There has been some surprisingly good stuff released this year. The Northman was fantastic. Maverick was arguably better than the original Top Gun. Even in television, we got a good season out of Reacher. Terminal List and Tokyo Vice both just came out and were really good, and The Old Man with Jeff Bridges manages to suck without being woke, which is a feat these days. We might actually be seeing some studios pulling back from the politics in order to try and attract audiences, so hopefully Samaritan does the same.
I've read the Tokyo Vice book. I liked the first part about the dude's life, but by the end he was an insufferable cunt preaching about how he needs to save poor innocent women who go to japan to work and end up as whores.
Yeah Adelstein himself is apparently a bullshit artist, and his character in the show is pretty obnoxious, but the show itself is a pretty good neo-noir.
To be fair to the guy, Stallone seems like a good guy. He's made some great films over the years, but I think seeing the cash-in Expendables series really put action stars in a different light for me. First one was okay to good in spots. The rest ehh... Those aren't really movies so much as they are almost entirely 90s solo action scenes, but in another movie, now that everyone is old. Which I didn't need to see. Curiosity got me, and I should have known better.
I generally don't have expectations for movies anymore. Too many of them have been disappointing. That said, no.
There has been some surprisingly good stuff released this year. The Northman was fantastic. Maverick was arguably better than the original Top Gun. Even in television, we got a good season out of Reacher. Terminal List and Tokyo Vice both just came out and were really good, and The Old Man with Jeff Bridges manages to suck without being woke, which is a feat these days. We might actually be seeing some studios pulling back from the politics in order to try and attract audiences, so hopefully Samaritan does the same.
I've read the Tokyo Vice book. I liked the first part about the dude's life, but by the end he was an insufferable cunt preaching about how he needs to save poor innocent women who go to japan to work and end up as whores.
Yeah Adelstein himself is apparently a bullshit artist, and his character in the show is pretty obnoxious, but the show itself is a pretty good neo-noir.
One thing I have to give to him, I really liked the way he talked about the older detective guy he was friends with . He really did care for him.
To be fair to the guy, Stallone seems like a good guy. He's made some great films over the years, but I think seeing the cash-in Expendables series really put action stars in a different light for me. First one was okay to good in spots. The rest ehh... Those aren't really movies so much as they are almost entirely 90s solo action scenes, but in another movie, now that everyone is old. Which I didn't need to see. Curiosity got me, and I should have known better.