Recently Watched Movies 2024

[Dove]

Strange Darling (2023)

Just about when I was ready to admit I wasted money renting this one, it got freakin' crazy. I recommend. Pretty entertaining with a cool twist.

The two stars are pretty good.

Barbara Hershey and Ed Begley, Jr make cameos until they are killed.

 

[nwhoopfan]

"Devil's Climb" is a remarkably condensed documentary with Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell. Tommy is trying to get back to being a top climber after rupturing his achilles tendon multiple times. Why not up the ante? They ride bikes from Colorado to SE Alaska, then climb the imposing Devil's Thumb. They weren't settled on a route til they got there, ended up doing a traverse of multiple gnarly towers and then the main peak. First to ever do it in less than 24 hours. Stunning dramatic scenery. They briefly passed thru the Bugaboos in Canada, that's pretty awesome too. I've been there. Anyway this 2 month adventure was crammed into a 75 minute documentary.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Canary Black. Kate Beckinsale as a CIA operative Avery Graves in Croatia. Why we have so many people in Croatia is a mystery. First up, holy crap, how is she 51? This shouldn't be possible. Next up, the action and shooting is slightly less believable than some other action movies. Guys being blown backwards from small caliber handgun rounds....nah. The plot in some ways is interesting, bad guys want some super secret US data. But then it derails, as Avery proceeds to kill or cause the death of hundreds of thousands? More? All to save her husband. She may be the worst spy of all time. So the movie fails because any rational person in her position makes it a 20 minute long movie.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Why we have so many people in Croatia is a mystery.

Right? For a while I thought they were somewhere in the U.S.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Right? For a while I thought they were somewhere in the U.S.

Somehow I don't think we have two secret CIA offices in Zagreb staffed by something like 100 people. We might have six.

 

[storrsroars]

Somehow I don't think we have two secret CIA offices in Zagreb staffed by something like 100 people. We might have six.

And all the while you were cursing the writers for not putting CIA office in Dubrovnik for the nude beaches ;-)

 

[HuskyHawk]

And all the while you were cursing the writers for not putting CIA office in Dubrovnik for the nude beaches ;-)

That’s the sequel!

 

[storrsroars]

That’s the sequel!

Unfortunately for you, they're replacing Kate Beckinsdale with Melissa McCarthy.

 

[superjohn]

Canary Black. Kate Beckinsale as a CIA operative Avery Graves in Croatia. Why we have so many people in Croatia is a mystery. First up, holy crap, how is she 51? This shouldn't be possible. Next up, the action and shooting is slightly less believable than some other action movies. Guys being blown backwards from small caliber handgun rounds....nah. The plot in some ways is interesting, bad guys want some super secret US data. But then it derails, as Avery proceeds to kill or cause the death of hundreds of thousands? More? All to save her husband. She may be the worst spy of all time. So the movie fails because any rational person in her position makes it a 20 minute long movie.

Kate Beckinsale, how is it possible? Plastic surgery.

She's starting to look weird and she looks nothing like she did years ago.