We watched Nomadland last night. Very well directed, but I don’t get the Best Picture hype at all.
Bliss
On Amazon Prime.
2/10
Serious waste of time. I guess it was supposed to be a version of a person is shown two different worlds and has to decide which one is true, but the movie continuously keeps throwing in new things in the plot all the time. Poor Selma Hayak is running around shouting acronyms and spouting techno babble unto the last 10 minutes. It’s never a good sign when one character says to another with 15 minutes left in the movie “I feel like you’re making stuff up” and I agree with them!
Not even a so bad it’s good category, just plain terrible.
Just finished this one. Greenland has the meatiest meteors. Five bags of corn!! Good from beginning to end with just a couple of Too Stupid to Live character moments.
Palm Springs
Premise: Like Ground Hog day, but both the protagonist and the love interest fall into the time loop together?
8/10
I enjoyed this. Andy Sandburg is a great actor and Cristin Milioti is even better. The sun drenched is a character unto itself (lucky Californians) .
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Started watching I Care a Lot, didn’t finish but
God damn Marla Grayson pisses me off because I know thats a thing that happens IRL, probably a lot. I got about halfway through hoping she would be tortured and killed or in prison and just tilted and closed it because I can tell she gets away with it. Thats not the movie I want to watch. I know real life is fucked up and evil and sometimes in my movies about pure evil I need some fucking justice. Not that torture or death would be justice IRL obv, but in a movie setting.
I watched this the other night not knowing anything about it (thought it was a standard romcom) and loved it, I’m not a Samberg fan at all but he was great.
Showed my kids Waiting for Guffman over the weekend. Not as great as I remember, tbh. We certainly laughed - I’m sure there were jokes that were over their heads - but I have a feeling it might be the weakest of the Christopher Guest mockumentaires. I remember Dog Show and A Mighty Wind being really good, so I look forward to introducing my kids to those. Obviously, This is Spinal Tap is on the list.
Based on my experience, your kids will like “Best in Show” the most
Yeah, most likely. I started with Guffman simply because it was available on one of the services we already pay for.
My wife is really big on “family movie night,” but with a 12 and 14-year-old, it’s tough to drag them away from friends/games. She always wants to show them shit like 13 Going on 30 and I keep telling her you gotta go with something you know is really good and can appeal to both of them.
Every one of my picks is a winner. Guffman lagged slightly, so now my wife insists she gets to choose next (my daughter actually chose Guffman from a few options). She’s totally going to go with Crazy Rich Asians or You’ve Got Mail, when I say Total Recall or even Austin Powers will be better.
EDIT: My oldest is the bigger problem (when it comes to movies, that is), since she’s at the age where she wants to hang out with her friends (virtually) and not her parents and little brother. dlk9s jr would watch anything with me. If I say it’s good, he believes it’s good. It helps that all I do is pick good movies.
I finished it
4/10
Spoiler:
She does get away with it but there’s a dues ex machina that the guy at the beginning of the movie comes up to her and shoots her. It’s very silly though. She plays 007 to hunt down his car, take out his security, and then overdose him so that he becomes a John Doe which she can then be the legal guardian of. He then proposes that he put up the capital so that they start their own chain of elderly homes of ripping off people. Doesn’t seem like that’d scale very well. Any family relations that go to the media and the whole scheme is going to blow up. But like like I said, she gets shot. Movie over.
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LMAO holy shit that’s horrible, glad I bailed.
I totally feel like I’ve turned into a grinch when it comes to movies. I’m watching Million Dollar Baby for the first time right now. It’s not even over yet. But Maggie is currently fighting her first (?) Vegas fight and while she was laying down her opponent clocked her and the ref “didn’t see it.” Damn, I was enjoying this movie up til then. Just completely nonsensical.
eta: oh wow, it gets even better. she gets KO’d between rounds!
I prefer the It’s Always Sunny version of this movie
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I should clarify for those that don’t know these movies and search them out that I mis-titled Dog Show. It’s called “Best In Show.”
I remember a lot of the humor in Guffman deriving from 90s style “look at the flamboyant gay man!” vibes. What was your reaction on rewatch?
I thought it was fine. Corky was clearly flaming, but the humor felt like it came from him taking his craft so seriously and him being so out of place in this small Missouri town. It didn’t feel like it was making fun of him. Nobody in the movie made fun of him - he was very much loved and respected.
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I would assume they’ve already filmed a bunch of it’s supposed to be released at the end of the year, but it looks like they are about to film some of Black Adam in Atlanta. An extras casting director who hasn’t done anything here in years just posted this week, looking for a photo double for Dwayne Johnson and included a pic of him as Black Adam.
I still haven’t done anything since last March because of the pandemic (Stranger Things the week before things shut down), but this would be pretty cool. Need to cut my hair.
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I dunno man, I saw you in Cobra Kai. Not exactly a comparable physique to the Rock
I’ve put on some pandemic weight.
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It would be pretty epic if BBQ Man crossed over from Marvel to the DC universe.