Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-10 (Friday)

On Sat, 11 May 2024 08:36:32 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On Friday pay day(!), after getting some work done (but not enough!!), I
resolved to make yesterday a "movie day" when I got home, so I basically
did.
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Bloodshot (Hulu) - In glorious 4k!! (which is unusual to get on the Hulu!!)
   I think I remember seeing ads for this flick in 2020 (was this
during COVID?!), and thinking I wouldn't mind seeing an "action picture"
like this. But then I must have promptly forgotten about it!

I've seen this a few times and enjoyed it.

   Apparently this is based on a comic series I have never heard of.
   This is YA Vin Diesel film that is partly financed/produced by the
Chi Comms - I am starting to find it disturbing how many Diesel films
have a Chi Comm tie-in (though this particular film sports no Chi Comm
main characters, interestingly enough...)

Would you prefer a Saudi tie-in? The money has to come from somewhere.

   Diesel stars as Ray Garrison, some kind of special forces marine(?).
After successfully rescuing a hostage in Kenya, he is attacked in the
home of his and his wife's (amusingly, I didn't even recognize that the
wife was played by Talulah Riley until I checked the film's
end-credits!! - distressingly, Riley has not worked since 2022 and
getting (re)married...  :(  ), where they are both held captive, and
then eventually both murdered(!).
   Ray wakes up after, with no gunshot wound to the head and no memory
of who he was, apparently brought back from the dead by a "mad
scientist" type (Guy Pearce - anyone taking bets as to whether Pearce's
character is EVOL!!1! or not?!) - the scientist has brought Ray back
from the dead via the use of "nanites" which give Ray pretty substantial
superpowers, like the ability to near instantaneously heal from almost
any wound.

Does Pearce do anything but EVOL in the past few years?

   The scientist dude wants Ray to be part of a team of other soldiers
who have been technologically enhanced, among them Eiza Gonzalez
(sporting an impressive push-up bra that must involve some next-level
physics!!).

She was looking quite fetching in this movie.

   But soon Ray remembers his wife murder at the hands of the scumbag,
and runs off on a mission of revenge, sweet revenge!!
   If that was all that was going on here, this flick would be pretty
flat. But luckily there's "twist", which makes this more interesting (if
not more believable!!) than the film's initial simplistic premise.
   This flick won't be winning any awards. But it was a perfect way to
scratch my "mindless Friday night action movie picture" itch. And it
looked pretty decent in 4k, and is well shot in several (action) scenes.
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What did you watch?!
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Mostly Youtube videos.