Last movie you watched......

I disagree. It looks like it could be the worst movie of the year.

 

'Deadpool' - I liked it more than I expected.

 

Raunchy as hell, but good lord was it fun.

 

Just watched "Blue Chips" for the first time in a while, and had a revelation.
I think we've all had our issues with the press conference at the end, with Ed O'Neill's character blowing his scoop and months of hard work by asking about Western's cheating in an open press conference. Especially as the first question out of the gate.
It finally dawned on me, though, that maybe he'd been asking about this for several weeks and written some stories about it already. The way he asks the question in the presser comes across as, "I've asked you this 20 times already, but I need to ask it 21 times ..." and then his reaction during the meltdown looks like he's just astonished and enjoying it.
Maybe I'm giving too much credit to a movie that also had Bobby Hurley playing for Indiana, but for the first time I watched it and didn't entirely cringe at the way it depicted my profession.

 

My favorite thing is how the season ends so Nolte and his coaching staff have a meeting to decide what seniors they should recruit for next season. No need to have considered that any time before the season ended. And the Chicago Catholic high school season apparently goes longer than the college season, so he got an opportunity to see Penny play for the first time ever.

 

He also seemed late to the party on Ricky Roe. Roe's dad mentions a lot of other coaches coming by the farm when he's talking to Nolte.
Might explain why Western went 14-15 the year before.

Plus, the postscript ... Western only got a three-year tournament ban? For blatant and admitted recruiting violations and a point shaving scandal? That's some Baylor level corruption right there.

 

On a more positive note, I had forgotten Ricky's dad was played by Jim Beaver. It's always good to see him on screen.

 

Man, that was a fucking terrible "film."

 

It's always tough to parse out the credit when you don't know the production history of a movie. Did Paul Greengrass take a wonderful screenplay and dumb it down tremendously? Or did he have to take what the studio insisted on and work with that?

In any case, the story as filmed and edited was really, really predictable. For me, it was the execution - particularly the acting - that made it a pretty fun ride.

 

I saw Zodiac on one of the pay channels last night. I find the film fascinating. The way Fincher maintained the tension when you know the killer was never caught was amazing. The characters were well done, too. They are developed as part of the story without anything extraneous. And in the second half, the movie really makes the watcher feel the frustration of the detectives and the journalists.

What do journalists think of the newspaper aspect of the movie?

 

Saw Bourne twice over the weekend. There are points to be made about a couple of details (which I won't go into here in the interest of avoiding a spoiler, plus, they're things that bother me and might not bug others), but overall I found it pretty enjoyable.

Watched a couple of docs over the weekend. One, Sky Line, is about efforts to design and eventually build a space elevator. Fascinating even though it seemed far-fetched. The other was Fastball, the Costner-narrated piece about the progression of power pitching throughout baseball history. The scientific analysis is really interesting.

 

I'd have thought that would be a buddy road trip comedy about a middle-aged reporter with a fascination for Starbucks, and the ham-fisted commissioner of the league he covers, getting stranded in the middle of nowhere and making their way to the Super Bowl as they bond over a mutual appreciation of chili.