the continued Global Warming push we're still seeing.

Just a really interesting take.

The movie though is just bad to mediocre. Danny Glover makes the whole thing tolerable b/c the whole time I'm just imagining him as Murtaugh saying "I'm too old for this shit!" as he's climbing down plumbing on the outside of a building or jumping over cars chasing the Predator. Bill Paxton is so Bill Paxton, similar to Glover you can almost imagine him as the great great great great grandson of Hudson from Aliens. Poor Gary Busey. I really wish there was a special edition that put an easter egg in where Keyes' team worked for Weyland Co. Really didn't like a couple of the things they did with Predator. Like the lightning strike on top of the building. Plus he looked terrible scaling that thing from the outside.

So hard to say this is in any way a good movie, but it is bad enough to be enjoyable. 5.5/10 for me.

Ossoi said:

90s action movies haven't aged well

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Homo

X - 6/10 decent set up for what the movie was, I personally think the second half should have been edited down to 10-15 minutes. The first half could have been 10-15 minutes longer. Hope that make sense, trying not to spoil

DumbMoney - 6.5/10 I went into it expecting it to be a 4/10. Was pleasantly surprised, but it ain't making a top 20 of the year.