Who could play these monsters?
I’d say it should be an all MAGA actor cast and let them figure out if they are protecting or exposing Trump and watch their heads explode.
Dennis Quaid as Jeff and Randy Quaid as Don?
The Mandalorian reject lady as Ghizzy?
Let Andy play himself.
I’m afraid it is going to go ridiculous business because Michael Jackson and no one will care about what a shit he was.
It will, yes.
I think they had to recut it to remove all that.
Music biopics are trash in general. This one has to be close to drawing dead to be good.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Honestly one of the most beautiful love stories you’ll see on a substantive level, and the use of color makes it a great visual experience as well. Fantastic ending. Fantastic.
It’s a tight 90 minutes, and it’s on HBO Max. In case you’re put off by this sort of thing when you definitely shouldn’t be: it’s a musical. And it’s French. If those things are a negative for you, GTFO. To everyone else, highly recommended.
4/5 (and I question whether I should maybe be going higher)
The Ugly Stepsister is now free on Kanopy.
Still haven’t seen Marty Supreme, but I had a dream that before the climactic final match Hulk Hogan hugs Marty so hard that he breaks his arms and can’t play.
The Big Lebowski
#3 movie of the 90s, huh? Well, no. But it is very very good. Jeff Bridges is great, but I really loved the supporting characters even more. The unhinged Walter, the absolute weirdo Maude, the punching bag Donnie - all smartly written and expertly acted.
I need to watch the rest of the Coen brothers’ comedies (and rewatch Burn After Reading) to definitively say whether this is the best of them. It’s certainly a lot better than Hail Caesar.
This probably would have made my top 20 list somewhere near the end of it, which in a decade of great films is certainly no insult.
9/10
Unlovable (2018)
Unlovable tells the story of Joy, a Filipino-American woman, her struggle with sex and love addiction, and her recovery through music and platonic friendship.
Fucking great movie.
If you love music, you will love this film. A girl struggling with addiction turns to recovery by learning to play the drums with John Hawkes. Sign me up.
I thought it was going to be hokey with the protagonist in recovery element, but this was spectacular. Equal parts dramatic and funny and moving. I could listen to these two jam in the garage all day.
Just skip ahead to watch the title sequence at 6:00 and tell me this isn’t cinema.
That would have been a much better ending.
I went out scrounging the nearby thrift stores for DVDs and came back with a big haul. Somebody stop me.
West Side Story (1961)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Billy Madison (1995)
Contagion (2011)
Rain Man (1988)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Rocky (1976)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Home Alone (1990)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Minority Report (2002)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)
Moneyball (2011)
Total: $24. I could have done without many of these but a lot them were $1 so wth.
I’ve seen all but two of those, and I don’t see a single outright miss.
Yeah that’s a great haul
You got one of mine.
The Maltese Falcon is also one of my faves.
I’ve seen Maltese Falcon a couple of times, but only on commercial broadcasts. It’s great.
The movie you got that I have stuff on is Vacation. I edited and mixed the commentary and maybe something else but I’m not even sure about that. It was a longgg time ago.
