Re-Evaluating Bad Movies

I can’t imagine Dracula watching the Flintstones movie.

Any trust I had in Dracula is now evaporated.

Somehow, I keep forgetting that Mask of Zorro had a sequel. Then I see double film packs with Mask and Legend and I'm like "Oh yeah."

Mask of Zorro was a really fun movie. I remember almost nothing of the second one.

It's a very hard PG. But yeah, that was weird as hell.

Nobody really gets stabbed or anything, if I remember right.  Just knocked out or dropped if they happen to be standing on something supported by ropes or whatever...which was a lot. 

Nobody owns Zorro. He cannot be tamed and must be free.

Bloodless deaths, so, PG.

I guess it's a legal gray area in which Zorro itself is public domain but certain elements of the character are under copyright protection. You can kinda blame Disney for this. They've been screwing up copyright laws for decades now.

I never saw Legend of Zorro either even though I loved Mask of Zorro as a kid. If it's as bad as they say it is then that's a crying shame.

Martin Campbell also did a Green Lantern movie that had a weird yellow tint and made all the green colors look dull.

Tell her she sucks.

2020s social unrest has got me nostalgic for the old days... When black people being arrested and beaten in custody was played up for jokes. When inter racial relationships were still frowned upon.

Who better to skirt the nuance of police brutality, racial inequality, and black white relations than Martin Lawrence?

National Security (2003) - What the problem is?

I recall actually liking this movie as a kid... Zahn has solid timing as the straight man, and Martin was... Well still Martin. It's available on Netflix and I felt like torturing the female so we popped it on.

As a buddy cop movie - the action is amazing. The gun fight in the soda distribution center has great use of background foreground midground with bottle exploding and bullets flying through the air. There has to be at least 14 slow mo shooting scenes spread across this movie. The ending scene just keeps pushing the absurdity, the tunnel explosion scene is *kiss noise* absolute perfection.

Martin goes all in on multiple monologues, and boy do they fall flat. There are a lot of him just talking at nothing and no one in particular then he snaps back to the scene at hand and something is explained to move the plot along.

I'm gonna give this a revised 4/10 - the music from the early 00s... Is not good, even one half decent song would have elevated this movie a little bit in the cannon of buddy cop flicks.