I actually just watched it for the first time a few weeks ago (I know, I know, back off).  Talk about living up to a reputation.  What a script.

At least that one can be excused for slipping a spell-checker.  Tequilla Sunrise, not so much.

The chief finally chewed off too much of his ass, I guess.

“Fuck everything, I don’t care anymore.  What do you want to know??”

It’s a capsule for sure, but the gay panic scene made the host at the club the butt of the joke for being the gay panic-er. I think it may still work today - hey bud, I’m not telling one of our members his lover just stopped by to notify him he should get checked out for Herpes Symplex 10 (a nice touch skipping from 2…

Especially when the first is widely acknowledged as a classic.

My fuck-you-very-much trigger:

II was definitely more of an action flick than the original, but IIRC it was III that all but abandoned comedy for huge expensive setpieces (and suffered badly for it).  Murphy may have indeed been checked out, but I don’t remember him having much to work with.

This review is right to describe the original as meandering, because that’s exactly what it is. Foley rolls into BH knowing nothing more than where his friend worked before he was killed. It’s a detective movie, not an action movie.

TIL those two are related.  Cole is absolutely the superior talent.  I know opinions around here vary on Tombstone but he chews the fuck out of the scenery on that show and seems to love doing it.  It took me about half a season to realize he’s the same guy from Good Will Hunting and Pitch Black.

He pretty much had to be in on the joke since he’s dressed like a goddam Nazi for most of it. The others were in a straight-up war movie.

Seeing Mad Max after RW was definitely a bit jarring tonally, since the intro to the latter lifts a bunch of the MM footage with the implication it’s post-apocalyptic as well.  I like MM a lot but it’s from another planet as the rest of the Max films.

I liked Oblivion a lot as well, a cool slow-burn film where Cruise doesn’t realize for most of it that he’s not at all in control of the situation.

Pro: Lovely singing voice

But this doesn’t sound like Good Enough. It sounds like Plain Bad.

Probably a better comparison for the FB/Rambo series is Mad Max and The Road Warrior.

Yeah he goes out of his way to avoid killing all those overmatched Guardsmen and cops.

Bookdocks is a lot like Fight Club but played straight without the social satire.

Yeah the leather trenchcoat and scientific experiments on live bugs were kind of a giveaway and a perfect example of how the movie gradually amps that up.

Seems like it would have been best to just let The Slap lie. People are still bewildered by the whole thing and mostly just want to let it fade into history.  Want to release new music, knock yourself out.  Doesn’t have to be about That.