Last movie you watched......

Started it on HBOGo and then got pulled away. Never felt the urge to go back. I found both Superman's and Winklevoss's performances annoying for some reason.

 

Saw "Something Wild" for the first time today. I'm guessing it might have been one of Jonathan Demme's first directing efforts, but I could be wrong. I enjoyed it, and thought Jeff Daniels was damn funny at times.

Thumb's up on "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." from this corner. However, I have never seen a single second of the television series. Was Solo's often snarky attempts at humor in the film similar to how Robert Vaughn portrayed the character on TV?

 

My problem with UNCLE was that it didn't make the decision to go campy or straight. It was a great TV movie to set up a series. IMDB doesn't show that they are making another one.

 

Just caught I Saw The Light, the Hank Williams biopic. It's technically not bad. Tom Hiddleston is great, the cinematography is excellent, but it's all sort of unfocused and directionless.

Basically, a two-hour-plus infomercial for the - I assume - much better biography that it's based on by Colin Escott.

 

That just reminded me that I have a Hank Williams biography at home that I started and never finished.
I need to find that.

 

I think 75 percent of everything I've read in the past decade-plus has been part of the music biography genre.

 

Check out 'Electric Don Quixote,' the Zappa bio.

 

You and @Huggy could start a book club.

 

I thought that Superman and the Lone Ranger were reallty flat in those roles. I get that the TV series was kind of a dry, understated humor, but I don't think it worked well in the movie.

 

Filmed in my hometown. Love that they squeezed in the Seminole in a film set in Virginia.

The hotel used no longer exists. My grandmother's friend stayed there every time they came through town.

Last time I saw the movie, I was struck by how cheap the gas was. And one of those gas stations has been razed and is now a huge building with a Walgreen's in the basement.

I saw "The Jungle Book" last week and echo TBF's sentiment. I didn't hate it but it was pretty bad.

 

Watched the "Fantastic Four" reboot tonight. What a joyless mess.
All I could think of after (SPOILERS) Doom returned to Earth was that they'd turned him into Mr. Roboto.
Marvel needs to get this property back under its wing, pronto.

 

It's funny how some of these comic book movies seem to work so well -- Spiderman, Batman -- and others are blah each time out -- Fantastic Four, Hulk.

(I know there have been some cheesy Batman movies, but that franchise has been all over the map on purpose from campy to really dark.)