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Prisoners - (2013 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392214/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/prisoners/

In a war against god, crazy people kidnap children to deconvert their parents, and one man is deconverted in his desperation to find his daughter.

It's .. okay I guess, but not my thing.

  • Trailer
  • Only one prisoner was in this movie.



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The Prestige - (2006 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/

Formerly-partnered magicians become dangerous rivals.

Fair at best; incredibly obvious. It's comes across as a period piece to me; I don't find it even remotely intellectually stimulating.



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Logan - (2017 movie) image

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3315342/
https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/logan

Logan (Wolverine) gets tangled up with a girl fleeing a mutant research and breeding lab that is definitely nothing like that of Dark Angel - (2000 show).

Not recommended.

This is like a DC version of X-Men. It was passable at best, and a good way to put the whole series and concept of comic book movies to bed. I think I'll end them all on this low note.




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2018-02-23

  • 2:30 -- The claw thing is a reference to drunk men having trouble achieving full erection.
  • 3:15 -- Shooting him didn't do anything, why would they fight him, let alone try to stab him?
  • 4:00 -- Texas license plate WER 112

    • Is he in Texas?
  • 4:15 --

    • West 62 -- Is that West Virginia Route 62?
    • El Paso is in Texas. So apparently there were Spanish-speaking gangsters in Texas for some reason. Is that a thing?
  • 4:45 -- So apparently he can (or needs to) flex bullets out now.
  • 5:00 -- The year 2029
  • 5:15 -- He's a professional limousine driver.
  • 9:00 -- "South of the border" a reference to Mexico.

    Alkali | Transigen
    Donald Pierce
    Chief of Security
    Cell: 915 122-2425
    Office: (obscured)

  • 10:00 -- He is presumably now in Mexico.
  • 12:15 -- Taco Bell
  • 13:45 -- So I thought he was dead. Wasn't he disintegrated a couple of movies ago?
  • 14:00 -- What are those pills, anyway?
  • 14:30 --

  • 15:00 -- Statue of Liberty

  • 18:45 --

  • 20:45 -- The tag on the glasses means he just bought them, and the previous "cannot read" comment was apparently near-sightedness.
  • 22:00 -- Canada
  • 23:15 -- That's an X-Men comic book, and I'm certain there are nerds who know what specific one it is.
  • 24:15 -- North Dakota
  • 30:15 -- Why not shoot him?
  • 34:00 -- Ageing:

    • Octogenarian = 80-89 years old
    • Nongenarian = 90-99 years old
  • 35:00 -- Kellogg's Corn Flakes
  • 38:00 -- Casual misandry.
  • 42:15 -- They could catch up with them.. pretty trivially actually.
  • 43:15 -- That's a reference to Dracula?
  • 43:45 -- OH! Is that the super-kid from some earlier movie? Oh, wait.. no.. no I just don't know the reference to him working for their team.
  • 48:30 -- Pringles

    • 48:45 -- .. and a drink I don't recognize.
  • 49:30 --

  • 54:30 -- I don't know that movie offhand.
  • 56:00 -- So they can implant titanium again?
  • 56:30 -- Another X-Men comic book.
  • 56:45 -- I don't know if this is the same movie as earlier.

    • 57:30 -- It's possible to track down this movie based on these lines.
  • 59:30 -- More comic book stuff.
  • 1:07:30 -- It was already established that her adamantium was implanted.
  • 1:11:00 --

  • 1:17:30 -- Corn syrup
  • 1:23:00 -- Westchester, but I don't know which one..
  • 1:46:45 -- If they were all raised together, how can they have different accents?
  • 1:49:45 -- Quadcopter
  • 1:56:30 -- Why is any of that non-lethal? None of them were to be captured..
  • 1:58:00 -- Why would they pause instead of shooting? Oh, more non-lethality for some reason.
  • 2:04:30 -- How come he can't just slash the cable?
  • 2:06:00 -- It was already established that he can be stopped, so how come the vehicle didn't temporarily-splat him?

Swordfish - (2001 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/swordfish

A recently-ex-con world-renown hacker is swept into the well-planned efforts to fund long-term anti-terrorist terrorism.

I-like-hyphens.

Ignoring the Hollywood-hacker bullshit, it's a good movie, particularly because so few, at least at its release, would be so A-class and yet have this particular topic. It helps shape the understanding of the passion behind Lawful Evil.



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X-Men - Days of Future Past (2014) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/
was https://web.archive.org/*/www.x-menmovies.com/

TODO - I'll add notes when I get around to re-watching this.

  • Properly titled X-Men: Days of Future Past
  • Trailer



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X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/
http://web.archive.org/web/20090512234425/http://www.x-menorigins.com/us/

to be re-watched

Pretty shitty writing.

  • Properly titled X-Men Origins: Wolverine



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Van Helsing - (2004 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338526/
https://web.archive.org/web/20190304111919/http://vanhelsing.net:80/?

An unaged man without a memory is sent by a secret multifaith order of monster hunters as the last hope of a lineage doomed to purgatory unless they slay the lord of all vampires.

Not a great or bad movie, but still good enough to be worth watching. It's mostly interesting because of its main character, and the rest of it is piecemeal and without particular substance.

I think this movie was my initial introduction to Kate Beckinsale, and it turns out she's a lot hotter in my memory than in this actual movie. Maybe she was better-presented in the next movies of hers that I saw after this.



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