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646. Flight That Disappeared (1961). See, right from the start the movie lies to you, it didn't disappear, it was just delayed... We find ourselves aboard Trans-Coast Airways Flight 60, headed to Washington D. C. Among the regular everyday passengers, sit three scientists on their way to a classified meeting at the Pentagon concerning a weapon they're working on the 'beta bomb'!

Everything about the flight seems normal, except that they are smoking cigarettes, eating a provided meal, there also appears to be plenty of legroom, and enough space to put your bags in the overhead compartment, but other than that, normal.

Until the pilots get to cruising altitude but the plane keeps climbing all on its own! Eventually they go up high enough where everyone loses consciousness, except for our three scientists!

Dr. Morris (Dayton Lummis), Marcia (Paula Raymond) and Tom (Craig Hill) become aware that they seem to have landed and exit the plane and they are quickly confronted by The Examiner (Gregory Morton), I say quickly because by the time they get to the point of the film, there's less than 15 minutes left... The Examiner informs them that they are stuck between a moment in time and have been brought to this place to be placed on trial. That bomb these three are working on, may or may not cause the destruction of the Earth's atmosphere, whoops!!

Spolier Alert!!!

The verdict comes down as guilty!!! They are sentenced to live in this limbo... forever!!!

Spoiler Alert 2!!!

As soon as their sentences are handed down, this guy, The Sage (Addison Richards), walks around the corner and says they can't be judged by a future society, for something they haven't done. And they are sent back home.

Spoiler Alert 3!!!

The plane lands perfectly fine, all aboard are completely unaware of the heavenly two-minute trial and exoneration of the 3 scientists! But holy moly the plane is exactly 24 hours late!!!

But the 3 scientists know! The question is, will they change their ways and not go ahead with the 'beta bomb' Spolier Alert 4!!!

No, Dr. Morris throws a notebook away, and it appears that Tom and Marcia will be hooking up sometime in the near future, therefore the world is safe from thermonuclear destruction! Whew!

I was amused, mostly because it reminded me of the pilot episode for Star Trek: The Next Generation, Encounter at Farpoint, where they meet Q and the crew of the Enterprise are put on trial for all of mankind's misdeeds, or something like that... To cement this idea futher, remember when Q introduces the crew to a group of cybernetic organisms linked to a hive mind called 'The Collective'?? Check out the director's name... Have fun kids!

Not Rated Directed by Reginald Le Borg Written by Ralph Hart, Judith Hart, Orville H. Hampton Available on Prime Tim: The Shtty Movie Reviewer on FB.

Troll Hunter. One of those 'found footage' all the kids are taking about these days, or was it yesterdays? Hmm we'll never know. Anyways its about a college film crew who set off to interview this guy, Hans, oh its Norwegian by the way, which means you have to read, and yes its Hans from Norway, weird... But he's this renegade bear hunter that all the other bear hunters in Norway don't like because, hmm I guess he's better at it than them? I dunno. There's a whole bunch of random bear attacks and the A/V club catch up to Hans to ask him some questions, but for some reason this Mountain Monkey doesn't want to talk with them, so they do the next best thing and follow him into the woods to see exactly what this guy is up too. Trolls man, he's hunting freaking trolls... More like giant trolls, but what've. So its revealed that Norway has a slight Troll problem, but relax the gov't is on it, in the form of the Troll Security Service, which Hans is an employee of. He of course saves the crew from being eaten by the giant troll and lets them tag along, because he's sick of his job anyways, and the TSS needs some changing. So they do indeed go along with him. And they go on some crazy adventures learning the different kinds of trolls and of course learning how to kill said trolls, which is by UV rays man, its explained in the movie, its all very scientific. It was a pretty decent flick, the troll effects were cool looking. Its worth checking out... Don't go hunting trolls if you're a Christian though, they can smell your blood, Muslims, you're ok! Filmbufftim on FB

482. The Wave. Is it wrong to say that a disaster movie is fun? Hell no, that's right! It's a fun disaster flick! And it's really pretty to look at, great scenery of the little Norwegian town where the movie takes place, even when the CGI wave kicks in looks pretty good, even after the wave sends the town into it's own little apocalypse, it's still pleasant to look at. Spoiler alert a giant wave comes and wipes out a small town, not that the cover art gives that away or anything... Story revolves around Science Guy and his last day of work at the Science Station where they monitor mountains along a lakeside town. Apparently, Norway is a giant rock and it falls apart constantly and it's especially dangerous around large bodies of water when the rocks fall and create tsunamis. And wouldn't you know it, on his last day Science Guy finds something that leads him to believe that's about to happen, his co-workers roll their eyeballs and say they'll keep a good watch, now get outta here!! So he relents, maybe it's nothing, goes home to his family, helps them pack the house up, all the while he knows somethings up, taking his time packing, pissing off the rest of em... The next day just as he's about to head out of town on the ferry with the kids... wife has gotta finish up her last shift at the local hotel... Science Guy is like something is wrong and turns around, decides to check things out, drops son off with mom at work, takes daughter to old house, to do some research and wouldn't you know it, in his pull out books and all leads to one conclusion scene, it happens!! Rocks slide, water rises tsunami about to come to town in 10 minutes!! And things get pretty exciting!! Mom and son get trapped in a rapidly flooding hotel. Science Guy and daughter have to race up a mountain road to get to the high ground!! Just like Obi Wan did to Anakin!! Turns out, besides being a great Science Guy and father, he's a freakin' hero too!! Definitely worth the watch for the Disaster Movie genre fan. It is quite predictable (Gerard Butler is not in it!), however it's still a fun and exciting watch! Spoilers: Science Guy returns for the sequel: The Quake. I wonder what happens in that one??? Filmbufftim on FB

480. Death Ship. Wow. This is a movie. Like, Titanic, The Poseidon Adventure and The Perfect Storm before it, this movie has a boat in it. We find ourselves on a cruise ship, it's the final voyage under the grumpy Captain Ashland, while he's showing a guy named Trevor around, cause he's gonna be the new captain. They make an appearance at the cruise's party room so the captain can take a bow. Back on the bridge, the crew notice a ship coming towards them on a collision course, and no matter which way they turn, it's still coming!! The crew informs the captain and he's useless... The ship gets rammed, and let me tell you this, it must've been epic, people running for their lives, explosions, people scurrying for the life boats, we don't see it, but just imagine it for a second... wow. Cut to morning, everyone on board is dead, except for new guy Trevor his wife, his 2 kids, another crew member with his special lady friend, the lounge singer and what appears to be an Amish woman. They survived floating in what looks like a large bookcase that's somehow floating and supporting them all. So they're casually drifting along seeing what's left of the ships, when the little girl takes a peek over the edge and a hand comes out of the water, turns out to be the nearly dead Ashland, apparently he's been clinging to the bottom of the raft all night and morning waiting for someone to peek over the side so he can launch himself at her, nice. They get him aboard and just when things calm down again, boom! The death ship sneaks up behind them, the ship that has it's anchor dropped, in the dead calm ocean, with the survivors looking in each direction the ship sneaks up on them. Obviously they go on board, they explore the ship to find it empty. Some rooms look like they were used today others haven't been used in decades. And then things get crazy. The death ship takes an instant dislike to the lounge act guy, and I can't really say the ship comes alive, it's more like through the act of the wind and a few ropes and pulleys he's swept up tortured and drowned at sea, and that's just the beginning of the terror for our survivors. The captain who's been pretty much comatose the entire time is now wide awake and doing fine and has assumed command of the ship. Why? Cause it speaks to him in German? Again why? To the best of our knowledge he doesn't speak German, so there's that going on. But when Trevor and another survivor find a room with apparently brand spanking new Nazi paraphernalia, that explains everything? Yea, yea, sure it does... There's a blood shower, a room that looks like an undisturbed tomb from Indiana Jones filled with rotting corpses, and a walk in freezer filled with frozen soldiers. Who is going to make it off the death ship alive? You know exactly who, it's that kind of movie... The best for me though was when the survivors make it off, the death ship sails off with more stock footage of a cruise ship in it's sights! Quite the gem we have here!! Watch it at your own risk!! Filmbufftim on FB

476. Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight. Well, I loved it! I mean the title is a total lie, everyone sleeps the night this takes place, well, except for two, but we will get back to them later. The main premise is this, a bunch of tech addicted teenagers are sent off to a camp called Adrenaline to detox. We follow a smaller group comprised of: Hot girl, hot guy, gay guy, fat nerd video game guy, the girl that doesn't quite fit in with the rest and in the lead an outdoorsy looking counselor, and off they go for a several days long journey into the woods, tech free. As nighttime falls and they start to set up their tents and stuff things seem to be going rather well... until... light spoilers ahead... Hot guy can't sleep, so he heads down to the lake to, oh no, to use his forbidden cell phone he snuck in, and even worse... a marijuana cigarette!! Suddenly out of the darkness he's startled by Hot girl, she partakes in the marijuana cigarette as well, and through some casual flirting she discovers Hot guy is a virgin! So, she quickly remedies that and heads back off to her tent. Hot guy now with a smile on his face settles down in his sleeping bag, when he's startled once again, only this time it's a local man, a large grotesque local man, who, in a very Jason Voorhees-esque move, picks up the sleeping bag and slams it against a tree and drags the body away. The next morning when the gang discovers Hot guy missing and start freaking out, Hot girl confesses to their deed and they go to check things out. That is when, Girl who doesn't quite fit in with the others notices blood on a tree, and thus begins the race out of the woods to stay alive!! First half of the movie has definite Friday the 13th vibes. But this one adds a little something extra to the backstory of the killer, which I enjoyed as an interesting little twist to a familiar tale. The soundtrack and the cinematography in this one is really great. The Girl who doesn't quite fit in with the others, Zosia, was great. Earlier on, Fat Nerd guy, Jurek, compares her to Sarah Connor at one point and as the movie goes on the comparisons keep growing. Jurek also seems to be a fan of the horror movie genre, much like Randy from Scream, he seems to aware of the rules they are breaking if they were in a horror movie. So if you put Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and a bit of X-Files: 'Home' into a blender, you'd get something like this. A super fun gory slasher flick!! Filmbufftim on FB

At first I thought the origins to this movie was probably Keanu Reeves was telling someone about what he did the previous night, and Eli Roth happened to overhear and said we could turn that into an erotic thriller, but no... it's another remake, of a movie called Death Game in 1977. However it was pretty entertaining on an uncomfortable level. The most uncomfortable was the beginning with Keanu trying to act like a human married male bonding with his family, but luckily the movie is short and it dives right it. There are spoilers ahead, however if you've seen the trailer, well... Starts with a guy named Evan saying goodbye to his wife and kids, they are off to a day at the beach, while Evan stays home to get some work done. Nighttime comes, along with it a rain storm and a knock knock on the front door, Evan opens up to find two very soaked young women asking about an address, he's like, I dunno dude, like wanna come in. Because Evan's a nice guy, and as the night goes on we find that these two girls are very kind too, well, sorta. Over the course of a few minutes while waiting for a new cab ride the girls, Genesis and Bel, seduce married man Evan into doing some very naughty things. Then he passes out. Morning comes and all is quiet until he hears some laughing to discover the girls haven't left yet, and by the look of things don't plan on it either. And when Evan decides to get tough and tell them to leave, they drop quite the bombshell on Evan that's probably going to slightly alter his lifestyle. The actresses playing the houseguests, Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas, were awesomely creepy and disturbing!! And I must say I loved the ending!! Twisted and evil, well, maybe not evil but certainly twisted! I say check it out!!

458. Tenet. Well I loved it! I've seen it twice now, and admittedly the first time around my brainium in my cranium kept thinking about the whole technology of it all. I still thought it was a great action flick, but the time manipulation left me scratching the head for a minute or two. Second watch, however, I noticed one simple line as a 'scientist' character explains the tech to our main character: Don't think about, just react to it. Like most Nolan flicks you're thrown into the thick of things right away, the opera house scene from the trailer, and it never really lets up. Story is this, Spoilers, the protagonist is involved in some form of rescue or kidnapping depending on how you look at it, during which he sees something rather odd, a bullet hole in front of his face, seems to eject the bullet, travel right over his shoulder, through the man that was about to kill him, into the gun of another masked team member who quickly darts away, almost travelling back it time, but in regular time. But this doesn't matter because the mission goes south his cover is blown and he's tortured and commits suicide by swallowing a pill... And then he wakes up to find that being dead doesn't release you from your spy job, and because of the tech he witnessed he gets to hunt down the billionaire madman that created it, and like all billionaire mad men he wants to use the technology to destroy the world, possibly time and space along with it! John David Washington was cool, calm and collected as the Protagonist. Kenneth Branagh was a pretty convincing psychopath, his final scene is definitely brutal, deserved and deserves a golf clap. Future Batman, Robert Pattinson plays a Robin type character, Neil, who knows way too much! Great flick all around! Good movie to actually see on the big screen! Filmbufftim on FB.