I remember that movie. It made me feel very cold.
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I only made it 20 minutes into Weird before tapping out, and I didnāt have high expectations going in.
When they started discussing making a real movie based on a Funny or Die trailer for a fake movie, I feel like somebody somewhere along the way should have said no. The idea of a debauched Al Yankovic biopic is more hilarious than an actual one can ever be.
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Saw Black Adam tonight. I enjoyed it. The beginning exposition portion was a bit slow, but once the superhero fighting started, it didnāt let up. And the fight scenes were good, not just the usual DC punching someone into a wall. Character designs were cool, ability usage was slick.
Story was meh, kind of your typical ābad guy wants a relic so he can be powerful,ā but there was one aspect of it (which I wonāt spoil) that really added some emotion.
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Couldnāt disagree more, Six bags of popcorn.
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So glad to hear this
It is of course incredibly dumb (and steals like 10 minutes of plot from Zoolander) but if you go into it expecting it to be incredibly dumb it delivers.
The premise of this one was a little too unbelievableā¦would a US high school population really care that a random girl among them had sex ? (Also the main characterās motivations for most of the movie didnāt really make sense).
Still this was definitely enjoyable comedy. I guess iām at that point where the parts I enjoy most in these movies are the parents. (Armisen killed it in his 20 sec of screen time)
On another note, for those who enjoyed Drive my car, I would recommend to check out Hamaguchiās following movie wheel of fortune and fantasy. Unlike his usual long features this is made of 3 ~40 min stories which can be watched independently. The 1st one I thought only ok, but 2nd and 3rd are amazing, one of the best things Iāve seen this year.
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As a film noir junkie, Criterionās November Noir lineup is fantastic, itās basically all Iāve been watching. Not even sure what to recommend, itās all great. The Naked City and The Postman Always Rings Twice are obv must-sees. Blue Dahlia has some of the greatest dialogue of all time courtesy of Raymond Chandler.
Northside 777 is one Iād never seen before, Jimmy Stewart on his grind and very gritty on-location shots of 1940ās Chicago. Also, Kiss of Death took a while to get there but the final act is crazy intense. This movieās villain is purported to be the inspiration for TV/movie depictions of The Joker, extremely disturbing and menacing.
Also
https://twitter.com/RealGDT/status/1590523603577352192?s=20&t=Ie1wjc7nfxTQWLlAsnG8lA
Guillermo, no!
Anyone watched Amsterdam yet? The cast seems elite I might rent it tonight.
At my mother-in-lawās house and she was watching Dog, which I was half-paying attention to while playing on my phone.
Holy Boomer porn. A military dude, a dog and emotional manipulation.
Pretty terrible, but at least there was an unexpected performance from Kevin Nash as a recluse marijuana grower.
Awful movie. Bad acting. Bad direction. Bad script. Donāt know how I made it through.
Wakanda Forever
7/10
Pulling off comic book vibes 9/10, but canāt overcome rails Marvel forces it to be on. Character shoehorned in for an obvious spin off? Check. Big battle that is obviously filmed on a green screen? Check.
Angela Bassett will forever be fine.
Lupita Nyongāo got to show off her Spanish skills. Funny to hear her Mexican accent
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All Quiet on the Western Front is pretty good, actually. It is helped by the fact that weāve never really had an iconic WWI movie, but also itās a solid war movie in its own right.
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Reds is about WW1 some
Netflix has the best business model in the streaming game where they give me just barely enough good content to keep me from unsubscribing. With HBOMax and Criterion I feel like Iām getting my moneyās worth for sure, but Netflix is occupying that sweet spot where I feel like I ought to unsubscribe but also they make just enough good stuff to keep me in. Dahmer and Western Front and Iron Chef Mexico is worth the price of admission, but just barely.
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They gotcha by the short n curlies
Amsterdam, guess Iād give it a 6/10. Busy, weird, frantic with a ton of big names making appearances but I doesnāt really all come together. I laughed quite a bit and Baleās character is pretty great but the other mains were meh.
Iām not exactly sure how to describe it but it felt like the characters were almost looking through the camera right at you a lot of times when they were speaking, the director must have been doing something strange with the camera or something it kind of bothered me.