Last movie you watched......

You lose artistic merit for actually cooking the meat.

 

Watched Hateful Eight last night. As much as I enjoy Tarantino movies, I think he gets more credit than he deserves simply making genre movies with stellar casts and production values. You end up thinking you should like his movies, or think they are more profound than they leave you.

 

Captain America: Civil War and Me Before You.

Wasn't all that thrilled with Captain America. Hard to put my finger on why, exactly, but the superhero genre is starting to feel played out.

Me Before You - Went because Mrs. Novelist wanted to see it. Wife loved it. For me, as chick flicks go, it wasn't bad. There are worse things than ogling Emilia Clarke for two hours.

 

DVD bracket:

San Andreas — Absoltue dreck, even for its genre. Only saving grace was the (supposedly in high school or early college) daughter, who you spend an hour feeling guilty about ogling, then discover on imdb that she's 30 years old. Score!

Bad Words — Hilarious if all-too predictable. The insults that flow out of Bateman's mouth ("... go locate your pre-teen cock-sucking son and stuff him back up that old blown-out sweat sock of a vagina and scoot off back to whatever shit-kicking town you came from!"), the inappropriate behavior is wonderful for a miscreant like me.

 

I actually liked The Intern because DeNiro wasn't playing a tough guy or mocking his on-screen persona. Though it is typical Nancy Myers, everyone and everything is perfectly put together, pathos slight enough to be cured with a hug.

 

Don't feel bad for ogling. She was on True Detective, on HBO. Which is code for "she got nekkid."

 

Agreed.
I like it better than a LOT of his recent movies. And this was a rock-solid meh.
He needs an editor to rein him in. The movie was close to three hours long and about at least 20 minutes of that was 70s-style scene footage; five minutes worth of a stagecoach rolling through the snow? What was the point of that? He did that more than once. I'll bet they had three or four of those scenes.

 

I saw Deadpool and liked it, though I was slightly underwhelmed because of all the praise heaped upon it and the massive box office. I think maybe I expected more. It was generally pretty funny, though some of the writing seemed forced ("What the shit?" "I'm about to do to you what Limp Bizkit did to music in the late '90s."). I'm not sure I bought Deadpool as a character. It was the same Ryan Reynolds we saw in Van Wilder or Waiting only he killed bunch of people.

It was entertaining, but I'm not sure I'd jump to see the sequel opening night in the theater.

 

Theater: "The Nice Guys." With Gil Gerard in a small role. Who knew he'd been working since "Buck Rogers"? Thought the movie was fun, but seemed unnecessarily violent. Gosling wins the Bad Parent Award, and Russell Crowe is showing shades of John Goodman's waistline. Figured that was the role, though.

DVD: "Gaslight," 1944 version. Had never seen it before, or seen Ingrid Berman in anything other than "Casablanca." Very much liked it, although I had to explain every little detail to my father. I never really figured out why Angela Landsbury's character was such a bitch, or what the age difference between "Gregory" and Paula was. It didn't look as big as it should have.

 

The Lobster.

One of the most intriguing films I've seen in years. Can't stop thinking about it. Dark comedy? Love story? Psychological thriller? I can't really tell what it was. But it had a profound affect on me for whatever reason.

 

I didn't realize he was in it until I saw your post. Similar thought about Erin Gray, who has been only slightly more high profile because she was in a few episodes of Baywatch and a few of The Profiler. 81 acting credits is nothing to sneeze at though.

 

I haven't seen Twiki the transgender robot in much, though.