Last movie you watched......

Right, he got her first.

Puts new meaning into pop up.

Probably a 6-4-3 or 4-6-3 joke in there somewhere.

 

I realize it won't go down this way, but it would be interesting if the dinosaurs end up "winning" the Jurassic World finale. Or everyone ends up dying due to global warming. Doubt that ending would have made it through the test screenings. "Too political."

 

And if I can be even more bold, how nice if Hollywood wrote stories to the true endings of mass shootings, AR rifle assaults, and the carnage. I think the people that need to ingest that aren't news watchers, but probably are movie watchers. And might leave the theater more... aware?

 

Some recent in-theater ones, aside from Maverick (third viewing...as fun as the first):

--Watcher. Nicely creepy.
--Men. Uhhh...if anyone else has seen it, please explain it.
--The Roundup. Korean film about a cop known as the Beast who is basically Jack Reacher when it comes to fights. Subtitles but really fun.
--Montana Story. Poignant.
--Firestarter: Original was not the greatest though I liked it more than a lot of people. Remake, not good. Looked like budget was a million bucks.
--Phantom of the Open. Fun, sweet story with great performance as usual from Mark Rylance, about world's worst golfer who kept getting into British Open qualifying.

 

Watcher poster caught my eye when going to Top Gun. Might need to check it out.

Latest Jurassic World getting garbage reviews. Will most likely find out myself soon enough.

 

Another full endorsement for Top Gun. I was emotionally moved by it. It has far greater depth than the original one - time, Val Kilmer's scene, and the story played a big part of it. But it also was one of those movies that makes you think back to when you saw the original - pretty much a lifetime ago. Felt the same way when I saw Endgame and thought of all that had transpired in my life since I saw Iron Man with a now deceased friend. Felt the same way when I saw Bernadette Peters walk out on a Broadway stage for Annie Get Your Gun and when I saw Wicked. Yeah, it got dusty in that theater.

 

I caught "The Viking" on Peacock. Great movie, intense as hell. Very violent.

If you have somehow not heard, it's from the original Norse story that was the origin of Hamlet.

OTOH, it's also a very faithful reconstruction of what it was to be a Viking in the year 900 or so. Dirty, nasty, brutal kind of life. I don't think the re-watch potential is going to be high for most people.

 

I felt ripped off watching the last one - the one scene in the ads that made me want to see it was the T-rex lurking behind a huge wave a surfer was riding, and to only get a snippet of it at the tail end of a movie that was pretty much just a gussied up slasher film in a creepy house?

 

Started “Hustle” in Netflix, really good start (30 mins)

 

Maverick. Very satisfying. Made me remember why we all loved Tom Cruise, once upon a time ago before we all knew he was so weird

 

I'm somewhat curious to know if they tweaked it at all in the two years plus its been in the can.

 

Bend it Like Beckham. Excellent movie. You can see why Kiera Knightly is a star. And very troublesome coach/player issues in retrospect