Last movie you watched......

I almost watched that last night ... Is that an endorsement?

 

Ant-Man
It was fun.

 

An Honest Liar ... documentary of The Amazing Randi, a magician who sought to debunk faith healers, psychics.. Very good, well done film. Brought back some funny memories of stuff from the 70s and 80s ... Ramtha, Uri Geller and Peter Popoff

 

"Love Me Tender," Elvis's first movie, on late-night teevee.

Not exactly "Citizen Kane," but not bad for a Fifties cowboy melodrama. And Elvis stands up just fine in it. Too bad he and his handlers adopted movies as an excuse to kick back and coast.

 

Went and saw Jurassic World with my nephews yesterday and enjoyed it. It was a fun popcorn flick. Two quibbles with it: They make the point early on that Indominus Rex is incredibly intelligent (and has several other adaptations that make it a great hunter), but once it escapes, it basically just rampages. It doesn't use a lot of the specialized skills the filmmakers gave it, which was a bit of a bummer.

Secondly, I thought it was interesting that 22 years after the original Jurassic Park was released, the dinosaurs still look better and more realistic in that film than they did in this one. Just reinforces the notion that practical effects, enhanced with CGI, are almost always better than CGI effects on their own.

 

Enjoyed "Ant-Man." Thought the shared Marvel universe thing made it better by bringing (spoiler!) in for a fun scene, without getting the story all bogged down.

 

Against the Sun (World War II true story about three Navy men stranded in a raft for 34 days)
CHAPPiE
McFarland, USA

 

Saw Antman today. I enjoyed it. The last two superhero movies I previously saw were Man of Steel and Avenger's Ulton this year. It was nice to see a film with some levity after those two disaster-porn movies.

 

Inherent Vice. An awful mess.

 

Turned it off halfway through. Too Dry.
Not that interesting... A story about a off-kilter director making a strange mediocre movie. Why do I care? I liked the 1990s version of the IODM.
But not this. Next.

Soleman ... The 30-for-30 on Sonny Vacaro.. I liked it. Good story. Didn;t care for the illustrations that went along with parts of it, but it was an interesting story.

 

Technically, he never got to make his movie. I'm just fascinated with Brando. I don't know if he was crazy or just had a lot of fun by fucking with people.

 

I think Brando was crazy. The older he got the more of a pain in the ass he became.
Then again I'm one of those who thinks Apocalypse Now is crap; mainly because of Brando's rambling, impromptu drivel. Its one of the most-overrated movies (or cult movies) ever.