damosuzuki said:

the cat from outer space - 3/5 i planned on watching 'the handmaiden' again yesterday afternoon, but the first thing that popped up on hoopla when i went to 'borrow' it was 'the cat from outer space.'

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when i was 9 years old, not only did i make my sisters take me to the cat from outer space, i read the novelization more than once. time makes fools of us all, i suppose. anyway, this movie is not an unheralded classic or anything, but it has it's charming moments.

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Both this movie and book were favorites of mine as well in grade school! I haven't revisited either since then though, hah.

damosuzuki said:

maplenpg said:

Threads (1984) 5/5

Although undoubtedly dated (and very British - I'd be interested to see what someone across the pond thinks) this is essential viewing given the political state of the world right now.

Tensions have built between the Middle East and the West and Russia has become involved (sound familiar?). Many threats are made until threats no longer carry any weight and the button is pressed for a nuclear attack on Britain. The film/drama is about the lead up to the button being pressed and the fallout afterwards. It is very well researched and, I believe, not far from the truth of how life would be following a nuclear attack. It makes shocking and thought provoking viewing. Honestly, it was refreshing to see a film like this with no apocolypic zombies or anything other than how Britain might be following a nuclear attack. It mainly focuses on Sheffield which is a mining town, rather than the obvious choice of London.

There are faults with it, as there are with everything, but the basic message of the film, the fact that it really gets you talking about what would happen if war started, any war - not just nuclear war, and the fact it shows you the reality of the damage a nuclear warhead can do (there are many, many professors listed in the credits), makes this a gritty and powerful watch that affected me in a way I didn't expect. Recommended.

i went through a little phase about 7 or 8 years ago and watched i don't know how many post-nuclear armaggedon films, and i would definitely rate threads as one of the best. it's pretty much the single most bleak, unrelentingly grim film i've ever seen, & definitely superior to 'the day after,' the us tv movie that came out around the same time.

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testament is another 80s era post nuclear war film that i thought was very good, and unique in that it focused on a family in a small community & the impact on them in the immediate aftermath of a nuclear attack.

We seem to be going through a bit of a phase of watching them right now. We watched Special Bulletin last night and are watching The Day After tonight. I'll watch Testament after that - thanks for recommending. Special Bulletin was good, though not as gritty or thought provoking as Threads. In case you don't know it is in the style of a news bulletin where (supposed peace-loving) terrorists take over the channel and threaten to set off a nuclear bomb if their demands are not met. At the time apparently people thoght it was really happening. It was watchable but dated 3/5.

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214 said:

I watched Boyhood this saturday, not much of a story, quite basic, the the story about the life of a boy and his family. It might get a little boring for some people and it's quite long. Having said that, i really enjoyed it throughout the whole film. Good acting. 4/5

What a coincidence, I watched it on Saturday, too.

Good movie but I had to stop during the last 40 minutes when the kids left their home.

Found the last part very sad.

I had to think of RodeoSchro while watching this movie last night.

One dude (Denzel a.k.a Mr. McCall) singlehandedly kills the entire Russian mob.

It´s a pretty simple action flic that´s pretty straightforward and predictable but I still enjoyed watching it but I just like Denzel a lot so that helped, and the fact that I watched it loooong after midnight.

3.5 out of 5.

KoolEaze said:

214 said:

I watched Boyhood this saturday, not much of a story, quite basic, the the story about the life of a boy and his family. It might get a little boring for some people and it's quite long. Having said that, i really enjoyed it throughout the whole film. Good acting. 4/5

What a coincidence, I watched it on Saturday, too.

Good movie but I had to stop during the last 40 minutes when the kids left their home.

Found the last part very sad.

You shouldn't have done that. I enjoyed so much, is a great movie throughout.

Closer

One of my favorite films.

KoolEaze said:

I had to think of RodeoSchro while watching this movie last night.

One dude (Denzel a.k.a Mr. McCall) singlehandedly kills the entire Russian mob.

It´s a pretty simple action flic that´s pretty straightforward and predictable but I still enjoyed watching it but I just like Denzel a lot so that helped, and the fact that I watched it loooong after midnight.

3.5 out of 5.

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maplenpg said:

damosuzuki said:

i went through a little phase about 7 or 8 years ago and watched i don't know how many post-nuclear armaggedon films, and i would definitely rate threads as one of the best. it's pretty much the single most bleak, unrelentingly grim film i've ever seen, & definitely superior to 'the day after,' the us tv movie that came out around the same time.

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testament is another 80s era post nuclear war film that i thought was very good, and unique in that it focused on a family in a small community & the impact on them in the immediate aftermath of a nuclear attack.

We seem to be going through a bit of a phase of watching them right now. We watched Special Bulletin last night and are watching The Day After tonight. I'll watch Testament after that - thanks for recommending. Special Bulletin was good, though not as gritty or thought provoking as Threads. In case you don't know it is in the style of a news bulletin where (supposed peace-loving) terrorists take over the channel and threaten to set off a nuclear bomb if their demands are not met. At the time apparently people thoght it was really happening. It was watchable but dated 3/5.

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i just gave it special bulletin a watch. i basically second what you said - it definitely looks & feels very much like what it is; an early 80s tv movie. but they do wring a fair amount of drama out of the story, & it definitely held my interest.

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just out of curiousity, have you watched 'command and control,' the pbs documentary about some of the close calls we've had with our nuclear arsenals over the years, or read eric schlosser's book of the same name? they're both incredibly sobering documents, and neither of them will leave you feeling too secure about our current state.

i watched mulholland drive for the first time in at least five years last night, & i think it holds up perfectly. i've enjoyed reading a lot of the interpretations of this film over the years, but i do think what this movie shows more than anything is that as long as a film can provide you with atmosphere & interesting scenes, you don't have to have a perfectly detailed, clockwork-mechanism plot. there are several scenes that don't have anything to do with the film as a whole, and i'm pretty sure there are things in it that just make no sense whatsoever, but i wouldn't change one second of it and i think it's a perfect, demented, sexy, & incredibly fun movie. 5/5

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damosuzuki said:

maplenpg said:

We seem to be going through a bit of a phase of watching them right now. We watched Special Bulletin last night and are watching The Day After tonight. I'll watch Testament after that - thanks for recommending. Special Bulletin was good, though not as gritty or thought provoking as Threads. In case you don't know it is in the style of a news bulletin where (supposed peace-loving) terrorists take over the channel and threaten to set off a nuclear bomb if their demands are not met. At the time apparently people thoght it was really happening. It was watchable but dated 3/5.

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i just gave it special bulletin a watch. i basically second what you said - it definitely looks & feels very much like what it is; an early 80s tv movie. but they do wring a fair amount of drama out of the story, & it definitely held my interest.

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just out of curiousity, have you watched 'command and control,' the pbs documentary about some of the close calls we've had with our nuclear arsenals over the years, or read eric schlosser's book of the same name? they're both incredibly sobering documents, and neither of them will leave you feeling too secure about our current state.

No - I'll check out command and control. Thanks for recommending

sexton said:

damosuzuki said:

i noticed the other day that a new song popped up on their youtube channel. i am a touch indifferent to the new track right now, but it's nice to have a new album to look forward to.

I kind of felt the same way about the first song "Heather". The second song leaked, "Magpie Eyes" I like a lot more.

i like it a lot more too. i don't quite love it, but i'm still really looking forward to the album.

It's a first - I'm liveblogging a movie! I didn't choose to do this, it just happened. So, I have to liveblog what's on. And what's on is "Purge - Election Day"!

I've never seen any of the Purge movies but this one looks stupid enough to watch. Here's what's happened so far:

A Senator, who apparently lost her family in a previous Purge, is the subject of attack by some white supremacists. I think it's because she's running for president or something, and her platform is: GET RID OF THE PURGE. So she gets double-crossed by one of her security guys, but her main security guy gets her out of the hosue before the white supremacists can get her. Also, the main security guy is able to blow up the room and kill all the double-crossing members of her staff, but the white supremacists are already outside, so they survived. Now they are after the senator and they have lots of military toys at their disposal.

Some guy that looks like Mr. Cooper from Hanging With Mr. Cooper is on a rooftop. He owns a convenience store, and is prepared to defend it. Up drives some badass chicks in a Prius covered in whire Christmas lights. It seems that Mr. Cooper denied a candy bar to one of the girls. I assume she was trying to steal it. Whatever, she is mad, and gets madder after Mr. Cooper's buddy shoots her in the ear. The Party Girls drive away in their Christmas Prius, but like a bad rash, they vow to come back.

The Senator and her suecrity guy get jumped by George Washington! Oh no, many ex-presidents have them trapped, and are telling them - in Russian accents no less -exactly what they are going to do to the Senator and the security guy.

But blammo! Guess who's here? Mr. Cooper and his friend. They blow away the cast of "Hamilton" and rescue the Senator and the security guy. Instead of going back on the roof, they go into the convenience store.

Whilst getting away from the white supremacists, the security guy got shot in the shoulder. The bullet is still there, he's lost a lot of blood, but he's fine. Just fine.

There are two girls in an ambulance, who it seems are friends of Mr. Cooper's. They are driving around, helping people who got purged but are still not dead. They also capture some young dude that is a friend of theirs and isn't supposed to be out purging, but wants very badly to purge. So they strap him down to a gurney.

Uh oh! Guess who's back? The Party Girls! This time they are in TWO Christmas light Priuses, because they've brought friends with metal-eating chainsaws. They're going to get that candy bar!

Things appear dicey. The main Party Girl and her friend are dancing in the street as the Teddy Bear and Other Party Girl chainsaw their way through the steel bars protecting Mr. Cooper's convenience store. But wait!

Here comes the ambulance! Ka-SPLAT! They run over the two party girls! And just to be sure, they jump out of the ambulance and blow away the Party Girls. No candy for you! Ha!

Then everyone goes around to the back door and blows away the remaining Party Girls, of which one was the Teddy Bear. It's kind of refreshing to see a Teddy Bear get blown to smithereens. Would that all the "Ted" movies ended that way!

But now our heroes are outside again. Are they safe? Of course not! The white supremacists are back - in an apache gunship! The yblow away a few purgers but are unable to get a good shot at the ambulance. A good question to ask now is - how did the white supremacists know they were in the ambulance? This question is asked by the Senator, proving it was indeed a good question.

They've come up to some kind of sword fight. Two dudes are going at it with giant swords, while a lot of other bloodthirsty dudes watch. The security guy realizes that the bullet inside him has a tacking device, so he takes it out. Macho macho man! I want to be, a macho man!

All the swordfight dudes realize there are people in an ambulance watching them, so they abandon the swordfight in order to storm the ambulance. Sad!

What to do? You will never guess!

Mr. Cooper blows a Crip whistle!

And guess what - all the swordfight dudes are Crips! Yay! AND, they have a wounded Crip that needs help! I guess he was the loser in the swordfight. The Crips and the good guys agree to help each other. You can bet the Crips aren't going to get along with the white supremacists!

Who are now searching the area. They find the bullet - and also the Crips! Goodbye, white supremacists! The white supremacist in the Apache calls for a sitrep (one of the most awesome Army words ever! I intend to use it a lot in this liveblog), which is answered by a Crip saying, "Ahahahahah! F you, mother f'er!" The Crips win every sword fight!

Now the good guys are at the Secret Underground Triage Unit. It's called th Safe Zone, but actually according to USA law, there really are no safe zones.

The bad guys are called the NFAA. I don't know what that stands for, or if that encompasses the white supremacists are not. I'll be sure to liveblog that information if and when I get it!

Mr. Bishop runs the Safe Zone. Apparently he kills lots of purgers in order to keep the Safe Zone safe. The Senator does not like this.

The main white supremacist has a swastika tattooed on his forehead, and Confederate flag patches on his uniform. He knows there is a Safe Zone triage unit out there somehow, and vows to find it. At the same time, Mr. Cooper decides he's going back to his deli. I'm guessing that will turn out to be a bad idea. For someone.

Mr. Cooper is no Equalizer, but he's still pretty good at equalizing purgers. We will now call Mr. Cooper "Equalizer Lite".

The security guy goes looking around, wanting to get a sitrep. But his sitprepping is mistaken for spying, and there's a brief fight. Mr. Bishop defuses the situation.. It turns out though that Mr. Bishop and his buddies are planning to ambush the NFAA and assasinate the Minister (who I guess is what passes for the President now). The Senator is concerned, as she does not generally condone assassinations. She would prefer to end the purge electorally. Thus ends that sitrep.

The next sitrep shows us that the NFAA - oh wait! I think the NFAA are the "New Founding Fathers". The church at where the NFAA is going to ring out the purge has secret tunnels, and that's how they intend to get close enough to kill all the NFAA. This further enrages the Senator and a heated discussion breaks out, but is ended when a bunch of NFAA army trucks show up outside.

The Senator and the security guy almost get guillotined.

A homeless lady is warming up over a burning body.

The Senator and the security guy miraculously run into Equalizer Lite and the ambulance, and climb aboard. The Senator pulls rank and diverts the ambulance from the convenience store, to a path out of town. Except...

...she really wants to stop the assassination. She thinks that if the Minister is killed then he becomes a martyr and she will lose.

She is engaged in a meaningful conversation about this when BLAM!!!! The ambulance is rammed and tipped over by an Army truck! Or armored car. But whatever, it just leaves for some reason - oh wait! The reason (I had to rewind to catch it) is because the Senator is kidnapped!

As far as I'm concerned, this is good because this means the assassination can go on as planned. I don't buy into this "martyr" thing at ALL.

Equalizer Lite (remember, he's a former Crip) says he knows where they're taking the Senator, and why she's still alive. So everyone remaining agrees to follow Equalizer Lite. Although given that their ambulance is on its side, I don't know how they think they can keep uo with a moving car.

Guess who has the Senator? Yep - the white supremacists! They have her a a church, where about 1,000,000 candles are burning. And also there's some chanting going on, which I'm betting means they are Satanists too. I'm thinking there's going to be a crucifixtion.

Some weird dude in a minister's robe (perhaps he's the Minister?!?) straps the Senator to a gurney and places her in front of the candles. There's someone else on a gurney too. I think it's the security guy but I'm not sure.

Now it's a giant church service! OK, this guy speaking has to be the actual Minister. I'll call him the Minister until proven otherwise.

Time for a sitrep!

The Senator an d the security guy are strapped onto gurnies and are on the altar. The Minister is bloviating. The crowd is apparently the entire ruling class of the new USA. "Purge and purify!" is their motto!

Equalizer Lite and Mr. Bishop's men are outside, preparing to storm the church. There's someone approaching. It's the security guy! I guess he's not the other guy on the gurney. He informs Equalizer Lite that this is no longer an assassination but a rescue.

The other guy on the gurney is a drug addict named Lawrence. The Minister makes it seem like Lawrence has agreed to be "Purged and Purified!" but by the look on Lawrence's face, I'm guessing he didn't volunteer for the gurney.

The guy in the rode, who I thought was the Minister, is acutally some other guy. I forget who. But he stabs the heck out of Lawrence. And I was right - Lawrence did NOT want to be Purged and Purified. The Minister has an orgasm. He claims Lawrence's "light" entered the weird robe guy's heart. Everyone in the crowd orgasms.

The Minister recovers from his orgasm and announces t othe congregation that they have a special guest purgee. Everyone applauds when they see the Senator's face. Al lthe Founding Fathers congregate at the altar as they join as one to eliminate evil and Purge and Purify the Senator.

I think I know what's going to happen next.

As the head Founding Father begins to slash the Senator's throat, the good guys blow his head off. You knew that was going to happen, right?

The good guys equalize the heck out of the congregation but azaingly, the Minister is able to slowly grab a pistol and a knife and sidle out of there. Then a bunch of guys with submachines guns show up and start blasting away. But they've missed the party! The only guys left to kill are the Equalizer Lite, the security guy, and the rest of the good guys. However, all machine gun rounds luckily miss, and everyone realizes they are all friends.

Nothing left now but to kill the Minister, right?

Right! Except, the Senator is STILL against it! "If you do this, you will be no different than them!" Equalizer Lite actuall agrees with her.

They corner the Minister, who urges them to Purge and Purify him. However, the good guys figure that letting him live is a fate worse than death. No matter how much the Minister begs to be murdered, they won't shoot him.

The Minister is escorted out by Mr. Bishop, who tells the Senator, "You'd better f'ing win!" Yeah, no kidding!

The good guys find a bunch of other people bound and gagged, who apparently were going to also be Purged and Purified. The security guy punches the Minister as hard as he can in the gonads.

They walk outside, and right into a swarm of white supremacists!

"I got one more move left in me!" says Mr. Bishop. It turns out that move is jumping into a car, ramming some white supremacists, and then getting blown to bits by the remaining white supremacists. Sad!

The security guy and the white supremacist leader have a knife fight. The security guy turns the white supremacist into a piece of Swiss heese. The last word the white supremacist hears is "Motherf-er!"

The creepy robe guy shows up with a shotgun and various other weapons. He kulls a few good guys, but ultimately Equalizer Lite puts many bullets into him, including one that goes completely through the creepy robe guy's head. Unfortunately, Equalizer Lite got hit, too. Fatally. his last instructions are for his friend to watch over his convenience store. You'd have thought maybe someone would have let loose with a Crip whistle when he died but sadly, no one did. WEEEEEEET! That was for you, Equalizer Lite!

CUT TO - Election Day. She wins! Her first order of business is to take executive action to put an end to the Purge. I hope her executive orders hold up better than President Trump's! Oooof!

The convenience store is up and running. There's an American flag blowing outside. The last thing we hear is that some NFAA members are reacting violently to this defeat. Sequel, anyone?!?

I give "Purge: Election Day" 2 slashed Party Girls out of 8 slashed Party Girls. But I give my liveblog of this a 10, because I'm not going to liveblog any more movies and I want to go out with a perfect record.

RodeoSchro said:

It's a first - I'm liveblogging a movie! I didn't choose to do this, it just happened. So, I have to liveblog what's on. And what's on is

Wait ... you're supposed to rate "Patriot's Day"! That's what you were talking about the other day, wasn't it?

RodeoSchro said:

we are the flesh - 3/5 there are elements of pasolini & jodorowsky & lynch in here, i'd say - lots of trippy images, loads of transgressive sex & violence. it doesn't necessarily feel like it adds up to much, but it certainly made for a novel watch on a thursday evening. for people who crave extremism in movies, this will probably do the trick for you. don't expect it to be one of your top five fims, but it will scratch your itch.

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Watched 2 movies never had a chance to watch last night. Popeye was a cute movie. Ant Man was good too, guess Wasp will be in the next movie. OK do have a problem with Ant Man and it starts off in the year 1989. It show Agent Peggy Carter, they make her look older but she looks like she's in her 50's. OK this like 45 years after WW2, so if she was like 25 in 1945 she should be in her 70's

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Yesterday was monumental day for ol' RodeoSchro. I became A Millenial For A Day!

Yep - I took Uber TWICE, and I watched an Anna Kendrick movie! Full-on Millenial, that's me!

The front end on my Suburban has gone out; at least, I think that's what the metal-on-metal sounds I heard when I came home from our local Prince Extravaganza at 2:30 AM Saturday morning meant. I tried it again yesterday afternoon and it sounded worse. It was too late to mess with getting a rent car (I have lots of cars but all the others are with various children who are at college in Mississippi), so I said, "Hey! Let's Uber to the Houston Dynamo game. It'll be fun!"

And it WAS. But it wasn't cheap. It was $25 each way, and I tipped my drivers $5 each, so that made it a $60 round trip. That's MUCH more than gas and parking would normally cost, so I don't forsee me being an Uberer very often. I think I'd rather buy a new car. Spending money - that's what us Olds for fun!

We got home after the Dynamo match (the good guys won 2-0) and fired up the grill. My wife did some continuing education so I perused the movie channels. Here's more evidence that I am an Old:

Until getting all the movie channels (which is what I call HBO, Showtime and whatever) for free from DirecTV a few months ago, we hadn't had them since around 1987. That's right - I went about 30 years without HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, etc. I've heard HBO had some good shows during those years, but I've never seen any of them.

Now, however, whenever I can get my woefully ineffective DirecTV remote to work (man, does it suck), I can scroll down to the movie channels. Which is what I did while my wife worked. Bingo! I can watch anything I want!

Scroll...scroll...curse at the DirecTV remote because you have to hit each key 5 times before the box recognizes it...scroll...scroll...resist urge to throw DirecTV remote in the trash...scroll...what's this?

"Mr. Right"?!? Described as "Woman is conflicted because man she has fallen in love with is a hit man". Starring Tina Fey's Millenial Doppelganger, Anna Kendrick. Hmmm - a hit man AND Anna Kendrick? Let's do it!

Seven-word review - "I should probably ditch the movie channels".

Longer review - see below.

"Mr. Right" is about an incredibly ditzy Anna Kendrick, who is like Elaine Benes on speed. She's all over the place, never making a lick of sense, trying real hard to be funny but not usually succeeding. Her friends put up with her for some unexplainable reason, until Kendrick releases a mad cat who scratches everyone all to heck.

While this is going on, some dudes are showing up at a wedding hall, and it's apparent they are there to kill some people. But they are way early - no one's there yet. Except for a guy in a red clown nose. Who has an ENORMOUS amount of fun killing all the would-be hit men. It turns out this guy is called the Clown Nose Killer. No one knows who he is, except that he kills people that are trying to assassinate other people. He's a killer of killers. And he does it all with a red clown nose ball on his face. He also tries very hard to be funny but like Tina Fey's little sister, he fails most of the time at that.

Kendrick goes to a drug store to buy various salves for all the cat scratches she has. The Clown Nose Killer goes there at the same time for an unexplained reason. They meet when Kendrick explodes all the Trojan condom boxes up into the air and the Clown Nose Killer - who sees everything in slow motion - catches them all in a neat stack. This impresses Kendrick, who accepts the Clown Nose Killer's invitation for an immediate date.

"What do you do?" asks Kendrick over coffee. "Oh, I kill people," laughs the Clown Nose Killer. Kendrick of course thinks he's joking, because everything this guy says is basically a joke. The Clown Nose Killer is played by some dude named Sam Rockwell who, I'm pretty sure, isn't related to the Rockwell that did "Somebody's Watching Me" back in the 80's (which, we all know, featured Michael Jackson on background vocals. How did this happen?!? you ask. Because "Rockwell" was actually Berry Gordy's son).

They then repair to Kendrick's apartment, where the Clown Nose Killer throws a knife at Kendrick. She catches it in mid-air which surprises her, but not the Clown Nose Killer. "I knew you had The Gift," he says. "You can see everything in slow motion, like I can. I don't know though, if you also have magic powers like me, but we'll see!" And indeed we will, because it turns out that a whole bunch of bad guys have figured out who the Clown Nose Killer is, and they are all congregating in New Orleans to kill him. NOTE: Although Kendrick realizes that she has The Gift, she does not use The Gift until the very end of the movie. That makes no sense. It's like Superman realizing he can fly, but not flying anywhere until the last minute of the movie. If I could fly, that's all I would do. I'd even be writing this review while flying.

Kendrick and Clown Nose Killer go on a date, driving in the Clown Nose Killer's awesome '67 'Vette. Some bad guy catches up with them, but the Clown Nose Killer joyfully kills him with ease. Puzzingly enough, Kendrick is not impressed. I guess she didn't believe the Clown Nose Killer all the times that he told her he killed people for a living.

So what happens next is that the Clown Nose Killer becomes the Clown Nose Wounder, which pleases Kendrick. However, the Clown Nose Wounder's old CIA boss is on the trail too, and generally shows up and kills all the people the Clown Nose Wounder has wounded.

I know you'll find this hard to believe, but this movie becomes even more ridiculous. Kendrick gets kidnapped by the bad guys, and she loves it! She has embraced her The Gift, and also knows that her boyfriend has once again become the Clown Nose Killer. This time she's happy about the "Killer" part.

The Clown Nose Killer gets shot by a bad guy named Steve, but they become friends. Then Steve assists the bad guys in the Clown Nose Killer's capture, but they're still friends despite that. Utlimately Steve and the Clown Nose Killer bond over some Gummi Bears, and then the Clown Nose Killer kills everyone except Steve and the main bad guy.

The reason he doesn't kill the main bad guy is because Kendrick kills him. It turns out she likes killing bad guys almost as much as she likes sex, so she and the Clown Nose Killer live happily ever after.

We already know that Millenials have wrecked pretty much everything they've touched - music; beards; and now movies. Stay away from "Mr. Right", even if you're not an Old like me.

I rated both my Uber drivers as but I can rate "Mr. Right" without stars. Instead let's just call this movie:

"Mr. Wrong".

(Oh come on, don't groan. You had to know that was coming!)

Ingela said:

You need your own movie site. Let me know when it's up and running so I can favorite it on my tabs.

Thank you! I might just do that. Who knows, I might get rich and famous!

RodeoSchro said:

Ingela said:

You need your own movie site. Let me know when it's up and running so I can favorite it on my tabs.

Thank you! I might just do that. Who knows, I might get even more rich and famous!

It's fun reading and an original take. Originality is a commodity in short supply. But most of all it's entertaining. What more can you ask.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) I enjoyed this sequel, it was action packed with an awesome soundtrack it's silly, funny, and Chris is shirtless in one scene Not as fresh as the first one......but still alot of fun, I give it a 4 out of 5 PS there are 5 post-credits scenes tacked at the end of the film.

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Kong, Skull Island. Shockingly good. Special effects were amazing. Script was crude but the overall movie was odd.

colossal - 3.5/5 mostly fun, slightly bittersweet, occasionally meandering mashup of sundance style indie drama & monster movie. a down on her luck alcoholic returns to her hometown to put her life together, and while there finds out she's responsible for the creation of a monster destroying seoul, south korea. one of the characters takes a very sudden turn from likeable small town guy to inhuman bastard very quickly, & the inaction of his friends when that time comes seemed off to me as well. those things puzzled me a bit, but otherwise i thought this was a really novel, enjoyably baggy film, & i liked it quite a bit.

It's time for another exciting chapter of Movies I Watched The Last Half Of! Today's installment is "The Wedding Ringer"!

As long time readers of mine know, I absolutely LOVE Kevin Hart in "The Real Husbands of Hollywood" (TRHOH). If you aren't watching that, you should be! Season 1 has as many laughs as pretty much any season of any show that I can remember.

SIDENOTE - You should also be watching the Fox series "Making History". Holy moley, is that a funny show!

As long time readers of mine also know, the Kevin Hart/Will Farrell vehicle "Get Hard" was perhaps the worst movie of this decade. Totally unfunny, and I panned Kevin Hart pretty hard in my two-line review. To be fair, that was the first thing I ever saw Kevin Hart in.

Luckily for us, "The Wedding Ringer" has TRHOH Kevin Hart in it!

When I tuned in, Hart was explaining to some guy - who looks a little like Jonah Hill but is waaaaaaaaaay more likeable than that neckbeard - about being a Best Man For Hire. In fact, I think the dude had already hired Hart. Some hilarity ensued.

Dang it - I watched this Saturday night, and I had three great tangents to write about. I've forgotten them all! I'd better amend my post on the "What changes have you seen as you get older?" thread to include my failing memory. I'm just hoping that if I type long enough, one or two of those tangents will come to me. As I recall, they were awesomely funny.

Back to the movie. It's funny! Just check out this description of Tha Groomsmen Crew from wikipedia:

Jimmy recruits three of his friends as groomsmen. Fitzgibbons, a criminal who escaped from a federal prison, agrees to be a groomsman because there will be seven bridesmaids to hit on. Lurch agrees in order to get away from his nagging wife. Reggie agrees because there will be good food. Jimmy, his secretary Doris, Fitzgibbons, Lurch, and Reggie, interview people willing to fill the four remaining spots based on their "party trick distractions." They choose Kip, a sexy man with a stutter, Endo, who has three testicles, Bronstein, who can dislocate and relocate his shoulder, and Otis, who can say every sentence backwards.

at a guy who can say every sentence backwards! Or should I say, backwards sentence every say can who guy a at ?

At one point, Hart and his buddies have to play the bride's dad and his friends in a football game. The dad's friends include Joe Namath, John Riggins and Too Tall Jones. It reminded me of the time Al Bundy and the NO MA'AM guys had to play Lawrence Taylor, Bubba Smith, Ken Stabler and Hacksaw Reynolds. Unlike the heroes from NO MA'AM, Keving Hart and his buddies actually beat several NFL Hall of Famers. Gratuitous NO MAA'AM picture!



ANOTHER SIDENOTE - Although hilariously funny (to me), the NO MA'AM tangent was not one of the tangents I've forgotten. I just came up with it!

It turns out the bride - Penny from "The Big Bang Theory" - doesn't really love the groom. He's just a dude that can supply enough money to keep her happy. The groom overhears this, and calls off the wedding. He didn't really have to do that, since Kevin Hart was impersonating an Army priest and he married them. But since he wasn't a priest, they weren't actually married anyway.

Hart, the groom, and Tha Groomsmen Crew make it out of the wedding alive, whereupon they cash in the honeymoon tickets and go on another trip. They are joined by hookers so you know they had a wild time.

This movie is pretty much comedy-by-the-numbers but it's good comedy-by-the-numbers. i promise you that this movie is better and funnier than you think. I also promise you that I might remember some of those awesome tangents I forgot and if I do, I'll add them to this post. So you should check this post, and this thread, several times a day for updates. Or at least, do that until this thread self-locks on May 11th!

"The Wedding Ringer" shall be rated on the number of testicles that Endo has. I give this movie 2.4 testicles out of a possible 3 testicles. Enjoy!

tramps 3.5/5 extremely pleasant, low-key story about a couple who meet while trying to pull off an apparently legally dubious caper. will not change anyone's life, but it is very modestly likeable, & it contains at least one act of genius in having mike birbiglia attempting to be a cool/tough criminal.

[Edited 5/4/17 12:02pm]

khill95 said:

GET OUT 10/10 ALL ACROSS THE BOARD

I really enjoyed that 1 2. No, no, no no no no . Watched The Girl on the Train the other day. Kinda long-winded, but not bad. Emily Blunt n most o the cast were convincing .

purplepolitician said:

khill95 said:

GET OUT 10/10 ALL ACROSS THE BOARD

I really enjoyed that 1 2. No, no, no no no no . Watched The Girl on the Train the other day. Kinda long-winded, but not bad. Emily Blunt n most o the cast were convincing .

i so wanted those ladies to high five after that business with the cork screw...i thought for sure they were going to...

Chasing The Trane (2017)

A wonderfully done documentary about the life and sound of John Coltrane, with rare photos and archival footage.

.5

Elle....3 1/2 stars....not sure i understand it....anyone see this?