Recent movies Iâve watched so I could listen to the Rewatchables:
Say Anything: Totally different movie seeing as an adult. The stuff with the Dad was really poignant. John Mahoney is a great actor. The scene with the guys sitting outside 7-11 still delivered. âOh man - dissing you in the Malibu!â A bunch of high school kids being responsible for each otherâs keys was just put in to make adults happy. I did like how they captured that after-graduation party where none of the high school BS matters anymore and everyone is just comparing notes on how it went.
Vision Quest: Just lol lol lol at him being 6% body fat before he even gets within 10 lbs of his weight. He should look like a bulging mass of muscles and veins. Michael DeMichelle approves. Also Modine doesnât seem to be remotely built like a wrestler to me. Are there lanky wrestlers? Seeing Shute again was awesome. Dude is way up there in the pantheon of badass intimidating sports overdogs. Best line from the Rewatchables (when Modine and his Dad meet meet Linda Fiorentino): âDad can we keep her?â
Last Crusade: entertained as I remembered it. I actually got a little bored at some of the chase scenes though. Also when they throw the Nazi out of the blimp and he lands on the bags, then the blimp takes off, WHY DID IT TAKE OFF WITHOUT THE BAGS? WTF The whole blimp derail was amazing, especially when Craig looked up that blimps only go 150 miles a day.
Proof of Life: very entertaining. Caruso is amazing. This movie made me want to see South America so bad. Also the scene where he gets kidnapped ran through my mind constantly when I was driving through Central America.
Tommy Boy: still funny. âWhatâd you do?â when Spade rips off the car door remains my favorite line that I still use constantly. Also I canât count the number of times Iâve looked out my window and seen a gorgeous woman just get naked in full view of the entire hotel.
Halloween: for the LOVE OF GOD stop putting the knife down every time you give him an owie. I didnât realize Carpenter wrote the score himself to save money. Letâs just crank out one of the most iconic movie scores of all time in a couple weeks on my Casio keyboard. Watching that movie now I could totally hear the Carpenter music, and see the Carpenter style of shooting. It made it a more interesting experience. Also the first time Iâve seen it on a wide screen maybe ever.
I wish theyâd do National Treasure. I always get sucked into that movie when itâs on. History nerdiness + high stakes action. Whatâs not to love?
Iâm watching The Player now. Already cracking up.
literally!
Say Anything was a first-time watch for me within the past year. Thought it was really strong, and ditto the appreciation for John Mahoney.
Oscars giving Michael Caine Best Supporting Actor as a lifetime achievement award around 2000 for his very basic part in The Cider House Rules has forever boggled the mind. I donât readily know of another example of the single weakest candidate in a category shipping it.
And I did like that movie pretty well, and Caine is always enjoyable. But câmon.
Bohemian Rhapsody winning for Best Editing:
Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive in 1994.
He was up against Leo DiCaprio (Whatâs Eating Gilbert Grape), Ralph Fiennes (Schindlerâs List), John Malkovich (In the Line of Fire), and Pete Postlethwaite (In the Name of the Father). Not nominated was Val Kilmer (Tombstone).
Tommy Lee Jones is a fine actor, but there was nothing about his role in that movie (a movie which I very much enjoyed) that was worthy of an Oscar.
Hmm. Iâve really gotta see The Fugitive again. I loved it, and remember loving Tommy Lee Jones in it, but that doesnât necessarily mean it was a great performance. Heâs definitely one who can just carry a movie with charisma. Iâm guessing youâre right about this.
Happily, I have the opposite of a sharp eye for this stuff, so I just sort of sat back and blissfully enjoyed Bohemian Rhapsody regardless of its flaws.
New Indiana Jones movie surprisingly good. Mostly coherent story, hit the right nostalgia spots, and the Phoebe Waller Bridge character is dope.
Yeah, he was good. Heâs Tommy Lee Jones. And the movie is good. It just wasnât a performance where I thought, âWow.â It was just a good job by a good actor.
Agreed. I enjoyed it. But I did watch a video on the editing and I certainly see peopleâs complaints.
Raise the Oscar winner for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at 89th Academy Awards: Suicide Squad
Which is not quite as bad as the movie winning for editing but HOLY SHIT SUICIDE SQUAD HAS AN OSCAR and itâs not even the good Suicide Squad movie
We need to quash this Barbie/Oppenheimer beef. Too many people have been hurt.
https://twitter.com/OneTakeNews/status/1674887559221002240?s=20
Did you happen to catch this? I thought it was just OK, a little disappointing actually
Did it have Hitler on Ice?
The Fugitive wasnât even his best performance that year, it was Cobb imo
In the prologue he said he specifically told them no Hitler but there was a tiny bit of Hitler
I was promised Hitler on Ice at the end of History of the World Part I.