ConanTheB

ConanTheB

Favorite films

  • Blade Runner
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Conan the Barbarian

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  • Predator: Killer of Killers

    ★★★★★

  • Haywire

    ★★★★★

  • The Painter

  • Havoc

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Predator: Killer of Killers

Predator: Killer of Killers

2025
★★★★★ Liked Watched

Coolest animation I’ve ever seen.  Great continuation of the predator mythos.  And bringing in Michael Biehn as a guest voice was icing on the cake.  He makes everything he’s in better.

Haywire

Haywire

2011
★★★★★ Liked Watched

I really think this movie is far, far ahead of its time and will be looked back on one day as groundbreaking in the action genre.  
Hear me out . . .

The biggest problem with action movies with female leads is, let’s face it, they simply are not believable.  There is no way Scarlet Johanson, Angelina Jolie, Bridgette Fonda, or Charlize Theron, etc. is kicking a man’s ass.  I’m sorry if that sounds misogynistic.  They are beautiful and…

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Snatch

Snatch

2000
★★★★ Watched

Like others have said, the lighting is too dark and it is much more enjoyable with subtitles.  It might have even been funny to have Brad Pitt’s character and his group be subtitled.  I get that the joke is no one can understand them, but it’s difficult to get a lot of what’s going on without rewinding a few times.  

Great performances, particularly by Pitt.  A very strong follow up by Guy Ritchie to “Lock, Stock, and two smoking barrels.”

Conan the Barbarian

Conan the Barbarian

1982
★★★★ Liked Watched

Even though this is one of my top four movies, I recognize it is not a 5 star movie and has some issues.  It is just one of those movies I watched at a seminal time in my childhood (I was 9 and parents gave 0 F’s back in the 80’s).  It has so many great moments, including a great, though farfetched, climactic battle “where two stood against many.”  
It’s worth a watch.  James Earl Jones is a great…

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