Last movie you watched......

I saw two easily watchable rom-coms on streamers over the weekend, Marry Me on Peacock and I Want You Back on Amazon. Neither is deep and both are predictable, but they have good casts (Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson in Marry Me and Charlie Day and Jenny Slate in Back) and make for a breezy nighttime viewing.

Here's a Rotten Tomatoes review on I Want You Back that sums up both films: Charlie Day and Jenny Slate serve two scoops of vanilla ice cream in I Want You Back. This perfectly safe, reasonably enjoyable, and totally forgettable rom-com is a big lick of turn-your-brain-off escapism.

 

and i got the shit for liking stryper

 

Nobody

Lots of guns and blood. Above average for the genre.

 

Belfast.

Great acting and production, but I didn’t think it was worthy of an Oscar nomination.

 

The Power of the Dog. Ugh.

The filmmakers made a massive mistake by filming what is ostensibly an American Western (albeit set in the 1920s) in what is unmistakably New Zealand. It took me out of the film quite a bit.

Aside from that, I guess I just didn’t really get the point of any of it. My wife and I were wondering what the plot of the film was an hour into the movie. That’s not usually a good sign.

It struck me very much like a Cormac McCarthy novel, observing a lot of scenery and even actual actions performed by characters just for the sake of them happening without advancing the plot.

Pretentious garbage, I would say.

Belfast is next on our list. I assume it will be better.

 

Boring as hell.

Belfast is better, but not by a lot.

 

Cormac McCarthy is never pretentious.


Not that it was made with the thought of getting an award but The King’s Man is shyte.

 

Rewatched The Fugitive on cable the other night. Almost 30 years old and still so damn great in every regard, from the big action sequences to the little interactions between the marshals. The dam scene, especially, is tremendous. With two simple lines — "I don't care!" and "No. No." — Tommy Lee Jones tells you everything you need to know about why Sam Gerard wants to hunt down Richard Kimble so badly, and how it goes from being another day on the job to being intensely personal in a matter of minutes.

 

The new Scream is dumb, but then aren't they all?

 

For anyone that gets STARZ Once Upon A Time In America is playing this month, the long version. One of the 10 greatest English language movies of all time.

 

We really enjoyed Belfast.

 

Rewatchables did an episode on this. The Rewatchables on Stitcher