My mind instantly went to, “But that would cost him the sudden explosion into ‘FUCK you, Harold!’” And I didn’t want to simply sacrifice that on his behalf.
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I was hoping see a like or two on my post I could point at while I ran away, but it was just me 
Okay eyebooger. Retracted. Until the next arbitrary time.
No one brave enough to watch Old Guard 2?
These days, I’m not sure basic cable would censor that. Depends how old the version is.
I will be. My wife said it wasn’t as good as the first one. I’ll probably watch next week.
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I’m 70% of the way through.
I mean it’s not Dumbo, but it’s got one very very good scene.
Worth a watch just for that.
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I really struggled with the idea in the first one that their immortality can just randomly give out. To me, that took away the pleasure of the premise.
Is it too much to ask for an immortal Charlize Theron kick ass though the centuries with no repercussions?
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Reboot Highlander the movie with her as the lead.
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Make it the TV show and I’m in.
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Six seasons and a movie.
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It’s bad. Very bad. Mind you the original wasn’t a masterpiece but enjoyable enough. This one is a significant downgrade in every way: Set pieces, action, plot, dialogue and acting. There’s no reason for Uma Thurman to be in the movie. It’s been a few years since the first one but I can’t remember the dialogue being as bad. The cliffhanger for OG3 made me feel cheated out of my investment in the movie cause it doesn’t even resolve anything about OG2. Why should I even watch the third one? Straight to Netflix in every sense.
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I agree with these points. Probably “aloof” wasn’t the right word choice.
I guess I was reminded of his Top Gun character on a few occasions. To some extent, this was also required. But I thought they went overboard at the beginning, and not by a small amount.
The Remains of the day
So. I’m trying to give up scrolling Facebook videos and have removed it from my phone.
I have a lot more free time to watch actually good movies
I enjoyed this. Anthony Hopkins obviously great. Emma Thompson goes toe to toe with him.
Some subtle scenes just amazing.
Where the french guy has sore feet and asks for help with his shoes. Hopkins somehow, with his back to us, in a fraction of a second, conveys that he thinks this is beneath him but of course he does it anyway.
Then the American volunteers without caring.
Movie is full of moments like that.
Summary
Incredibly disappointed in the ending. If ever I thought this was a redemption arc, this was it. Sheeeeeeesh.
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Took until my most recent viewing of Remains to realize that the pretty young housekeeper who leaves to get married is Cersei Lannister.
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I finished re-reading The Running Man last night and highly recommend it. It’s a taut thriller and only has one chapter where it drags a little toward the end as the main character sees his life pass before his eyes. The chapters are a countdown from 100 and no chapter is longer than 5 pages, with most being around 2 to 2.5 pages.
Based on the trailer of the movie, while they’re appearing to keep a lot of the set pieces and basic backstory, it looks way bigger than the book with far more danger scenes that didn’t at all happen. This is a huge unnecessary mistake, in my opinion. Of course, the trailer could have taken a bunch of small insignificant to the overall story scenes to make it seem big and exciting to get butts in the seats, but that would be bad marketing, if so.
They also have completely re-cast the book from how it was written. That may be fine, but I still stand by my assessment they should have cast a real game show host as Thompson. Everyone else is just acting in a role like that, and usually very unconvincingly.
This thing still looks way glitzier than every aspect of the book and unbelievable at every turn. A key plot point is a piece of advice Richards is given, which doesn’t look like it was followed at all, unless the trailer is wildly misleading (plausible). A key aspect of the book is that it’s uniformly told from Richards’s point of view. We would never see the big explosion that happens at the end of the trailer, because in the book Richards didn’t see it. I haven’t seen any Edgar Wright movies (not up my alley) but this seems like 101 stuff he’s effed up for reasons only known to him.
It’s like you can make a $200 million version of The Running Man, but based on how it’s written, a great movie could probably be made for $50 million without sacrificing really anything from the book. That said, I can’t find info about the budget. #hollywood
I doubt we’re getting the book, which easily could have been done, but it will certainly be closer than the Arnold version.
I spotted her first time around. But only in a “hmm. She’s familiar. Let’s look her up” kind of way.
The mirroring of prying fingers was always an interesting one to me, because they didn’t map as obviously as a lot of symbolism does, but it obviously tracked too closely to be a coincidence. Hopkins prying his father’s fingers away from the dinner tray, and Thompson prying Hopkins’s fingers away from his romance novel, are fundamentally getting at different things.
Decided on last watch that they do correspond well enough though, that both are still examples of someone trying to pry rigid men away from a life they’ve made much too small by dedicating themselves to this one narrow thing.
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Steve Harvey seems like an obvious miss by them for talk show host role.
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