Last movie you watched......

[Cosmo]

"This is 40," with Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann. Somehow I never saw it in 2012 (the year I turned 40), but I enjoyed it now. Lots of fun cameos, Leslie Mann was a treat to watch, and some of the jokes hit painfully close to home.

Pro tip: Install a lock on the bathroom door, even if it's only accessible from the master bedroom!

The Oxykitten scene gets me every time.

 

[qtlaw]

I'd go with Henry Golding.

If an Asian becomes James Bond, I will end all complaints about Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's….

 

[Oggiedoggie]

I'm Still Here.

Compelling film based on the true story about a wife and family coping after the husband/father is disappeared by the Brazilian military government in the 7os. It builds slowly, connecting viewers to the family. Then, everything falls apart. Through it all, the wife perseveres, goes back to college and becomes an indigenous rights attorney. And after decades of fighting the truth of the husband's fate is revealed.

Masterpiece film in Portuguese with subtitles but, after seeing the story, I left the theater a bit worried that authoritarian governments seem to be on the rise worldwide.

 

[garrow]

Blitz on Apple TV+. Set in early 1941 in London about a child separated from his mum during the war. Just okay despite a solid cast (including the Jam's Paul Weller of all people as Saoirse Ronan's dad and Stephen Graham).

But way too protracted, loaded down with flashbacks and bizarre Dickensian subplot.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

September 5 on HBO/Max. It was about the terror attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics, from the perspective of the ABC crew that was there. Roone Arledge fighting with News to let Sports cover it, since they were there, versus the talking heads in New York. The screw ups by the German police, and the chaos surrounding the departure of the hostages and the shootout at the airport. I thought it was pretty well done.

 

[DanOregon]

Has anyone seen A Real Pain? Happy for all involved for the acclaim, but it seems Hollywood puts one of these types of films out every year. Where a younger generation gets in touch with their grandparents time in Eastern Europe with the Holocaust as a backdrop. Poignant, yet funny in parts.

 

[swingline]

The Natural. I'd never seen it all the way through, and it was ... OK. It could have used more tension, somehow. The sparks scene at the end was ridiculous, and that Hobbs spawn threw the ball like he'd never thrown one before.

 

[garrow]

The Natural. I'd never seen it all the way through, and it was ... OK. It could have used more tension, somehow. The sparks scene at the end was ridiculous, and that Hobbs spawn threw the ball like he'd never thrown one before.

Absolutely beautiful looking movie (courtesy of Zooey Deschanel's dad), great cast, great score.....but overall really, really hokey.

 

[I Should Coco]

"Carry On," a straight-to-Netflix movie that wants to be Die Hard in LAX, with cell phones and ear pieces.

I'll say this: it was much better than watching Drumpf give his rambling speech to Congress. And I didn't realize Jason Bateman was the main bad guy until my wife pointed it out.

Just don't sweat the scientific details or the overarching conspiracy plot and it's passable entertainment. Yippee ki-yay, Mr. Falcon!

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

"Carry On," a straight-to-Netflix movie that wants to be Die Hard in LAX, with cell phones and ear pieces.

I'll say this: it was much better than watching Drumpf give his rambling speech to Congress. And I didn't realize Jason Bateman was the main bad guy until my wife pointed it out.

Just don't sweat the scientific details or the overarching conspiracy plot and it's passable entertainment. Yippee ki-yay, Mr. Falcon!

That was a fun one. We watched it with our daughter and her friend on New Year's Eve. Kept everyone's attention. A little silly but Bateman, a perpetual good guy, was quite good as the very bad guy.

 

[Cosmo]

Has anyone seen A Real Pain? Happy for all involved for the acclaim, but it seems Hollywood puts one of these types of films out every year. Where a younger generation gets in touch with their grandparents time in Eastern Europe with the Holocaust as a backdrop. Poignant, yet funny in parts.

I thought it was great. Snappy, to the point, great acting -- especially by Culkin -- and not overwrought.

 

[justgladtobehere]

"Carry On," a straight-to-Netflix movie that wants to be Die Hard in LAX, with cell phones and ear pieces.

I'll say this: it was much better than watching Drumpf give his rambling speech to Congress. And I didn't realize Jason Bateman was the main bad guy until my wife pointed it out.

Just don't sweat the scientific details or the overarching conspiracy plot and it's passable entertainment. Yippee ki-yay, Mr. Falcon!

A U.S. movie debuting on Netflix isn't the same as some 80's knockoff going straight to video because it couldn't get distribution. Carry On was paid for by Netflix as part of a contract with a production company and the plan was always that it would be released on Netflix.