Moviepass was so great. Investors lighting money on fire so I could catch a few free movies.
My local theater has a deal for like $8-9/month where I get a credit for one movie/month and the credits never expire. Plus %10 off concessions. It’s an okay deal. It sort of compels me to see stuff in theaters I wouldn’t normally see.
I too enjoy movies that history has proven to be at best mediocre. It’s a testament to the power of the idea that we’ve never gotten a good Ghostbusters movie, and yet here we are still completely charmed by the concept.
Just finished Marriage Story. I really hope it wins. For a movie where basically nothing happens I am highly entertained. Magnificent performances all around. Ray Liotta where’s there guy been? Alan Alda’s still got it. But Scarjo and Driver are just amazing. Both had some powerful Howard Beale-level monologues that blew me away. I don’t think you’ll totally get it without a divorce with children under your belt. But watch even if you don’t, you’ll enjoy it if you appreciate good acting and writing. Driver is a force and will soon be able to name his price if it isn’t already.
As legend has it, while filming his role as a cocaine-huffing, Vicodin-popping, gleefully unhinged cop in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans , Cage was spotted in between takes doing bumps of a mystery powder out of a vial. When the film’s director, Werner Herzog, approached Cage to ask what he was snorting, the actor spun around and yelled, “ It’s fucking coke! ”
I had this little vial of inositol, which is a saccharine substitute. It looks like blow…but it’s not. I would do it to psych myself up all day long
The query disrupted Cage’s process, and he went off. “I was like, ‘Oh come on, Werner. Really? I’m ready to go and you just take me out of it?! Get off my set! Get the FUCK off my set! Get out of my city!’”
In the latest entry in ChrisV’s blog of films that came out a couple years ago, saw Lady Bird last night. Female coming-of-age story. Not the sort of thing I’d normally watch but thought it was a good film. Authentic feel to it, means it’s hard not to identify with the characters.
Yeah the acting was very good across the board, for which the director should probably get a lot of the praise, but Metcalf was a standout. One of those performances where you never have the sense that you’re watching an actor.