According to Eckhart Tolle our slavish devotion to the mind robs us of the deep divine stillness of being. Turtle brothers battle a brain. Taoist, hormonal, subterranean, CGI New Yorkers in the latest filmic entry of an ip with an awesome/grotesque toy-line from my youth. Megan Fox symbolically strips onscreen out of old April into new. Will Arnett does a comedy bit with a wall cable. There’s a pop punk cover of the 80’s cartoon theme. Tyler Perry is wonderfully unrestrained here, he never turns into a fly though. Not even post-credits.
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Akira
Roadside Billy pulled up to the grocery store. “Hell yes, Syphillis!” he thought. He was there to buy parsley & half & half. This is a good anime. Really good animation. Nice gross stuff. Real fluid motorcycle chases and ballooning flesh monsters. A++
D,W & A by: Katsuhiro Ôtomo, More W: Izô Hashimoto, More A: Toshiharu Mizutani, Toyoaki Emura, Atsuko Fukushima, Yasihiro Seo, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, etc…, P by: Katsuji Misawa, M by: Shôji Yamashiro, E by: Takeshi Seyama, w/Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda, Hiroshi Ôtake, Masaaki Ôkura, Kôichi Kitamura, Michihiro Ikemizu, etc…124 min, Japan, 1988
Deadpool
This is the movie the fan’s demanded Marvel make. I like that the line is blurred between actor Ryan Reynolds and character Wade Wilson. Other things I liked: the dated USSR giant metal X-man guy, the animation sequence featuring unicorns. The plot is pretty boring and the jokes are kinda bad, not Robot Chicken bad, but close. For those logging this kind of thing, Ryan Reynold’s dick makes an appearance. He’s impaled on twisted rebar in a burning medical lab in the film’s big serious origin moment and boom, there it is, shrouded and murky behind smoke and flame, Reynold cock. I dunno, it might just be CGI.
D by: Tim Miller, W by: Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, P by: Keng Seng, E by: Julian Clarke, A by: Delano Athias, Pyrokinesis, etc.., S by: Kayla Adams, Fraser Aitcheson, etc…, M by: Junkie XL, w/Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Leslie Uggams, T.J. Miller, Brianna Hildebrand, Karan Soni, Stefan Kapicic, Stan Lee, etc…, 108 min, USA, 2016
RoboCop
RoboJesus shoots rapists in the dick, battles irradiated mutant gangsters and giant robots in post apocalyptic Detroit. There’s some pretty prescient satire of media and capitalism in here. It kind of feels like the smartest Troma movie ever made. I miss practical FX.