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I own this movie on DVD. (double feature box with Prisoners)

I've seen this film twice now. I don't remember when the first time I watched it was... it was either something I watched on Netflix back in the day or I had rented it from Redbox or the Library or something. Whatever it was, I enjoyed it a lot that first time. And now that I own it I watched it again and it still holds up.
A thrilling period piece based around the true story and events of the infamous Zodiac killer. While the case has never truly been definitively solved, this film sets out to try and tell it as close as we believe is the truth.
A good mystery thriller all the way through with this reminding me why Jake Gyllenhaal is among my favorite actors. Despite this movie being bundled with prisoners, he plays a completely different character in this film than that one.
They also make a good double feature.

Zodiac may have its detractors and is probably not 100% accurate, but from what I know it's pretty close. And with how things are... we may never get a more straight forward answer on the truth of the Zodiac killer. Then again, who knows what technology will uncover as time goes on.

I'd say give this movie a good watch. And it has a good performance from Mark Ruffalo while he seemed still sane. RDJ is great in this also, making this a cool picture to watch knowing they would go on to play Mysterio, Hulk and Iron Man.

Good 4 out of 5 stars.

Mistake Status: N/A.

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I watched this series on Disney +.

Continuing going through all of Star Wars in chronological order (Minus a couple of older series), me and my dad just finished watching both seasons of Andor together (9-3-25) and then went and watched Rogue One right after.
Out of the largely bad slop that Disney has been putting out with Star Wars stuff these last several years, this is definitely a high light. Andor starts off a little slow, but then it picks up and really gets going. Was finding this a very well done show and story, minus a few hiccups here and there and some unnecessary woke crap shoehorned into it.
This, with Rogue One, especially together, probably makes the best live action Star Wars project that has been made under the Disney banner to date. I just hope they can keep making stuff good like this and get away from the crap like... *shudder*, The Acolyte. Or how disappointing Kenobi was. Mandalorian started off good but then tanked fast in the latter seasons. Here's hope to the new movie coming soon.

In any regards, I greatly enjoyed Andor and would give it a 4.5 stars out of 5.
That rating may go down over time if I do another viewing or having time to stew on it, but for now I'm strongly liking it a lot.

Mistake Status: I caught a few in the watch. We were pretty much done with season 1 when I returned to this site and only caught a couple in season 2, as I was too engrossed int he show to really look closely. Just a couple things jumped out at me. I will likely return to it at some point to do a deeper frame by frame dive.

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I watched this show on Netflix.

I have mixed feelings about this show. I kinda meander between giving it 3 or 4 star rating.
Alright so it's pretty good show, and starts off pretty good too. With an interesting mystery and plot, setting up most of the characters pretty well. It's kinda funny seeing Justin Chatwin in this show, trying to redeem himself after Dragon Ball: Evolution. He's good but he still has those forehead vein bulging fart faces he makes. Lol!
So it's a good sci-fi mystery space thriller that actually has an interesting way of allowing characters to be killed off and replaced without it feeling too forced. The ship runs on a skeleton crew, with a lot of reserve crew members left in suspended animation. But the ship is damaged to where people can not go back into suspended animation. Once woken up, you're up. So they only revive people to keep up an active crew. When someone dies, they wake up a replacement. That's actually a really cool idea and I like it a lot.

There are some pacing issues with the series though. And it's very very full of more progressive woke political ideology and ideas. But thankfully it's not preachy about it, just has some stuff that is distasteful like setting up the polyamorous relationship between one of the girls and two other guys with her pregnant from one. The line about "you don't have to keep it" does fly in your face though but thankfully she does... I think. Actually I can't remember as I'm writing this review a few years after seeing the show lol.
There's other things here and there but also the captain is sort of set up as this ultimate girl boss character. That said... they actually make her flawed and sometimes making the wrong decision. She may be all piss and vinegar and often shown being perfect... yet she's not. They give her good character moments, vulnerabilities, and making mistakes. She second guesses herself at times. And sometimes you wonder if the others considering a mutiny are actually justified. So I have mixed feelings on it.
She's no Captain Marvel... at least I'll give it that. But she's no Princess Leia either.

What really brings it down though is the last season and ending. It is pretty obvious that this show needed one more season to finish everything and come to a satisfying conclusion in a non rushed way. But it's evident that they were given notice that the show was going to be canceled or not renewed... so they rushed a conclusion in the last parts that feel unsatisfying and... well rushed. Making it a botched landing that could have been better had they been given the chance to stretch it out for one more season. A shame really.

So I am left leaving it on a 3 out of 5 star rating.
Granted I am writing this review about 4 or 5 years after actually watching the show. had I wrote this with it more fresh in my mind I may have thought different.

Mistake Status: Caught a couple back when I was originally watching it, but not closely looking for them. May revisit it at some point for closer analysis.

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I've played this game in arcades a lot.

I'm a big defender of the Terminator Salvation movie, but we're not here to talk about that. This Arcade game of the movie makes a fun time. An on rails light gun shooter, it's fast and makes you feel like a bad ass. A bit unrealistic with how you're one man taking on an army of Terminators, apparently T-600s by the looks of them, but it works. If they are supposed to be T-800s then this is really ridiculous but I would just say these are 600s in your way.

I've gotten really good at this game where I can beat all 3 missions on just a few quarters. It's a really fun time, and even if you don't like the movie it's based on, you'll probably enjoy this game if you like this sort of thing. On rails light gun shooters that is.

Mistake Status: N/A.

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I own this movie (3 film box set) on DVD.

This is the often maligned prequel to the 1982 classic and usually judged on unfair parameters. The biggest mistake this movie made was just titling it The Thing again, leading many people to incorrectly believing it was a remake of the 82, when in fact it's a prequel. The ending of this film directly leads into how the 82 film begins.
Also why did they not put this film out a year later in 2012? Then it could have been for the 30th anniversary of the 82 film... strange decision.
But there was a lot of meddling by the studio in this movie. A big complaint for this movie is the heavy reliance on CGI for the alien rather than practical. When in reality a lot it actually used practical effects and were fully filmed. However the studio went back and demanded a CGI overhaul thinking people would reject the practical effects as looking too dated.
Ironically having the opposite effect of now the film having very dated looking 2011 CGI that doesn't hold up in 2025.
Combine that with the misconception that this is a remake and not a prequel, and it's a recipe for this movie having an unfair bad reputation.

There comes in my unpopular opinion. I think this movie is almost just as good as the 82 film, and is a great companion piece as a prequel setting up the events of that film. This also takes more of the ideas that were shown in the original 1951 film and update it. So this movie is almost more of a remake of the 50s film while the 82 film is an adaptation of the novella with this movie leading into it.

If you watched this back in the day had knee jerk bad reactions to it due to the semi-bad CGI and the misunderstanding of it being a remake of the 82 film, I say give it another shot.
I legit think this is a great movie worthy of standing along side the John Carpenter film and makes a must see companion piece. I rate this a 4 and a half out of 5 stars.

Mistake Status: Will do these 3 movies eventually.

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I own this movie (3 film box set) on DVD.

What can I really say about this movie that hasn't been echoed by countless other people over the years? It's brilliant and amazing. I came to this film late though, only watching it for the first time myself about a year or two ago when I got this DVD set. Since then I've watched it I think 3 or 4 times. Once on my own, once with my son, and once with my dad.
For an early 80s effects film, it really holds up well. Even with some of it being dated it gives it that special charm that practical effects can where modern CGI flicks lack.

Kurt Russell is one of my favorite actors and this is a stand out performance from him even among other films.
This is a retelling of the novella, "Who Goes There?" and more of an attempt at making a more accurate interpretation of the actual book rather than being a remake of the 1951 film The Thing from Another World. While the 51 film is still good, it was very limited and held back by the technology of the time, with them opting to make the alien more of a Frankenstein's monster like creature. Here we get to see the true capabilities of this... Thing... and it's glorious.
With the ending of this movie being perfect, and is something still hotly debated on for years and years...

My take on the ending? Neither of them are the thing and it just shows how paranoia causes more destruction with them both freezing to death together watching the other with the danger already over. But that's just one of 4 possible ways to interpret the ending on who is or isn't The Thing at the end.

This is quite obviously a 5 out of 5 star movie and deservedly so.

Mistake Status: I plan to do these 3 movies at some point.

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I own this movie on DVD.

So kinda funny, a couple months ago I watched the reboot trilogy of Ocean's Eleven lead by George Clooney on Netflix. At the time Netflix was saying they were leaving soon and I figured I needed to watch them before they were taken off that platform. I hadn't seen the first two in ages, and I am pretty sure that was my first time ever watching Ocean's 13.
I said in my reviews of those I wanted to try and track down the original 60s film and watch it at some point. I know it used to be on Netflix a few years ago, as I distinctly remember adding it to my watch list, just never got to it.

Well lo and behold, I was looking through my ever growing collection of DVDs and I found I already had the Walmart box of all 4 movies together! I had bought it a while back and then completely forgot about it. Lol. So I didn't need to worry about catching them on Netflix before they were gone... I had them on DVD and it came with this 1960s original.
Well might as well complete the experience!

So this original Ocean's Eleven is a lot slower and fairly different from the George Clooney led remake. And really... the remake is a lot better. Yeah this movie has its merit and was probably good for it's time, but I found it a bit slow and took forever to get to things. I also didn't think the plan was all that impressive by the gang like the elaborate plot the remake did. And of course it has a lot of that hammy hokey older film acting.

That said, there's one thing that makes this movie shine for me and why I'm giving it a 4 star rating instead of 3. And that would be the ending.
I honestly did not see that ending coming with what happens to the money at the funeral and it legit got a huge laugh out of me. Nobody wins! The remake did go a very different direction with that and had a more happy ending, but this old one I legit love how it ends also. And caught me completely off guard.
That alone saved the movie for me and I put it up at 4 stars for I really like it. Still not quite a 5 star film like the remake, but it's good. I was going to rank it along with Ocean's 13 as being meh and kinda boring till that ending happened. This is very much the opposite of what I said happened in my Bangkok Dangerous review where the ending ruined the entire rest of the film. With this Ocean's Eleven the ending saved the whole movie for me.
Well done!

Mistake Status: I'll probably do the Ocean's movies at some point, but no idea when.

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I watched this movie on Sling TV.

I got mixed feelings on this film, but really I'm coming down hard on it.
The acting is good and all, but with how this movie plays out and then how it ends really sours it for me.

The movie is about this guy who gets some special drug that unlocks more of the mind. Which is already bunk and based on wild baseless science that has been debunked years ago. It's really nonsense.
But... that can be fine for a movie if used right. Which I think this movie does not.
somehow just taking a pill unlocks more of the brain and makes Bradley Cooper's a sudden super genius. The whole thing around how he gets the pills, the dealer and the other pills being out in the wild is never really explained and makes no sense. Especially with not more people having it or after it.

And then there's how the film plays out and the apparent lesson of the story that just really doesn't work. He goes from being a struggling author and bum to taking drugs and suddenly he sleeps with all the girls, fixes the stock market and makes himself millions and then figures out how to alter his brain permanently by the end to be always turned on higher, now a politician and talking about running for president.
A power fantasy sure, but what's the lesson there? Take drugs to be a better person?
he didn't earn anything he achieved on his own.
sure you can argue the drug let him use more of what was already there... but that's still a crutch. It changed who he is and it's still down to, take pill, get smart, profit.
It's a bad lesson that, if taken to heart, would make people believe they need help with drugs and chemicals to achieve your full potential. That you are held back and can't get anywhere in life without being able to magically unlock more of your brain. It's a recipe for more victimhood mentality and always wanting more. Blaming others or a lack of what you have for your own inadequacies.
From struggling bum author who can't focus long enough to write and struggling with writers block. All the way to about to run for president by the end.
I would even say the story of this movie is evil.

Earn your keep. Earn your lot in life. Self improvement and become the better you through hard work and God. Not drugs and cheap tricks. Earn your place in life.
2 of 5 stars.

Mistake Status: N/A. I have no desire to return to this film.

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I watched this movie on Netflix.

This is the lesser known movie about Wyatt Earp and his group that came out the year after Tombstone. I'm not sure if this was another case of twin movies like Dante's Peak and Inferno or Armageddon and Deep Impact, but it's still a striking coincidence for these to come out so close together.
and I can see why Tombstone became so popular and yet I hear almost nobody talk about this particular film. I didn't even know about it myself till they talked about it on the CinemaSins podcast.
Had it on my list of movies to watch and saw it was on Netflix and leaving before the end of the month (September 2025) so decided to watch it before it left that platform. They have the 3 hour extended cut on Netflix, so was quite a long watch. Especially the way I watch movies over several days, a few minutes when getting ready for work, and a few minutes after I get back home.

This movie is pretty good. Granted it's not as good as Tombstone but is like an interesting companion piece to that film. Showing events from a more broad range of time and a different angle. Somethings even play out fairly differently between the two films. Almost hilariously being the way Doc Holiday kills Johnny Ringo. In Tombstone it's this big built up thing with the famous "I'm your huckleberry" scene. Where as in Wyatt Earp, there's barely any interaction between the two and in the last shoot out of the movie Doc just calls out Johnny's name before shooting him off a rock. And that's it.

Still though, Denis Quaid is one of my favorite actors and seeing him as Doc Holiday was really cool. Though doesn't compare to seeing Kurt Russell, also one of my favorite actors, playing Wyatt Earp in the Tombstone movie.
In this film, Wyatt is played by Kevin Costner. I don't know if I'm alone in thinking this, but I feel Costner is a fairly overrated actor. He's good in some parts but... he's one of those actors I never feel like I'm seeing the character he's playing, I always just see Kevin Costner. Even in Water World.
And with this movie being 3 hours and resting on his charisma... or lack there of, it gets kinda dull.
It's not a bad movie, but it's not amazing or anything.
I'd say this is a pretty good movie to check out at least once. I don't know if it's better to watch the 3 hour cut like I did from Netflix or the smaller versions of the film. But yeah, watch it once, then stick to the Tombstone movie as the far superior version of this story.
3 stars, it's OK but not great. Not bad.

Mistake Status: Caught one in my first viewing. Decided to go back and add pictures and time codes to other mistakes already here and a few corrections, and in the process spotted 2 more mistakes.

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I own this movie on VHS.

This is a very very nostalgic movie for me. I used to watch it all the time as a kid with my VHS copy of it. I know it's silly and kinda stupid, but I still love it.
an alien cat comes to earth and makes friend with an inventor. Suddenly the government and some bad men are after the cat. The cat has telekinesis powers thanks to it's alien tech collar that allows it to communicate with people through thought and levitate things.

It's hilarious, it's fun, and always brings a warm smile to my face.
I'm so glad to see this movie is on Disney + as I can now watch it at a much higher quality and without worrying about my VCR having a spaz attack from old tapes.

Mistake Status: I for sure want to do this one. Especially since it's easily accessible on Disney +.

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I own this movie on DVD.

Am I the only one who likes this movie? I swear sometimes it feels that way. As this movie gets dunked on a lot online and by reviewers. I really like it though.
This was made back when Dreamworks was trying to go head to head with Disney and put out similar movies at the same time or close to the same time, with this being their answer to Disney's Finding Nemo. Cause under water animated fish movie. However the plots could not be more different at all.
While Finding Nemo is a heart warming story about a dad fish traveling the oceans to find his missing son, Shark Tale is about a low life fish thug swindler trying to con the rest of the ocean into thinking he's this big shark slayer hero. With Will Smith as a fish. Of all people. And Jack Black as a shark.
It's hilarious, well acted and the source of a lot of memes.
I enjoyed it a lot as a kid and still do. And now I kinda want to watch it again.
Hot take... while I'll agree that Finding Nemo is a far better movie, I think I like Shark Tale more on a personal level and would usually rather watch this one.

I kinda wonder what a sequel would be like or if that would ever be in the cards. Interesting thought. Though considering the drama around Will Smith in recent years. Not sure that'd be possible.

Mistake Status: I do plan to do this one for mistakes. Not sure when though.

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I watched this show on Disney +.

I am really conflicted about this one. On one hand, it's great to see Temuera Morrison really get to play this character proper. And I think a lot of what they did with the character does work. At times. On the other hand, this really butches a lot of the mystique around the character. As well as kinda demasculates Fett. His personality and demeanor don't really match what he was like last time we saw him in the timeline from Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. He doesn't seem nearly as cold and calculating like he was there. That does come at the cost of trying to humanize Fett more.
It is a disservice to the character, however. While the idea of having a Boba Fett led series is awesome on paper, this is not the story we wanted to see.
and it doesn't help the fact that this series is treated more as a Mandalorian season 2.5 than his own show, with several episodes of this show more about Din than Fett.
So in the end, I have to give this a 3 star rating... as it's OK.

Mistake Status: I'll get to it in time.

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I own this movie on DVD (The Thing box set with all 3 versions)

This is an interesting one. Most people know and love the 1982 movie The Thing by John Carpenter and staring one of my favorite actors Kurt Russel. It is an adaptation on of the 1938 short novella, Who Goes There?
Well this 1951 movie was the first attempt at making a film based around that story. It does suffer from the technology of the time, and since they couldn't do the creature effects we know from the 1982 film, they made the alien more of a Frankenstein's monster sort of guy. But it serves it's purpose well for this film. It's interesting, kinda hokey, and has that black and white sci-fi movie charm to it. While the later two movies are better, it's still a good film on its own.

If you get the chance to watch it or are in the mood for an old style sci-fi monster movie... this is a good one to pick!

Mistake Status: I definitely plan to do all 3 of The Thing movies for mistakes, some what soon.

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I own this movie on DVD.

A lot of movies I have said are my favorite movie over the years. Though it usually always goes back to Last Action Hero again. But for a while, Reign of Fire was one of those films that I would say was my favorite movie ever back when I was a teenager. And I didn't even own it back then. This was a film I found at the library and rented, I think the VHS. Though it could have been the DVD at the time.

Anyways, I would always go back and rent it again after a few months or even a year later and watch it again. Then I finally bought it on DVD and it's one of those movies I return to often. I love this film. I think I currently have it ranked as my 5th favorite movie of all time. With my top 10 list currently being the following.
1. Last Action Hero
2. Ninja Assassin
3. Street Fighter (1994)
4. Empire Strikes Back
5. Reign of Fire
6. Sidekicks
7. Mystery Men
8. Road to Perdition
9. Warrior's Way
10. Enemy Mine


So yeah, even now I hold this film in very very high regards.
Set in a post apocalyptic future, this shows what the world looks like after an ancient race of dragons are awoken first in England, and then spread across the world. With camps of survivors trying to... well survive. With great performances by Christian Bale, and a nearly unrecognizable Matthew McConaughey looking like you've never seen him as a bald and muscular as hell American military commander. And a surprisingly early role by Gerard Butler as a minor character before he became a big star.

I just love this movie and can watch it over and over again.

Mistake Status: Hell yeah I'm gonna do this one.

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I own this movie on DVD.

This is a really cool idea for a story. Set Batman back in 19th century England, and face him off against Jack the Ripper. Really leaning into the Sherlock Holms inspirations for Batman with this. It's cool seeing how the various Batman characters make cameos or have parts in this story.
I like this movie a lot. Not quite love it territory, but it's still really good.
I've been collecting these DC animated direct to DVD movies and have quite the collection so far. This is a notable really good one.

Mistake Status: It's an animated DC movie so of course I'll get to it at some point. I plan on doing all these. I already have 3 just from my first watch back when I had rented this from Redbox. now I own it.

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I own this movie on DVD.

Man this movie is a mess. It feels like it was shot, cut to pieces, re shot, cut to pieces again, then stitched back together. Boring villain, phoned in performances, non sensical plot... and very troubling implications about Wonder Woman and the guy who Steve possesses.
They botched Cheetah, they got Wonder Woman's personality and goals all over the place, and this movie opens up a lot of plot holes for future films in the timeline that this is supposed to be a prequel to.

Mistake Status: I'll get to it at some point probably since I'll be doing a lot of the DCEU movies for mistakes. In time.

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I own this movie on VHS and DVD.

I remember watching this movie a few times as a kid. It always stuck with me as being cool and I had many memories of it, especially the ending. And certain aspects of the robot body horror those torture scenes. Also the Robbin Williams Dr. Know... loved it.

However it had been a long time since I saw it as a kid, and so I finally bought the DVD. Watched it a few times since then and I really like this movie. Watching it with adult eyes makes it all the more better. Great performances all around. It's like the story of Pinocchio, but if he was a robot child trying to become real so he can feel love from his 'mother'.

This movie has a troubled history as well, as this was a big passion project for the late director Stanley Kubrick, who he was working on this with Steven Spielberg. However, Kubrick tragically passed away during pre-production of this film. So Spielberg finished it for his friend. Resulting in a very interesting and somewhat tonally confused movie. As it's Spielberg trying to make a Kubrick movie but still feeling very Spielberg. If that makes sense. I think it turned out great though.

My own son loves this movie also. I decided to watch it with him, and now often times when he comes over he asks to watch this movie. This is one of the few films that gets him away from watching the Ice Age or Kung Fu panda movies on loop. So that has to be good right? lol!

I wouldn't quite put this movie into the 5 star love it camp, but I also feel 4 stars for I like it is a tad to low? I need to watch it again again, but I would say it's probably a good 4.5 stars rating for me. A big recommend if you've not seen it.
And I do wonder what this movie would have turned out like had Kubrick not passed away before getting the chance to make his vision for it. But I'm sure Spielberg did his best to try and get it close.

Mistake Status: I will probably do this one at some point.

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I own this movie on DVD.

I kinda like law dramas, but well acted ones I really like. I love watching WWII movies. Put those together and you have a big recipe for loving your film!
That's what Hart's War is. A WWII Nazi prison camp law and escape drama. That and you have prime Bruise Willis in the film back when he still cared and this movie is just awesome. Willis used to be one of my favorite actors. That is until I started learning more about how he's pretty hard to work with behind the scenes and temperamental. That and in later years he stopped caring and phoned in his performances most of the time.
it's tragic what has happened to him with the disease he is suffering from making him retire from acting. But he gave us a good run there for a while between the 80s and the 2010s. And a few after as I do really love his movies RED and RED 2.

So Hart's War is about American POWs in a Nazi prison camp that's about race relations, trying to escape, and Martial Law court drama. Basically a couple of pilots in the Red Tails (the African American only fighter pilot division) crashing and being captured and brought into this prison camp with the other Americans and Russian POWs. Dealing with the obvious racism from the Nazis but also from other Americans. This was the 1940s after all.
One being scapegoat and killed by the Nazis, the other framed for murder of another inmate. There's twists, there's turns, there's fantastic acting and one of Colin Farrell's earlier roles giving a great performance. The back and forth between him and Willis really make the movie.
The ending is very satisfying with characters being redeemed, paying dues, and all around wrapping up a fantastic story.
I can't recommend this movie enough.

I give this a glowing 5 out of 5 stars as I love this movie.

Also something fun, this makes a great double feature with the movie Red Tails by George Lucas. Watch that movie first, watch the scene where a couple of the pilots are shot down, then go into this movie with that scene in mind and watch them together as if Hart's War is a spin off that movie. They go together very well!

Mistake Status: I definitely want to do this one.

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I own this movie on DVD.

Well... there's a thing that's thrown around a lot, about how a bad ending can completely ruin the rest of an other wise good or great movie. Usually I never really take stock in that idea, as often when a movie has a terrible ending I can still enjoy the rest of the movie just fine.
That is not the case with this film.
I was enjoying this movie pretty well, really I was. I'm a big Nicolas Cage fan. He's my second favorite actor and I've been slowly collecting a lot of his films on DVD. I finally got ahold of this one at a resell shop for about $2. Usually the price used DVDs go for at places like that.

At first... it was cool movie and an interesting story about a hitman, played by Cage, living in Bangkok.
Spoiler warning for the film.
So he takes on a protégé and starts training and teaching him the ropes while also falling in love with a local woman. It's a good set up for a film with lots of possible options for stories and plot lines to lead from that.

However, the ending of the film, completely and totally ruins the film. With Nick Cage abandoning the woman he loves, leaving her hanging high and dry, and then to protect his new protégé he gets a mob boss in the back of a car and then shoots himself in such a way that the bullet goes through and kills the mob boss also. So suicide, while taking out the bad guy, and leaving his woman high and dry, and now leaving his protégé to fend for himself really before he's ready. It's a very distasteful way to end the film. His sacrifice didn't feel earned. And it felt completely unnecessary.
I was really enjoying the movie until that part and then it leaves a bad taste in my mouth, ruining the rest of it also where I have really no desire to watch it again.
2 out of 5 stars. I don't like it. Mostly cause of that ending.

Mistake Status: It's a Nick Cage movie I own on DVD... so there's a fair chance I'll do it for mistakes at some point.

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I used to own this game for my Game Cube.

While I can't say I'm a Mario super fan like I am with series like Megaman and Metroid, and to a degree Zelda as well... I am still a pretty big fan of Mario games. My very first game ever was Super Mario World that I got for my SNES back in 1994. And then Mario 64 was the launch title I got with my N64 a little later. Those games and other early Mario games being big parts of my childhood.
Mario Sunshine I was very excited to get, and at first I didn't have a copy of my own. I would play it at my nephew's house when I'd go over there and be on his Game Cube. (we're only 6 years age difference) But then I did get my own copy of the game and played it a lot. While it's not as great as Mario 64, it's still a very good and fun game. I think it's sometimes over looked too much or underrated as just "the game where Mario sprays water at paint monsters."
yes that's a big part of it but it's still Mario, in a 3D world with great mechanics and controls, an interesting story and trying to do something new. The setting is cool, if not a slight bit repetitive. Challenging, but I found it tons of fun.
I like it a lot and it introduced us to Bowser Jr... which come on. Despite how the game ends and that conversation between Bowser and Junior... and what Nintendo has said after the fact... we *all* know that Junior is Peach and Bowser's kid. Ha ha.

Anyways, very fun game. If you've skipped this one just from hearing other's dismiss it as the Mario water gun game, do give it a shot.

Mistake Status: Aside from the obvious plot hole at the start of the game... N/A. I no longer own this game. Might watch videos of cut scenes later on though.

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