TODAY I WATCHED (Movies, TV Shows) 2016

Re-watched the US version of 'Life on Mars'

The Middle
The Goldbergs (an episode centering on scamming the Columbia House tape club)
Modern Family

I watched Blue Velvet yesterday. What a crazy film. Felt like I was watching a dream, or rather, a series of dreams unfold. David Lynch's representation of the dark-side of the human psyche really speaks to me.

Doctor Who - The Robots of Death

manny wrote:

Re-watched the US version of 'Life on Mars'

Why?

Just watch the U.K version!

Meh ,they both were pretty weak.

"Spectre" (2015)

Daniel Craig's fourth go-round as James Bond sends 007 from Rome to Austria to Tangiers, hoping to expose the head of a vast criminal conspiracy known only as SPECTRE -- who are planning to take advantage of a major shift in worldwide intelligence-gathering methods. As usual, stuff blows up, vehicles chase each other around, dudes beat the crap out of each other and Bond hooks up with a hot chick.
Not as good as the preceding "Skyfall," but I'm a Bond fanboy so it was still quite entertaining. Worth a night's rental.

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Spectre" (2015)

Daniel Craig's fourth go-round as James Bond sends 007 from Rome to Austria to Tangiers, hoping to expose the head of a vast criminal conspiracy known only as SPECTRE -- who are planning to take advantage of a major shift in worldwide intelligence-gathering methods. As usual, stuff blows up, vehicles chase each other around, dudes beat the crap out of each other and Bond hooks up with a hot chick.
Not as good as the preceding "Skyfall," but I'm a Bond fanboy so it was still quite entertaining. Worth a night's rental.

The opening scene with the one, long continues camera shot is worth the price of admission alone. Agree it's not as good as Skyfall, but still a fantastic flick. It's better than a good chunk of the Moore era, both Dalton films and some of the Bronson flicks. And better than Diamonds Are Forever (sadly, the worst Connery Bond flick)

Like I said before, Spectre has everything in it you'd want out of a James Bond flick , so I was happy with it.

"From the Orient With Fury" (1965, aka "Fury on the Bosphorus")



This is the second film in the the low budget '60s Eurospy series starring Ken Clark as agent Dick Malloy, aka "077." An international criminal gang has kidnapped a scientist who invented a disintegration ray (seriously!), so Malloy and the inventor's daughter have to track him and his prototype weapon down before the bad guys can use it for nefarious purposes.  
Aside from the eye candy quotient (Mamma mia, those Sixties chicks!) this flick was pretty dull. The action/fight scenes are comically over-choreographed and the English language dubbing sucks, as usual. The first "Malloy" movie ("Mission Bloody Mary") was no great shakes, but compared to this one it's solid gold.

I can't wait until you give up this "spy" phase of your movie viewings.

I have no interest in the James Bonds series (I've never seen a single one of them) so obviously I have less than zero interest in European knockoffs of the same thing.

Please go back to reviewing crappy horror movies.  

tohostudios wrote:

I can't wait until you give up this "spy" phase of your movie viewings.

I have no interest in the James Bonds series (I've never seen a single one of them) so obviously I have less than zero interest in European knockoffs of the same thing.

Please go back to reviewing crappy horror movies.  

Man cannot live by cheesy horror movies alone. Sometimes you must cleanse your palate with cheesy spy movies! Or cheesy sword-and-sorcery movies!!


Nah, but seriously, obviously I've been on a spy movie "kick" of late, I'll get back into the horrors at some point.

Sorry, Toho -- it's another spy movie.

"Special Mission Lady Chaplin" (1966)



This was the third and final go-round for Roger Moore-lookalike Ken Clark as Agent Dick "077" Malloy, and it's the best in the "077" series. When a sunken nuclear submarine mysteriously disappears off the ocean floor, Malloy is ordered to discover what happened to it - and its full load of nuclear missiles. The "Lady Chaplin" in the title is played by Italian hottie Daniela Bianchi of "From Russia With Love" fame, a femme fatale who acts as a go-between for the missile thieves and their buyers.

This one loses steam in the last 30 minutes when it suddenly gets needlessly complicated (as so many Italian B-Movies do) but for the first hour or so it's pretty first-rate spy movie stuff. The first two films in this series were "meh" at best so I guess the third time was the charm.

The other day the girlfriend and I went to the movies and saw:

Triple 9

Doctor Who - The Sun Makers

Another kick ass episode of The Walking Dead.

Gotham

This episode should have been called "Rise Of The Riddler" or "Dark Days For Gordon".

Some recent watches:

Some of my annual or semi-annual Spring/Easter viewings:
-Club Dread
-Critters 2
-Piranha 3D

And also:
-Death Proof
-And went to see 10 Cloverfield Lane

Daredevil Season 2 Episode 1. Off to a pretty good start.

Green Acres

Daredevil Season 2 - Episodes 1 - 4

Police Academy (the original and best)

Daredevil - Season 2 Episode 2
Agents Of SHIELD

Let's Scare Jessica to Death

Agents of Shield
Daredevil S2 E5