Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks
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Ignore the Chinese words in the preview screenshot, the narration is actually in English.
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Movie title is “Lady Bloodsport”.
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When a mainland Chinese film crew tries to stick King Kong, Big Foot, Sharknado, and Indiana Jones all into one movie:
Link to videoOh, they’ve got snow elves in there, too, complete with pointy ears.
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HE-MAN’s origin story:
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Old American kungfu movie.
Trigger warning: even though it was made in the pre-woke era, it features women and minorities as the heroes and a white man as the villain.
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See, this is what happens..
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It’s a cheap trap!
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Bridges!
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Ignore the Chinese characters on the cover, all the audio and text are actually in English.I particularly like the “rotating” bridge shows around the 19:25 mark and the rolly polly bridge right after.
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The Wilburforce pendulum part is good, the part on quantum superposition is perhaps a bit contrived.
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“She’s Funny Like That”
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Graduating medical school with kids in tow.
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Russian superhero movie:
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To retaliate against the lameness of Ax's picks, I would like to recommend "Black Sea". Definitely held my interest through its 90 minutes. Playing now on Netflix.
@horace said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:
To retaliate against the lameness of Ax's picks, I would like to recommend "Black Sea". Definitely held my interest through its 90 minutes. Playing now on Netflix.
On your recommendation I put it in my queue and watched about half of it.
Jude Law is amazing in this role - talk about "gritty."
This is "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" meets "K-19."
Pretty gripping so far.
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@horace said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:
To retaliate against the lameness of Ax's picks, I would like to recommend "Black Sea". Definitely held my interest through its 90 minutes. Playing now on Netflix.
On your recommendation I put it in my queue and watched about half of it.
Jude Law is amazing in this role - talk about "gritty."
This is "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" meets "K-19."
Pretty gripping so far.
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@george-k Glad you're enjoying it George. I agree Jude Law is great in this. I was happy to see that Ben Mendelsohn is in it. I would watch anything he's in. Check out Mississippi Grind if you haven't seen it.
@horace I have to say I found the second half a bit disappointing. It descended into a lot of typical "adventure movie" tropes.
- The hero who misses his family
- The unstable guy who threatens to kill the mission
- The ultimate sacrifice of the hero
- The unlikely guy on the ship who ends up surviving
- The surprise twist about the true nature of the mission
Many, many, others. I'd give the first half 3 stars, the second half, two.
Not bad, but not great.
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@horace I have to say I found the second half a bit disappointing. It descended into a lot of typical "adventure movie" tropes.
- The hero who misses his family
- The unstable guy who threatens to kill the mission
- The ultimate sacrifice of the hero
- The unlikely guy on the ship who ends up surviving
- The surprise twist about the true nature of the mission
Many, many, others. I'd give the first half 3 stars, the second half, two.
Not bad, but not great.
