Last movie you watched......

Whit Stillman's first film "Metropolitan." Such a fun, satirical take on yuppie kids in Manhattan. Much of the cast were amateurs and never acted again afterwards.

 

Julie Taymor's 'Titus.'

 

Loved it. If you get a chance, see her biopic of Frida Kahlo.

This afternoon while I was working, I watched Rubber. Why? It looks like an undergraduate film student did bath salts and then shot his semester final.

On tap for tonight because I need the brain Twinkie:

 

I thought Rubber would be one of those so-bad-it’s-good flicks. Gathered a couple of buddies and a couple bottles of wine. Proceeded to get angrily drunk because the movie was such crap.

 

God, I hate that movie so much.
The hatred I feel about that movie is the same way Starman feels about Trump.

 

"Apollo 10-1/2: A Space Age" on Netflix. An animated movie that's Richard Linklater's look back at both growing up in the late 1960s, and the Apollo 11 moon mission. Lots of Houston (well, suburban Houston) memories as a flood of NASA employees made the region boom.

The animation, especially of famous scenes from TV shows, movies and current events of 1968-69, was outstanding. And there was some humor, though much subtler than "Dazed and Confused."

 

It was a featured movie on Mubi, so I figured it would be stupid fun. Hey, I liked Josie and the Pussycats and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. So it made sense keep watching to see the Director tip his hand. Nope. It stayed tediously bad in a Rick and Morty "you just don't get it" way.

I love Linklater's animated features. He understands you have to let the audience in on the joke.

 

I had the same hopes. And it might have been just forgettable, rather than a movie that still makes me viscerally angry 10 years later, if the director hadn't gone out of his way to insult me for thinking I should enjoy the movie. And I don't mean in a metaphorical way, either. I mean he literally inserts scenes, and even breaks the fourth wall by appearing as himself, that insult anybody who thinks you should enjoy not just this movie but any movie.
It has a 68 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so apparently some artsy-fartsy critics were conned into thinking this steaming chunk of gorilla shit is a high-browed meta commentary on modern cinema. It is not. It is an obnoxious piece of garbage that will reinforce every bad stereotype you've ever heard about snooty French filmmakers.
If my only options to save my kidnapped family were to watch this again or punch myself in the balls for the entirety of its 82-minute run time, I'd think long and hard about taking the nut punches. And if I did opt for testicular demolition, I would do it with a smile knowing I didn't have to give Quentin Dupieux another hour and a half of my life.

"Rubber" — or as my wife calls it, "Tire" — has a hallowed place of infamy in our house. We have a definitive ranking of the worst four movies we've ever watched together and it's had a hammerlock on the No. 1 spot for 10 years running. Even the super-sized prune and Ex-Lax smoothie that was "Midsommar" couldn't dislodge "Rubber" from the bowels of awfulness.

 

Your wife nailed it. with "Tire."

 

Every time I scroll past this post I keep reading it as "Julie Taymor's Tits."
No idea if that would be a better or worse movie, but having Anthony Hopkins in it would certainly be interesting.

 

Saw her 'Kahlo' and liked it.

Still not sold on her 'Tempest,' but wish she had directed more Shakespeare.