I had grand plans to watch lots of movies this weekend but I ended up getting a call to go do work on Saturday so we didn't have as much time as I had hoped.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem dir by Jeff Rowe
This movie was made specifically for me. It combines 3 things I love dearly, Ninja Turtles, electronic music (Trent & Atticus) and 90's Hip-Hop. The music in this was just perfect from the score being incredible to all the classic hip hop like De La Soul, Tribe, Big Pun, ODB, Busta & Gang Starr, I was smiling ear to ear the entire time. If you told me 20 years ago that I would be watching an "Oldboy hallway" style fight scene with the Ninja Turles edited to No Diggity I would have laughed at you. The story was super fun, a twist on some typical Turtle stuff with a great cast, Jackie Chan as Master Splinter was really good choice. The animation is incredible, it's up there with Spiderverse films for sure. I'm looking forward to what they do with the next film, I hope there's many more.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 dir by James Gunn
A very heartfelt and fitting conclusion to the Guardians films. This is one of the best Marvel films in a while and I rather enjoyed it. Rocket's background was fucked up and heartbreaking. There was one action scene in a hallway that was particularly impressive and one of the best action pieces I've seen in a Marvel film period. Recommended if you like the other Guardians films.
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Fire and Ice dir by Ralph Bakshi
It's been a while since I've last watched this and it's still a lot of fun. Love the music, so many cool scenes, many awkward rotoscoped shots that just add to the charm.
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Nimona dir by Troy Quane, Nick Bruno
This was a lot of fun, very fun, cute story. Really good animation, great cast. If you're looking for a good family film check this one out. I didn't realize it was based on a comic by ND Stevenson, it's been sitting on my hard drive for many years, I used to read the creators other comic Lumberjanes. Very cool they were able to get this made all these years later.
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Miami Vice dir by Michael Mann
When this originally came out I had zero interest in watching it, I wasn't the biggest fan of Farrell at the time and the trailers just didn't look that good to me so I skipped it. For some reason I got the urge to watch it and it's not quite what I expected. Overall I enjoyed it, I have some issues with parts of it but it was decent. My biggest issue was the run time, it's so damn long and for zero reason, it's neither building character or plot just aimlessly does shit. It's shot very dark, lots of close up frantic camera movement which was annoying after a while and then there's Colin's voice, by the end of the film I was just laughing to myself at how bad it was, he's so monotone and one note with that gravelly delivery. The last 45 minutes was really fucking good though, the shootout was excellent. Any one else think that Michael Mann had a hard on for the boats though? Why so many long sweeping shots of the boats just driving fast? I'm curious how much shorter the film would have been if we cut all the boat shots from it.
