Henchwomen Fight

In 1959 movie Tarzan's Greatest Adventure. Actress Scilla Gabel plays as villainess Toni.

Been a while since I updated the blog, which because it's also been a while since I watched movies, it's not like there's anything to watch, most of I watch for a while is rewatching something I watched once before, I guess it would be nice to watch something new, and by new I mean something so old yet I never watched before.

 I guess the movie started with the villains stealing something from some African village, I don't know, it's not clear what's going on..

But the fonts in this movie looks so cool, like, this movie is made 66 years ago, it's unbelievable how modern and cool the fonts looks even today..

We see our villainess just after the villains reached the boat, it's 50s movies, so the villainess probably have a small role, still, at least the movie will probably be watchable.

So, Tarazan is basically a colonizer and the bad guys are informal colonizers, good cop bad cop I guess..

It's really fun to watch Sean Connery in such unique role, 

 Around 17 minutes, Tarzan basically slaughtered a poor crocodile in order to save the heroine, it seems Tarazan in this movie isn't very animal-friendly one.

TBH, the character that I enjoy watching the most in this movie is O'Bannion played by Sean Connery.

I'm so grateful to Sean Connery for this movie, and many other movies he made, it's  RIP 💔💔💔.

So, Tarzan went after the villains and followed their trace, yet, they were aware of that, and both Slade and O'Bannion set a trap for him, yet with the help of the heroine, Angie Loring, Tarzan manged to avoid the trap and both Slade and O'Bannion escaped.

The accent of actors in this movie is very interesting, like is that how people talked in 50s movies?!

Tarzan shot O'Bannion with an arrow around 51 minutes, and here it goes my favorite character in the movie, LOL..

Yet after O'Bannion was shot, Tarzan wasn't far better and he was wounded badly, so the heroine found him, and went to get some help, so, the only way to help him was to sneak into Slade's boat to get him medicine, thankfully our beloved villainess was there guarding the boat to make sure that the good guys don't try to steal anything, and manged to detect the heroine, the heroine tried to escape with the stuff she stole, and Toni shot multiple shots with her rifle, finally Slade caught Angie and now she has to face injustice and be held accountable for her good actions.

That was stupid, like the heroine was freed minutes after she was captured, and Toni fell into a trap just afterwards around 1 hour 5 minutes..

The movie is made about 7 decades ago, so, I was expected to be as unwatchable as modern western movies, but it's not as bad, it's like western movies regressed a century, and this is still ahead of them, the story and the action isn't great, but at least with the music, and the visuals, it's decent, like the scenes from the forest, and drowning in the mud, and the crocodiles and such, it's interesting to watch something that old, it's like travelling back in time..

Sadly both Sean Connery and Sara Shane who plays the heroine in the movie left our world recently, and I'm thankful for them for the good time I had watching the movie..

In 2023 movie The Comeback AKA 零号追杀. Actress Lu Wei AKA 魏璐 plays as villainess Ling Jiu.

Been a while since I watched a Chinese movie, so, let's hope this one is fun to watch..

Ok, the movie starts with the villainess killing some guy between her thighs, that's very promising, very fast and kind of sudden tho, still, that's so cool.

Damn, the main villain in the movie, I assume, has like a laser wire, and the fight scenes, god, it's awesome, haven't seen something like that in ages. I hope the movie is more than just cool fight scenes.

The visuals in the movie are really cool, it reminds me of dystopian movies from the 90s..

16 minutes in, and now I feel like I'm watching a different movie, let's see how things will connect, although story-wise, I have no idea what was the fights at the start of the movie were about, they looked cool, still felt out of context.

Ok, this is fun, it seems like substory of the movie, a group of gangsters want to force the people of the neighborhood to sign away their homes in order to demolish them, probably paid by some company, and as a short story it's really good.

We see our villainess again around 38 minutes, still the origin of Hua isn't revealed yet, hope it worth the wait.

The movie uses sound effects that are similar to Dark, which sometimes feel unfit for the scene, like with some scenes with just normal dialog, and sometimes fast action scenes..

Andy On is absolutely the star of this movie, and when I say a male villain is the star in a movie that has a really good villainess, it means the actor playing the male villain is really really good.

1 hour 8 minutes now, and I can't deny it, China is one of the few last bastions of creative and artistic freedom in the world.

The final fight starts around 1 hour 20 minutes..

The movie exceeded my expectations, I thought it will be sanitized, bloated and lame at first, but it was actually really fun to watch.

In 2023 movie Sniper: G.R.I.T.. Actresses Eugenia Caruso and Antonella Axisa play as female villains Ana Costa and Katrina Costa. For some reason Ryan Robbins, one of the heroes in the movie is very familiar to me from TV shows I've watched and tuned out from due to how boring they were, like Watson, Sight Unseen and Tracker, and from shows I did like and kept watching like Riverdale, but yeah, I happen to watch his appearances in such TV shows, even tho most of these shows were too boring for me to keep watching. 

We see the two evil sisters just as the movie starts, they are so gorgeous.  

The story starts with Lady Death being sent to assassinate a cult leader called Ivan Bubalo who established a state called Aragon, he basically declared himself god, so, basically the heroes decided to treat him like the Romans treated Jesus Christ, Lady Death is basically the modern Pontius Pilate. 

We are being introduced to Ana Costa, the state of Aragon's minister of propaganda, she's Bubalo's right right hand, her nickname is The Mistress and also bloodthirsty, she doesn't need propaganda in order for me to obey her, I would do whatever she tells me to do 😍😍😍.

Around 11 minutes we the stunning Katrina Costa, having a drink surrounded with admirers all around her, who can blame them?

Katrina Costa is the minister of Finance in the state of Aragon, a tech savvy and mathematical genius, she's as smart as much as she's beautiful.

Basically around 14 minutes, the hero's attack the headquarter of Ivan Bubalo, the beloved god of Aragon, and shot both Katrina and Ana Costa, while Ana manged to survive, her sister didn't make it 💔💔💔.

For every god, there's Judas Iscariot, and in this case it's Dr. Zoran Zoric, played by Matthew Sim who betrayed Bubalo and saved the heroine. After the heroine escaped, the heroes shot the almighty Bubalo while he's surrounded by his devoted followers, to redeem the people of Aragon of their sins 💖💖💖.

Humans are weird TBH, they deny the existance god because they don't see him, and once they see a god, they just shoot him, or crucify him or use whatever weapon available at the time to make sure he doesn't exist, like who would want to be a god for such creatures!! 

We then get a flashback of Lady Death who then explain how she gained Bubalo's trust, then to betray him, and even tried to kill him till our beloved Ana Costa stepped in, shot her multiple times, and saving the god of Aragon.

Dr. Zoran Zoric ended up being shot by the heroine he saved, what I can say, god works in mysterious way, all hail, Bubalo!!

We see Ana Costa again around 35 minutes, she was shot in the head, but manged to survive but the poor babe lost the ability to walk, but that doesn't stop her from to achieve her goal.

 The next time we see Ana Costa is in her final confrontation around 1 hour 8 minutes, as she was shot by the heroine before even she get the chance to react.

Now with what I like and what I dislike about the movie, let's start with what I dislike..

The movie basically killed almost all characters that I find interesting in first 15 minutes, like Bubalo, dead, Katrina Costa, dead, Ana Costa, basically harmless, and even played very little role to push the movie forward afterwards, like the only thing she did is sending her henchman after the heroes, and it was also something suggested by Soshi Mifune, and the movie ended up with daddy issues between the heroine and her father, who was arrested towards the end, it's like the movie reversed climax and made it at the start and just kept going, I was so confused that I checked out to see if this movie and these villains are in a continuation of a previous story..

Now what I really liked, the colors in the movie are so good, I love the aesthetics, and  Ana Costa, god, I love her, I would die for her, incredibly stunning villainess, I wish if she had more screen time, as for Katrina Costa, she's one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen, I really wish she had more screen time and wish we saw her more 😍😍😍.

Thanks to alireza for recommending the movie, it was really fun to watch 🌹🌹🌹.

In 2008 movie Poison Ivy: The Secret Society. actress Shawna Waldron plays as villainess Azalea Berges. The movie looks amazing, it's like it came from the future, I don't know what's wrong with modern movies, but it's like their cameras suffering from depression LOL, it's awful, it's like they have experts to ruin the movie's experience for the audience, and it's not just this movie, many movies from the 2000s look way better than most Hollywood movies today..

You know, If some other country manged to fill the gap Hollywood left in entertainment, and give the world an alternative, I have to admit, I kind of like watching movies in English, maybe it's not my language, but it just feel different, like since childhood I used to watch shows like Hercules, Xena, Relic Hunter, and Charmed, a part of me will always find English nostalgic, but what can you do, all good things must come to an end. 

Any way the plot starts with our villainess trying to befriend the heroine, Daisy Brooks, played by Miriam McDonald, so during the secret society meeting, she nominated Daisy to join the sisterhood..

In the day after, Daisy woke up to find a mysterious box next to her bed, she open the box, and asks her roommate about it, she tells her it's not a normal phone, it's a phone especially made for the Ivys, which is kind of a legend, and technically don't exist.

     After a while, Daisy got messages on her new phone from a mysterious number, setting for a meeting, and there she goes to meet the mysterious person who contacted her, to find the gorgeous Azalea waiting for her.  

Honestly this movie reminds me of Hallmark and Lifetime movies and such, like even the music.
So, Daisy found out that her college account was frozen, and if the problem wasn't fixed with the bank, she will have to reapply next year.

Just after that, she got a message on her phone telling her to go to the basement, and while walking, someone put a bag on her head, and took her, to find herself in some unknown place to perform her initiation ceremony to join the sisterhood.

Azalea told Daisy about the rules of the sisterhood, that in order to be a member, she can never tell anyone about the secret society, she have to obey the orders and never question them, being part of the sisterhood means, if pain inflicted on her, it's inflicted on the entire sisterhood, and Daisy's success is a success for the entire sisterhood.

In the next day, after Daisy became officially a member of the sisterhood she wakes up to find a letter saying her loan was approved.

Around 58 minutes, Azalea and Isabel meets Blake, they want him to give them the password, so they mange to access their grades and changing it, and there they uncover the truth of the secret society and what is waiting poor Daisy, they aren't a charity, they don't give her everything without a price, they want her to be the scapegoat of their scheme.

But Blake wasn't seduced by their beauty, he tricked them and gave them the wrong password, but Azalea isn't done yet, she had a plan B.

Azalea sent a message to Daisy's phone to meet up, then showed her a video of her and Blake together in bed, and suggesting that Daisy should hit back hard, telling her, if someone throws eggs at your house, make lemonade. And they did, Azalea and the secret society went to burn Blake's car both for making the video, and for throwing eggs at Daisy's house.

Azalea then meets Daisy the next day after the society burned Blake's car, to make sure Daisy is still loyal to the society and still willing to follow orders, telling Daisy that leaving the secret society have consequences, not only on her, her scholarship, but also her family, having no choice, Daisy have to do whatever Azalea and the secret society tells her to do.

Azalea orders Daisy to enter the administration building, Daisy have no idea what she's doing there, Azalea tells Daisy to take off her jacket, go up the stairs, finally Daisy found out what Azalea is setting her to do, she's sending her to Professor Graves' office, he had troubles at home and went to the building, and Azalea wants Daisy to seduce him as part of her backup plan in order to change the grades of the society, and using Daisy to do so, once Daisy found out, she left the building.

Now Azalea have to do it herself, she entered Professor Graves' office, at first he rejected the stunning Azalea, and tried to leave the office, but Azalea locked the door, and eventually Azalea manged to seduce him.

But seducing him was only half of the plan, as while they were sleeping, Azalea killed the Professor, now with Daisy's fingerprints all over the place, she's the obvious suspect, and Azalea can easily frame her.

Around 1 hour 25 minutes, Daisy went to apologize to Azalea for what she did, and the gorgeous villainess forgave her good deeds and decided to accept her back, but once again Daisy betrayed her, and recorded their conversation, and then we get the final fight of the movie between Daisy and Azalea.

In 2025 movie Mirai. Actress Tanja Keller plays as villainess Yuca. Been a long time since I watched a Bollywood movie, in this movie we have the gorgeous Tanja Keller as a main villainess, so I hope the movie is fun to watch.

Ok, basically there are 9 warriors who like, one of them is Ambika Prajapati played by Shriya Saran, the 9 warriors have like superpower, whoever attain it can take over the world.

I love the songs, just amazing, and it's perfect for the theme of the movie.

It seems we also have a good male villain, Mahabhir Lama played by Manoj Kumar Manchu, which is cool, with western movies, they always either they give you a horrible male villain, or a horrible female villain, never work on both.

 One criticism I have of this movie is how they basically told us the original story of the hero, as Ambika just gave away her newborn child, and they are telling us, "She first give him away, after 24 years he comes back, he's special..", like instead of making us curious about Ambika and his origin, and how he discover his powers and make us discover the plot alongside the hero of the movie, so we can basically be more engaging with his journey till he finally achieve his destiny.

You know, that's why I believe using modern technology ruin the movie experience, when Vibha went looking for the hero, she had to read people's mind, so people who she can know where he is from people who don't want to tell her about his whereabouts, use modern tech, and all of that will be ruined, basically she will go to check social media account or get a number and call it, or even easier, DM him on social media, basically all of that will be ruined, and the final outcome would be awful, that's why sometimes it's better to just ignore modern technology when needed.

Damn, the fight scene of Mahabhir Lama around 30 minutes mark is so cool.

The hero is telling Vibha, the one is supposed to prepare him to save the world, that he loves her, like, they just met, like, when did this happen? Not only that, he want to marry her!!

   Ok, now Vibha is telling the hero about his origin story around 41 minutes, and it feels absolutely nothing as we already know his origin story, then the movie take us in flashbacks about the hero's childhood, which also feel nothing, while if we were introduced to it first, we could engage with him growing up and the difficulties he faced till this point.

 We first see Yuca around 42 minutes, like, finally!! Basically she was being trained for entire decade under, who I assume, one of the 9 warriors in order to find the whereabouts of Ambika, and once he told her about Ambika's whereabouts, she killed him as now her long undercover mission was completed.

We have another great fight of the main villain, Lama, around 55 minutes, beside the fight, it's hilarious that the actors basically saying gibberish and subtitle says (In Arabic), like, one of us doesn't speak Arabic, and it's not me LOL. The main villain gave us evil laughs tho, which is awesome.

We see our gorgeous villainess around 57 minutes, just after the fight, and she goes like "Unexpected visitor, innit?" and the good guy go like "The only unexpected visitor is death"..

While she's there a dove that hold a message from Vibha sending news of how close she is to prepare the hero, entered the temple, Yuca got hold of it, and in order to track the hero, and get her hands on the 9th scripture, she put a tracker on the dove, so she can find them.

And Indeed she manged to track Vibha to the hotel she's in, and damn, her fight scene outside the hotel is something you would never find in any western movie today..

Yuca have a confrontation with the hero right after that, Tanja Keller is absolutely amazing, that's why I love when an actor playing a villain have a background as a stunt performer, the fight scene often turn to be amazing unlike actors who don't, and in that case I prefer them to focus more on gun fights, not like direct fight scenes, not saying it can't be done with actors who lack such experiences, it's like easier and more spontaneous with stunt performers.

Anyway, Yuca defeated the hero, and was about to finish him, if not Vibha intervened and asked Yuca to spare him in exchange to surrender to her as she's the only one that can lead her to the 9th manuscript.

   Finally the cool songs back again around 1 hour 10 minutes..

The hero then went to save Vibha, yet in order to do so, he have to go across Lord Garuda territories, which something no one manged to do in 300 years.. You know that's what expect of Hollywood movies about ancient mythologies, like this movie looks way better than Clash of the Titans for example, and the music and the effects all work perfectly for the overall theme, yet, I'm not big fan of overuse of CGI, the best CGIs are the ones I don't notice it exist, but overall, even the effects of Lord Garuda looks really cool, absolutely amazing..

I wish if the movie found a way to mix between the CGI and practical effects, which would make it perfect, when using CGI alone, movies tend to darken the movie to make the human imagination to fix the imperfect work of CGI, or use a mix of practical effects and CGI so the two be mixed so you don't have enough time to detect CGI, but using CGI for a long time, make it look artificial and the viewer can feel it.

We see Yuca again in around 1 hour and 22 minutes, and damn, she's pulling out the heroine's nails, like damn, it looks so painful..

Around 1 hour 29 minutes, our gorgeous villainess took the heroine to meet Lama, and she doesn't like his ways, she told him, "God is the one who mercies and treats everyone equally", that's a very communist god!!

Lama gave us his original story, it turns out this isn't his peak villainy, apparently now he tuned his villainy down. Like I thought they will go, well, he's not a villain, but the little brat burned the entire village, like, he is actually evil, it was like "They treated me badly, well, didn't end up good for them" LOL. 

Around 1 hour 36 minutes, the stunning villainess face the hero again for the last time, after she was sent by the main villain with a new weapon to end him once and for all.

Ok, now let's talk about some things I found interesting about the movie, I like how Yuca sent her teacher bye bye after a decade of being a student of him till he gave her the information she wanted, It's like what I said about the relation between the villain and the hero in What villains teach us? it's kind of reversed because usually heroes are the one who win, and usually you get one hero with multiple villains, yet, in this movie the main heroes outnumber the main villains, you basically get two main villains, Yuca and Lama, the rest of villains kind of nameless, while the heroes, there are tons of them, you can also see such relation with Lama basically being taught by the heroes, the nine warriors, and you can see the books symbolizing that, and as I said in the post, when the teacher doesn't have anything to teach, either they became a student or leave the class, so, either the nine warriors to be under Lama's control, or they leave, historically all great stories always have multiple meanings, like literal and metaphorical, and that's what I see in this movie, like, you can basically interpret Lama's destroying the village as him destroying the idea of a village that act in a certain way, and so on.. The movie as a whole was absolutely awesome, and the final battle with the music, the fights, the stakes, the gods, and everything, like ending the movie on the highest point is absolutely amazing.

I wish if we got more scenes of Yuca, yet I'm so happy to see Tanja Keller for the first time playing a role where she actually deliver lines, I'm so grateful to that, and I really hope to see her again in another movie, that was awesome, Tanja Keller is amazing 🔥🔥🔥. 

In 2020 movie The Kill List. Actress Kessarin Ektawatkul plays as villainess Aasi. The movie basically starts with introducing the heroine being undercover to infiltrate some trafficking organization, the fight is actually decent, like it feels like the bad guys are waiting to be hit, but it looks fun, at least it's a fight scene, not like many modern movies with 1000 cuts that you basically don't know what's going on.

The dubbing really make the movie less fun to watch.. 

Angie basically working for another shady organization, and she just flipped on them, when she felt her boss was about to get rid of her after she failed her mission. So the evil boss make Angie the next assignment of our villainess Aasi who first appear around 19 minutes.. Not only Angie ran away but she also took a memory card that belong to the evil boss, I assume the card must be at least 1 terabyte, otherwise, why even bother?!