Last movie you watched......

I saw Batman, but don’t remember him. Never saw the others.

 

Richard Jewell.

I was in Atlanta a few days after the Games were awarded. There was a line into the AJC to buy T-shirts with the front page announcement. I bought two and sold one to a guy for triple what I paid before I left the building. I still have the other one.

My parents were at the Atlanta Games and visited Centennial Park earlier in the evening, but were in their hotel when the bomb went off. A few years later I was there again on business, my hotel room looked out on Centennial Park, the concrete pads for the stages and towers were still in place.

I had a nice cry watching the movie.

 

Sound of Metal; gritty,other side of life; well done

 

I will never watch that because the way they portrayed the female journalist wasn't just artistic license, it was a flat out made up lie about the way she got information.

 

There have been a few books written, but it's known the lead FBI agent gave her the Jewell's name just not the details of why. She worked hard and lived hard, and died due to addiction issues.

 

Oh because she's a woman the only way she could got a source to trust her was to have sex with him? I will never watch it. Her life and demise is sad, of which I'm aware, but it doesn't mean she was f****** everyone to get quotes.

 

Fair. It mars the movie, which is just OK anyway.

 

The Specialist again, years later, because why not watch a 90s time capsule. Terrible still as a movie. Great as a time capsule.

 

First look at Tig Notaro in Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead

This is an upcoming movie rather than one I watched, but the story is interesting. A "zombie heist movie" already sounds like a different sort of concept, but Army of the Dead was in post-production in 2019 when multiple women Chris D'Elia of sexual misconduct. They decided to digitally replace D'Elia in the movie with Tig Notaro, not exactly known for action roles. That Zach Snyder wrote, directed, and produced the movie means it could go either way. I did like his Dawn of the Dead remake, and I'm not a big horror movie guy.

 

Cold Pursuit is such a cut above the typical Liam Neeson out for blood action flick. It's a cut above pretty much all action movies. Darkly funny, beautifully shot and deeply drawn characters that really pays off in myriad ways. The trailer really didn't do it justice.

Yesterday had a great concept but seemed to lose the thread about halfway through. Almost as if they were trying to split the difference between trying to be profound and being a typical rom-com (complete with goofy sidekicks and the "big speech" at the end). It was Slumdog Millionaire meets Notting Hill.

One thing it did have going for it though is it highlighted just how great those Beatles songs were and continue to be - lyrically and musicaly. When I grew up the Beatles were already done and "defacto" great - it was just written in stone. I guess not knowing what music was like "before" and listening to singer/songwriters influenced by the Beatles made it harder to fully grasp their impact - particularly in the songwriting department.


I wanted to like US more than I did. Too much of it didn't "land." I've heard Peele explain the movie, and heard the "explanation speech" in the movie - but neither really connected. It almost needed a "scientist/conspiracy theorist" element. Weird that the three movies I can think of shot in Santa Cruz - Sudden Impact, Lost Boys and Us are all pretty dark.

 

I didn’t love the ending of Yesterday, but overall it was very good. I thought it did a good job of not being predictable. There were a few times I thought I knew exactly where it was heading and it went in a completely different direction.

 

Finally saw Easy Rider. Fascinating in a historical context, pretty awful as an actual movie.