I watched ‘Predator 2′ the other day, maybe two days ago … I can’t remember because my concept of time has been turned entirely on its head thanks to the graveyard shift. I ordered some sushi and took in some sci-fi action from 1990 starring Danny Glover as the improbable man of high action.

Maybe he would have been more believable to me if he wasn’t wearing zoot-suit grandpa pants upon which I could see the line of his tighty-whities when he put his High African Booty in the air while running for cover from gunfire — in one of the first scenes. Maybe if he wasn’t ingrained in my mind as the avuncular “Too Old for this Shit” Murtaugh from the Lethal Weapon movies. Maybe. But it worked, regardless. The movie worked on a lot of levels, particularly the one of high camp … which I’m not sure was intentional.

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I just watched ‘Predator’ for the first time in about 10 years. It’s still entertaining. The special effects have held up really well, too, for a movie more than 20 years old.

Yesterday, I watched ‘RoboCop 2′. There was a god awful piece of crap of a movie. Amazing to me that Frank Miller wrote it. Frank Miller, who is one of my favorite comic book authors. The man who rescued Batman from the homo-tastic clutches of the ’60s-era ruination wrought by the Adam West depiction … Miller made Batman dark and gothic, gritty and menacing.

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I’ve been on a movie watching kick lately, since my girl is out of town. She and I were watching ‘the Shield’ and ‘Deadwood’ religiously, so there was no room in the queue for anything else. When ‘Deadwood’ started sucking, we just switched over to non-stop ‘Shield’ … that show is amazing.

On the agenda for today was, effectively, a pornographic movie called ‘Shortbus’ … which was so awful I turned it off after less than ten minutes. It’s a bad sign when a movie consists entirely of fucking (and hokey changes of character that involve panning through a pastel drawing of New York), complete with ejaculations, and it’s not even remotely erotic. Plus, I don’t even like white people, let alone watching them fuck … and the token Asian woman doesn’t count, fill in your own aspersion. If there’s an option on Netflix to give a movie no stars, this one’s got it coming… hardy, hardy har.

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