Last movie you watched......

Watched The Irishman in one sitting (awful weather here).

I think it’s very good. Not better than Goodfellas or Casino, but entertaining.

Yes, it’s badly in need of an editor. Like a lot of things these days. The story is compelling and the performances are excellent. But it would be better at 2.5 hours rather than 3.5.

Great to see Pesci again. Great, quiet performance.

Yes, there’s some Yellin’ Al Pacino. But he has understated moments and a strong performance. And, not for nothing, Hoffa was loud and yelly in real life.

Definitely worth your time. All at once is probably best to stay in the flow but that can be tough with that run time.

Assume it will get nominated for Best Pic but won’t win. And probably shouldn’t, depending on what else is up.

He got his make-up Best Pic for The Departed after getting jobbed on Goodfellas. And I loved The Departed, though it seems popular to slag on it now.

 

Best Picture will likely go to The Report or Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.

 

The Irishman; just not a compelling story. Pesci was the best of the big guns IMHO, DeNiro had the scowl on the whole time.

 

First Man really was great - I think some people might have gone in thinking it would be Top Gun in Space which it was most definitely not, and it probably suffered because of it. I'd like to see other approaches to this kind of storytelling though - where they show everything BUT the stuff most everyone is familiar with.

 

Wanting to pull some of my older mob movies fro the DVD shelf: Suicide Kings, Old Boy and The Usual Suspects come to mind.

I tried to watch The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Tried. It's not the unwatchable mush that was Zero Theorem, but it does have the same late-career, no longer giving a damn feel. Don Quixote scans as ragged, underdone, and lacking in something...maybe heart and the wild-eyed enthusiasm that drove Terry Gilliam's stories in the past. The tick-tock feel of Gilliam's Italian Baroqueish set pieces has been replaced with something darker and less hopeful.

Gonna stop here before I hyphen-ventilate.

 

That was laughably bad.

 

I haven't seen it yet, but were the reviews very good? They seemed lukewarm. And everyone I know who's seen it was underwhelmed.

 

Eh. That's depressing, considering the years and years he struggled to make it?

 

I think that's it. I've watched about 45 minutes of it and that'll probably do for me because pro-union mob violence (assuming it gets to that point; Hoffa hasn't been seen yet) is just too boring a topic for me. There's nothing fresh about it.

 

I doubt it on both. Maybe the Tarantino even if it’s not that good.

Little Women will be my pick. I haven’t seen it and I probably won’t see it in the theaters but I’d guess 10 noms.

 

Saw three movies over the holiday: El Camino, Joker and Zombieland (the 2009 original, not the new sequel).

The one thing that kept me baffled about Zombieland was how the power grid was still up and running. Even in The Stand the grid only lasted a couple of weeks.

 

Reviews are split. People are calling it trash, while others call it MOTY.

You should see it regardless.