Last movie you watched......

Oh to be a fly on the wall of that pitch ...

"You've got Hawke! You've got Travolta! You've got ... "

 

I thought the story was that Rutger Hauer improvised the version that was used in the movie. it really is a fantastic monologue.

 

According to Ridley Scott, Rutger Hauer wrote it the night before.

 

I saw that version, too, looking into it. I felt like people were using “improvise” as shorthand for “the actor wrote it late in the process.”

 

Looks like that is exactly how it went, according to Ridley Scott's comments in the video typefitter posted.

 

Schindler's List would have been better with Weird Al Yankovic playing a key role.

 

On Bardem in No Country:

The deadpan "boring" take on the character is intentional. This is "evil as banal." He is persistent and generally implacable, aside from the whims that some think evil has. It's supposed to be, well, funny. And for me, it is. But then I like Coen Bros. films.

Now, as far as that awards year, I could make a case for Casey Affleck beating Bardem for supporting actor. But I don't think I'd make much of one.

The "performance" of that year was Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood, which, simultaneously, is a better film than No Country for Old Men.

 

4 Weddings and a Funeral is a perfect movie. I apologize to no one for thinking so.

 

^^^ 27 Dresses is no masterpiece, but there's really no flaw and is impossible to turn away from if you land on it while surfing.

 

Recently saw something called 'Demolition' featuring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
A little too long, but it surprised me. I liked it.

 

I am now one of the few who apparently will see Hostiles in the movie theaters... or pretty much anywhere else. It's the one where Christian Bale plays an army officer in 1892 who has to escort a dying Cheyenne War Chief (Wes Studi) and his family back to their tribal lands in Montana.

Save for a small town or two, the Old West in this film basically consists of empty plains and forests, populated by outlaws and homicidal Apaches, whose job is to pick off the red-shirt solders in the party. You have to wonder why the government bothered to commit near-genocide if nobody was going to move west of Kansas City. And while the acting was generally pretty good, every Native American in the cast got maybe five lines apiece. As a bonus, this includes Q'orianka Kilcher, who played Pocahontas in 2005's The New World and was Bale's co-lead.

I mean, it wasn't that bad but I don't know. Taking a stand against the policies of the Grover Cleveland administration isn't all that brave in 2018.