Both Amell brothers in the same movie?!
The premise is badass, the trailer promises a fun movie with a new way to approach superpowers. Watch the first five minutes and you’ll see the movie takes some hard swings at condemning a police state. Superpowers transcend the metaphor in X-Men and become not just a symbol for facing homophobia but for daring to defy authoritarian regimes.
But holy shit at that ending. My God. It turned a great movie into one I never want to watch again.
Fuck, I’m okay with this:
https://twitter.com/etalkCTV/status/1294412237281558528?s=20
New rule: anytime we discover a Hollywood star is a creep, Tig Notaro gets to replace him.
Felt compelled to watch Foolproof. Wasn’t bad, wasn’t great. A largely forgettable heist film, raised a grade just because of Ryan Reynolds. Dude hasn’t aged in 17 years.
Did a hit & run HBO trial for some recent-ish movies, in brief
John Wick 3: garbage
Hobbes & Shaw: basically trash also, but marginally better than JW3
Midway: Worse than Pearl Harbor, which is a stunning achievement if you think about it
Ford v. Ferrari: meh
Joker: didn’t even bother
They Shall Not Grow Old: expected it to be amazing, but I’ll settle for good
The only thing I’ve really enjoyed so far is Helen Mirren as Catherine the Great, but I’m out after I finish that
Watching Teenage Bounty Hunters and it’s fun. It doesn’t make much sense in the details but overall it works.
Decided to look into the leads and
Maddie Phillips, age 25
Ok, that happens, actors in their 20’s playing teenagers, seems perfectly normal
Anjelica Bette Fellini, age …15???
What? So your two leads, who are supposed to be twins, are 10 years apart,
are supposed to be teenagers,
and the 15 year old is supposed to be the slutty one of the twins
This is one of the few times where diving into the details makes the situation a bit more icky rather than interesting like the usual IMDB trip is
I could live with that
I had been thinking a bit about this lately. I listened to (I think) How Did This Get Made about Rookie of the Year recently, and they have a running bit about how unnecessarily they sexualize the lead love interest, who is supposed to be like 12 years old, and after all the Harvey Winestein/Jefrrey Epstein/me too stuff, I’ve found a lot of 80s and 90s movies to be pretty problematic.
Basically anything that oversexualizes like 12-15 year old girls just gives me the heebie jeebies, like The Sandlot and the lifeguard scene for instance. I just cant help but imagine a bunch of perverts behind the camera having these young actresses do take after take where they pan the camera across her swimsuit clad body.
Like, I get that it’s hard to tell a coming of age story without focusing a bit on the hormones that everyone that age encounters, but the overly malegazing shots just make me really uncomfortable now.
Umbrella Academy is entertaining. It’s not really good or anything but fun and goofy.
Project Power was fucking fun. Whoo boy. A sequel please.
Review aggregate site Metacritic assigned the film a [weighted average] score of 51 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”
This is the best season by far. The kids and the coach are mostly likable and obviously some of their stories are really gripping. I don’t want to spoil anything but it is pretty crazy that they got a few of the parents to give interviews considering the roles they played in it all.
Watched the first couple of episodes of Atlanta. Looks like it’ll be good.
Watch “Ladybugs” and listen to the HDTGM, it’s bonkers.
But yeah lots of 80’s movies in general are difficult to watch through the lens of today. “Sixteen Candles” really has it all.
Oh nice, I havent listened to that one yet.
Just remembered, I think it was We Hate Movies and not HDTGM that had the discussion about Rookie of the Year
Yea I felt complicit because the show is set in high school and 15 is a really a high school age, I just naturally assumed like most shows about high school the actors are really in the mid 20s. Had me thinking about how as a society we set shows in high school for the drama of adolescence but then throw in over sexualized drinking and sexual encounters and what that actually means rather than praising it as high art drama, I’m looking at you Euphoria. The first episode does sexualize her a lot too, so I guess I would have assumed that a show wouldn’t sexualize an actual 15 year old.
Luckily after the first episode they really don’t sexualize them at all, at least from the episodes that I watched, just has them being crass, which I guess isn’t near as bad as the actual sexualization. Knowing what I know I don’t think I could have continued on if they would have maintained the level from the first episode. It would have felt really gross. The actress is really good though, in that she is actually 15 playing next to a 25 year old and she holds her own acting wise
As a fat guy I’m certainly not trying to be mean but I genuinely thought this was Robert Baratheon(idk the actor’s name) doing a promo for a movie not Russel Crowe.
https://twitter.com/edgarwright/status/1294757848405233664?s=21
Looks good
Lovecraft Country looks so damn good.
My son and I both got cast as extras, but since we were on the same day, I dropped out because I needed to chaperone him (which would’ve been impossible if the timing of our days was different). He probably won’t be in the show, though. He was a pedestrian passing by some shop or office that the main character in the scene was in. He was with his “mom” and “sister” walking down the sidewalk. The kids each had lollipops. The girl dropped hers and my son teased her, sticking his tongue out.
It was so damn cute and funny and the director loved it, but after a couple takes, they thought it could be too much of a distraction. They said they had something great for them in a different scene, but never got around to shooting it.
So, it will take some huge luck to have one of those couple takes make it into the show.
There was a 12 year old lead love interest in Rookie of the Year? Did I just completely blank that out of my memory?