#loccon 07 summary here.

Shoot 'Em Up : Awesome. Ninety minutes of bullets, carrots, and explosions. Sweet stunts, some fairly unconventional use of traditional action movie tropes, and minimal exposition. Verily, I enjoyed it.

Dellamorte Dellamore : Still awesome, though not quite as mind-blowing as I remember it being when I first watched it way back in '97. Easily the best surreal/zombie film out there.

The Jan-Michael Vincent's Hair & Earnest Borgnine Hour : Season 2 was tactically deployed as "filler" before during and after other video. The modified Bell 222 is still awesome, the theme music is still awesome, and the writing, effects work, and most of the acting are still balls-to-the-wall stupid. Borgnine is awesome (he's fucking Earnest Borgnine for fuck's sake!), but Jan-Michael Vincent looks like an Evil Universe version of Don Johnson. I think it's the hair. All of the hair, actually - Airwolf represents a broad spectrum of the worst of 80s fashion.

The Hudsucker Proxy : Xeno somehow made it through the last thirteen years without even hearing about this movie, so something had to be done about that. You know, for kids.

The Big Lebowski. This isn't 'nam. This is #loccon '07. There are rules.

Die Hard 4 (aka Hackers 2) : Sticking in Kevin Smith still doesn't save the steaming pile of bullshit that is HollywoodOS or the rest of the so-called "script," though it seems that it was the producer's intent to use Smith as some kind of nerd-shield to stave off any richly-deserved technical criticism. There's some sweet stuntwork - McClane knocks a guy out of a helicopter with a fire hydrant, then kills the helicopter with a fucking policecar , and that was pretty sweet. The bit with the F-35 was also sweet from the violence perspective but doesn't say much about the JSF - a couple of missiles, a shitload of machinegun rounds and you still can't kill the target, but you've wrecked huge chunks of freeway? Great violence, but still. Xeno and I plodded through this turkey just for Bruce Willis and the stuntwork. The rest of it is trope-heavy disposable bullshit that drags down what used to be one of the finer action franchises.

Various Team Fortress 2 trailers : The "meet the ______" bits are fantastic. Nice to see an FPS go for the cartoon/stylized look and pull it off.

First Blood : Still the best Rambo movie. Best story, best message, best direction, most believable stunts and action. If you want your First Blood with a bit more of a Spaghetti Western kick to it, be sure to check out Seraphim Falls.