It was fun watching murderer OJ get the crap kicked out of him, even if it was fake (obviously) and slapsticky.
There were some of the expected problematic portrayals of various racial groups and women but not as many or as egregious as I thought there would be.
As a Seattle native, I got a kick out of the baseball sequence featuring the Mariners vs. the Angels (although no real Mariners were there as far as I could see). Reggie Jackson was in there, but as an Angel, when by that time he was either on the Oakland A’s or retired.
LA was still smoggy even as late as 1988, or at least it seemed that way in the baseball scenes, where the LA skyline was almost totally obscured from the vantage of the baseball stadium.
A striking (to me) example of how much chunkier we are in the US was (again) in the baseball sequence. Drebin accidentally hits a woman in an upper deck with a tranquilizer dart and she falls on top of the bad guy and incapacitates him. To my 2020 eye, she’s noticeably overweight but not unusually so, but in the movie she’s portrayed as comically fat. In 2020 she’s probably within a standard deviation of the median for BMI.
I kept looking at Priscilla Presley and being confused by how different she looked. I told myself it was because of how young she was, but later I realized I was mixing her up with Rene Russo. Am I the only one who thinks these two look a lot alike? P.S. Don’t Google Image Search Presley, she had plastic surgery and it didn’t improve things at all, to say the least.
Anyway, end of my ramblings on this unproductive day.
Netflix offers this information in a couple of different ways depending on your viewing device.
TVs, set-top boxes, and streaming players that connect to TVs:
TV shows and movies that are leaving will display a “Last day to watch on Netflix:” message at the top of the screen for a few seconds when first playing the title.
“Available until” notifications will appear on the Details page of the TV show or movie.
Computer or tablet browsers:
TV shows that are leaving will display a “This show is available until…” message at the top of the screen for a few seconds when first playing an episode. The message appears once per day.
“Availability Until” notifications will appear on the Details page of the TV show or movie.
Notifications are also in the My List section, if it is set to manual sort.
Android phones and tablets:
TV shows and movies that are leaving will display a “Last day to watch on Netflix:” message at the top of the screen for a few seconds when first playing the title.
iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch:
TV shows and movies that are leaving will display a “Last day to watch on Netflix:” message at the top of the screen for a few seconds when first playing the title.
“Available Until” notifications will appear on the landing page of the TV show or movie.
No one collates this information in totality, but there are several sites like Decider that tell you what you should watch before it leaves.
Help me find the name of this movie, or alternatively, convince me I imagined it and it doesn’t exist.
Early 90’s(?), roughly the same premise as Judgement Night (and The Warriors, and kinda Escape from New York too) of a couple (few?) guys sidetracked or lost or whatever in a gritty, criminal urban environment, trying to get out. But it’s set in East St. Louis. Might have been wannabe criminal suburban dudes in over their head rather than sidetracked/lost.
Thanks for digging this up. I actually did a little of my own googling after I posted and found that page as well.
This part though:
I can’t find what I’m confident is the “Details page” for items. I think maybe this page documents an older version of their website interface? They are constantly tweaking it and I think maybe the documentation lags behind. Or I am just failing to find it, which is certainly possible.
I think the upshot for me is that I will try not to sit on stuff too long and just watch it if it’s something I’m interested in.
I actually went to see that in the theater because my buddy had a crush on Lori Petty. Fell asleep during it.
I’ve fallen asleep during a lot of movies in the theater though. Just off the top of my head:
Naked Gun 33 1/3
the 2nd Matrix movie
LOTR
Golden Compass
the Star Wars movie with Jar Jar Binks
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
and a few more I’m forgetting about
Anyone else have a problem staying awake in movie theaters?
This is a good one to watch right now. It’s like some GOP operative invented time travel to go back in time and do an inception to plant the idea in audiences that 5G can cause a pandemic.
