Recent Viewings, Part 2

[lester1/2jr]

Demon Wind (1990) - Imagine if Evil Dead was missing the magical ingredients that made it such a classic and instead was a dull but colorful collection of cute girls and gory effects? I really wanted to like this, but it just...lies there. 

A guy brings his cute girlfriend and other friends to a rural shack of some kind to have a showdown with his Satanic ancestors. Why would he do that? Why when ( slight spoiler) one of them gets killed do they not talk about it at all? What exactly are they trying to DO? It took me 3 nights to watch because the story and motivations are just so thin. That said, if you like having movies on in the background and/or talking over them, this would be a fantastic choice. It's got lots of state of the art special effects and even a little bit of nudity.

It has a fairly high Google users rating, probably a lot of people who fell asleep watching it on cable.

2.75/ 5

The last half hour was relatively strong.

[M.10rda]

How'd you like the badass Siegfried & Roy life partners?

[lester1/2jr]

They were magicians for 5 seconds.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Vigilante Diaries" (2016)
A former black-ops assassin recruits a team of fellow bad-asses to assist him in a private war against a powerful Armenian mob organization.
This low budget action junk sports an impressive cast of D-listers like Michael Madsen, Jason "Clerks" Mewes, and Michael Jai White. It starts off promising, but drags on far too long and goes off in so many random directions that it completely stops making sense around the halfway point. Skip it.