Last movie you watched......

BTW, wife mentioned if I thought I had kept my original '85s AJ1s and I said at one time I had. She looked and damn, she found my originals in the bowels of storage of our house!! Great memories, but unfortunately I wore them down all the way (playing hoops on asphalt I think).

 

Watched “Confess, Fletch” and “One Upon a Time in Hollywood” on a flight yesterday. Surprised that the former didn’t get a better shot — it was really funny in spots.

 

I finally got around to seeing Whiplash for the first time.

Holy fucking shit, what a movie. J.K. Simmons, my word.

 

I finally saw "Top Gun -- Maverick" the other day. Not bad. They kept it moving pretty well. Did I miss it, or did they never saw which country was building the uranium facility? It's not automatically the Russians anymore.
The movie reminded my why I've had Jennifer Connelly near the top of my all-time non-blondes list since I saw "Career Opportunities." The other woman, Monica Barbaro, is moving up the list.
I'm not a Cruise fan in general.

 

Violent Night. Some laughs, no surprises. David Harbour is good.

 

I saw Renfield over the weekend. Seeing a poster with Nicholas Cage as Dracula was enough for me, so I went in unspoiled -- no trailers, reviews, etc. I wasn't sure whether to expect horror or comedy and ended up getting both with a heaping helping of fight scenes and positive self-talk, too. Fun evening, brisk 90-minute run time, nothing earth-shattering but still a recommend. The biggest surprise was the preamble: one trailer, no ads, straight to the feature.

 

Evil Dead Rise. Genuinely boring through and through. Very little humor. The acting wasn't bad but that's not what you go see an Evil Dead film for.

 

Went and saw The Long Goodbye, 50 years old now.

My kind of movie and it’s hard to explain why. Kind of a mood/setting/atmosphere thing.

 

“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” on this rainy NJ Saturday. It was so well written and acted.

 

Love it. Very different from the excellent source material, but a classic on its own. His unique apartment complex is real and not a set.

 

I have fond memories of reading this for the first time in a college children’s literature class and discovering Blume. The movie has multiple layers. Really good.