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The Beekeeper dir by David Ayer
This is one of the worst things I've seen in ages. I was baffled by the writing, the entire concept felt like some dude in his 60s dictated the plot through bullet points then a bunch of people who have never written a feature film before cobbled a script together with little to no effort. I would describe the film as John Wick for boomers. Statham is being the absolute most Statham he can be which is the most enjoyable part of the film. There's a lot of decent action scenes sprinkled in unfortunately it's 105 minute film with about 20 minutes worth of actual action, the rest is terribly written dialog. I know @bez enjoyed it and it got a lot of decent reviews so maybe I'm just not the demographic for this type of film, I love big dumb action but this did not work for me at all. It was shot really well though, some incredibly dramatic shots of Statham bee keeping with huge orchestral swells that I found very funny but enjoyable just the same. I'll give people a small snippet of the type of story telling you are in for here as maybe an indicator of whether you think you'll like it or not, Statham is a bee keeper who is retired and just bee keeping as his life focus, of course he used to part of a secret shadow organization of elite killers, they are called The Beekeepers.
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Gunbuster dir by Hideaki Anno
This is a 6 episode OVA series from Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion/Shin Godzilla/Shin Ultraman), I believe it was the first series he was in charge of. It starts off as a typical 80's high school girl drama set in the future with mechs. The main character is trying to be a pilot. It's kind of goofy and light hearted but as the series progress the themes of alien genocide, earth defense and the effects of time dilation on the people fighting for earth in space weigh down on you. On one longer mission the main character is in space for a few months when she gets back she discovers she missed graduating high school and her best friend from her childhood is an adult with a child. It becomes a bit heavier and concludes in such a crazy awesome way I just didn't expect. This is easily one of my favorite discoveries of old anime. Highly recommended but comes with a warning about typical 80's OVA nudity as it looks fairly innocent and for all ages.