Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:This is a multiday catch up. Over the last week I watched:After an arduous workout, I watched:Multi day, ketchup on the way
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Invaders From Mars (4K disc) 1953 movie about Invaders from Mars Attacking Earth which leads to a War of the Worlds. This movie really needs a commentary track.
Invaders From Mars (blu-ray) 1986 remake directed by Tobe Hooper about Invaders from Mars Attacking Earth which leads to a War of the Worlds.
War of the Worlds (4K disc) 1953 movie about Invaders from Mars Attacking Earth which leads to a War of the Worlds. I watched with a commentary track by Joe Dante. What does Joe Dante have to do with the 1953 version of War of the Worlds? There's a clip from the movie in "Explorers." Good enough for me.
War of the Worlds (4K disc) 2005 remake directed by Steven Spielberg about Invaders from Mars Attacking Earth which leads to a War of the Worlds. This is a frustrating movie. I really wish Spielberg had gone all out and more directly competed with Independence Day with this one. I *wanted* to see massive battles with modern day military against the Martian war machine but what I got instead was an annoying father (Tom Cruise) taking his annoying kids cross country.
Mars Attacks (4K disc) 1996 movie directed by Tim Burton about Invaders from Mars Attacking Earth which leads to a War of the Worlds. This movie really needs a commentary track. Technically, I don't care much for this movie. It has too much body horror. But I broke down and decided to give the new 4K disc a shot and see if my opinion about it may have changed since the last time I watched it. I have to admit the new 4K sure does look nice.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (blu-ray) 1964 movie about a man (Paul Mantee) stranded on Mars. At first he thinks he's doomed to die but he figures out how to survive. This has a nice commentary track with the two leads talking about the making of the movie. Paul Mantee spoke a bit about thinking the movie would be a huge hit, but it flopped and messed with his career a bit.
The Martian (3D blu-ray) 2015 movie about a man (Matt Damon) stranded on Mars. At first he thinks he's doomed to die but he figures out how to survive. And why is Matt Damon in so many movies? And why does he always need to be rescued from somewhere? I could do a day of Matt Damon needing to be rescued from somewhere movies starting with The Odyssey and working up from there to the space age.
Doom (4K disc) 2005 movie about a group of space marines lead by "The Rock" who are transported to Mars. At first they think they are doomed to die thanks to the monsters trying to kill them, until they figure out how to survive.
John Carter (3D blu-ray) 2012 movie about a man (Taylor Kitsch) who is transported to Mars. At first he thinks he's doomed to die thanks to the monsters trying to kill him, until he figures out how to survive. This is a great movie. It's a true shame it flopped at the box office.
The Last House (Netflix) New movie about a family that wakes up one morning to find they and every house in their neighborhood is locked inside due to a mysterious force. The force also prevents just breaking a window or drilling a hole. The movie plays out what happens if a family is trapped in a house with no way out. This is a world wide phenomena so there is no rescue, and eventually they will run out of food. I don't want to get to deep into what happens, but overall, I liked the movie. But I was left with *many* questions about the logistics of how this worked. The movie was told from the perspective of the family, and they did not have internet or TV once the phenomenon started so we never saw what was happening in the outside world. We just knew it was happening everywhere. Except the family went to sleep and woke up not able to leave their house. What about everywhere else in the world where it was day time? What about people in cars, the cars were not locked. The overwhelming majority of people would probably have actually not been locked in a house or hotel or whatever. And even people who were inside, if an open door or open window or even a chimney (the chimney became a huge plot point later in the movie) were available then they could still leave. The movie completely glossed over these issues. It was an interesting concept movie, but I was left with so many unanswered questions.
Train to Busan (4K disc) 2016 Korean movie directed by Yeon Sang-ho about a man taking a train with his little daughter when a zombie outbreak happens. The zombies are overrunning the cities along the train's route. But even the train is not safe because zombies have boarded the train too.
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (4K disc) 2020 Korean movie directed by Yeon Sang-ho. This sequel to Train to Busan picks up a few years after the zombie outbreak with South Korea now quarantined from the rest of the world. A group of thieves decide to sneak into the country to steal all the valuables left behind. But things don't go according to plan.
Colony (theatrical) Latest South Korean zombie movie directed by Yeon Sang-ho. Let's just be up front, this one rips off just about every zombie movie ever made. But it does so with loving care! This one has the fast moving hive mind zombies from "World War Z" Smart Zombies from "Return of the Living Dead" and it's basically set in a mall, like "Dawn of the Dead." But it adds several wrinkles and twists. The basic plot has this psycho bio terrorist who wants to get even with the world by unleashing a zombie plague on mankind. He develops and unleashes this virus at a corporate building (that also is basically a mall) that causes the infected to become hive mind zombies. But as the movie progresses, the hive mind gets smarter leading to a scene where fheivibef uvqvat va n ybpxrq ebbz trg n xabpx ng gur qbbe naq gur crbcyr ba gur bhgfvqr fnl gurl ner erfphref gurer gb rfpbeg gurz gb fnsrgl. Jura gur fheivibef bcra gur qbbe, vg gheaf bhg gb or gur mbzovrf. Guvf vf gur svefg gvzr va gur zbivr jura gur mbzovrf fcbxr. Fb hagvy gur qbbe bcrarq sbe gur erirny, rira gur nhqvrapr va gur gurngre qvq abg xabj vg jnf mbzovrf ba gur bhgfvqr bs gur qbbe.
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Overall, I would recommend checking this out if you are a fan of zombie movies. Although technically, they aren't "dead" so maybe it's more like the 28 Days later rage virus, but for all intents and purposes they behave just like zombies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQAXT17Jz18
| Date | Sujet | # | Auteur | |
| 28 Aug09:30 |  What Did You Watch? 2026-08-27 (Thursday) | 7 | Ubiquitous | |
| 28 Aug17:44 |  Re: What Did You Watch? 2026-08-27 (Thursday) | 3 | Arthur Lipscomb | |
| 28 Aug18:46 |   Re: What Did You Watch? 2026-08-27 (Thursday) | 1 | Adam H. Kerman | |
| 28 Aug18:47 |  Re: What Did You Watch? 2026-08-27 (Thursday) | 1 | BTR1701 | |
| 28 Aug19:29 | Re: What Did You Watch? 2026-08-27 (Thursday) | 2 | The True Melissa | |
| 28 Aug22:57 | Re: What Did You Watch? 2026-08-27 (Thursday) | 1 | BTR1701 | |
| 28 Aug23:47 | Re: What Did You Watch? 2026-08-27 (Thursday) | 1 | Ubiquitous |
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