DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:53 am
I recommend "Side Out".
Just tried to read the Wiki synopsis which just might be the worst written thing on the Internet.
I was a big fan of Summer School and CTS in a Body Glove wet suit.
"Monroe Clark moves to California to pursue a law career. At the airport, he meets Wiley Hunter, who offers him a ride to the home of his Uncle Max, who assigns Monroe the job of handing homeowners a "pay or quit" notice to either to vacate the premises or pay past rent due and to be back by 6 o'clock."
I don't see what your problem is, that's a great opening paragraph.
You can lead a horse to fish, but you can't fish out a horse.
DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:53 am
I recommend "Side Out".
Just tried to read the Wiki synopsis which just might be the worst written thing on the Internet.
I was a big fan of Summer School and CTS in a Body Glove wet suit.
"Monroe Clark moves to California to pursue a law career. At the airport, he meets Wiley Hunter, who offers him a ride to the home of his Uncle Max, who assigns Monroe the job of handing homeowners a "pay or quit" notice to either to vacate the premises or pay past rent due and to be back by 6 o'clock."
I don't see what your problem is, that's a great opening paragraph.
So this trailer was released today. Wish they would've gotten Greg Kinnear to be Dick Vermeil again, 15 years after Invincible. (The events in the two movies are 23 years apart.)
How do you all get your death notices since I left?
That’s the wrong Rams logo on his sweatshirt in the opening shots. They didn’t start using the down-facing rams head until 2000, the year after they won it.
My avatar corresponds on my place in the Swamp posting list with the all-time Home Run list. Number 45 is Paul Konerko with 439.
Sign me up. I don't get the chance to watch movies as much as I used to pre-kids, but There Will Be Blood is a classic and for a long while Magnolia was my favorite movie.
Until everything is less insane, I'm mixing weed with wine.
Cry Macho
Dwight Yokum is not a good actor.
Clint Eastwood is so old he can only play 1 character at this point (and not buying any romantic connections found in the movie)
Script was weak and some scenes were super unbelievable.
Best actor was Macho
Movie is 1.5 stars
brian wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 11:34 am
Trailer dropped for The Many Saints Of Newark (Sopranos prequel). Looks like it's gonna be either really good or really bad (and yes, that's James Gandolfini's son playing Tony Soprano as a teenager.
Every time I see an ad for this I keep thinking Michael G's mother must have been Joan Cusack, because with the long hair for the movie, he looks more like her than his father.
How do you all get your death notices since I left?
EdRomero wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 6:13 am
I hated the Sopranos movie.
Just seemed really rushed? Almost too easy to say it should have been a TV show (or mini-series), but I really think it could have benefited from being a TV show (or mini-series). I thought the acting was pretty good, but I just spent too much of the movie wondering W(hy)TF shit was happening.
The one big event/scene that I couldn't ascribe (even thinking about it after the fact) to some hastily sketched characterization was...
...the shootout at the club when Harold came for Dickie. What happened to Johnny Boy during the firefight? I couldn't fully remember the character's backstory and he doesn't seem like the type who would run and abandon his friend/relative, so when Harold made it into the club without having to deal with him I was convinced he either got shot and I missed it or that Dickie was going to kill him by shooting unseen through the door. But nope, he just sort of disappeared during that scene and then popped up again in the next.
And then why did Harold leave without killing Dickie? He clearly tried to kill him out on the street, and by that point members of both crews had died so shit was REAL. I don't get it.
We watched the Todd Haynes Velvet Underground doc (on AppleTV) this weekend. It was good! They were so damn weird and menacing and way before their time.
brian wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2020 9:56 am
Won't watch it. Fuck Mel Gibson.
Seconded.
Movie types are such raving hypocrites.
Kevin Hart had a tweet that was offensive and loses the Academy Awards gig.
Mel Gibson abuses his wife, goes on racist tirades and supports a traditionalist sect of Catholicism... yet here he is.
Basically, it's just waiting long enough for enough of the complaints about him to die down before it's okay to cast him in something again. He went six years with nothing, then some straight-to-DVD and smaller stuff. When there's no blowback, major studios deem it acceptable to cast him in smaller roles ("Expendables 3", "Daddy's Home 2") and eventually, everyone "forgets".
So, Alec Baldwin killed a lady and injured another person with a prop gun. I cannot even imagine what that has to feel like. He's probably had prop guns with no issues hundred or thousands of takes in his career.
You know what you need? A lyrical sucker punch to the face.
A_B wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:46 am
So, Alec Baldwin killed a lady and injured another person with a prop gun. I cannot even imagine what that has to feel like. He's probably had prop guns with no issues hundred or thousands of takes in his career.
I was truly shocked it just ended when/how it ended. Never read the books, though I tried once a long time ago and know the general story beats.
I can remember walking out of LOTR:FOTR and explaining to a stunned dad and his kid that not only was a sequel coming, it had already been filmed and would be out the following year. Had to rely on that “DUNE: Part 1” title card in my basement this evening.
brian wrote: ↑Sun Oct 24, 2021 5:39 pm
Watching “The Life Aquatic” on Prime and what is essentially a secondary work for Wes Anderson would be a masterpiece for almost any other director.
Loss, grief and middle age tied in with fathers and sons that he somehow makes into a comedy with an emotional sucker punch at the end.
