Latest Movie That You Watched!
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He certainly won The Following of a few more folks after that.
Didn't hurt his role in Hollow Man I take it?
Not a bit! Still one of A Few, Good Men.
Man, I missed you, OoO!
You can't handle the truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or the Bacon........fried in a skillet.........with eggs and oh heaven!!
Kevin has got a full package of bacon......Kevin Bacon's full frontal shower scene!
Funny tidbit here: Kevin actually asked the FX people to, how shall I say it- shorten his assets in the scene in Hollow Man where he's fully invisible but you can make out certain parts of his body.
You see full frontal Bacon in Wild Things too.
...as long as the tomatoes and mayo aren't spoiled....
while i was in FL, went to the movies and we watched The Hitman's Bodyguard. it was pretty much what i expected, ryan reynolds and samuel jackson just being themselves in full form, and playing off each other. and much gunfire and explosions and somewhat improbable survival. all in all it was a good time and very entertaining. samuel l. jackson has a way of using certain, shall we say, salty words in most entertaining ways. a surprise was salma hayek, playing the wife of his assassin, and she was hilariously and unexpectedly foul mouthed, tough and sassy.
also watched The Perks of Being A Wallflower, and while i always suspected this movie was decent based on previews, it was much better than i was expecting. we start out with Charlie, a somewhat strange acting, shy kid, just starting high school. he seems a bit off kilter, very quiet. there are hints of some trauma behind his behavior. then he manages to be adopted into a group of friends, and we get to watch his blossoming friendship with them, and his struggle to overcome his demons. very heartfelt, and had a revelation i wasn't quite expecting. i admit, it got a bit dusty in the room a couple times while watching. kind of makes me want to look into the book.
also watched The Perks of Being A Wallflower, and while i always suspected this movie was decent based on previews, it was much better than i was expecting. we start out with Charlie, a somewhat strange acting, shy kid, just starting high school. he seems a bit off kilter, very quiet. there are hints of some trauma behind his behavior. then he manages to be adopted into a group of friends, and we get to watch his blossoming friendship with them, and his struggle to overcome his demons. very heartfelt, and had a revelation i wasn't quite expecting. i admit, it got a bit dusty in the room a couple times while watching. kind of makes me want to look into the book.
I only watched the first one as well.
I watched Nocturnal Animals and Midnight Special almost back-to-back too!
I did this review when it came out, which is mildly spoilery, but not as regards anything important:
Young hotshot Lockhart (Dane DeHaan) is sent to retrieve a missing executive from an Alpine spa clinic, but he encounters a mystery in which patients seem to be treated in a very un-patiently manner.
Lockhart starts throwing his weight around on arrival, but finds this gets him nowhere with creepy clinic boss Volmer (Jason Isaacs). And after waifish inmate Hannah (Mia Goth) tells him that no-one ever leaves, he is dismayed after a car crash turns him (Lockhart) into a broken-legged resident.
Over the next 2 hours (the film runs for 146 minutes), Lockhart prowls around the corridors of the clinic – insofar as you can prowl when you’re on crutches – trying to figure out what’s going on, something he is doing for us, the audience, as well as himself.
Quite frankly, I’m not sure what he found. Eels have something to do with it, also bodies which look dead but apparently aren’t, something in the water (it is a spa clinic, after all), and what is going on between Volmer and Mia? Ah, that. And, it would appear, something else, too.
This film has production value plastered across every frame. It looks great. And it is very unsettling. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, the narrative got loose and decided to wander away from the film and take a short vacation, which left Lockhart creeping about discovering things which didn’t make a huge amount of sense without further explanation which didn’t always come.
There is a resolution and then an ending. The ending is absolutely fine. The resolution leaves you going, “Whut? Really?” It’s not a very good payback for two hours of creeping around.
I must record a positive vote, though, for the moment where the child-like, anorexic-looking Hannah proves to have a pleasingly plump pair of invitingly squishy breasts under her Alice In Wonderland dress. These, in and of themselves, however, are not a sufficiently strong recommendation for two-and-a-half hours of this muddled mess.
The first was good fun. Every one since has disappeared under piles of indistinguishable mechanical bombast.
The preview had me thinking Shutter Island. (hold on while I google!) I just googled " Shutter Island Cure Wellness" and apparently a lot of reviewers had the same idea. One called it, "Shutter Island with eels."
I can watch Shutter for it's atmosphere. That certainly got that right. And yes, every scene is fairly it's bulging with production value too. I did not care for the resolution. So anyway, I doubt I'll see Wellness -- unless the residing art house goons here start giving it raves.
Logan. On the plane, coming back.
My son loved it. I did not. I thought it was a cruel, heartless, hopelessly dark movie. At one point, they crossed a line (even for my son), and I thought, "Okay, I've given this a shot, and now not only am I unimpressed, but I don't like it at all."
I stayed till the end because it was Marvel, it was free, and I was on a plane. Then I tried to think back to one enjoyable part of the movie. Nothing came to me, then I remembered, oh, there was that 30-second part. Okay. And there was another that, while not enjoyable, was crafted quite while (although overdone in execution)(literally).
If you watch it, here's an open spoiler. Don't stay to the end of the credits. No cutesy teasers here. That's how dark it was compared to other Marvel franchises.
Part of the reason I watched it was for the same reason I watched Deadpool on a plane - to see if it was something Grandma could stand to watch. Yes to Deadpool. A resounding "NO!" to Logan. It's not for her. It really wasn't for me. Took one for the team.
My son loved it. I did not. I thought it was a cruel, heartless, hopelessly dark movie. At one point, they crossed a line (even for my son), and I thought, "Okay, I've given this a shot, and now not only am I unimpressed, but I don't like it at all."
I stayed till the end because it was Marvel, it was free, and I was on a plane. Then I tried to think back to one enjoyable part of the movie. Nothing came to me, then I remembered, oh, there was that 30-second part. Okay. And there was another that, while not enjoyable, was crafted quite while (although overdone in execution)(literally).
If you watch it, here's an open spoiler. Don't stay to the end of the credits. No cutesy teasers here. That's how dark it was compared to other Marvel franchises.
Part of the reason I watched it was for the same reason I watched Deadpool on a plane - to see if it was something Grandma could stand to watch. Yes to Deadpool. A resounding "NO!" to Logan. It's not for her. It really wasn't for me. Took one for the team.
Indeed it was. Even my dark-theme-liking son said
heartless, over the top, unnecessary, and diminished the story.
kinda figured. that was rather dark.
Logan? It got so many good reviews! People I know who saw it said it was great. Maybe my famous 6th sense made me hold off.
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