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Hatorade said:

Upgrade is on netflix, it is a must watch. Great ending.

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This movie gets slept on, even I skipped it in the theaters and wish I hadn't. It is awesome and horrifying.

Been watching some old classics lately. Did To Kill a Mockingbird and 12 Angry Men (the original).

No CGI, no shit blowing up, just great actors in great movies.

Seeing Robert Duval in Mockingbird is so jarring because he is so young. I always thought the dude was born looking like he's 50 years old.

If you have never seen either of them, it's an entirely different era of film making.

Continued the rewatch of classics with Inherit the Wind. Spencer Tracy and Gene Kelly. Story of the Scopes Monkey Trial. Spencer Tracy is great in this as is Gene Kelly.

Ossoi said:

DTS-X mix of Hulk was good - you really feel his foot-steps and his roars, movie is dump though.

I watched Heat for the umpteenth time, partly to test out my latest speaker calibration. It's been a favourite for many years but is a long movie, I was actually surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

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Heat is a great test film. Can really hear the bullets and brass in the surround.

Watched Kill Bill vol 1 last night, maybe the last time I fully watched it was theaters in 2003. Not sure it aged as well as it could have. It wasn't horrible or anything, maybe I'm just over Tarantino and have seen people do his schtick better. We'll watch Volume 2 tomorrow night. Showdown at House of Blue Leaves was still cool but some of the choreography just looks bad.

In other news, I stumbled down a rabbit hole of actual terrible movies by a Sean-Michael Argo. Made it through a whole bunch of his catalogue streaming off a site called FlixHouse (flixhouse.com) which seems to have a ton of indie stuff. Look, these movies aren't great. They're objectively pretty bad, inconsistent sound mix, color wash, strange direction. Pretty much all of the things. A 3.5/10 average from IMDB isn't even uncalled for.

HOWEVER, these are the types of bad indie films that I really do enjoy. There's some interesting ideas here, attempts to flesh out a story, and do some unique things. Guy is obviously trying and everyone in his movies is totally on board. Most of them are almost watchable 5/10 except for the experimental nature of them or, as mentioned above, the really bad post production.



That also led me to this movie which had chicks on the cover so obviously I was going to watch it also:




I'm probably the only person that gets in to this stuff but I find it really compelling.

Rewatched 2012. Pretty funny when you view it as a dark comedy instead of just pure disaster porn.