I always get that one confused with School Ties whenever I reach for one instead of the other.
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This is not a real game. Itās a demo for the Unreal engine. And yet!
The first five minutes of this demo is a short film starring Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss as both the actors and characters from The Matrix.
The shots of Keanu walking through old scenes of the first movie are amazing.
No matter what you thought of Matrix Resurrections, I say goddamn this was a great āsequel.ā
Watched District 9 tonight and then spent a while trying to talk myself into liking it more than I did. Donāt think Iām getting there. I struggled to really latch onto some of the underlying premises of the story, and the political satire aspect was not at all original or compelling. I did like the performance by the lead, and some of the visuals were really nice, so I didnāt hate the movie or anything, but I just had higher hopes for it.
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I loved it. But any Sci-Fi gets bumped up an extra 2-3 out of 10 for me.
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Keeping with Hackman, Iām going in for Crimson Tide. I think Iāve only seen this once. Hunt for Red October is a huge rewatchable for me. Maybe theyāll do that soon. They did mention it positively.
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Latest Rewatchables is on Dumb and Dumber and they cleared out a normal panel in favor of just having Bill with Jennifer Lawrence. Sheās game, but it still doesnāt work at all, and it feels like they wasted their shot at Dumb and Dumber. Just stick to normal panels please.
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Billās done rewatchables before so they can revisit. The Casino Royal one was good and unintentionally hilarious in spots. The poker analysis by the guy who used to cover poker tournaments, not knowing what hands beat what, and confusing Montenegro for Monte Carlo for the first half of the pod before being corrected was surreal. Good stuff
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Comedies are already hit-or-miss on The Rewatchables, and this pairing just didnāt work. I was initially excited when I found out, like āOh, Jennifer Lawrence is great, this is going to be cool.ā That excitement lasted 4 minutes. (The audio situation didnāt help.)
In contrast, the Fletch episode is an all-timer, if only for Chris Ryan jumping in at the beginning to set the tone: āWeāre not starting with this energy. We are not starting off with āCraig and Billās son donāt like this movie.ā This is a stone-cold fucking classic and we need to put respect on Fletchās name.ā
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Happy to report that Atticus Finch did not have a ponytail. Richard Thomas wasā¦ fine, but it was so easy to imagine Jeff Bridges crushing this role. [Edit: It was Jeff Daniels on Broadway, not Bridges.] I was a little surprised at the extent to which the n-word was flung around. And, even though Iām a huge Sorkin fan, pairing Sorkinās rat-a-tat-tat dialog with Southern drawls is pretty rough. But great show overall.
Back to movies.
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Iām still cringing from Bill trying to explain to her who John Hughes is, and JLaw of course going, āI know who John Hughes is.ā He later proactively explained to her what a āheat checkā is. Iām usually able to look the other way on what a silly caveman Bill is because heās an extremely entertaining host overall, but this was a rough episode for him.
I should watch Fletch. Iāve never seen it (and therefore havenāt heard the corresponding Rewatchables). As much as I have an impulse against bothering to visit early 80s comedies for the first time when thereās no nostalgia to attach to it, I do feel like a Chevy Chase vehicle stands a good chance at being an exception.
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I was five. Back-filling adult comedies from my youth was just never a priority, so I didnāt tend to see a lot of them. Comedy ages worse than most things (even just purely from a funny standpoint), so itās always difficult for me to feel like itās actually going to make me laugh harder than something newer might.
Movies I watched for the first time during the past five years: Animal House, Caddyshack, the original National Lampoonās Vacation. Animal House was okay but didnāt do much for me. Caddyshack was funnier than that. Vacation was probably the best of the three; Chevy Chase National Lampoon movies always work. Oh, Beverly Hills Cop, that was another fairly recent first-time watch. It was fine. Again I just donāt think comedy has the same shelf life that other greats of their genres have.
Vacation is a good benchmark. I think Animal House was funny, but I also havenāt seen it (or wanted to) in probably 10-15 years). I never really liked Caddyshack all that much.
How about Airplane and Naked Gun? I think that kind of absurdist humor is likely to be a good barometer for how much youāll enjoy Fletch.
I absolutely loved the Naked Gun movies. Airplane I saw when I was young, but itās so distant of a memory that I feel like I donāt really have an opinion of it. But Chevy Chase is really A+ at deadpan slapstick, so thatās why I immediately do suspect that Fletch would work for me.
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The TV show was even better.
To me, the potential benefits of AI voices is that they will satisfy novelty projects like this.
What would it sound like if JLaw was on the Rewatchablesā¦? Oh neat!!!
What would Beat It sound like if sung by Ed Sheeran? Oh lol
But you can scratch that itch with a brief clip and see how awful it would be if it doesnāt have a good dynamic.
I remedied myself of this about 4 months ago.
Its a solid movie, Chevy is surprisingly great (I know it shouldnt be surprising, but after decades of stories of him being a complete twat, it always surprises me how likeable he comes across in movies.)
We are in a similar age area, and Im in the same spot. Only catching up on some of the older 70s/80s comedies Ive never seen (Meatballs, Stripes, essentially the entire Murray catalog sans Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day which I obviously saw at some point during my childhood.)
Still gotta watch Beverly Hills Cop
I guess I never even process Chevy as likable in his movies; heās quite funny and entertaining, but heās not really the center of anything heartwarming. Off-screen Chevy does sound very unlikable. Bill Murray is probably the one for me who also sounds like heās a real dickbag but actually comes across as endearing a lot of the time on-screen.
Stripes is another one I saw within the past couple of years. Did not work for me at all; probably the least funny of the classic or semi-classic 80s comedies that Iāve gone back to revisit. And I love Bill Murray. What About Bob remains one of my favorite comedies of all time. I love Groundhog Day, but was always a bit resentful on behalf of What About Bob that Groundhog Day blocked out the sun and became the only Bill Murray movie of the era that people cared about.
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I watched Fletch as a little kid and loved it. Now reading the last 5 posts or so I watched all of those movies as a kid, my dad loved that stuff so maybe thatās why.