Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
I stopped going to the movies when the pandemic began, just have not been since. I'm not blaming anything or anyone but it's a lot easier to just stream at home. When I was younger it seemed like there was a minimum of a 3-6 month delay from theater premier to at home video but that gap has been cut to just a few weeks between end of run and home theater time.
And even that...the last movie I really went to the theater to watch was The Irishman which as I recall was playing simultaneously or within a week or two and still running at theaters but was on Netflix as well.
Part of the reason i never go any more is there isn't any movies I really desire to go and see. I read some of the bigger releases in here that some of you catch and post about, I never feel like I'm missing much.
My biggest gripe are movies that are released in theaters and then never available to rent online. You either must buy them or you have to subscribe to whatever streaming platform they are being released on
HOGWASH I say
-This is really about a Christmas movie but we did see "Dream Scenario" last night w/Nicholas Cage, pretty good movie, some big laughs and some very awkward scenes, I could understand why some folks might hate it but we thought it was entertaining and somewhat thought provoking on society.
On to the topic here, the year is 2000 and we had just arrived in Los Angeles , CA which has some of the greatest movie theaters in the country. Mann's, Arclight, Laemmle, there are so many amazing places to take in a movie out there, we were like kids in a candy shop when we landed and despite being mostly broke we made it our duty to try and take in as many films as we could
That Christmas/Holiday season we took in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon on the big Arclight theater, it blew our minds. That movie did remarkably well over its theatrical run.
There were a slew of arthouse films in late 2000 that grossed less than $10M-$20M for their entire theatrical run, far less than $10M for some of them. movies like Pollack, State and Main, Snatch and Quills were all released that season(we saw all of them) and then you had some main stream Christmas films and this one I am going to highlight was simply not in our wheelhouse when we were 25 yrs old.
But on the same year that Jim Carrey starred in The Grinch, if for some reason you've never gotten around to watching it, pretty dang funny and a lot of the jokes are for adults I'd say..
In that same Christmas there was another holiday/Christmas film that I had never seen and it actually did some decent business although nothing like The Grinch.
MoP Jr watched this movie and got mad at me for not suggesting it and asked me how it was I could have ever overlooked this film
Mrs and I watched it this past weekend, it stars the one and only Nick Cage and the movie is called "The Family Man"
If you have never seen this movie, I invite you to curl up on the couch with someone special and pop this in.
Maybe its because of my background and my own battles with being a dad/father but this movie really got to me
I would compare it to a more modern take of a Its a Wonderful Life, different but somewhat in the same genre.
-We've all thought and wondered what it would been like had we made different choices at different crossroads in our lives. Cage is by far the best actor on screen (mostly) and in 2000 I would say he was near the top of his game. I feel like Tea Leoni is simply outclassed in some of her scenes, I liked her better as the lawyer packing up her boxes and would have liked to have seen more of that vs when she is "pro bono" and I'll not ruin the movie if you've never seen it.
I couldn't appreciate this movie in 2000, now that I'm 50 it has a very different vibe to it. When Cage rolls up on Don Cheadle towards the end again, this time Cheadle is the store clerk and the weight of that scene has a very different gravitas to it. Don Cheadle is not on screen for long in this movie but he steals every scene and that's hard to do going up against Nicholas Cage. Cheadle plays this role in his sleep but it shows how effective he is as an actor
Get a bottle of your favorite wine/champagne and whoever you hold dear to you, sit down and pour a glass as you watch this film. It captures the spirit of the holidays and just might have you grabbing a Kleenex at one point or another. If you've seen this movie, of course I'd like to hear your feedback. I'm getting so soft in my old age
Merry Christmas and Cheers!
And even that...the last movie I really went to the theater to watch was The Irishman which as I recall was playing simultaneously or within a week or two and still running at theaters but was on Netflix as well.
Part of the reason i never go any more is there isn't any movies I really desire to go and see. I read some of the bigger releases in here that some of you catch and post about, I never feel like I'm missing much.
My biggest gripe are movies that are released in theaters and then never available to rent online. You either must buy them or you have to subscribe to whatever streaming platform they are being released on
HOGWASH I say
-This is really about a Christmas movie but we did see "Dream Scenario" last night w/Nicholas Cage, pretty good movie, some big laughs and some very awkward scenes, I could understand why some folks might hate it but we thought it was entertaining and somewhat thought provoking on society.
On to the topic here, the year is 2000 and we had just arrived in Los Angeles , CA which has some of the greatest movie theaters in the country. Mann's, Arclight, Laemmle, there are so many amazing places to take in a movie out there, we were like kids in a candy shop when we landed and despite being mostly broke we made it our duty to try and take in as many films as we could
That Christmas/Holiday season we took in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon on the big Arclight theater, it blew our minds. That movie did remarkably well over its theatrical run.
There were a slew of arthouse films in late 2000 that grossed less than $10M-$20M for their entire theatrical run, far less than $10M for some of them. movies like Pollack, State and Main, Snatch and Quills were all released that season(we saw all of them) and then you had some main stream Christmas films and this one I am going to highlight was simply not in our wheelhouse when we were 25 yrs old.
But on the same year that Jim Carrey starred in The Grinch, if for some reason you've never gotten around to watching it, pretty dang funny and a lot of the jokes are for adults I'd say..
In that same Christmas there was another holiday/Christmas film that I had never seen and it actually did some decent business although nothing like The Grinch.
MoP Jr watched this movie and got mad at me for not suggesting it and asked me how it was I could have ever overlooked this film
Mrs and I watched it this past weekend, it stars the one and only Nick Cage and the movie is called "The Family Man"
If you have never seen this movie, I invite you to curl up on the couch with someone special and pop this in.
Maybe its because of my background and my own battles with being a dad/father but this movie really got to me
I would compare it to a more modern take of a Its a Wonderful Life, different but somewhat in the same genre.
-We've all thought and wondered what it would been like had we made different choices at different crossroads in our lives. Cage is by far the best actor on screen (mostly) and in 2000 I would say he was near the top of his game. I feel like Tea Leoni is simply outclassed in some of her scenes, I liked her better as the lawyer packing up her boxes and would have liked to have seen more of that vs when she is "pro bono" and I'll not ruin the movie if you've never seen it.
I couldn't appreciate this movie in 2000, now that I'm 50 it has a very different vibe to it. When Cage rolls up on Don Cheadle towards the end again, this time Cheadle is the store clerk and the weight of that scene has a very different gravitas to it. Don Cheadle is not on screen for long in this movie but he steals every scene and that's hard to do going up against Nicholas Cage. Cheadle plays this role in his sleep but it shows how effective he is as an actor
Get a bottle of your favorite wine/champagne and whoever you hold dear to you, sit down and pour a glass as you watch this film. It captures the spirit of the holidays and just might have you grabbing a Kleenex at one point or another. If you've seen this movie, of course I'd like to hear your feedback. I'm getting so soft in my old age
Merry Christmas and Cheers!