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Excellent! Perfect again, Morphie! How do you do it?

8 out of 9. Good job!! #22 is not Mystery Alaska.

PERFECT again, Morphie!!

PERFECT, Morphie!!

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King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword (2017) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1972591/ $175 million to make plus $100 million in total marketing costs and a total domestic and worldwide box office of $137 million giving it a projected loss of about $150 million. This was supposed to be the first of 6 King Arthur films by Guy Ritchie and Thank the maker that won't happen now. This film was a mess. No!! Let me rephrase that!! This film was a Hot Mess! Urban Dictionary defines Hot Mess as: Rotten Tomatoes gave it 28% out of 202 votes and it's easy to see why: the main reason this movie sucks is because it has no identity. It wants to be a medieval movie, it wants to be a sword and sorcery movie, it wants to be a fantasy movie, it wants to be a Matrix movie, it wants to be a Lord of the Rings movie, it wants to be every movie ever made in the past 17 years since Gladiator and it just doesn't achieve one nor the other. In other words it doesn't know what it wants to be and that's what makes it such a big Sucking Hot Mess of a movie!! 1/5

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267626/ Depiction of the events of the K-19 Soviet Submarine near nuclear reactor meltdown disaster of July 1961, directed by Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty. The entire crew was sworn to secrecy for 28 years after the accident and the subsequent new crews that served on it afterward from 1961 until 1990 were never told of the prior near nuclear disaster that happened on the submarine. The K-19 was hurried through construction and commission at the time to keep up with the American technological advances in nuclear Submarines warfare. Over 10 construction workers died during its construction and the K-19 was considered cursed right from the beginning when during its christening, the champagne bottle thrown against its hull by a Man instead of a Woman, failed to break. It was also sent on its first operational mission with minimum sea trials, no back up cooling system to the on board Nuclear reactor, no suitable radiation suits and no anti radiation drugs for the crew. Them Russians sure like to cut corners and do everything the hard way, don't they - as long as it's Duty and Party and the Motherland! I see that Duty and Motherland and Party sure helped them win the Cold War, NOT! 4/5

The Eiger Sanction (1975) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072926/ In this long forgotten thriller about a government assassin called back out of retirement to do one final job, Clint Eastwood directs, stars and performs his own white-knuckle mountain climbing scenes and stunts including really hanging over a 4,000 feet precipice (no SFX, no CGI, no Blue and Green screens), cutting his main rope and dropping a 1,000 feet before being held by a second rope. :eek: Featuring a great cast including George Kennedy, Jack Cassidy, Thayer David, Gregory Walcott, and Vonetta McGee and a rousing thrilling score by legendary composer John Williams, this is one chiller that you shouldn't miss! 4.5/5

Prime Risk (1985) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087942/ This movie just looks dumb now - the girl uses an ATARI 400 or 800 something to hack an ATM. I am sure that was high tech in 1985 but not now. 3/5

I can't give it two Tom's thumbs up! My name is not Tom! Joel & Ethan Coen's Fargo (1996) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/ This is my 23rd viewing of this movie, IMO one of the top 5 movies ever made. It was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (William H. Macy), Best Cinematography, Best Editing. It won Oscars for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Frances McDormand as the pregnant chief of police of Brainerd, Minnesota) and Best Screenplay directly written for the screen. They gave the Best Picture and Best Director and Best Cinematography to the crappy The English Patient, Best Supporting Actor to Cuba Gooding Jr. (What has he done in the past 10 years? NOTHING! A bunch of B movies, direct to DVD movies and TV episodes appearances). Fargo should had won Best Picture and Best Director. William H. Macy as Jerry Lundergaard, the man at the last of his wits end should had won Best Supporting Actor. His final scene in the movie will always irk me. His lies and schemes have been uncovered. The police are knocking on his motel room door. It's freezing cold outside and yet he is trying to climb out of the bathroom window wearing just his underwears and no shoes. Where is he going to go? This movie went on to spawn a very successful and critically acclaimed TV series by the same title. If you haven't seen this movie or the TV series, you are missing out! 5/5

You did and you didn't post a review to give it 2 Tom's thumbs up?

Wonder Woman (2017) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451279/ Now this is how a movie adaptation of a Superhero[ine] comic book series should be! Not that repetitive junk we have been subjected to the past 10+ years: Dark Knight Trilogy, Captain America, Avengers, Iron Man, Non Fantastic Four, X-Men, etc etc Gal Gadot is beautiful, intelligent, charismatic and she has a strong on screen presence and persona. She TRULY IS Wonder Woman!! I can't think of any other actresses working right now that could had been a better choice than Gal Gadot. I wish her a long and prosperous movie career as both Wonder Woman and any other roles she chooses to take in the future and I hope she will never become a victim of typecasting. 5/5

Free Fire (2016) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158096/ Boston, 1978. In an abandoned factory, several IRA members meet a group of Americans to buy machine guns that they plan to ship back to Ireland to use against the British. Easy Peasy!! What could go wrong, right? There is a disagreement and misunderstanding over something, everyone is carrying a gun, everyone is on macho adrenaline rush. Someone pulls a gun first and shoots another. Then the whole thing turns into a big shootout with everyone shooting at everyone else. Oh, there is a woman too. She came in with the buyers. So what's wrong with this movie? Everything!! It's a waste of talent: Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Noah Taylor, Michael Smiley, etc. The producers could had saved some money and gotten a bunch of nameless actors because all that talent couldn't save this movie from it's paper thin plot, cardboard characters, and moronic dialogue. There was a few instances where I wanted to shoot all the characters myself just to see the movie end: at only 1 hour and 30 minutes running time, it was still 40 minutes too long. That is how tedious it was to watch this. 2/5

Crossplot (1969) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064193/ An modeling agency talent scout (Roger Moore) unwittingly gets involved with a girl on the lam from a group of dangerous killers after she overhears an assassination plot. Made 4 years before Moore stars in his first James Bond film, Crossplot plays out like an over-long The Saint Episode mixed with a movie featuring a James Bond wannabe character. 3/5

2 movies in the same day!! For a kid, that's like hitting the lottery!

John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4425200 Hot Damn! What a great action filled exciting movie. I didn't want it to end! Total body count: I lost count!! 5/5

Am I the only one who remembers Sir Roger Moore in "The Persuaders!" (1971-1972) after The Saint (1962-1969) and before James Bond (1973)? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066701/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persuaders! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvuuAUJ2x6I

Did you see Star Wars in 1977? What do you remember about it? http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/star-wars-opened-day-1977/story?id=47624045 I was still in Italy and the hype over the movie for months before it was released was mind boggling. I was 12 years old. We went to see it on opening day and I thought that was the most wondrous and amazing thing I'd ever seen in my life. There was absolutely nothing like it before it. Even 2001: A Space Odyssey a few years earlier didn't come close to it. Close Encounters of the Third Kind didn't come out until almost 6 months later. I still have the comic adaptation of the movie and the 45 vinyl record of the Star Wars theme song I bought in Italy at the time. Had them with me when we left Italy later that same year to come to the USA.

Hi Morphie:

Becoming Bond (2017) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6110504/ I have always wondered where the Bond films will be today if Lazenby did his 7 films, including On Her Majesty's Secret Service (OHMSS), and Sir Roger Moore never did Bond. Moore would had been too old by the time Lazenby finished his 7 pictures run around the early 80's. Will Dalton had more than 2 films if he had taken over the role sooner than 1987 and not end up being compared to Moore? OHMSS is still IMO one of the Best Bond films ever made and I know I am not the only one who think so. At the end, the reason Mr. Lazenby gave for turning down a 7 Bond films deal was not any of the reasons we've heard over the years: he didn't get along with Broccoli and Saltzman or he was fired or his agent advised him wrong and told him to quit the role after only one film (that's written on WIKI) or that he was just a dumb ass or a fool. The reason he gave was he wanted to live his life by his own expectations: not by someone else's and not by how people perceived him. He wanted to live his life as George Lazenby and not as a fictional character named James Bond. Unfortunately the one Bond film was also the cause of him losing out on a life with his first and only one true love: Belinda Fingleton. That part of the movie was bittersweet and sad at the same time. Nevertheless, even if Lazenby did miss out on fame and fortune, he said he was happy with his decision and his life still turned out well: he got married twice, had kids and he didn't have to deal with his life being put under a microscope and the public scrutiny of Becoming Bond. 4/5

R.I.P. Sir Moore. http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/23/entertainment/roger-moore-dies/ Thank you for all the great memories you gave us, in both Bond films and non Bond films!

OOOOH YEAH I am so going to be WATCHING THIS!!

It looks FREAKING AWESOME!!

Still looks way too clean and sanitized! Plus get rid of the stupid JAWS music in the trailer. Nolan has no respect for the brave young men and women who died at Dunkirk.

The Secret Of My Succe$s (1987) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093936/ In my opinion, this movie is one of three films that quintessentially portrayed the 1980's and defined and created the big worldwide financial mess we are still in, 30 years later: greed, big corporation, over spending, the love of the excess, Reaganomics. The other 2 films are Wall Street and Working Girl. Helen Slater is incredibly beautiful in this film. It's too bad her attempt at creating a big screen celluloid Super Girl franchise failed. 3/5