It's always been a good movie, though. Even at the time people liked it.

There's nothing pretentious about Brick. There are scenes where the characters sit down and make fun of the movie itself. It knows its a game, and it plays the game well.

Winter Soldier pulled off something that few movies manage to do, and that's to make guns scary. When he's stalking down the street with the grenade launcher, you honestly believe he can kill whoever.

It does come from a decent place though, and that's a vilification of Wall Street types.

It's not that they're any dumber than a rom-com or a family drama, it's that they're asking you to suspend your disbelief in a different way.

The Undisputed movies are a lot of fun, but UniSol Regeneration and Ninja 2 are really my jam.

Lockout struck me as an 80s action movie/Carpenter homage that didn't quite get it, but Doomsday did. More Doomsday than Lockout please.

It's kind of weird how you keep calling it that. It's SpaceJail.

That was always such a confusing touch, because he could have easily just cut it out entirely. It's not worked into the framework of the scene like some effects.

Road to Perdition had some pretty compelling era CGI environments like Zodiac, but if you're from Chicago, you can tell that the version of 1930s Chicago they're showing you can't possibly exist.

I heard someone say that Commando is the movie you're really thinking of when people refer to First Blood as a "killing machine 80s movie."

You have that backwards.

I saw some piece of shit movie that had one good gag in it, and that was that the bottles "don't break like in the movies."

In that way, it's kind of like Cold in July. 80s synth score, and genre-smashing suspense/action sequences.

When I got the Bluray recently, I was shocked how well teh CGI had aged, particularly the average grunt bugs and the Brain Bug at the end.

My immediate reaction to the movie was, "I may have loved this if it weren't for the CGI."

Also, the anguish should come at the recognition that scores of civilians were killed because of him, not at his own loss of innocence.

As with Javier Bardem in Skyfall, though it a lesser extent.

Skyfall is one of those movies I didn't realize how cliched that particular scene was until well after the movie was over, because that's the sort of stupidity-camouflage you get when you cast Javier Bardem as your villain and not some blandtagonist.

However, the car chase in that is garbage and I always wish it would be wholly edited out of the movie. It doesn't serve any narrative purpose and it's not thrilling.