What have you watched lately?

[Tom Foolery]

I would call it the 4th viewing. Saw it in the 80s, rewatched it once in the 90s. Then probably watched it once before in the 21st century. But I’m pretty sure I laugh at different gags every time.

[Tom Foolery]

Madame Web. Hahahaha holy shit. Usually before you make a movie, you want to decide what the movie is about. Or definitely do that while you’re making it. Or at the very least, try to come up with something in the editing room and while you’re marketing it.

But these brave souls decided against any of that, and just shot a bunch of footage and then gave it to a homeless guy with a pair of scissors. But not like ‘here make a movie out of this’ more like dead silence with Guy Fawkes masks on gave him a couple grocery bags and just turned around and left.
We tried MST3King it and there wasn’t even enough good ‘bad’ to work with. Yikes.


Fall Guy. A love letter to stuntmen everywhere. It’s early in the year, but this gets the annual Speed Racer award for funnest film of 2024. Goofy fun, lots of action, and just the right amount of meta.

[anarky]

You just sold me on Fall Guy.

[Tom Foolery]

On a bit of a WWII kick the last week or so. None of these were movies I had watched before.

The Catcher Was a Spy. Based on a true story. Paul Rudd plays a former MLB catcher who got recruited into the OSS and gets sene on a secret mission to assassinate Heisenberg before he can build Germany an atomic bomb. He didn’t kill Heisenberg, and the threat of the German bomb wasn’t very credible, so it ended up being kind of a non-story.

Operation Mincemeat. Also based on a true story. The story of Britain’s counter-intelligence service creating a fake military officer with fake top secret papers, with the intent of Germany intercepting the papers and thinking the Allies are invading Greece and not Sicily. The best part is, the Nazis figured out it was a ruse, but the guys in charge of that shit were planning a coup, so they let the fake intel go thru to Hitler anyway.

Company of Heroes. NOT based on a true story. This straight to video schlock had a squad of US troops get stuck behind enemy lines and then take on a dying OSS agents mission to capture a German scientist before he can finish the atomic bomb. Complete made up shit where everyone’s guns never need to be reloaded and apparently everyone brought a duffle bag full of magazines with them. The only memorable part is when this chick takes a bath and one of the soldiers is gazing at her thru a partially closed door. Lingering shot of her badonk, and titty. It’s the chick that played Bereet in Guardians of the Galaxy.

and today I went and saw Furiosa. Just as awesome as Fury Road, and possibly even more epic. It’s sad all these great movies are doing shit at the theaters. They get the stigma of “flop” attached to them when they are anything but.

[anarky]

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Still a fucking classic. Even if my kids wince at the "Fag!!" line.

It's occurred to me many times that the most ridiculously unbelievable part about this movie is that these two are only in danger of failing one class.

[Diabolical]

I still want to know how Ted fell out of the armor and it stayed together.

[Tom Foolery]

Hangman. A serial killer movie with Al Pacino and Karl Urban as detectives chasing a guy carving letters into his victims, spelling out a word. The movie wanted to be Se7en, but it wasn’t even close. I kept wondering why the fuck 78 year old Al Pacino was still a cop. Don’t they retire in their 40s and live off their pensions?

Anyone But You. Recent rom-com starring what passes for headline talent these days. Eh, I didn’t hate it. And you get to see Sydney Sweeney’s tits and ass briefly. And also Glenn Powell’s ass if you’re into that sort of thing.

The Hunt. I remember the outrage when this movie came out. Without having seen it, Red Staters were outraged it was portaying them as gun toting killers hunting libtards for sport. Then when they realized it was the opposite, the snowflakes got outraged they were portrayed as the victims in the movie. It’s actually a pretty great satire. They start off with ‘final girl’ Emma Roberts as the main focus of the movie, and then immediately blow her head off, then switch to classic handsome hero Justin Hartley before he dies minutes later by landmine. The elitist liberal assholes are spouting all this politically correct rhetoric thoughout the film. Betty Gilpin shines as the last survivor. Even the character’s names in the credits like Ranndeeeeee! And (Shut the fuck up)Gary are fucking hilarious. Fucking loved it.

Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Hahahah! The sequel to the original 1968 movie, has a new astronaut crash land on the same planet and pretty much follow the trail of Charlton Heston’s Taylor. Heston didn’t want to do a sequel, so he only shot a few scenes at the beginning and end of the movie. The finale of the film, is they find a super nuke and Heston’s like fuck it and they blow up the planet. Haha. Zero fucks given. Sorry, spoiler alert. Somehow, even with the planet being destroyed, they made three more movies and a TV series.

The Gentlemen. Recent Guy Ritchie movie with Matthew McConaughey as a pot dealer in the UK. Not as good as Ritchie’s earlier stuff, but better than some of his more recent movies I’ve watched lately.

Alien and Alien3. Always fun rewatching the classics. Aliens wasn’t on the streaming service, or I would’ve rewatched that also.

[Ran]

Caught the ending of LOTR Return of the King. It has been a while since I've seen it. That scene at the end where Frodo wakes up and everyone laughs is just plain awkward.

[anarky]

That's, what, the sixth ending? Seventh?

[Tom Foolery]

That's, what, the sixth ending? Seventh?

Of the seven endings, that one is probably the second or maybe third.

[anarky]

Two Heroes. The first My Hero Academia movie. The main character, Deku, and his mentor, All-Might, travel to a floating island populated by scientists, only for it to fall under attack by villains. And, of course, almost all the rest of Deku's class from UA High wind up there for various reasons, and it basically becomes an arc of the show in the form of a 90-minute movie. The decompressed nature of the storytelling works fine in episodic form, but makes the film drag a little. Definitely worth watching, though in the context of the show, and not as an entry point. Also Mineta is a fucking pervert and would be at home here.

Poor Things. To paraphrase the nut salesman in Kung Pow, "THAT'S A LOT OF BOOBS!" Emma Stone spends a pretty good chunk of the movie fucking. But it's not nearly as hot as that sentence might imply. (She mostly fucks Bruce Banner and Eedy Karn from Andor, as well as even uglier people.) The movie is a gorgeous, somewhat disturbing, fairy tale that appears to be loosely based on Frankenstein and maybe Candide. Tim Burton probably took one look at it and decided it was too weird for him. Even though it's a very different movie, it reminds me a lot of Amélie, a truly great artsy movie that kind of surprised me by being as popular as it was in the mainstream. (This and the fucking Kardashians should not exist simultaneously in the same universe. Granted, the Kardashians should only exist in a dirty toilet, for a split second before they're flushed.)

[jjreason]

I watched Civil War on the recommendation of a friend. Not really worth my time but not terrible. Jesse Plemons is usually worth watching in whatever he's in (he's only in this for about 5 minutes).

Still working my way through Killers of the Flower Moon in 20 minute chunks. The first hour has been pretty good. Not sure if I mentioned watching King of Comedy on the last page, but if you haven't seen it, just give it 20 minutes & it will be come incredibly clear where Todd Philips' inspiration for The Joker came from..... it's like 2 parts of the same movie with a big, long intermission.

[Tom Foolery]

Annihilation. Did a rewatch. Not as creepy and unsettling as the first viewing when you don’t know what’s going on. Oscar Isaac’s suicide by phosphorus grenade is still pretty fucked up.

Swamp Thing. As a comic nerd, I had never watched the original ‘82 film. It’s super low budget and not very scary for a ‘horror’ film. Of all the characters in the DC milieu, after Superman, this is the next one they picked to film? I guess it’s not any weirder than Blade kicking off the Modern Marvel Rennaissance.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This means something. This is important.

[Diabolical]

Annihilation. Did a rewatch. Not as creepy and unsettling as the first viewing when you don’t know what’s going on. Oscar Isaac’s suicide by phosphorus grenade is still pretty fucked up.

The bear scene still haunts me.

[anarky]

Step Brothers. Would you believe I've never seen it? My wife doesn't like that sort of movie, and I've heard it's not good for kids, and never got to watch it on any of the occasions where I watch movies by myself. I figured the youngest is 13, and there's no way I wasn't watching worse at half his age.

Holy fuck.

Just boats and hos.

I mean, it lives up to its hype, and we were both in danger of pissing our pants for almost two hours. I hope those two work out their real life differences; they're one of the all-time best comedy duos.

Rango. Another one I've never gotten around to seeing. Another one I now wish I'd watched years ago. It's pretty dark and rather deep for a kids' movie, with a stellar cast. Definitely worth watching if you haven't.