Last movie you watched......

We agreed to do 4 movies this weekend. So in addition to Anyone But You, so far we watched The Darjeeling Limited (down the middle Wes) and The Idea of You (meh).

 

BH Cop .....
Routine, like they used the same script from the previous movies. Axel knew from the first minute he got to BH who the bad guy was, the police exec with shoes and wristwatch well beyond his pay range. Some funny lines: "No, I'm not reaching for my badge, I've been black longer than I've been a cop." Pretty much it.

 

The Irishman. Took me three sittings to get through. Not that it was bad or I didn’t like it, but almost three and a half hours is a long ass movie. It was fine, nothing special. I was always intrigued by Hoffa. Did they have to make Pesci’s face look like a used napkin?

 

I really wanted to like the new Beverly Hills Cop movie. I was all in. Started well. Pretty fun and funny. Good use of all the old music.

But it faded to terrible pretty quickly. Story was weak. Actress who played the daughter wasn’t good. One laughably awful CGI shot with the helicopter.

Eddie was pretty good and engaging. But that’s just because Eddie is always good.

And Judge Reinhold was apparently played by Mickey Rourke’s plastic surgery.

 

Tried watching Creed. Turned it off a third of the way through, a bore. Just didn't hook me at all.

Watched Patton, again. Rare when an actor becomes the character. My dad shared an apartment on Kalorama Road in DC with Murray Kivitz, who was Patton's driver. The driver BEFORE The Driver.

 

Patton is brilliant.

 

Yes, but...deciding to release a war hero epic in 1970 took the balls of a general, it was nearly a year before Patton turned a profit. The real-life Patton was a vile anti-semite who in his diaries compared Jewish surviviors of Nazi concentration to animals; this is sharply referenced at the end when reporters ask him why he was employing so many Nazis in postwar positions.

Notable that Patton director Frank Schaffner and composer Jerry Goldsmith earlier worked together on Planet of the Apes.

 

Seeing it in that context makes me appreciate it even more. Thanks! I watched it a while back and had the same feeling that seeing The Sting earlier this year evoked. There are good movies and fun movies and movies that move you in spite of their flaws and then there are the films that are works of art.

Patton is a work of art. It would be great with anyone in the title role, but George C. Scott bumped it up to another level.

 

If you ever get the chance to read Rage and Glory: The Volatile Life and Career of George C. Scott by author David Sheward ... do it.
IIRC, Rod Steiger was offered the role but turned it down. I believe Steiger later stated that was the worst decision of his career.

 

Mrs Highlander-Spartan really wanted to see the new Quiet Place. Whole lot of meh. The anxiety of the first wasn’t the same. The driving force for the plot was very weak and the climax was basically an after thought. If anything this adds to why the first one wasn’t believable and kind of cheapens it.

 

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Too much schmaltz. The dog. The pizza. And the dog. And given how many great British actors are out there, the male lead was, indeed. bleh.

Frustrating. A whole lot of thought and care obviously went into making it.... which didn't pay off.

 

The dog? You mean cat?