Afternoon,
Guys…
So, after
the heaviness of yesterday’s posts, let’s change it up, shall we?
Joey and I check
out The Rock’s retro arcade adaption of the game Rampage.
OK, let’s
step back 30 years or so. The Atari 2600’s
king. We had several games, but Rampage wasn’t one of them; however, our
friends did, and we’d play then. It was
also at the Gold Mine at the mall and Putt Putt Golf back in the day. Of course, playing the old school arcaded
games took some adapting for us crips with the height and the fact there, more
often than not, wasn’t space for our footrests, so we had to play sideways or
take off our footrests and let our feet hang.
Still, we made it work. It was
monster virtual mayhem, destruction, and death…life was good.
Fast forward
to, I guess, last year when I got wind of a movie adaption being made. Hmmm, OK, interesting, but how’d it translate
without Velveeta suing? Dwayne Johnson
was attached, so it had muscle…literally, but, could he pull it off? I already knew George and crew were gonna be CG’d
out the ass. That was a given. The teaser and trailers started rolling out,
which made me think bromance King Kong.
Hmmm.
Friday,
actress, Marlee Matlin, mentioned the movie on her Twitter as one of two movies
out featuring ASL (American Sign Language).
The other being A
Quiet Place. We’ve got deaf
friends, so ASL fascinates us. Her
endorsement gave us more incentive to give it a go.
The set up
of the film’s kind of clunky starting in space, but quickly rights itself as we’re
introduced to Davis Okoye (Johnson) and his friend, George, an albino gorilla. Then we’re introduced to Claire Wyden (Malin
Åkerman), the mastermind behind the infection George, Ralph, and Lizzie has
called Project: Rampage, and Harvey Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Negan from The Walking Dead), the government agent,
who works for the agency OGA. He’s also
the frenemy of Okoye in that if Okoye can’t get George under control, he won’t
think twice of having him taken out…no questions asked. We’re off and running.
The chemistry
between Okoye and George is definitely light-hearted, like best friends with
sign language banter flying until shit hits the fan and life and death
seriousness sets in. Johnson plays to
the CG like George, Ralph, and Lizzie are looming over him.
Of course,
the action’s top notch, over the top like only Johnson can pull these
days. Buildings crumble, things explode,
people get stomped and eaten…all within the movie’s PG-13 confines. I actually thought they’d pulled an R with
some sequences, but no.
In hindsight, I feel sorry for Ralph and Lizzie, because there never was anyone to care for them, so they’re soul purpose was to kill. Cheesy, I know, but I’m just saying. LOL.
Anyhoo, Rampage is a fun ride worth checkin’ out
in an updated, nostalgic way. Now, I wanna
find an emulator to play it in 4K 8-bit fun.
Be good to
each other.
-J-
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