Movies
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Daredevil
Watched the Daredevil movie again recently. It came out 20 years ago in 2003 but visually it didn’t lose any of its flair and it doesn’t look 20 years old at all. It is more or less non stop action from start to finish so the story is a little thin and the character development…
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The Bourne Ultimatum
The third Jason Bourne movie of the original trilogy. It picks up the story where we left it at the end of the Bourne Supremacy. It actually goes back a bit in time showing how Jason Bourne manages to escape in Russia after having visited the daughter of his first victim, Vladimir Nesky. When a…
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The Bourne Supremacy
This is the second Jason Bourne movie. It picks up the story where we left it in the Bourne Identity. We find Jason Bourne living with Marie in Goa in India. But then a mysterious killer appears first in Berlin killing a CIA operative and then in Goa to kill Jason. He believes he succeeds…
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The A-Team (2010)
When I grew up the tv series of the A-Team played and I was a fan. But time went by and I forgot about it. Then a while ago while browsing the movie catalogue I came across this movie about the A-Team from 2010 and I was naturally interested. From the cast I only knew…
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No Time To Die
Yesterday I watched the latest James Bond instalment on tv with the kids. We had an unexpected free Saturday evening with everyone home and no early Sunday hockey appointments so we took the opportunity to watch this more than two and a half hour long movie. This is apparently the 25th JB movie and I…
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Total Recall Double Bill Part 2
After watching the 1990 version with Arnold Schwarzenegger I also watched the remake from 2012 starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel. The immediately obvious difference is that the remake is visually technically far superior and makes the future look convincingly like the future and not some failed cardboard attempt. This obviously helps the…
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Total Recall Double Bill Part 1
I recently watched the movie from 1990 with Arnold Schwarzenegger again. The real revelation then and still now is Sharon Stone. One moment she is the harmless, loving, young and innocent extremely good looking wife, the next one she is a ruthless killer, still extremely good looking but with all the innocence evaporated into thin…
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Top Gun. Maverick
Went to see Top Gun Maverick in the movie theatre. Initially I was hesitating a bit because I found the first Top Gun a bit too extremely macho. The machismo was well acted but it made the characters not very endearing to me. Reading early reviews of Maverick I then changed my mind mainly because…
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Hard Target
Hard Target is an action movie from 1993 starring Jean Claude Van Damme and directed by John Woo. It was the first movie by John Woo after migrating from Hong Kong to the US. It contains many signature style elements like the white dove flying into the room in action sequences. Hard Target ‘introduced’ the…
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Top Gun
A few weeks ago I read a review of the new Top Gun, Maverick. Originally I wasn’t planning to go and watch it any time soon but from the review it became evident that would benefit visually from watching it on a large screen. And the reviewer didn’t write it was complete crap. So, with…
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