I’ll take proper notes when I re-watch this.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2474972/
A documentary following soldiers fighting the aliens left over from an invasion.
I rather liked this! People talk about this being low budget, but until it’s pointed out I doubt someone would really notice.
aka Alien Outpost
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2149175/
was https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/the-americans
Set during the Cold War, a Soviet spy husband and wife do spy stuff in the United States.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4378456/
was https://www.fox.com/second-chance/
An old retired cop is reborn into a younger, stronger, version of himself, and fights crime.
Seems fairly good, though I’d bet it would be bland without the pretty girl.
Cancelled 2016-05-12
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4176826/
Hitler is pulled into his future, and being able to do nothing but be himself, he is taken to be a comedian.
I know this is meant as a comedy, but.. it’s just off. It’s worth a watch, but just the one. It touches on quite a lot of .. well touchy subjects. Perhaps this movie will greatly improve in time, while things aren’t so sensitive.
Based on Look Who’s Back, (2012 book) by Timur Vermes
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120815/
A dude goes places and does things, looking for some stuff I think. There are explosions and is smoking.
Noted here just for one of those “oh, I’ve seen that” references.
I don’t recall particularly liking or disliking it.
During the Invasion of Normandy
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215750/
During World War II, a lucky Soviet soldier is fictionalized into a hero, but he truly earns that distinction only to find himself up against the German’s very best.
With a good pace and atmosphere, this movie is riveting.
Based on Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad (1973 book), by William Craig
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399664/
https://web.archive.org/web/20210721174231/www.amc.com/shows/the-night-manager–108
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g13rt
A dude begins his career as a night manager for some place somewhere but gets used by British intelligence to act against an arms dealer.
Fairly decent, but I suspect it’s only because this is another show with a British accent being thrown around carelessly.
Based on The Night Manager (1993 book), by John le Carré
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772341/
https://movies.disney.com/wreck-it-ralph
In a world where video game characters are alive, a lonely bad guy tries to earn appreciation but ends up threatens ruin.
A fun movie, most appropriate for the nostalgia fans of various old arcade games. It goes very very old, like Pixels – (2015 movie), which puts it in a particularly odd space. I think this one ends up being childish and unique enough that its various reference aren’t in the way of an actual proper movie.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2667380/
A mercenary group is sent to an island for training exercises, only to learn that it was being used to train military robots.
Although pretty stiff because of the lead character, this is a decent enough movie. Worth watching for science fiction fans, but not for military movie fans.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3489184/
https://www.nbc.com/constantine
A man attains mystical powers originally for selfish reasons, but they taint with a life fraught with danger and demons.
Not a bad show, but the lead character’s personality isn’t attracting, and there’s the old celestial stick-up-the-ass personality in another. The lead female is hot. Hotty hot hot.
This was cancelled after one season. Back in the 90s this show would have done well, but I’m guessing this genre has alternately been well-poisoned or saturated. This show has too much it has to be better than to catch enough attention to survive. I think that it’s magic-fantasy was competing with an extraordinarily-strong superhero-fantasy genre.
.. which in turn is based on the DC comic book series Hellblazer.
