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https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/rambo-iii-1988 · 26 Aug 2024
Historical context isn't particularly kind to this one, but it's a fun action movie (with some pacing issues) and Stallone in peak John Rambo form. Stick to stick combat, hand to hand combat, a plethora of guns, helicopter on tank violence and a brief Kurt...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/rambo-first-blood-part-ii-1985 · 18 Aug 2024
A fun action movie, though a pale shadow of the first in the series. Less nuance and — in its place — more violence and jingoism.
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/first-blood-1982 · 18 Aug 2024
An intense, timeless and violent action thriller. Stallone manages to convey some genuine vulnerability towards the film's conclusion and the whole film speaks to the way in which unrelenting cruelty can break anyone. Couldn't they have just left the guy a...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/twisters-2024 · 13 Aug 2024
A note for note, perfect summer blockbuster. It's got a charismatic ensemble cast, feels and villains meant for the moment (climate change, data brokers et al). It's fun. Go watch it.
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/wrath-of-man-2021 · 8 Aug 2024
An above average Statham film, capably guided by Guy Ritchie. It doesn't really transcend the genre, but does an excellent job of giving the whole film an emotional heft via H's son that a lot of Statham's movies lack. It was nice seeing Josh Hartnett (he ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/monster-hunter-2020 · 6 Aug 2024
An uninspired and altogether unnecessary (but not unwatchable!) movie. Rife with clichés — the enemy of my enemy is my friend, training montages — it's loaded up. There's even a cat cameo. A catmeo — if you will. This movie, however, is not the cat'...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/iss-2024 · 2 Aug 2024
In space no one can escape human nature. Or something. A solid cast, engaging movie and a pretty clearly choreographed lesson in either sticking together or failing apart, mirrored by the events on earth below.
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/simulant-2023 · 1 Aug 2024
A nicely rendered and competently acted movie that says a bit more by not asking more interesting questions. It's the future, people are cloning themselves as androids (the legality of which is questionable) and with all of that technology all we've done i...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/real-steel-2011 · 30 Jul 2024
It’s not about the robots, it’s a redemption story — with robots. It’s riddled with clichés, nicely acted and with a Danny Elfman score to boot and, well, I’m not crying — you’re crying. Where are the robots though? It’s 2024.
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/the-5th-wave-2016 · 25 Jul 2024
A spectacularly average movie if ever there was one. The leads do their thing(s) and are serviceable but the story is uninspired, the twists are easy to spot a mile away and it's hard to get invested in any of it. If you're a sucker for post-apocalyptic/al...