Andy Dufresne
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Surprisingly, Happy Gilmore 2 isn't as bad as I thought it'd be.
It's actually worse.
It's actually worse.
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KarmaPolice
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Interesting mix of movies yesterday. Started some 60s research with Winter Light. Bergman knows how to set that cheerful mood for a day of film. Next was Raising Arizona and Sinners. I am going to do a slow Coen brothers dive and get to a few I haven't tried yet like Barton Fink and Hudsucker Proxy. Sinners I really liked for the first 1/2 to 2/3 of the movie but didn't like it as much when the **** hits the fan. Fun movie that would have been a blast at the theater.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
"Yep" on Sinners. It was unique and then it was a pretty standard vampire movie.
I like Barton Fink, even if it doesn't make total sense. It's very much metaphoric.
Hudsucker Proxy I didn't care much for
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I think it was about the time of the Irish jig that the movie lost me.
Eephus
Footballguy
Monthly dump of the stuff I watched in August
Fargo (1996 - J. Coen & E. Coen)
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938 - E. Lubitsch)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992 - D. Lynch)
Two For the Road (1967 - S. Donen)
Nixon (1996 - O. Stone)
Presence (2024 - S. Soderbergh)
The Sound of Music (1965 - R. Wise)
Parthenope (2024 - P. Sorrentino)
Voodoo Man (1944 - W. Beaudine)
Teenage Zombies (1959 - J. Warren)
Ronin (1998 - J. Frankenheimer)
Passage to Marseilles (1944 - M. Curtiz)
Jungle Fever (1991 - S. Lee)
Support Your Local Sheriff (1969 - B. Kennedy)
Modesty Blaise (1966 - J. Losey)
Billy Budd (1962 - P. Ustinov)
The Amateur (2025 - J. Hawes)
The Amateur (1981 - C. Jarrott)
Better Man (2024 - M. Gracey)
The Penguin Lessons (2024 - P. Cattaneo)
Mother (2007 - Bong J-h)
Dead Ringers (1988 - D. Cronenberg)
Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You're Made Of (2015 - S. Kijak)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008 - G. del Toro)
24 movies and I think I've written up six here already (Parthenope, Presence, Better Man, The Penguin Lessons and the two Amateurs).
I went in with some apprehensions after Hudsucker was a big letdown last month but Fargo holds up really well. Great performances, tight storytelling and a great sense of place.
Bluebeard's Eight Wife was a Lubitsch/Wilder/Brackett film I'd never seen. It had some funny scenes but was kind of disappointing overall. I much prefer Gary Cooper in dramatic roles rather than light comedy like this one.
I remembered the Twin Peaks movie as being better 30 years ago. It lacked the proper balance of melodrama, oddball comedy and Lynchian weirdness of the TV show.
Two For the Road was a dated 60s romcom with Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney that intercuts scenes of the couple over a decade. The narrative gimmick didn't work IMO but it was the only interesting thing about the movie other than Hepburn's costumes.
I didn't realize Nixon was three hours long until I was already an hour in. It was a slog but had some fine performances.
The Sound of Music was one of the first movies I can remember seeing as a kid. It's a delightful film with beautiful scenery.
Voodoo Man and Teenage Zombies were the selections my nieces made for scary movie night at a family get together in a Northwoods cabin. Voodoo Man with Bela Lugosi was the better of the two; it was ridiculous and campy but Teenage Zombies was straight-up garbage.
Ronin still has the great car chases but the story and characters seemed much less consequential this time around.
Passage to Marseilles is a propagandish WWII movie with Humphrey Bogart as a French patriot. It's notable for its multiple layers of flashbacks that made more sense going in than coming out.
I hadn't watched Jungle Fever since Mrs. Eephus and I hated it in the theaters back in the day. It hasn't improved any with age and may in fact be worse.
Support Your Local Sheriff is a pretty good parody of the genre. It's silly but still fun and James Garner is perfect in it.
We watched two movies starring Terence Stamp (RIP). Billy Budd was his debut and he easily held his own with a great cast led by Peter Ustinov and Robert Ryan. It's a superior adaptation of Melville's novella set entirely at sea. Five stars, great film. Modesty Blaise is all swinging sixties style with little story to speak of. Stamp plays a working class spy but gets overshadowed by Monica Vitti as Modesty. The movie is an early example of the sexy female assassin genre that's all over the place these days.
Mother is a Bong Joon-ho film I'd never seen before. It's an interesting story full of twists that kept me engaged.
I'm usually not a big horror guy but I liked Dead Ringers (like may be a poor verb choice). Jeremy Irons performance(s) were great and Cronenberg kept the suspense up until the end.
I lost the family movie night vote and watched The Backstreet Boys documentary with the ladies. Their story was kind of interesting but it would have been better with a CGI monkey.
Hellboy II didn't hold up for me. It's such an effects-driven movie and time hasn't been kind to some of them. It's still visually inventive as del Toro always is but the plot was more formulaic than I remembered.
Fargo (1996 - J. Coen & E. Coen)
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938 - E. Lubitsch)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992 - D. Lynch)
Two For the Road (1967 - S. Donen)
Nixon (1996 - O. Stone)
Presence (2024 - S. Soderbergh)
The Sound of Music (1965 - R. Wise)
Parthenope (2024 - P. Sorrentino)
Voodoo Man (1944 - W. Beaudine)
Teenage Zombies (1959 - J. Warren)
Ronin (1998 - J. Frankenheimer)
Passage to Marseilles (1944 - M. Curtiz)
Jungle Fever (1991 - S. Lee)
Support Your Local Sheriff (1969 - B. Kennedy)
Modesty Blaise (1966 - J. Losey)
Billy Budd (1962 - P. Ustinov)
The Amateur (2025 - J. Hawes)
The Amateur (1981 - C. Jarrott)
Better Man (2024 - M. Gracey)
The Penguin Lessons (2024 - P. Cattaneo)
Mother (2007 - Bong J-h)
Dead Ringers (1988 - D. Cronenberg)
Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You're Made Of (2015 - S. Kijak)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008 - G. del Toro)
24 movies and I think I've written up six here already (Parthenope, Presence, Better Man, The Penguin Lessons and the two Amateurs).
I went in with some apprehensions after Hudsucker was a big letdown last month but Fargo holds up really well. Great performances, tight storytelling and a great sense of place.
Bluebeard's Eight Wife was a Lubitsch/Wilder/Brackett film I'd never seen. It had some funny scenes but was kind of disappointing overall. I much prefer Gary Cooper in dramatic roles rather than light comedy like this one.
I remembered the Twin Peaks movie as being better 30 years ago. It lacked the proper balance of melodrama, oddball comedy and Lynchian weirdness of the TV show.
Two For the Road was a dated 60s romcom with Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney that intercuts scenes of the couple over a decade. The narrative gimmick didn't work IMO but it was the only interesting thing about the movie other than Hepburn's costumes.
I didn't realize Nixon was three hours long until I was already an hour in. It was a slog but had some fine performances.
The Sound of Music was one of the first movies I can remember seeing as a kid. It's a delightful film with beautiful scenery.
Voodoo Man and Teenage Zombies were the selections my nieces made for scary movie night at a family get together in a Northwoods cabin. Voodoo Man with Bela Lugosi was the better of the two; it was ridiculous and campy but Teenage Zombies was straight-up garbage.
Ronin still has the great car chases but the story and characters seemed much less consequential this time around.
Passage to Marseilles is a propagandish WWII movie with Humphrey Bogart as a French patriot. It's notable for its multiple layers of flashbacks that made more sense going in than coming out.
I hadn't watched Jungle Fever since Mrs. Eephus and I hated it in the theaters back in the day. It hasn't improved any with age and may in fact be worse.
Support Your Local Sheriff is a pretty good parody of the genre. It's silly but still fun and James Garner is perfect in it.
We watched two movies starring Terence Stamp (RIP). Billy Budd was his debut and he easily held his own with a great cast led by Peter Ustinov and Robert Ryan. It's a superior adaptation of Melville's novella set entirely at sea. Five stars, great film. Modesty Blaise is all swinging sixties style with little story to speak of. Stamp plays a working class spy but gets overshadowed by Monica Vitti as Modesty. The movie is an early example of the sexy female assassin genre that's all over the place these days.
Mother is a Bong Joon-ho film I'd never seen before. It's an interesting story full of twists that kept me engaged.
I'm usually not a big horror guy but I liked Dead Ringers (like may be a poor verb choice). Jeremy Irons performance(s) were great and Cronenberg kept the suspense up until the end.
I lost the family movie night vote and watched The Backstreet Boys documentary with the ladies. Their story was kind of interesting but it would have been better with a CGI monkey.
Hellboy II didn't hold up for me. It's such an effects-driven movie and time hasn't been kind to some of them. It's still visually inventive as del Toro always is but the plot was more formulaic than I remembered.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
but then again, who wouldn't?
Ilov80s
Footballguy
and I agree Gary Cooper in comedy doesn't work at all. The one exception is Ball of Fire but I feel like he doesn't realize it's even a comedy which is why it works. For me, he's the most overrated golden age actor. Very stiff and bland. I don't know what Tony Soprano was thinking when he missed him so much.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Oddly enough, Winter Light might be my favorite Bergman but I don't care for First Reformed which is so clearly based on Winter Light. What did you think of Raising Arizona? Yeah Sinners was great in the theater and I get what you are saying about the last 1/3 being kind of generic but I liked that payoff. It kind of gave the audience everything.
Eephus
Footballguy
Cary Grant in High Noon would hit differently though
Eephus
Footballguy
I'm kind of afraid to go back and re-watch but I found You Don't Mess with the Zohan very funny
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yeah Grant swapping for Cooper in Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon would make sense and improve the movie but for High Noon, give me Joel McCrea or Randolph Scott.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I really liked Winter Light, but I've also liked most of his movies I've seen besides a couple very early ones. Reading his autobiography has made going through his movies more rewarding, and there are a couple key ones in the 60s I haven't seen yet. The other slight knock on Sinners for me is that what is turns into is one of my least favorite sub genres/monsters. Get Out got a similar reaction from me as it turned into more of a home invasion type of movie at the end and here when it flips I am not as engaged. I did like the ending showing the future and the post credit scene though. In horror I gravitate more to ghosts, occult, body horror type movies when I watch the genre.
