Junmanji: Welcome to the Jungle

#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 for Karen Gillan really. I was enjoyable. I got to know the Rock and tiny Kevin. They (the movie industry) have really monetized that chemistry! 

They went back into the reality. Karen's character is actually a man. She tries to man-it-up. It sorta works. She's just too much Karen to be a man. And Rock is reversed stereo also. Kinda all works, sort of. 

I watched it in 20200106

#actor.//

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

#note.//
Saw it over the long 4th of July weekend. Even in a cartoon, Stan Lee makes a cameo. The answer=42. It also shows up in Sherlock Holmes, Blind Banker, season=2, episode=1. These easter eggs have not been published on Wiki yet, although they are mentions on other blogs.


#Published.//2019

#voice.//Miles=Shameik Moore

A Spell for Chameleon

#author.Piers Anthony

#published.1977

#note.//

This is a book I read in my youth, somewhere in the early 80s. It is the first in the Xanth series of I don't know how many books. I read a lot of them! They mostly involve quests! Young characters seeking their identity. Now at 49yr (2018), I hope to have found my magical powers already. And perhaps I am like Bink, a paradox. 

Spoiler alert!

Bink is main character. He is seeking answers to his identity. In a land of magic, he seems to have none. Are you like me, like he, like JoJoBrand3 in three?

No magical powers, yet we have in some higher order dimension, along some variance, magician level divergences! Some of us will be clustered together by the Harry Porter Sorting Hat algorithm into this identity, the identity of JoJoBrand3. 

 

Hellboy

#note.//
Watched it again, this time with Lil on Netflix.

I couldn't even remember that there was a girl.love interest! It that bad?! The movie came out in 2004 and I must have watched it somewhere on Netflix?!? Did I rent it on DVD or watched it on one of my vacation movie binge?

#actor.//
Ron Perlman as Hellboy. He was also the Beast in the TV show Beauty and the Beast!

The Princess Bride

#note.//
A classic! Mike F. would be watching this in our house at UCLA.

How many times did Tom R. and I watch it at our house in Brentwood?

So many meme quotes:

Have fun storming the castle!
You think it'll work?
It'd take a miracle.

No more rhymes, I mean it.
Anybody want a peanut.

Inconceivable!

My name is Inigo Montoya, prepare to die!

Marwage.

Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in your perfect ears.

#actor.//
oh you know them all by now.

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.

Throne of the Crescent Moon

#author.Saladin Ahmed
checkout local library thru Kindle.
FINISHED.20150615

#note.//
It started off good. The big, bad guy seemed interesting, but the ending kinda fizzled. I'm not sure you could do more unless the writer wrote a longer story and fleshed out the villain more.


Thanks Kindle for saving my 4 highlighted passages, and 2 notes:

Adoulla and his friends had dispatched enough fiendish creatures over the decades to make him suspect that the old threats were starting to regain a foothold on God’s great earth.
Read more at location 260
Note: evil.dark lord returns to the Land.


Instead of a blissful marriage, he had monstrosities on his mind and a pile of “should haves” pressing down upon his soul.
Read more at location 387
Note: And what if you forsake blissful marriage to fight monsters to find none. Would you be great or fiendish enough to create your own ghuls?

I've got a good twenty years left in this world if God wills it. Thousands of days, thousands of nights. I'm not going to spend them all alone. I’m not.
Read more at location 2514

“O believer! When you meet a man on the road, know that God, who makes broken things whole, has cobbled your kindest fates together,”
Read more at location 3345

From Time to Time

#note.//
A british fantasy... looks good so far.

Once Upon a Time

#notes.//
First season was in 2011
20150312.Today, I started watching the first few episodes. Emma wishes on her birthday. Ironic?
<interlace.space or normall> Looking for signs.

#actors.//
Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, another savoir of a Community; another orphan.

Jamie Dornan as Sheriff Graham.

link.Paul Spector.The Fall

#forwardpropagate.//messiah narrative

Chris Pratt.Guardian of the Galaxy

#backpropagate.//messiah narrative

Chandler Jarrell.The Golden Child

Neo.The Matrix

.//orphan characterization

Sarah.Chuck

The Hobbit

#action.//
Watched the last one with Nick D and Le.
Did I watch all three movies at the movie theater?!

The Monkey King.2014

#note.watched on the way too AP's wedding

Maleficent

#note.//
Watched on plane ride back froom AP's wedding.
Average retelling.
If I were Maleficent, a powerful, magical being who was stripped of my ability to fly by a lover, I would have destroyed the entire kingdom in one huge massacre.

Republic of Thieves

#author.Scott Lynch
#FINISHED.20140724

#note.//
It was actually the third book in a series. Oh well, I'm not going to read the others anyways.
They read like the script writer for Xena (TV series) decided to write a novel: entertaining but not really engrossing.

The Lego Movie

#interlace.Fb.//I now understand the evil of The Kragle

#actor.//

Chris Pratt as voice of Emmet Brickowski, the generic, lovable builder, American everyday man.

link.Peter Quill / Star-Lord.The Guardian of the Galaxy.
link.Andy Dwyer.Parks and Recreation
link.Owen.Jurassic World.2015


#backpropagate.//messiah narrative
The Golden Child.1986
Neo in The Matrix.1999