Sean’s movie thoughts

Director Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood made this film together before Dirty Harry. It is about a deputy Sheriff from Arizona going to New York to take a prisoner back to Arizona. It is pretty good. Lee J. Cobb has a supporting role as a New York cop who doesn’t like Coogan (Eastwood). I am going to see Avengers Endgame next week. I don’t feel up to the crowds. I have heard good things. Now I just have to avoid reviews and podcasts about the film. (Heh.) Seth Rogen has a new romantic comedy, Longshot, with Charlize Theron coming coming out next week. Previews looked decent. I might go see it. Rogen was making a lot of movies for a while and I got a bit burned out on him.

The original Fright Night holds up. I am not sure if it is the best vampire movie of the 1980s but I think it would have to be in the top ten. The story is simple, a teenage boy discovers his new neighbor is a vampire, and the vampire tries to kill him. Some of his friends and an old horror film star get involved.  This is after Charlie goes to the police but that did not turn out well. Chris Sarandon is Jerry Dangeridge, the vampire. He is mysterious and sexy. He also has a sense of humor and sometimes hides threats behind jokes.  Jerry is not a complete monster, for one thing he did offer Charlie a chance to forget. Roddy McDowell is Peter Vincent, the horror film star. He is great. He gets scared and at one point doesn’t want to be involved. The scene with Charlie and him in his apartment is really good and McDowell really plays well off William Ragsdale. William Ragsdale was Charlie. He is really good, especially in the scene where he knows Dangeidge is threading h...

Big Brother is Donnie Yen’s movie where he plays a high school teacher teaching a class of misfits. It is not as action packed as I hoped, so maybe he is branching out a little from action films. (Good for him.) There are 2 really good action sequences.  I liked it. It is not quite the movie I thought it would be but it is still fun. (I saw a trailer that emphasized the action sequences.)Yen has a likable screen presence and some of the students are likable too.  I like this movie and I might re-watch it someday but it is not among Donnie Yen’s best films (according to me). Donnie Yen’s 5 best movies (according to me) Ip Man Ip Man 2 Flashpoint Legend of the Fist Kung Fu Killer

https://www.cbr.com/stephen-king-salems-lot-james-wan/ James Wan is set to produce a big screen adaptation of Salem’s Lot. Salem’s Lost is Steven King’s second novel, and it has been adapted twice on TV(in 1979 and 2004). I liked both and will probably re-watch the original before the year is out. There was also a BBC radio show adaption. Right now no director is attached and no star is either. One of the writers of It, Gary Dauberman, is going to write it. That sounds promising. I liked It and I am looking forward to the second part. Dauberman is scheduled to direct the third Annabelle movie. I will probably write more about this project as things develop. I am curious to see how the novel will be adapted on the big screen. I think Salem’s Lot is my favorite Stephen King story.

Shazam holds up on repeat viewing. The scene with Billy and his mother still got to me even though I knew it was coming. I could have gone to the animated movie about the Missing Link but I heard it was not good. Avengers Endgame opens this week. I hope it is good. I might not see it opening weekend, I might want to avoid the crowds. Thor the Dark World was on cable yesterday. It might be a little better than I remembered. However I think it might be in the second tier of Marvel movies. It might be interesting to re-watch this again in the next month or so. (I find it hard to watch a movie on basic cable.) and  Making Hellboy was reportedly not pleasant. The producers and the director clashed according to an article on the Wrap. Star David Harbour walked off set a few times according to the same article. Having seen the film, I might have been able to guess those things.

I own over 800 movies digitally. (I don’t know the exact number.) I have being buying movies digitally since 2014. Some of the new movies I buy on Blu-ray or DVD also have digital codes. Sometimes I buy just the movie digitally. I like digital movies. They are convenient and portable. So far I have not lost any of my digital movies but I have heard that it can happen. However it is nice to still have some physical media because sometimes the internet connection does not allow for streaming.  Also not everything is available to own digitally. Also it is nice to be able to loan your DVDs or Blu-Rays to friends or family. I only own 1 Terminator movie but I own all 3 Pitch Perfect movies. This is just something I noticed after going through my digital movies. I am not sure if it means anything.

Superman had a brief cameo in Shazam but he was not played by Henry Cavil. If Henry Cavill is done being Superman, I wish him well. Whatever problems I have with Man of Steel or Batman v. Superman, I don’t blame him. I think with a better script and a director who actually liked the character, Cavill could be a really good Superman. Cavill was really good in Man from UNCLE. I probably need to re-watch it that in the next month or so. (It might be nice to see him and Armie Hammer work together again. There is not going to be a sequel.) He was also good in Mission Impossible Fallout. I also wish Ben Affleck well if he is done playing Batman.