Last movie you watched......

"To Time to Die"; very enjoyable Bond film; made me reevaluate as to whether Craig actually is better than Connery as Bond. Craig exudes confidence yet isn't as over-bearing or smug as Connery. Some great driving scenes in the old Aston-Martin, better than any video game. Great send-off to Craig's Bond. Still a little unclear on the overall plot though.

 

Dune isn’t a story, it’s the prelude to a story. 2+ hours to introduce characters and the beginning of a plot.
Don’t waste your time watching it until Part 2 comes out. And if it’s as slow as part one, there ought to be a Part 3&4.

 

It was the end of Paul and the beginning of Muad'Dib.

It's the logical place to split the story.

Much ass is kicked in the second half of the book.

 

I hope you watched it with "total concentwation"!

 

Always get the popcorn BEFORE the movie starts. And the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln.

 

Watched it a couple months ago and still had most of the lines memorized and laughed like I did the first time I saw it as a 17 year old.

 

Saw American Utopia, the 2020 Spike Lee film of David Byrne performing with his band on Broadway.

Sometimes the most obvious comment is all you need to say. It's perfectly pleasant but no Stop Making Sense.

 

Watched Black Widow. It was funny and Florence Pugh stole the show, but it wasn’t great. The fight between the sisters made no sense and the final scene was pretty ridiculous even for a Marvel film.

Not terrible, but below usual Marvel standards.

 

Hooboy.

 

It doesn't look bad. Quite a few Easter Eggs throughout the trailer. I see a lot of questions about where this fits in with other movies. It certainly seems like it fits with both Venom and the MCU.

 

The original "Angels in the Outfield," 1951.

Holy hell, it was actually pretty good.
The story was a little hokey in the semi spiritual vein of the era, but no more so than Field of Dreams, but the baseball action was actually pretty realistic for the time; they did a good job splicing in actual game footage with the close action shots. And most of the baseball situation strategy made sense.
Since most of the action shots were done in Forbes Field, you actually got kind of a feel for the joint as a home park.

And the romance/ drama in the middle of the movie was pretty cool too. It could have been played a few different ways that would have left Guffy the manager looking pathetic, or they could have wrapped everything up with a lah dee dah wedding scene; instead it ended on an open-ended scene and you could imagine yourself how it all turned out.

Amazingly there was never any suggestion that 50-ish Guffy's interest in the 24-year-old women's section writer Jennifer (or for that matter the 8 year-old Bridget) was anything creepy.

Oh, PS: the subplot with Saul the grizzled old veteran pitcher turned out to be almost the highlight of the whole movie. I was also struck how much the actor, Bruce Bennett, resembled Chelcie Ross of later Major League, Hoosiers and Rudy fame.