TODAY I WATCHED (Movies, TV Shows) 2016

Gotham

I'm not really into this second half of season 2 so far.  These last two episodes feel like marking time (except for the development of The Riddler as a really formidable foe).  But other than that these episodes have been silly.

I watched an episode of 48 Hours earlier today.

Daredevil Season 2 Episodes 5 & 6

nevermore wrote:

Mork & Mindy

Absolute respect for watching Mork & Mindy in 2016!!

watched an episode of Twin Peaks today, season 2 ep. 15.

Finished Season 1 of 'The Wire' last night.

Think I'll take a break and catch up on some current shows. I'm at least 2 weeks behind on 'Better Call Saul' and 'Baskets'.

Agents Of SHIELD

Kingdom of the Vampire

Walking Dead
Better Call Saul
Last Man on Earth
The Shield

I am about to go watch "Expedition Unknown"

Supernatural

Smackdown

"Mercenaries" (2014)


An entertainingly silly gender-swapped "Expendables" knockoff from the Asylum. The President's daughter has been kidnapped in Kazhakstan by a psycho female warlord (Brigitte Nielsen, who has aged terribly!!) so the CIA (led by '80s kung-fu queen Cynthia Rothrock) assembles a team of warrior women with nothing to lose (including Kristianna "Terminator 3" Loken and Vivica "Independence Day" Fox) to go on a rescue mission. Bullets fly, stuff blows up, much ass gets kicked, yadda yadda yadda.
As Asylum movies go, this one is actually not half bad... but of course that's still a long way from "good."

The Big Bang Theory

"Planet of the Vampires" (1965)


A crew of space explorers follow a mysterious distress beacon to a seemingly-dead planet. Eventually they encounter its disembodied inhabitants, who need to take over the newcomers' corpses in order to survive.
This stylish sixties sci-fi from Italy's Mario Bava is no great shakes in the story or acting departments but the cool set designs and colorful, comic-strip styled lighting and fog effects keep it watchable in spite of its obvious low budget. Legend has it that this flick was a major influence on the original "Alien."

Night Court
Drew Carey Show
Carol Burnett & Friends
Barney Miller

Daredevil Season 2 Episodes 7-10

Just as I settled in last night, Airplane! came on. So naturally I watched it for the 500th time. I'm not joking and don't call me Shirley.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Just as I settled in last night, Airplane! came on. So naturally I watched it for the 500th time. I'm not joking and don't call me Shirley.

A comedy classic!

Star Trek episode "The City On The Edge Of Forever"

007 wrote:

Star Trek episode "The City On The Edge Of Forever"

Written by my favorite author Harlan Ellison. That one's a classic!

A double shot of late '80s action cheez:

"Robowar" (1988)

A squad of commandos are sent into the South American jungle on a rescue mission and get hunted down one by one by a rogue military android.
...if that plot description sounds vaguely familiar, that's because this is an absolutely shameless Italian rip-off of "Predator." Replace Schwarzenegger with Reb Brown and the alien with a robot and it's pretty much the same damn movie, except "Robowar" was made on 1/100th of the budget and has 10x the suck. Hilariously awful Eurotrash!!

"Shakedown" (aka "Blue Jean Cop," 1988)

A public defender (Peter "RoboCop" Weller) and a burnt out NYPD detective (Sam Elliott) tangle with a crew of murderous, crooked NYC cops. An underrated-as-hell action flick/courtroom drama hybrid with great performances and some insanely cool shoot'em up bits. This one's worth watching just for the action scenes shot in the late '80s Times Square/42nd Street "grindhouse" district -- they're a snapshot of an era in New York that's long gone.

Daredevil Season 2 Episode 11

"Treasure of the Four Crowns" (1983)

I hadn't seen this ultra cheesy Spanish/Italian "Raiders of the Lost Ark" knock-off flick since I was in seventh grade and yup, it's just as bad as I remembered. American bit player Tony Anthony stars as "J.T. Stryker," an Indiana Jones-esque treasure hunter. He's hired to recover some priceless ancient crowns from a castle fortress run by a murderous religious cult, so he recruits a team of expert climbers and acrobats (?) to help him pull off the heist.
The ultra-cheap special effects and near constant 3-D gimmicks (EVERYTHING flies towards the viewer's face in this movie - flames, arrows, fingers, tambourines, blades, and on and on and on!) provided tons of unintentional humor.