Boondock Staints

#note.//These are all movies I watched at Ted & Melody's when I had a subscription to Netflix-DVD subscription. I would get the DVD and want them on their player, or my functional laptop at the time!

I watched it in 20191126

I can't recall any details. Let me look it up to refresh.

Ah yes. The brothers become vigilantes and lots of killing of bad people with no collateral damage or deaths. It was OK even tho I can't remember the plot but if you forced me to watch it again, I will guess the action faster than if I hadn't watched it before! HA!

 #actor.//

Godzilla (Anime)

#note.//Watch on Netflix. Pretty good and touches on themes I.us thought about-- the concept of a Hero. His name sounds like hero, Haruo. It's like... what's that book? Snow Crash? Yes! Hiro the protagonist.

#trilogy:

1. Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters 
2. Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle 
3. Godzilla: The Planet Eater

#linked.data.//book
Snow Crash.//I've read, but can't remember most.
Diamond Age.//I've read. It's a girl with a fancy iBook connect to the Internet.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

#note.//
Watched at the theater with Lil @Red Rock Casino/Theater - Las Vegas

This was a Guy Ritchie.director movie-- fun and stylish. I loved the split screen, multi-panel action sequences. It had the same feel as Lock, Stock and two smoking Barrel.<link> The required torture scene was uncomfortable for me because it was probably historically real, but the movie quickly adds some dark humor to bring us back into fantasy spy land again! Well done.
 
Pacing was excellent.
Dollops of semi-naked girl and well-dressed spies was vintage.
There was no ultra-violence and minimal blood.
Nothing complicated here, but enjoyable to watch.

A good wholesome, fairy-tale family movie about WWII and the Cold war!

I don't really have time to read reviews by the "critics" so here's my reaction to the short Google blurps of some reviews:

Though I strive to set aside all prejudices when the lights go down, I had a hunch that The Man From U.N.C.L.E. would be excruciating. Well, it turns out to be absolutely delightful.
David Edelstein·Vulture

CORRECT. It was enjoyable for JoJo Brand.

Note to millennials: No one stops to text or take a selfie. You've been warned.
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone

INCORRECT. Blurp is too hip for me to understand. Rolling Stone is quickly becoming irrelevantly hip.

Though the pic is solidly made, its elegant vintage flavor simply doesn't feel modern enough to cut through the tough summer competition.
Peter Debruge·Variety

INCORRECT. It's near perfect combination of vintage feel, beautiful people, innocent flirtatious sexual tension, well-done basic action sequences, and mainstream stylized violence will cut through the typical summer competition.

CONCLUSION: If I were to generalize base on a very small sample size, I would say the the older magazine reviews are out of touch with JoJo Brand.

#actor.//
I didn't recognize any of the stars, but that is typical these days when I try not to remember unless they pop up in another context.

Who are: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander?!?

I Robot

#note.//
The only thing of note is that the movie takes a radically different view on future robots. Asimov always viewed them differently<link>. We've changed them into killers.

 #actor.//
Will Smith as ...oh I don't remember, the usual action character he plays. Now he gets to fight and destroy cool looking robots from Terminator... no, more like the liquid robots from Terminator 2<link>

Terminator

#note.//
A classic where Arnold is still bad but good.  How many times have we watched this movie?

#actor.//
Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator.
Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connors

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)

#note.//
Tongue-in-cheek fun flick. Very good stylized violence on top of classic movie memes.
The super-spy.
Killing the dog, relative, or twin brother to pass the test.


 #actor.//

Lucy

#note.//
Faulty science and neuroscience but OK movie. We actually use 100% of our brain. It makes no sense to say we only use 10% of our brain. What does the rest of the brain do then?!

If only drugs or artificial hormones could turn you into a demigod. What was stopping her from destroying the world on a whim?

The same problem as, The Survivors.Star Trek: The Next Generation.e3.<link>
Kevin is an immortal Douwd.

The movie had no tense once she became demi-god Lucy. A superwoman with no fault, no kryptonite.


#actor.//
Scarlett Johansson as Lucy.

Mad Max: Fury Road

#note.//
I watched it at movie theater with C. One of the most action dense movie I've seen in a long time. The magic is it is so well paced. I didn't get bored, and I didn't get overloaded. Just enough narrative to understand and motivate, but not too much to slow down the movie.



#actor.//
Charlize Theron as hero

Utraviolet

#note.//
Another dystopic future. I watched it because it promised Milla in tight outfits and stylized violence, both of which was delivered. I can't really remember the plot now, and I get it confused with old MTV.Liquid Television Aeon Flux animation shorts. I'm not sure if I've seen Aeon Flux.movie with Charlize Theron.

OK. Just pulled up a trailer and yes, I've seen the movie. As you can tell it wasn't that memorable, but I chose to use up some of my life space.time.force watching it along with Ultraviolet.

#actor.//
Milla Jovovich as Violet Song

Underworld - Evolution

#note.//
Kate Beckinsale is still Selene. This one wasn't as interesting as the first, even though it has sex scene with Selene.

Underworld

#note.//
Dark and stylized, which is why I watched it. That, and Kate with her tight outfits.

#actor.//
Kate Beckinsale as Selene a vampire deathdealer. She is the clan's killer of werewolves.

Unbreakable

#Published.2000

#note.//
I think I've seen this movie before. I must have!!! It came out in 2000, involves comic books, a vigilante, and super powers!

I wonder what the director, M. Night Shyamalan has been doing? I definitely saw The Six Sense (1999)<create>
Since then he's directed a bunch of movies you'd think I would have seen!  But NO:
no.Signs (2002)
no.The Village (2004)
no.Lady in the Water (2006)
no.The Happening (2008)
yes.unforutnately.The Last Airbender (2010) <create>
no.After Earth (2013).

#actor.//
Bruce Willis as hero
Samuel Jackson as villain

Hanna

Published.2011

#note.//20150724
It also makes me try to find a connection in the noise:
Hanna was also the women for Der Vorleser.
Interlacing.movie with book.

#note.//20150724
Typical Hollywood-ish, young boy fantasy, comic book girl assassin movie.

These super assassin-soldier character obviously can't exist in real life. What is the mechanism of control after creation? Historical ninja and extant Special Forces all exist within a Military Brand. This Brand is usually tightly linked with the Government Brand. Both are hierarchical and fairly rigid. They have systematic methods of indoctrination. We must become an acolyte in the believe system in order to be taught the special methods.rituals practice by the Brand!

There has to be a differentiation process, changing the pluripotent citizen into the highly specialized unit within efficient Brand belief system.

Oh. The movie. It start interestingly with a standard snowy, isolated training site, but after she comes back to our Community, which happens to be a seedy looking Berlin. The movies tries to make the city a little darker, but it really doesn't work. Berlin is too clean these days.

#actor.//
Saoirse Ronanas Hannah the girl assassin.

Cate Blanchett as Marissa Wiegler the nemesis. I didn't even noticed it was her, the elf queen, but those eyes did look familiar.

#backpropagate.//assassin with good heart narrative
Jason Bourne.Bourne Identity.Supremcy<create>.Ultimatum<create>.Legacy
Ah Jong.The Killer
Gon.No Tears for the Dead
Léon.The Professional

Jurassic World

#note.//
Watched at the theater with Nick & Le.
I suspended my scientific belief-system for the creation of the creatures, but just because they're herbivores doesn't mean they're not dangerous!

The big, hybrid velociraptor would have killed the little rapter. As Chris Pratt pointed out. The creature had been raised in isolation. It was just a killing machine with no recognition of sibling (which it ate).


 #actor.//
Chris Pratt as Owen, the lovable former Navy-man turned dinosaur trainer, and all-around Hero.

link.Peter Quill.Guardian of the Galaxy
link.Emmet Brickowski.The Lego Movie
link.Andy Dwyer.Parks and Recreation

Leon: The Professional

#note.//
It came out in 1994, so I must have seen it in the 90s? I didn't realize for the longest time that the little girl was Natalie Portman, later of Star Wars fame. Which reminds me, I saw La Femme Nikita, both foreign and American version!



#actor.//
Natalie Portman as Mathilda, little girl taken in my Leon
Jean Reno as Léon, the hitman with a heart.

#forwardpropagate.//assassin with good heart narrative
Jason Bourne.Bourne Identity.2002
Gon.No Tears for the Dead.2014

#forwardpropagate.//assassin with good heart narrative

Ah Jong.The Killer.1989

Bourne Legacy

#note.//
Watched with Paul at dad's house.20150510.Sun
It's template made and paced well. Super soldier, girlie helper, and a chase sequence. Fight with another super soldier, win, escape on fishing boat...

#actor.//
Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross, super soldier from program: Outcome

Rachel Weisz as Dr. Marta Shearing, eye-candy and girlie helper

Glen Scott makes short appearance as Ezra Kramer

linked.Stick.Daredevil (Netflick series)

#backpropagate.//assassin with good heart narrative
Jason Bourne.Bourne Identity
Ah Jong.The Killer
Gon.No Tears for the Dead

No Tears for the Dead

#note.//
Another action movie with an assassin/hitman that has a good heart.
He accidently kills little girl, and must atone by saving the mother from other hitmans.


 #actor.//
Dong-gun Jang as Gon the killer with a heart.



#backpropagate.//assassin with good heart narrative
Jason Bourne.Bourne Identity
Ah Jong.The Killer
Aaron Cross.Bourne Legacy

The Killer

#note.//
A classic John Woo movie complete with doves, blind women, and lots of guns.




 #actor.//
Chow Yun-Fat as Ah Jong the assassin/hitman with a heart.





#forwardpropagate.//assassin with good heart narrative
Jason Bourne.Bourne Identity
Gon.No Tears for the Dead
Aaron Cross.Bourne Legacy

Bourne Identity

#note.//
American assassin/hitman with a good heart that he finally remembers, ironically because of (self-induced?) amnesia.



#actor.//
Matt Damon as Jason Bourne the government trained assassin.



#forwardpropagate.//assassin with good heart narrative
Gon.No Tears for the Dead.
Aaron Cross.Bourne Legacy

The November Man

#note.//
I love action.spy movies, but even for me, this movie is BAD.