Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

Rabbit_Games said:

Cannon Ball Run

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I've been looking for this lately actually. Can't find it streaming anymore even for purchase.

Kajiimagi said:

Sort of a movie, we just got back from the Sphere - Las Vegas watching 'postcard from earth' The interactive part of the show was very lame IMO , but the 50 minute movie was 10/10. GIANT Screen and amazing audio. It's a sci-fi & nature vibe. It was expensive too $169 a seat and $47 to park.

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Agree the "exhibits" in the Sphere were pretty much some Disney Tomorrowland shit, not to mention there were like 5 stations and some few hundreds of people all trying to get a look at them at once. Movie, while a tad climate change preachy, was pretty cool, especially when it does the first zoom in to take the whole screen of the sphere. Ticket was worth seeing that once, at least.

I didn't watch it on YouTube, but apparently it is free there. It is also on Prime, but on Freevee with ads. I've had a "copy" for years now.

EDIT: Since it can't be linked directly it seems, it is Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn.



I am incapable of figuring out what it is, but something about this movie makes me rewatch it every couple years. I know it isn't new to a lot of us here, but in case it is, you should check it out. Way better than the one episode of the Halo TV series I watched. I highly recommend it, even if you don't give a shit about Halo, although it is probably better if you at least know something about the games.

This was a decent enough movie, if you can get past the fact that a 125 lb-ish chick literally beats the fuck out of at least 30 dudes at once. The chick is smoking hot, it is a Luc Besson movie, and the costars are top notch, so it is worth a watch if you aren't going to be triggered by her ridiculous fighting ability. At least John Wick shoots people 99% of the time. She was literally slashing people with broken plates, through suits, and apparently that was enough to kill them. I almost shut the movie off after that. But other than that scene and then another one at the end just like it, it is worth the watch.

HOWEVER. I feel like I'm being trolled with the technology in this movie. It starts by explicitly stating that the first events happen in 1985 in Moscow, where some CIA agents get burned. Some of them get the call right before being caught...on their cell phones. True, they are old cell phones, but they are still NOT the fucking bag phones that MAYBE were invented in 1985. This chick we used to go to clubs with in the mid-90s couldn't go out unless she took her mom's phone, which came with the shoulder tote to carry the giant fucking battery. Even if you want to say that the CIA had access to better tech and thus had these smaller phones...I guess that's how they fucking got caught in Moscow in 1985, walking around talking on their fucking alien technology! Did CIngular One or whomever even have fucking towers in Moscow in 1985? Fuck!

The latest chronological events in the movie happen in 1990, as Cillian Murphy mentions how he lost all those agents "5 years ago." So at most in 1990, people have FUCKING LAPTOPS that aren't the size of a suitcase, one of them even has a goddamn USB port that is used to steal info (I checked, invented in 1996) with a FUCKING THUMB DRIVE (invented much later), a server room has CAT5 and modern switches all over the fucking place, when you and I know that most networking at that time was coax and shit, and the hard drive bays that are pulled out are standard 3.5", probably SATA but it was hard to tell, but either way I doubt server/NAS hot-swap bays were anything like the ones today. If they even existed in hot-swap back then. Oh, and when she is filling out an application (on her fucking laptop) she's using Microsoft Word. Yes, it existed back then, but I'm not sure it looked quite that modern, and even if it did she was living with a literal druggy criminal, you think he's springing for that couple hundred dollar edition of Word back then? IN MOSCOW??? And while it wasn't totally clear, I feel like she was filling it out online. In the age when you got online with a fucking phone line. To a bulletin board, not AOL or whatever. But one wasn't plugged in, so I guess she was using wifi??

And don't get me started about the hidden camera resolution and clarity. Sure, it was sucky...but not 1990 sucky.

It is like someone purposely decided that they were only vaguely going to try to get the tech right by having laptops from 2010 and cell phones from 2000, and fuck the rest of it. I cannot fathom that SOMEONE didn't bring it up at least once or twice during the filming of the movie, and then I have to assume that that individual was told to shut the fuck up and never mention it again.

(EDIT: I almost forgot, at one point she borrows a phone from a "Japanese tourist" which is apparently how we explain that a MOTHERFUCKING NOKIA from like 2000 is being used in 1990.)

I was actually shocked that during the modeling photo shoot they actually plopped down rolls of film (although I have no idea if that film existed in 1990, but I'm going to assume it did). I honestly expected to see him just pull out an SD card like it was no big deal. So at least they got one thing right.

Like I said, I actually liked the movie. I saw the ending coming ahead of time, but it was still a decent spy flick. But the utter lack of concern about even pretending with the tech rustled my jimmies something fierce.

We watched Air Bud last night. Kid loved it, cracked up at a dog knocking everything over and playing basketball. Had to look up afterwards where I knew the mom from because I totally forgot she was in Sister Act 1 and 2. Worth a revisit with kids for sure.