recent movies

No spoiler cuts, because these movies are over 20 years old.

Blade Runner: Director's Cut, or at the very least, A cut that was not the original theatrical release. No voiceover in this one. I actually don't remember the movie that much, so watching this was like seeing it for the first time. One of the interesting things about watching it was seeing the seeds being planted for things like Battlestar. Sentient robots with homicidal emotions! "Skinjobs"! Edward James Olmos! It was really good, though some parts dragged, like the unicorn dream, which didn't really make much sense.

The Heroic Trio, a Hong Kong female superhero movie. Man, I wish the Netflix discs had Cantonese subtitles. The dialog was so painful to listen to. Maybe next time I should just mute it. This movie stars Anita Mui (sadly passed), Michelle Yeoh (back when she was Michelle Khan), and Maggie Cheung as three superhero women fighting an evil eunuch who wants to take over the world. This movie is ultimate cheese - even the superhero costumes look pretty ghetto, like they just took some bedding and wrapped themselves with it. It feels like the entire movie is set in one giant warehouse - inexplicably, the hospital is also the nursery where babies are being inadequately protected by the bumbling Hong Kong police force. Plots make no sense. Anthony Wong was unrecognizable as a killing monster, but that's cause he didn't have any speaking lines. At one point the women's mode of transportation are horses, even though they live in the present. Science fiction is mixed with Chinese historical fantasy - there's a plot revolving around a scientifically invented invisible cloak, which the villain wants so he can rule the world. How he rules the world from a sewer is anyone's guess.

If I were 10 I would have loved this movie. As it is, I'm just amused and completely baffled by it.