Also that he leaves a night game in Phoenix after the press conference, flies to LA, and somehow when he gets to Renee Zellwiger’s house, the wine club ladies are still going strong (at what would be like 1am on a Monday night).
Wine club might have turned into blow club. Yes I stole that from the Rewatchables.
Also not really clear on why getting fired at lunch is followed by him being allowed to use the office and its resources for the rest of the day to make timely calls to directly compete with the company that just fired him.
all quiet on the western front (2022)
2.5 hours of pointless mass murder. 5 bags of popcorn
He’s not a developer no reason to walk him out of the building, maybe to keep him from taking any customer’s with him, but the plot needed him to make that speech and pick up RZ. The let me stay in the office for 2 weeks after I got fired…
Days of Thunder (1990)
Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman, and the movie sucks. And really, none of those three are even good in it. Cruise plays a completely unlikable protagonist, Nicole Kidman is his doctor who inspects him for a concussion and then starts banging him, and I’m left thinking, “WTF, this guy is NOT worth nuking your medical license for,” except that the movie shows no awareness that that aspect of the relationship is even an issue.
I don’t know, man. Those three are featured, and somehow Randy Quaid is the only performance that kinda works. Usually sports movies are a low ceiling/high floor situation, but this one lowered the floor.
2/5 (might be generous, but it just didn’t feel quite on the badness level of 1.5 or worse)
Its for sure on the bottom of the Cruise late 80s early 90s power ranking
Yeah I was extremely not entertained by Days of Thunder. The visuals were the only cool part.
I watched it a month ago and I couldn’t tell you a single thing that happened except I know there were some wrecks. But can I picture them? Nope. The only thing I can picture is Cruise behind the wheel in his vibrating helmet and facemask, which again, was really well done.
Damien Chazelle was my guess. He is 2/4. Close
Conclave. Was good, albeit quite slow-moving, until the absurd twist ending ruined it for me.
3/5
On all these shows you guys watch, do they ever try to explain the purpose of Stormtrooper armor? You can’t see, you have to shuffle when you run, and it’s completely useless against blasters. It’s probably stinks like holy hell in there too. Unless the clones don’t have sweat glands, then they just die.
There’s nothing really explaining the uniform change in the TV shows or movies. The Stormtroopers aren’t all clones though. They do the Order 66 dirty work at the end of the prequel trilogy, but they also age up unnaturally quickly and I don’t believe new clones are being made once the original trilogy is happening. It’s established that the clones from the clone wars had gotten old and retired. Think you’re mostly seeing regular human recruits, and pretty worthless ones.
It is plot armor. If you want to save money and make everyone look the same, put the same helmet on everyone.
It’s part of their conditioning to turn them into thoughtless soldiers.
Wow there are a lot of remakes/reimaginations this summer
Superman
Lilo and Stich live action
How to train your dragon live action
Fantastic four first steps
I know what you did last summer
Smurfs
The Naked Gun
Add in several sequels.
Yikes
Luckily there are lots of actually good films too. I won’t likely see a single one of these but will still get to go to theatres once or twice a week.
Old but amazing review.
Girlfight (2000) is a perfectly well-choreographed school film about a girl boxer. Idk if it was actually a school film, but that’s certainly how it plays. It’s hard to escape the feeling that we were already watching when moments earlier, the director yelled ACTION. Or as though we were in the editing room when they were choosing which best takes to cut together. There’s multiple long takes where you can feel them straining their rehearsal limits for extended choreography. Michelle Rodriguez is fit and fine in an early role. Whichever critics compared her to Marlon Brando are out of their minds. The music feels more “appropriate” than compelling. Anyway it apparently did very well with critics and audiences and won awards, so ymmv.
It’s free on Tubi.
lol ‘it’s free on Tubi’ is like your 2 of 5 stars review.
Kevin Smith talking more about how the rights to Dogma were finally purchased away from Harvey Weinstein. After hearing all this drama, I understand even more why a director like Coogler who had the leverage he had would want to make sure he got the rights back.
i tried watching jay and silent bob reboot (2019) the other day and i made the rare decision to bail on it about 15 minutes in. and that’s after taking two breaks within those first 15 minutes because it was so overwhelmingly stupid i needed a time out to walk around for a little bit and clear my head