Jason Statham is a good actor but he’s definitely been in a few stinkers. I don’t think any actor is immune from this. I’m sure it’s often the case where the actor reads the script and he/she believes it will turn out pretty good but the finished product turns out very different. Other times, the actor signs up for a movie strictly for the paycheck as was the case with Michael Caine and Jaws 4.

The Dukes of Hazzard: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078607/
The entire series is on Amazon Prime. All I can say after attempting to watch two episodes is that some things should be left to ones youthful memories...


Wheels

Dukes of Hazzard is pretty much like every other show of that era from the late 70's/early 80's. It has not aged well at all due to the "tongue firmly in cheek" campiness.

The Equalizer 2 wasn't as good as I'd hoped.

I haven't seen it but I did see the first Equalizer and enjoyed it for the most part. That final showdown at the hardware store was a bit over the top. lol

I thought Catherine Bach might make it worth a watch again but even seeing her in her prime doesn't make it watchable.


Wheels

Catching some classics on TCM Battle of the bulge,,,Thre Great #Escape and right now The bridge over the river Kawai .Im like it the best Crap the Germans and Americans drove the same tanks in Bulge,,..Saw Full metal Jacket earlier but only watched the Boot Camp part the rest was too stupid Can't beat Gunny Emory and he was tame compared to real DI's Got a couple Bataan shows from the 40'2 coming up..well we all know the inaccurcies but to pass a slow day they are fine..Quality they don't match up to band of Brothers or PVT Ryan but still classics..Watched SGT york last night and the Duke in a couple early propaganda shows

We went to see "The Sisters Brothers" a couple of weeks ago. The critics raved about it and you know what that usually means for the layperson--Meh!

It was supposed to be a "dark comedy". It was maybe a bit dark, but somehow I missed the comedy. John C. Reilly played the only memorable character in the movie and may have provided the only comedic moments--which were sparse at best. It was sort of a non-western "western" which kept reminding me how much I still miss westerns. This movie did nothing to satisfy that longing.

Cheers

The Pacific playing now on HBO

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Icarus Factor
Season 2 Episode 14: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092455/


Wheels

Just seen Homefront a no brain action flick with Jason Statham and with Sly Stallone as the screen writer. DEA undercover operative (Statham) retires to get away from the violence and look after his daughter who manages to upset the sister of a local drug dealer and of course the proverbial hits the fan.
As an action flick it was ok you didn't need to think about it.

Also in the middle of watching another Statham film called Blitz about a heavy handed cop (Statham) trying to track down a serial killer that is killing a series of policemen. only halfway through it but not too bad,

Both films popped up on my Netflix.

Statham is a good actor but I think he's had the typical Hollywood typecasting happen to him.

I think you know what you're going to get with a Statham film.

I really liked Blitz. "This lads is a Hurley, used in the Irish game of Hurley, cross between hockey and murder!"

made me laugh too

Yeah he has got a bit typecast in the action man role but he is a good actor and I have enjoyed his films, not getting to watch Blitz in one sitting here, I keep getting interruptions.

Watched “Strategic Air Command” again the other day on Amazon.
Strategic Air Command: https://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Air-Command-James-Stewart/dp/B00AALWDLS
James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy, Barry Sullivan

At the moment Amazon Prime account holders can watch without any extra costs.


Wheels

Can't believe I haven't watched 'Tora! Tora! Tora!" before now.
Excellent film, compared to more recent offerings with no 'soppy kissing' (as a little daughter used to say) Almost a documentary account with surprising empathy for the Japanese side, surprising considering the usual portrayal of Axis stereotypes at the time it was produced.

Tora, Tora, Tora is a very unique film in that not only did the film have two directors (one American and one Japanese) but it was made that way by design so that the film would have an objective and in-depth perspective for both sides of the conflict. This is why you noticed the empathy for the Japanese side.


A little bit of interesting trivia: Akira Kurosawa was the original Japanese director hired to shoot the Japanese scenes but due to major creative differences with the studio he backed out of the project.

The Cloverfield Paradox


Has anyone seen this Netflix movie? I saw it last night and I now know why the studio dumped this film by selling it to Netflix. This movie was supposed to originally get a theatrical release.

The premise seemed interesting and the movie started off with some interesting mysteries but then when the proverbial crap hit the fan, the movie just devolved into several ridiculous events and the final "reveal" at the end of the film was pretty laughable.

It is one of a trilogy of films about Cloverfield, not seen any of them yet, I did try watching the first one but got nowhere with it and have not yet gone back to give it a second try.

NCIS
Will probably watch until Mark Harmon decides to finally pull the plug.


Wheels