Last movie you watched......

I'm sure some do like to watch for the killings.

GoT is an excellent example. They did tone down the rapes and nudity and and killings after some of the earlier seasons were criticized. I watched the show all the way through. The Reek stuff was a bit much. The Red Wedding was a slaughter scene, but not done gratuitously. And plenty of those deaths were well earned, like Ramsay Snow. I particularly enjoyed his demise.

 

Something called "The Resort" on Hulu. I'm all for campy horror films, but this was just fucking terrible, and weirdly derivative of The Chernobyl Diaries, another not-so-good horror film.

 

The Green Knight -- good, allegorical weirdo movie.

 

Hadn't seen "First Man" until this evening. Still not sure I liked it or not.

Two hours of staring at Ryan Gosling's eyes. A whole lot of camera shaking. Very claustrophobic and dark. You never really get the sense that Neil Armstrong ever let anyone really into his life after the loss of his daughter, including his wife. Apparently his two sons agreed that the portrayal was quite on point.

Test pilots -- like racing drivers -- try not to get too close emotionally because of the inherent danger of their business. Elliot See and Ed White didn't make it. That's something that stuck with me when trying to cover the Challenger implosion.

But I found Mike Collins' quote about three "amiable strangers" on Apollo 11 rang very true. Other than Armstrong's amazing capabilities under pressure, especially landing the lunar module, they could have easily been the cockpit crew on a routine Pan Am flight between Los Angeles and Tokyo.

 

Free Guy.

Very fun watch.

 

Don't understand the poor reviews of Coming 2 America. I don't know what reviewers expected it to be. And shoot Leslie Jones was hilarious. Mostly just great seeing just about everyone back from the original. How many 30 years later sequels can do that?

 

If you went to "First Man" expecting a movie about the highs, lows and ultimate glories of the Apollo program, you picked the wrong movie.

As a bio-flick about an astronaut with (apparently) a ton of darkness in his life? It worked well.

 

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson of Bennington. As many times as I've seen this, it's frightening at the end.

 

Have never seen (read the story), but that was interestingly done. Kept trying to figure out why I recognized the “leader,” so scanned the credits, and holy crap there was Ed Begley, Jr. Then watched again to find him.

 

Saw it last night and it was a ton of fun. Lots of action, funny, loud in a good way, good music, fun story. If you like video games it is even better.

 

You guys remember that movie with Hilary Swank about hunting deplorables that got shelved?

It’s called The Hunt and it’s on HBO Max. I liked it.

 

Swan Song about a retired hairdresser who escapes a nursing home to do one last job on a former client who died.

Pat Pitsenbarger (Udo Kier) is the Liberace of Sandusky as he goes to his former hometown following the death of Rita Parker Sloan (Linda Evans).

Several funny scenes, including when he goes to cash a Social Security check trying to buy More cigarettes.