Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-09 (Sunday)

On 6/10/2024 7:17 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Hey Ian!!!!
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I watched:
Shaft (4K disc) 1971 movie starring Richard Roundtree as a Black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks.  He risks his neck for his brother man and won't cop out when there's danger all about.  The movie holds up very well.  When the movie started, I was thinking he's one of the coolest characters ever.  I wonder how he would have been if he played Han Solo.  Then later in the movie a woman says to him "I love you" and he replies, "I know."  I don't think I've ever caught that before now.  He definitely could have been Han Solo! Or more likely Solo was trying to be him.
Shaft's Big Score! (blu-ray) the 1972 sequel was included as an extra with "Shaft."  I don't get why they are including whole movies as "extras" instead of just making it a box set.  Anyway, Richard Roundtree returns and this time he takes on the mob.  This was surprisingly good.
Shaft (blu-ray) 2000 reboot of the franchise with Samuel L. Jackson playing "Shaft" the nephew of Richard Roundtree's Shaft.  Roundtree makes a brief cameo to establish it's the same continuity.  Jackson's Shaft starts the movie as a cop going after an American psycho played by Christian Bale, and a neighborhood drug lord played by Jeffrey Wright (who chews the scenery).  The two of them eventually team up to try and take down Shaft who has left the police force but is still gunning for them.  I forget how good this movie is.  It holds up great.  "What's my name?"  Still a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JajMBflkOp8
Shaft (4K disc) 2019 sequel that was too lazy to come up with a new name.  Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Rountree return to once again play Shaft.  But now they retcon it to say Roundtree is Jackson's father and was only pretending to be his uncle in the last movie.  And joining the fun is Jessie T. Usher as Jackson's son.  Usher plays a nerdy FBI analyst looking into his friend's mysterious death.  When the evidence points to a local drug dealer Usher turns to Jackson for help and this version of Jackson's Shaft plays like an over-the-top parody of Roundtree's version.  This was my first time watching it since it was in the theater and I completely forgot this version is more of a comedy. This was a very disappointing movie.  I hated how they destroyed Jackson's Shaft by turning him into a caricature of his previous character.  At least there was a nice action sequence at the end with all three generations of Shaft teaming up to take out the bad guys.
Presumed Innocent (blu-ray) 1990 movie starring Harrison Ford as a D.A. investigating the murder of a colleague he was having an affair with. When the evidence starts to point towards him he's arrested and put on trial for her murder.  Great movie with a great cast including Raul Julia as Ford's defense attorney and Paul Winfield as the judge.
The Lazarus Project (TNT) - Season 2, episode 1.  Picking up where the finale ended the team is caught in a 3 week time loop and must save the world.  A lot went down in the premier. One thing I didn't fully understand is how does a man get shot in the heart and survive?  And why was the neighbor continuously killed?  I'm guessing he did something last season that I forgot about and they didn't show in the recap.