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Finished City Hunter today, and I strongly recommend it. In one scene Jackie Chan gets electrocuted by an arcade machine and turns into Chun Li from Street Fighter 2. Thatās probably the craziest thing from the movie, but some other scenes are close.
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Looks like itās free on YooToobe.
2 more movies. This time the theme is Saturday Night Live (ish).
Saturday Night: I have a strange relationship with SNL, in that Iām convinced that I really like it, but I rarely watch it now and Iām not sure I ever watched it on a regular basis. For whatever reason, I especially enjoy the history of it, either through podcasts or interviews or books (like the oral history). So I was excited to hear about Saturday Night, covering the 24 hours before the showās first episode.
Overall, a moderate disappointment. It had a compelling and chaotic story to tell, tons of interesting characters to focus on, and a literal ticking clock to naturally move the story forward. Despite that potential, I think it missed the mark. Many of the conversations felt artificial, and I donāt think it took advantage of the inherent countdown leading up to 11:30 Saturday night.
At risk of re-opening a recent argument, I feel like Aaron Sorkin would have absolutely crushed this script. Instead, it felt like a budget version. Of the highly-regarded cast, Lorne seemed fine and I thought the actor who played Chevy Chase seemed like an enormous douchebag (which, I appreciate was the point; he also seemed like an enormous douchebag in Mountainhead, which again was the point. Is he actually a douchebag? Is he just got at playing a douchebag? I have exactly the same questions for Patrick Schwarzenegger.) The one person who stood out positively was Rachel Sennott.
A Stupid and Futile Gesture: This didnāt get nearly as much attention, and itās only obliquely related to SNL. Instead, itās a story of National Lampoon and how it transitioned to a radio show, and then movies like Animal House and Caddyshack. SNL has only a small side role here, but I feel like the kind of person who would be interested in seeing Saturday Night would be interested in this story.
This movie is funnier than Saturday Night, focuses on individual characters in a more interesting way, and, I think, is better cast. Perhaps this is an expectations issue, where I had high expectations for Saturday Night and no expectations of this one, but I feel pretty comfortable saying this is the better movie. Probably not a coincidence that David Wain is the director - he lived his own version of this when he did MTVās The State.
Finishing this out, I also read the recent Lorne Michaels biography, Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live. Itās great, and I just absolutely tore through it. Anyone interested in the history of SNL should pick this up. Although unintentional, this was a great followup to seeing both of the above movies - the package of 3 really offered a great overview of the broad community surrounding SNL, and I think the whole package was greater than the sum of its 3 parts.
Final ratings: Lorne (the book)>>A Futile and Stupid Gesture>>>Saturday Night
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Late to the party, but if itās any consolation, you made the optimal choice.
Iām sure she has dozens of guys playing the nice guy and doing exactly what she asks, but by telling her no, you wouldāve at least stood out.
Itās unfortunate you eventually lost her, but it wouldnāt have been because of that choice.
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Donāt Tell Mom the Babysitterās Dead (2024)
The original is one of my favorite movies. I am here for a reimagining with a black cast. But ugh, this movie is just not good. Bad writing, bad acting. No worries. Back to the original we go.
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Superman opens to a 91% (55 reviews) on RT.
Guess that seals it. I have to see for myself one way or another.
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Down to 86 now, but yeah, still likely to see it.
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Thatās holding the line pretty well given that it added a whole batch since.
I was pretty firmly in the camp of āseeing it unless the reviews scare me off,ā and now that itās already clearly not going to get destroyedā¦good enough. I reserve the right to hate it, obviously. But Iām cautiously optimistic that Iāll at least kind of like it.
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Agreed, though this particular review worries me based on what I saw in the trailers.
āGunn approaches the nerdosphereās most celebrated property like a giddy amnesiac who has missed the precipitous rise and fall of multi-character Marvel superhero movies and is instead stuck somewhere in the early 2010s.ā
Like, I would much rather this be a Superman movie like Iron Man was an Iron Man movie, and not step 1/85 in the Dc Universe plan where we have to introduce ten characters that are around for one scene to set up a movie two years from now.
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But the early 2010s were when they were still cranking out projects that lacked for significant interconnectedness. The original Thor and Captain America movies took a moment to breadcrumb a larger universe, but mostly existed as their own thing. I guess I take the comment differently than you.
The very thing you named is why Iāve been more hopeful about this movie than about Fantastic Four even though the latter is the one Iād rather read a comic book of (Iām casual at best about dabbling in comics at all, but still). Once I saw F4 get referenced in a post-credits scene of Thunderbolts, I threw up my hands in despair at the signal that, even in a 60s period piece, they will not be left alone to do their own thing.
If Superman devotes five minutes to breadcrumbing future projects, whatever. I share your wish that these could just exist as their own movies, but I think itās clear we just canāt get that anymore.
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Just realized that thereās nothing in the text of these movies to suggest that Strange Days and Conclave arenāt in the same cinematic universe, so like maybe in the 90ās Cardinal Lawrence was a cyber-porn distributor but then he found Jesus and became a preist.
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You know what, Finnes speaks a little Japanese in Strange Days so maybe that hints at him having the language skills you need to be a cardinal.
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Iām clearly not the target but the extended trailer for superman was so bad these reviews are surprising.
rockys 1-5 streaming on amazon
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Just stop at III, please.
stop at one if you love films.
stop at 5 if you love movies.
never watch Rocky Balboa (2006).
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Yeah Rocky IV is just pure 80s greatness. And the soundtrack absolutely slaps. My brothers and I put it on when driving to the casino to get amped up.
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