Last film you saw, vol. 6

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The Street Fighter's Last Revenge (1974)

"You're one sick mother."

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An absolutely fantastic finale for this live action subfranchise. This movie is a bit different from the others as it tackles a story arc from the manga that was never properly adapted into the anime. Instead, it was only touched upon during flashbacks in the Reflection OVA, and as such the whole story is much newer to most (including myself) and less prone to comparison. On top of that, it also features one of the best sword fights ever committed to film (imo).

All said, this film solidified itself and its four predecessors as one of the best Samurai sagas of all time. Seriously, watch them -- even if you have no familiarity with the anime or manga. They are fantastic movies in their own right.

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The History Boys (2006)

"The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers."

Really liked this one. Based on a play, it follows about six Yorkshire private school students in 1983 who have tested high enough to try for Oxford and what goes into that.

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Adios, Sabata (1970)

"These American guns aren't very good, eh?"

Notorious soldier of fortune Sabata (Yul Brynner) teams up with Mexican revolutionaries to rob an Austrian colonel of his gold shipment. Along the way they face the colonel's clever schemes and an ambitious artist.

The cast features a couple of returning stars (the fat drunk friend is a revolutionary in this film; his jumping Native buddy is too; and the Judge is now an Austrian official).

Brynner does a good job, and instead of just having the extendable rifle from last time, his has a sliding magazine with a cigar as the last bullet.

The big showdown at the end is pretty good, about on par with the last film.

One thing that's just silly is one of the revolutionaries uses steel balls which he drops onto the top of his shoes and then kick-slings them at men with lethal speed and precision. It's so stupid and gimmicky that it could only happen in a film.

Overall a pretty good continuation of the character, and one film left in the trilogy now.

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My Pet Monster [The Movie] (1987)

"I don't want to be a monster."

Arguably a one-hour TV special or pilot, but it's also called a movie. Only really worth it for nostalgia's sake, though the titular creature (a boy transformed more or less into a large version of the toy by a museum exhibit) looks/moves pretty good. Free on Youtube.

Adios, Sabata (1970) . . . Notorious soldier of fortune Sabata (Yul Brynner) teams up with Mexican revolutionaries to rob an Austrian colonel of his gold shipment. Along the way they face the colonel's clever schemes and an ambitious artist . . .

Hmm. That sounds familiar. Maybe I've seen that one on TV. Guess I'll find out when I break open that DVD set.

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Either the Warriors, or Enter The Dragon. Great movies.

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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

"Every town has an Elm Street!"

Watched Sunday for its 30th anniversary.

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Shang chi.._.. Cool martial arts but i honestly felt bored. I didn't care for it and im glad there are people who did enjoy it.

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MST3K: Hercules and the Captive Women (1961/1992)

"Uranus has abandoned us.
-Speak for yourself!"

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Pretty solid film, even as it goes to great lengths to validate Dom having a brother who we've never seen or heard of before. It's a bit confusing what he's doing, exactly, but the movie does well enough with the characters that the plot moves along fine regardless. Also, as a Han fan, I'm glad he's back (sorry if that's a spoiler for you, but he's been in all the promotional material, so yeah), and even more so with who else is finally back. Ultimately Justin Lin managed to pull what could've been a sequel too many into a sequel worth while. Here's hoping he can do so with the next two films, as well.

As an aside, if F10 doesn't start with [redacted] and [redacted] throwing down, I'll be kinda disappointed.

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Notorious (1946)

"We are protected by the enormity of your stupidity, for a time."

Re-watched the Hitchcock classic Monday (with my folks) for its 75th.

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Pretty solid film, even as it goes to great lengths to validate Dom having a brother who we've never seen or heard of before. It's a bit confusing what he's doing, exactly, but the movie does well enough with the characters that the plot moves along fine regardless. Also, as a Han fan, I'm glad he's back (sorry if that's a spoiler for you, but he's been in all the promotional material, so yeah), and even more so with who else is finally back . . .

I’ll see this when it hits BD (and just buy it), but I’m guessing the franchise is going to take the view that since Han is alive Shaw is not really a bad guy and meanwhile we’re supposed to ignore all those people he clearly killed in the hospital in #7. Even though I haven’t seen it, I suspect this is Lin’s approach since I heard him say they were going to address how Shaw can be a goodie if he murdered Han, but he never mentions all the others he murdered.

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I’ll see this when it hits BD (and just buy it), but I’m guessing the franchise is going to take the view that since Han is alive Shaw is not really a bad guy and meanwhile we’re supposed to ignore all those people he clearly killed in the hospital in #7. Even though I haven’t seen it, I suspect this is Lin’s approach since I heard him say they were going to address how Shaw can be a goodie if he murdered Han, but he never mentions all the others he murdered.

In the interest of not spoiling anything, I'll simply say that the way Han survived has exactly nothing to do with Shaw, so it doesn't actually exonerate him of that attack at all. That said, Shaw is a bad guy in the same way Dom was, insomuch that everything he did he did for family, which is why Dom was able to essentially forgive him and ask him to help him save his son.

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Birdemic 2: Resurrection (2013)

"I wish Susan could've been here to see this bird skeleton, but she got a disease from that fish that Rod cooked."

Lives up to the "high standard" of the first. Free on Tubi.

In the interest of not spoiling anything, I'll simply say that the way Han survived has exactly nothing to do with Shaw, so it doesn't actually exonerate him of that attack at all. That said, Shaw is a bad guy in the same way Dom was, insomuch that everything he did he did for family, which is why Dom was able to essentially forgive him and ask him to help him save his son.

It's true. At least Dom didn't kill the guy, though. It's interesting, however, that in the first movie they're straight-up criminals (they're basically a more chill version of Point Break's Dead Presidents). From then on, they're more like Robin Hoods.

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Return of Sabata (1971)

"If both our mothers were walking down the same street, mine would have more customers."

Master gambler and thief Sabata (reprisal by Lee Van Cleef) arrives in a small town looking to collect on an old debt. What he finds is a land developer taxing the hell out of everyone and his old war-time friend up to no good. Sabata then plans to earn a hefty payday at the villain's expense.

A little flashier in terms of style than the last two, but close enough that it doesn't feel like a complete retread (although my dad might disagree). I swear they use the exact same sets from the first film several times with barely any alterations, but that's a small complaint. Of course we get the Jumper and Pudgy Revolutionary again, and the guy who kicked steel balls is now using a full-body slingshot instead. Naturally we have a double-crossing old partner (the guy who owes Sabata), who is in cahoots with the first film's Judge, so the gang's all here.

I think it's a fitting conclusion to the trilogy, and now I can watch Run Silent, Run Deep, which is free on YouTube at the moment.

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Warrior (2011)

"Feel the Beethoven."

10th anniversary. A lot of this seems like melodrama, but it's mostly well done and I still enjoyed it.