Last movie you watched......

Cocaine Bear was predictably silly, but enlivened somewhat by a stronger-than-deserved cast. Best part: "the angry Ikea guy" youtuber/tiktoker is in it. First movie I'd seen him in.

Set in northern Georgia....so naturally filmed entirely in Ireland.

 

The Book Club movie today. We were just in Italy on vacation, so Mrs. W thought it would be fun. She was wrong. It took me more time to compose this post than it took to write the movie.

 

"Air" is a lot of fun, even if it begins with a musical anachronism.

 

Evil Dead Rise -- if you have fond memories of any of the previous four Evil Dead movies, don't bother. (If you don't, also don't bother.) They try to do something different by putting the horror in an urban setting, but that's about as interesting and new as things get. The only hints that it's an Evil Dead movie are the presence of a Necronomicon, a Bruce Campbell (audio) cameo, and lots of splatter. The movie had me doing something I haven't done in a theater in years -- checking the time.

 

Watched it yesterday morning. Was a pleasant surprise to see it on Amazon Prime.

 

I'm familiar with the tropes and ridiculousness of the franchise, but I've never seen more than a few scenes here and there of any of the "Fast and Furious" movies. I think that might make this Twitter thread even funnier, though, because it means there's not much context for why they're flying a Fiero in space ... or how they're able to drive off one cliff, smash into another, flip the car seven times — all without wearing seat belts — and be perfectly unscathed ... or the Rock flexes off an arm cast ... or they're able to fly through the window of one skyscraper and land in another — twice ... etc.
The clips alone have me laughing and kind of wanting to watch one or two of these as a bad movie night.

 

The only quibble I had was shoehorning a song from the era into every single freaking scene transition.
Besides, “Sister Christian” will imho forever and always be associated with “Boogie Nights,” so why even include it? Would rather see some Falco (“Rock me, Amadeus”) or Murray Head (“One Night in Bangkok”) get some overdue pop culture love than the same old staples.

Still, loved the movie. I was 11 in 1984 when Jordan broke in and paired his red, black and white kicks with my kelly green basketball uniform. It was a look, all right.

Btw, I was surprised to learn the original Jordans cost $65. That’s a lotta scratch in 1984.

 

I used my hard earned tips to get a pair; wife just found them in a closet, unfortunately they’re worn down to the nub and not wearable any longer.

 

So well done yet sooooo literally scary:

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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Man I hope it never comes to life.

 

"Foreign Correspondent" (1940). One of the first Hitchcock movies. Shot in Holland in the early Sitzkrieg days of WWII. Scenes in BW just as tense as anything modern.

 

One of our local sports talkers who regularly pans sports movies raved about "Air" this morning. I'll have to watch for myself what the anachronism is. Can you save me the effort and ID it for us?

 

They used Money For Nothing to open the film. It hadn’t been released in 1984.