Last movie you watched......

When the first MPAA ratings system came out, they had G (all ages), M (all ages but ''mature" topics), R (under 17 only with parents) and X (adult only).

So PG-13 would be pretty much equivalent to the old M.

 

Watched "10," which I'd never seen before, more than a minute or two at a time.
Complete snooze. Slow, slow, slow. Yeah, Bo Derek was hot, but by today's standards she was really only OK.
I never really got much into Dudley Moore and his soft-jazz composer character was exactly the kind of 70s/80s yuppie nebbish guy I always hated.
Probably its biggest saving grace was showing a whole boatload of the Universal teevee show stock female actresses -- the ones you see in all the dramas and sitcoms of the day, usually in second-lead roles -- running around topless/naked at the pool party.

 

So my grand plan of leaving the two 14 yr olds in "Hardcore Henry" and venturing off to "Everybody Wants Some" went off the rails when wifey said they should be supervised since there was sex, violence, gore, etc (according to Common Sense).

Well the most nauseous movie in my over half-century; shot from the first-person POV with all the video gaming movements was overwhelming. I had to exit the theatre several times and made me say a prayer or two for the future of movies; here's hoping they stop this nonsense (or maybe I'm just an old geezer.) The 80's will have to wait until the boys go see a pg-13 movie.

 

I'm impressed with the ambitious nature of the film, but I'm not sure I actually want to sit through it.

 

I do miss the late 80s to late 90s, when theaters didn't care about letting kids/teens into R movies. I saw so many awesome movies.

Then again, I'm an adult in the 200os, so now it's "I do miss the late 80s to late 90s when I could actually find R movies to watch. Everything is so toned down for the fucking kids."

I may check out this Hardcore Harry if whom you speak.

 

That was my thinking as well. Interesting experiment, but not sure it'll hold up for a full 80 or 90 minutes when you actually need to advance a plot.

 

Just randomly tumbled on "Shoot Out," a 1971 Western starring Gregory Peck.
Same writer and director as "True Grit," from two years before, but everything about this one was slightly off.
The gang of bad guys was cartoon-y enough, they could've wandered over from "Billy Jack," which filmed the same year.

 

Saw Everybody Wants Some today ... thought it was terrific. Certainly was derivative of Dazed and Confused at times but it wasn't a straight sequel. Linklater's ability to pull a bunch of randos and make a solid, fun movie is pretty impressive.

 

Waiting to

Damn, was killing time in Houston last week waiting for a 9 pm flight and went to a 24 plex hoping to see "Everybody Wants Some" and wrong times, so settled for "The Boss", which then had issues and was cancelled so left with Barbershop. Okay, but damn 24 screens and that's what I was left with? Its got to get better. (When I was working cineplex in '81, we had Raiders of the Lost Ark, For Your Eyes Only, etc only 6 screens)

 

Just re-watched the original Karate Kud. What a perfectly cast movie. Evan Ralph Macchio's mom is just right. Realized the movie did so well because it's really about class and race and friendship.

 

Eastern Promises

 

Who can forget the climactic fight scene of that one?