Last movie you watched......

I'm pretty sure I remember from the DVD extras that problem was that the shark malfunctioned quite a bit and that limited Spielberg's use "Bruce," as he was known. He adjusted and you end up not seeing the shark for the first time until like 45 minutes into the film.

 

I've swum with some larger species of sharks (nothing close to a White), but they mostly stayed well below where I was. I was in Thailand and we hired a local longboat to take us around to some good dive/snorkeling spots. He pretty much just let us jump in and swim until we were ready to move to a new area.

Oddly, when we first saw the sharks, it never scared me. They barely paid us any attention and were just cruising around 15-20 feet below us. It was fascinating to watch, but not the least bit scary. If they'd been coming closer, I'm sure I'd have gotten more nervous.

 

Same experience here - in the Carribbean - swimming with Nurse sharks.

 

Caught Deepwater Horizon on Netflix. Peter Berg has to be the most talented, smartest s----- director working today.

The first part is an intriguing, understated drama about the office politics of running an oil rig. The second is wall-to-wall explosions and wailing alarms. Bonus awfulness points for the formerly strong women engineer character who turns into a shrieking, sobbing mess.

I loved Friday Night Lights and one day, God willing, Berg will make another good film all the way through.

 

Watched "The Quiet Man," a 65-year-old movie that stands up well. Somehow, it didn't seem like an old movie, despite the tameness of the story.

 

The Big Sick

Apatow's movie that tells stories about love, life, and immigrant families except instead of the Jewish assimilation to America it's a Pakistani/American story.

Pretty good flick. There's a really sly joke about Malala during an early dinner scene that is so wrong and so funny. The very last image of Kazan smiling just kills.

Pretty good flick by and large. Nanjiani/Kazan were a decent rom-com couple. Ray Romano was so-so. Holly Hunter was a little bit better.

 

Haven't watched a movie in a theater in a long time, but I definitely will be going to this.

 

I'm in.

 

A great movie. It's perfect.

 

One of my great shames has ended, I finally saw "The Big Lebowski."

Loved it. It was so bizarrely entertaining.

 

Was it everything you thought it would be?

 

It was. I was worried it wouldn't live up to the hype, as sometimes is the case when I finally see a movie well after its release, but it did.

The Dude was everything he was built up to be.