Recently Watched Films

This could be a fairly innocent if mindbending film, but its anime from Japan, so it's a bit less innocent mindbending film. Too much talking about boobs (in a sexual manner) and multiple crotch grabs (in a non-sexual, totally to inflict pain manner) make it not really one for the kids. If you're thinking 'WTF' right now you'd be justified. Then there's the actual plot...

It was a good movie. Haven't quite got my head around it after one viewing. 

Low budget and uneven pacing, but it's got a brillantly gory destructive ending. It's played deadpan straight, but it's really a very dark comedy.

A lot of people don't much like the humour from these guys, but I think this is fucking hilarious! It's slap-stick and illogical, but there are some brilliant jokes among the stupid. There's a few guest appearances too, from Brian Posehn, RuPaul, P!nk, and Patton Oswalt.

Not deep or meaningful, but it's got Hulk Hogan in and it's got wrestling, so it doesn't need anything else. And it's got this brilliant quote:  It's Harley and ME and YOU in the tree!

bit disappointing

Yeah, that's the one. I don't normally like to get into internet arguments, especially not over video game theory, but when someone takes my words out of context and twists them to suit their own agenda, I'm not about to sit idle and let them do it. 

Nice to see you on that sub by the way. I wasn't aware you played the game. 

OK, I'll admit it - it was a bit too surreal for me, and I have no fucking idea what this is ultimately all about. Still, an interesting diversion for an afternoon. There's a bit of a who's who of Biritsh actors from the early 70s, including Helen Mirren who surprisingly stays fully clad in this one.

Why do I subject myself to so many shit movies? Unlike a lot of B-movies of this calibre, there's actually been a bit of effort put in here. Imagine Horizon Zero Dawn without the cool robots and you'll have some idea of the setting. There's a bit of reimagining of language, but 900 years after the destruction of civilisation this actually works reasonably convincingly. The fights and stunts aren't bad either. Basically, it's hot chicks vs cool dudes without being totally exploitative.

So I have a weird story about this one. This is the first time I've seen it, but it's a movie I've been aware of since it originally came out and I wanted to watch it at the time. My parents had it on DVD, but disallowed me to watch it even though it's only rated 12 and I was over that at the time. Actually I would have even been over 15 by that point, the next age rating up in my country. My parents were always very strict about what I could watch (which was quite a drag since I seemed to be the only kid at school that wasn't already allowed to watch 18 rated movies and the other kids knew it and gave me a lot of stick about it) and this was well before the days of Netflix and other streamers so accessing movies wasn't that simple, and this movie is the only time I remember them actually forbidding me to watch something that I was older than the age restriction for. I distinctly remember protesting at the time, but they pulled the old one 'it's our DVD so we get to say if you can watch it or not'. And now I've finally seen it and I'm even more puzzled as to why. There's like one scene of brief, incredibly minor nudity, very little swearing, and the violent scenes are tame/not very graphic.

Basically, what the fuck? 

The film was good. Maybe could have used a bit more action and the tension ramped up a bit more often. I'm reminded somewhat of the later Tenet, which is ironic considering the lead stars of both movies are father and son.

I'm glad I finally saw it, although its going to puzzle me for the rest of my life wondering why my parents never let me watch it. No point bringing it up with them, I almost guarantee that they won't remember ever doing this. 

So basically Harley Quinn is DC's answer to Deadpool. And that's not necessarily a bad thing since this one was just a load of good, stupid fun, which I'll take any day over the slogs that were the earlier DCEU movies.