Last movie you watched......

The main character in the story is a king. It would be odd if there wasn't a political element to Black Panther.

What you wrote definitely fits with what I've read elsewhere. Hoping I get to see it tomorrow. We have tickets, but might have to return them because my daughter is sick.

 

Really enjoyed Too Funny to Fail, a Hulu documentary on the failure that was the Dana Carvey Show despite a writing staff and cast that included Charlie Kaufman, Louis C.K., Robert Smigel, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Spike Feresten and, of course, Carvey.

Also reminded how genuinely nice Carell and Colbert seem. If they're faking it, they're the best at faking it.

Hulu also has all eight episodes. I tried to go back and watch the opening sketch of the first show with the infamous premise of Bill Clinton using hormone therapy to grow nipples and produce milk for both babies and animals that repulsed the Home Improvement lead-in audience and ultimately meant the show arrived stillborn. It is skin-crawlingly awful to try to sit through. It produces actual physical discomfort for me.

 

Black Panther - fantastic. I saw the previews during the winter and was really thinking "blah"; movie with futuristic things set in Africa? How is that even remotely believable. Then saw the movie and it all fits together in a believable fashion (at least while in a movie theatre.) Michael B. Jordan is a strong presence, he's like LeBron in that having to live up to the hype seemed nearly impossible yet like LeBron, MBJ has somehow shed the shadow of his name. The other actors are very strong as well, especially liked the King's sister and the King himself.

 

The sad ending really did come out of left field instead of the usual schmaltz you'd have seen for an ending in the '80s.

 

You knew that guy was gonna get burned when he sold his stereo to pay the girl’s clinic visit. NEVER sell your stereo.

 

I was 19 when that came out; that was the most brutal ending of a movie I had seen up to that point (not involving death or bodily injury), just brutal.

 

Yeah. He went on to great things though. Wrote "Brick" for Ben Folds. Ended up working in a Best Buy and hooking up with Catherine Keener and grew some sweet chest hair.
Diane Franklin? She ended up with Dan Schneider in Better Off Dead. Payback.

 

I wasn't a fan of Gary. Very much a low-rent Jon Cryer, who was a low-rent Matthew Broaderick himself.
Remember Better Off Dead? A comedic take on teen suicide that was so bad that it didn't even cause an outcry about the message it was sending to kids? Though it did give us the Two Dollars meme.

 

Better Off Dead was the first movie I can remember seeing in the theater. My sisters went to see it on a Saturday afternoon. I was about 8, they were stuck babysitting for the day, and they dragged me along.
For what should have been a fairly forgettable 80s teen comedy, it's amazing how well revered it's become in the last couple of years. The "two dollars" bit is one of about a half-dozen jokes from that movie that seem to have been memeified.

 

I can't explain why, except that I'm an idiot, but I had no idea he was Wallace until just now.

 

Watched Foxcatcher for a second time today. That's a pretty great movie, especially the acting from everyone in it.

 

I might not have, except that his name was Michael Jordan jumped out to me. So I recognized the name on Friday Night Lights a few years later and his career has been pretty easy to track from there.