Ace said:

And

And I remember the "Is that a new shirt" story!

Ha! I thought maybe I'd told it but I'm old and feeble and too lazy to search the 224-page Word document that has all my reviews.

RodeoSchro said:

Ace said:

And

And I remember the "Is that a new shirt" story!

Ha! I thought maybe I'd told it but I'm old and feeble and too lazy to search the 224-page Word document that has all my reviews.

And I don't think it was in the context of a movie review.

Ritual.....6.5/10. If you liked The Descent, you'll like this one.
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Siren. 2/10. I should've known it was gonna be terrible as soon as I saw it was a Chiller film. It's like I know movies are gonna suck, but yet I still watch them anyway.

AnckSuNamun said:

Siren. 2/10. I should've known it was gonna be terrible as soon as I saw it was a Chiller film. It's like I know movies are gonna suck, but yet I still watch them anyway.

new lady gaga wear?

luvsexy4all said:

AnckSuNamun said:

Siren. 2/10. I should've known it was gonna be terrible as soon as I saw it was a Chiller film. It's like I know movies are gonna suck, but yet I still watch them anyway.

new lady gaga wear?

RodeoSchro said:

Ace said:

And

And I remember the "Is that a new shirt" story!

Ha! I thought maybe I'd told it but I'm old and feeble and too lazy to search the 224-page Word document that has all my reviews.

You think Purple Rain might become the new "Rocky Horror Picture Show" with people dressing up and acting it out on stage in front of the movie???

Those Apollonia scenes will be dicey!

LadyLayla said:

RodeoSchro said:

Ha! I thought maybe I'd told it but I'm old and feeble and too lazy to search the 224-page Word document that has all my reviews.

You think Purple Rain might become the new "Rocky Horror Picture Show" with people dressing up and acting it out on stage in front of the movie???

Those Apollonia scenes will be dicey!

LadyLayla said:

RodeoSchro said:

Ha! I thought maybe I'd told it but I'm old and feeble and too lazy to search the 224-page Word document that has all my reviews.

You think Purple Rain might become the new "Rocky Horror Picture Show" with people dressing up and acting it out on stage in front of the movie???

Those Apollonia scenes will be dicey!

I dunno--Rocky Horror was great back in the day because of the live audience performances. I don't know about now...but if they could do PR like back then, I think it could be a good thing rather than some ratty thing...

the fits (2015) 3.5/5 11 year old tomboy tries out for her school's dance team. strange, dreamlike, almost on the verge of horror at moments, or one of nicolas roeg's peculiar 70s era films. the entire time i was watching it, i thought the movie felt like it might just drift away on the air like a wisp of smoke - and then it quite literally did so at the end.

possession (1981) 3.5/5 man's wife leaves him for another man, and then....something. incredibly odd, bizarre, scenery chewing performances, and a thoroughly inexplicable story. i'd completely love it if it weren't quite so long and so one note all the way through. absolutely worth a look for people who crave eccentricity in their films, regardless.

LadyLayla said:

RodeoSchro said:

Ha! I thought maybe I'd told it but I'm old and feeble and too lazy to search the 224-page Word document that has all my reviews.

You think Purple Rain might become the new "Rocky Horror Picture Show" with people dressing up and acting it out on stage in front of the movie???

Those Apollonia scenes will be dicey!

The crowd went NUTS over all the Apollonia scenes - especially "Lake Minnetonka"! The mind boggles at the thought of the crowd acting out those scenes, LOL.

But if "Purple Rain" does become a Midnight Movie staple, I'll go just to yell "Answer me, motherf****r!". It'll become known as My Thing.

RodeoSchro said:

LadyLayla said:

You think Purple Rain might become the new "Rocky Horror Picture Show" with people dressing up and acting it out on stage in front of the movie???

Those Apollonia scenes will be dicey!

The crowd went NUTS over all the Apollonia scenes - especially "Lake Minnetonka"! The mind boggles at the thought of the crowd acting out those scenes, LOL.

But if "Purple Rain" does become a Midnight Movie staple, I'll go just to yell "Answer me, motherf****r!". It'll become known as My Thing.

Could you throw in some "Baba Booey!"s? And/or "Hit 'em with the Hein!"s?

Black Panther 8/10

A superhero movie with great acting and a lot of heart. That alone makes it stand out. The entire cast was awesome. But most of all, above all the action, i love how much heart this movie has.

Wakefield 4/5 I found it a very powerful movie. I'd watch it over and over again.
Cranston says it's a cautionary tale about the importance of being present and checking in with your life.

Open Water 2003--2/5. Low- budget indie flick but kept my interest to the end because it played on fear (one of mine at least!). The ending was very depressing

Ace said:

RodeoSchro said:

The crowd went NUTS over all the Apollonia scenes - especially "Lake Minnetonka"! The mind boggles at the thought of the crowd acting out those scenes, LOL.

But if "Purple Rain" does become a Midnight Movie staple, I'll go just to yell "Answer me, motherf****r!". It'll become known as My Thing.

Could you throw in some "Baba Booey!"s? And/or "Hit 'em with the Hein!"s?

All I know is those are from Howard Stern, right? But I don't know what they mean or when to use them!

With my luck, I'd shout out "Baba Booey!" somewhere like when Jill Jones asks Apollonia if she can sing. And people would be like, "WTF is wrong with you, man?"

RodeoSchro said:

Ace said:

Could you throw in some "Baba Booey!"s? And/or "Hit 'em with the Hein!"s?

All I know is those are from Howard Stern, right? But I don't know what they mean or when to use them!

With my luck, I'd shout out "Baba Booey!" somewhere like when Jill Jones asks Apollonia if she can sing. And people would be like, "WTF is wrong with you, man?"

"Baba Booey!" refers to Howard's long-time producer, Gary Dell'Abate. It was a mishearing of "Baba Looey" (from Quick-Draw McGraw?). They've never let him live it down and it's now become a rallying cry for the Stern Show. People shout it out during TV news "live shots", after PGA golfers swing... Even at the US Open (tennis), I believe. Lots of sporting events. Basically, anywhere where there are TV or radio microphones present.

"Hit 'em with the Hein!" is a reference to one of Howard's guys, Jon Hein (also the founder of Jump the Shark) who hosts The Howard Stern Wrap-Up Show. He's not exactly Mister Energy, so they'd mock him with this as he'd head out to his TV sports show gig. It spread like wildfire. Jimmy Kimmel (a superfan of the Stern Show and a close friend of Howard's) closed this year's Oscars with it!

P.S. I just remembered Sarah Silverman Baba-Booey'ed the DNC! Prior to Kimmel, that was probably the most momentous Stern Show reference of them all.

death of stalin (2017) 3/5 most of the reception i've seen of this to date has rhapsodized over it, praised how it's so incredibly dark & bleak yet incredibly funny. perhaps because i've read two of anne applebaum's books on the gulag & the ukrainian famine in the last half year or so, i didn't find its darkness a surprise at all - it's more or less what you'd expect if you come in with a bit of priming.

so i didn't find it offputting or too dour.

but i also didn't find it all that funny. a few chuckles here & there (the biggest laugh to me was in the preview - 'no problem'), but nothing that was memorable, or even clever to me. it all seemed like british sitcom-style forced wittiness. i'll give it another watch when it hits streaming, but at this point, i'm calling this a dark comedy that wasn't that dark & didn't really make me laugh.


animals (2014) 3/5 homeless, drug addicted (but still movie-star good-looking) couple bounce around between scrounging up money & then scrounging up drugs. pretty good, but maybe the ending was just a bit too soft.

Aaaaaaaatommmmmicccc Blaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhonnnnnnnde!

Bow wow wow yippee oh yippee yay, bow wow yippee oh yippe yay!

That's right - last night I watched "Call Me By My Name"!

It was great! Maybe the best movie I've ever....OK, I'm kidding. Clearly, I did not watch "Call Me By My Name". Of course I watched "Atomic Blonde!"

It was not the best movie I've ever watched.

Let's get this out of the way first. I hate smoking. If I was King, tobacco would be outlawed. I think smoking is for losers. Don't smoke. It only makes you ugly; makes you smell bad; makes you cough; gives you yellow teeth; gives you cellulite (if you're a woman); and will probably kill you. And it kills the people who have to breathe in your smoke. Don't smoke.

Not even if you're a spy.

However, pretty much all the spies in this movie smoke. And smoke. And smoke. And smoke. Other than throw really lame punches, it's about all Charlize Theron does. Those are the two dimensions of her character - it takes her an inordinate amount of weak punches to put a man down; and when not fighting, she smokes. That's the extent of what she has to offer.

Well, she is also good at looking bored all the time.

What we have with this movie is what you get when you base a movie on a comic book....excuse me - a graphic novel. But really, it's a comic book.

Which I read a lot of in my youth. And which I know are very popular in today's culture. Cool. They're very entertaining. But what they are not, is deep. No graphic novel I've ever read can give you the kind of character development that a book does. It's just the nature of the beast. Which is why the only movie I've ever really liked that was based on a comic book was "Deadpool". Because Deadpool has no character! He's awesome!

Charlize Theron is not Deadpool.

This movie makes little to no sense. It starts off with some dude being impossibly killed by a KGB guy. This dude was a spy who was friendly with Charlize Theron. We know this because, even though the movie is set in 1989, there's a selfie picture of the dude and Theron in Theron's drawer.

But no one took selfies in 1989. I know this for a fact, because I was an adult in 1989! Heck, I was 30 in 1989! The concept of taking a camera and holding at arm's length to take a picture of you and a babe did not exist. If it had, you can bet a younger RodeoSchro would have taken advantage of it.

You see, back in the olden days there was a very popular book called "How To Pick Up Women". I just Googled it and couldn't find that actual book, and now I'm worried my wife might check my search history and then I'll have some 'splainin' to do. If that ever happens, I need you to back me up. But trust me - the book existed.

And it had a chapter called "The Magic Box". Long story short, the author said if you carried a camera, every woman would want her picture taken. So that was a good way to meet women. It's possible I may have read that chapter a time or 20, and I can tell you - the "selfie" concept DID NOT EXIST.

So right away, this movie is inaccurate. And it only gets worse.

Ostensibly, Theron is sent by MI6 to get "the list" which is a list of every spy everywhere. For some reason, obtaining "the list" is vital to making sure the Berlin Wall goes down.

And as we all know, it's so fresh knocking down the Wall of Berlin.

I cannot BELIEVE that song was not in this movie. So what if it didn't exist in 1989? Neither did the selfie, and they used that! They should have used "Wall of Berlin," too. Or at the very least, the end of "3121," which was Prince's first reference to the Wall of Berlin. "Wall of Ber/Wall of Ber/Wall of Ber/Wall of Ber/" will now be running through my head; at least, until it is replaced by "Take Me With U".

Speaking of the Wall of Berlin, I have a picture of me standing in front of it, wearing my hat. I wore it all day. I told my son, "You watch. I'll be high-fived and back-slapped by literally dozens of funky Berliners, if not hundreds of them!"

Not one person said one thing about my hat. Sad!

The movie producers used mostly crappy 80's Euro songs, skipping over the best stuff from that time period. Sneaking in a little Prince among the Re-Flex would have been greatly appreciated by me.

Back to the movie. Charlize Theron smokes a lot, kills a lot, and boinks a French spy lady for no apparent reason. And then at the end, it turns out that SPOILER ALERT Charlize Theron is a triple agent and is actually an American. She gives the list to John Goodman. The end.

Unless you're a lobbyist for Big Tobacco (in which case, I wish you nothing but pain and sorrow. No offense), there's no reason to watch this movie. It doesn't do anything that about a million other spy movies did a whole lot better.

Before I rate this movie, I need to know - which song has been running through your head? "Atomic Dog" or "Wall of Berlin"? My head is filled with "Take Me With U" pretty much all the time.

"Atomc Blonde" gets 1/9th of my Kingly Scepter, and honestly I don't know why.

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Ready Player One (2018) I watched this last night and I have to say that this is the best Spielberg sci-fi film since A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). Its a great adaptation of a much loved book, the special effects are visually stunning from the get go, there is a smorgasbord of pop culture references (eg. Prince ) and it has a great cast and soundtrack to boot. See this film on the big screen. I give it 4.5 out of 5

right now, wrong then (2015) 4/5 a film director meets an artist (the handmaidens' kim min-hee) & spends the evening getting drunk with her - then lives the exact series of events again in somewhat different ways. slightly reminded me of certified copy in the way it shifted ground without explanation - sweet & quite funny at times.




guy and madeline on a park bench (2010) 3.5/5

whiplash/la la land director damien chazelle's first film is maybe a little aimless when there isn't a musical number ongoing, but in a nice, pleasing way, much like a properly made mumble-core or cassavetes film.

the musical numbers are great, even magical - ragged & amateurish, almost punkish in a way that left you feeling like you're in the front row of a performance, unlike the slick, distancing glitziness of la la land.

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Thor Ragnorock 8/10

Finally saw this. I went in skeptical but knew there was unanimous love for this film. It won me over. It's a fun, funny breeze of a movie. And as a Jack Kirby fan, it was nice to see his imprint in design all over this movie. Jack Kirby is the Ralph McQuarrie for Star Wars of the Marvel universe. His timeless sense of design keeps on giving.

Masculin Féminin (1966) - A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.

I liked the movie more after watching the bonus features analyses on the DVD. The final scene with French pop star Chantal Goya was beautiful in its simplicity. 4/5

Baywatch (2017) An unnecessary reboot of the 90s tv classic, despite a good cast which was greatly let down by a crappy script and lame ass jokes, I give this a 1 out of 5 for the Pamela Anderson cameo at the end (she looked fabulous).

so i recently upgraded to a 55" television and have been rewatching a lot of my favorites...

i watched 'jesus of nazareth' for easter. love it. 5/5

'2001: a space odyssey'...jesus effing christ...get you to a big screen and watch. this. movie. it was like i had never seen it before. an absolute fucking masterpiece; i was completely rapt. 2001/5

peedub said:

so i recently upgraded to a 55" television and have been rewatching a lot of my favorites...

i watched 'jesus of nazareth' for easter. love it. 5/5

'2001: a space odyssey'...jesus effing christ...get you to a big screen and watch. this. movie. it was like i had never seen it before. an absolute fucking masterpiece; i was completely rapt. 2001/5

I have a 55" OLED 4K TV and I'm trying to hold out until the recent 4K restoration of the movie gets released on disc later this year to watch it again.