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Post by repulsionist on Nov 11, 2020 17:48:49 GMT -5
Prole Hole, it is a dull movie. I couldn't finish it past the bar scene where Tony Lo Bianco is introduced when I gave it a go 2 months back. To be clear, I have the DVD. I first watched it in awe on a laptop some 20 years ago. I watched it again about 10 years ago and enjoyed it. This last time, my age and my patience for stupid plot oversights threw me off my feed.
If you're still game for recommendations of early 1970s American Crime films after The Seven-Ups, stick around 1973 for The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Charley Varrick, Cops and Robbers, Electra Glide in Blue, Hell Up in Harlem, The Laughing Policeman, The Long Goodbye, The Outfit, and The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Apologies, of course, if I've overstepped the bounds of etiquette.
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Post by Prole Hole on Nov 11, 2020 17:59:28 GMT -5
Prole Hole , it is a dull movie. I couldn't finish it past the bar scene where Tony Lo Bianco is introduced when I gave it a go 2 months back. To be clear, I have the DVD. I first watched it in awe on a laptop some 20 years ago. I watched it again about 10 years ago and enjoyed it. This last time, my age and my patience for stupid plot oversights threw me off my feed.
If you're still game for recommendations of early 1970s American Crime films after The Seven-Ups, stick around 1973 for The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Charley Varrick, Cops and Robbers, Electra Glide in Blue, Hell Up in Harlem, The Laughing Policeman, The Long Goodbye, The Outfit, and The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Apologies, of course, if I've overstepped the bounds of etiquette.
Not at all an overstep, I very much appreciate the recommendations. I've seen The Long Goodbye but the rest are fresh to me so I'll definitely check them out. Thanks! EDIT: Hmm, maybe I should do a Prole Hole vs Gritty 70's Movies review thread...
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 11, 2020 19:06:34 GMT -5
The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014) What happens when a bored character actor from Hollywood decides to start an independent Single-A baseball team in Portland, OR? You get Kurt Russell at the plate, a fuckton of killer mustaches, a kid who would go on to become an Academy Award nominated director as a bat boy, an actual dog as a mascot, and Big League Chew getting created.
This documentary tells the story of the Portland Mavericks, a baseball team created whole cloth by character actor, Bing Russell ("He was the deputy on Bonanza!"), after having a bit of a midlife crisis. The Mavericks are portrayed as a bunch of has-beens, rejects, and never-weres who just dreamed of playing ball and over their brief history this rag-tag group of underdogs were able to become one of the hottest baseball teams in the US and revive baseball in Portland, OR.
Having never heard of this team, I don't know how much of this "What if the Bad News Bears were an actual real baseball team," mythology is accurate and how much is exaggerated because it makes for a better story but frankly I don't care. The characters and stories told in this film made me feel like I missed out on something really special in Portland back in the 1970s which is something that every good baseball documentary should do.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Nov 12, 2020 1:59:10 GMT -5
Psycho—not my first time seeing it but this film always weirds me out, beyond the obvious stuff. I think it’s because, apart from the music, some of the suspense/pacing, and the blonde, it really doesn’t feel entirely like a Hitchcock film (I think he made North by Northwest right before this). It’s partly like his b-movie. So much of it—bland California location, dark view of sympathetic protagonist, bland “good” characters (Marion’s sister has no personality besides concerned sister, Martin Balsam’s good but the private dick isn’t anything more than a private dick either), kind of off story structure, the ending (pseudo-)psychological explanation or the viewer—would, if done poorly, be like one of those misanthropic exploitation films that were mocked on MST3K. But it’s done well here, and there’s legit, visible artistry in the black-and-white photography, even as it conveys a “cheap” feel. High-low brow, I guess. In one of the last scenes in Psycho, when Norman is being locked up, the guard is played by Ted Knight. As he locks the cell, he makes this classic Ted Knight grimace, and it is my official head canon that that guard pursued a lifetime career in law enforcement and eventually became Judge Elihu Smails.
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Post by repulsionist on Nov 15, 2020 19:25:23 GMT -5
Beirut, Oh Beirut (1975)
I did not finish this yet. I'm putting this note in to recommend, if anyone wants to see 1970s Lebanon talking about late 1960s Lebanon, when the scope of discussion and manners reflected what transpired a few short months after this released: The Lebanese Civil War. The film is shot as a political romance, with that phrase being both intertwined and separately distinguished at different points in the film.
My current method for finding foreign films on Netflix is to use the search string '19', scroll to the bottom of the listings for 'Movies from the 1980s' or 'Movies from the 1970s'. The films list in order of origin culture mostly: Western White, Indian, Hong Kong, Euro and Middle Eastern.
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Post by oppy all along on Nov 16, 2020 3:34:44 GMT -5
The Craft (1996): Ohhhhh, this is what all the witch media over the last two decades is based on. Campy and ridiculous in all the best ways, and everything the following failed to be.
The Craft: Legacy (2020): What the hell was that? Sorry, was this meant to be a tame movie about four intersectional and socially responsible witches reforming toxic masculinity? Because that's what it was. And sure, maybe my reaction says more about my expectations than the movie itself, but the excess and questionable morality of witch media is the whole point! It's a female power fantasy, where the marginalised and powerless become the monsters the patriarchy imagines them to be because it's either be a bad bitch or be the patriarchy's bitch. Not an exercise in helping emotionally repressed men express their feelings!
Also, it's pretty hilarious meta that the woke white guy gets more screentime and focus than the trans girl and the girl of colour.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Nov 18, 2020 20:30:19 GMT -5
The Godfather - A few years ago, I told my son he could watch it when he was 15, so now that he is, I checked it out from the library, and we all watched it. Although in order to get my daughter to watch it, we had to split up the viewing into multiple nights. It's still good.
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Post by oppy all along on Nov 20, 2020 6:01:17 GMT -5
The Comeback Trail (2020): The back half of De Niro's career has basically been built on 'De Niro at 25% is still a good time', and this is no exception. Everyone involved is phoning it in to the max and I still cared about crazy awesome Duke Montana reviving his reputation by making one more great Hollywood western. For a black comedy about a sociopathic producer trying to murder his leading man, the movie felt a bit toothless in the end.
Still, it's a better crime movie/love letter to Hollywood westerns than Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
Palm Springs (2020): It's fine. I didn't like it as much as I thought I'd like it, and every time that happens it turns into a soulsearching exercise of was the movie wrong or was I wrong in how I perceived the movie.
#1: Was the movie wrong? Jake Peralta and The Mother (was I supposed to learn their character names? I didn't) were kind of bummers, the movie was more dark and existential than it was funny, the plot resolution felt kind of pro forma although I appreciate the movie realising nobody actually cares why any of this happened. As for the relationship itself, the timeline feels janky which is definitely the point - they fall in love in a montage of unspecified length, have a bad day, then split up for an unspecified length of time, then go right back to each other for the ending without really resolving anything. Plus he was a broken human being and she kinda sucked not gonna lie.
#2: Was I wrong? This is a streaming exclusive movie that didn't release in Australia until months after the 'film community' had fell in love with and raved about this movie like it was the one bright spot in their covid lockdowns. I know that I'm harder on movies that I watch on my tv rather than in the theatres, and that I'm biased against movies that bailed on a theatrical release to hit streaming. And besides that, building expectations before seeing a movie is the easiest way to ruin said movie. Maybe I'm just being a sook.
#3: It's still pretty good though I mean it is. They DEFINITELY broke up after the movie ended though. Almost immediately.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 21, 2020 17:49:38 GMT -5
Batman Ninja (2018) - When Gorilla Grodd’s time machine goes apeshit Batman and a bunch of Gotham’s most vile villains get sent back in time to Edo era Japan. For the first 30 or so minutes of this I was seriously reconsidering my aversion to Japanamation but then we got feudal Japanese castles transforming into giant robots and a monkey army merging with a bunch of bats to form an Ultraman style Batman for no discernible reason and I was once again reminded of why I hate this shit.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Nov 21, 2020 19:51:29 GMT -5
Batman Ninja (2018) - When Gorilla Grodd’s time machine goes apeshit Batman and a bunch of Gotham’s most vile villains get sent back in time to Edo era Japan. For the first 30 or so minutes of this I was seriously reconsidering my aversion to Japanamation but then we got feudal Japanese castles transforming into giant robots and a monkey army merging with a bunch of bats to form an Ultraman style Batman for no discernible reason and I was once again reminded of why I hate this shit. I realize that this isn't what you intended, but you may have sold me on watching this.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 21, 2020 20:19:57 GMT -5
Batman Ninja (2018) - When Gorilla Grodd’s time machine goes apeshit Batman and a bunch of Gotham’s most vile villains get sent back in time to Edo era Japan. For the first 30 or so minutes of this I was seriously reconsidering my aversion to Japanamation but then we got feudal Japanese castles transforming into giant robots and a monkey army merging with a bunch of bats to form an Ultraman style Batman for no discernible reason and I was once again reminded of why I hate this shit. I realize that this isn't what you intended, but you may have sold me on watching this. I'm not above wacky bullshit but the beginning of the movie fooled me into thinking it was going to be something else. It might be better if you go in knowing that shit is going to go completely off the rails in the second half of the movie.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Nov 21, 2020 20:38:21 GMT -5
I realize that this isn't what you intended, but you may have sold me on watching this. I'm not above wacky bullshit but the beginning of the movie fooled me into thinking it was going to be something else. It might be better if you go in knowing that shit is going to go completely off the rails in the second half of the movie. I've gotten bored beyond belief with Batman played straight, but Gorilla Grodd and robot castles sounds like what it takes to get me to watch a Batman movie.
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Post by oppy all along on Nov 21, 2020 23:14:48 GMT -5
Freaky (2020): It's a fun movie. Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton play both characters with aplomb, both managing to be scary and funny as a teenage girl and as the Blissfield Butcher. It doesn't go all the way with the horror, although the horror sequences and gory kills are certainly attention-grabbing.
Did every screenwriter in Hollywood get ruthlessly bullied at high school? I get that everything in high school feels heightened by hormones and a lack of scale, but the roving packs of sociopaths roaming high school to demonise this one chick seems like a bit much.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Nov 22, 2020 17:05:05 GMT -5
The Strawberry Blonde (1941). It also takes place in the 1890s, so in modern terms that’s like a film that took place in 1975, and while it makes perfect sense that people in the audience would have remembered this time period—it was described at the time as “nostalgic,” and I’m sure it kind of was to them—there’s even a sing-along to one of the hits 1890s at the end. Obviously it makes sense mathematically, but since the pop culture from then has disappeared in a way the pop culture from the forties hasn’t (for one thing people still watch forties movies) it still is intuitively mind-blowing even if it mathematically isn’t. That’s especially true since society moved by so much more quickly— music from the seventies is used in movies all the time today and it just doesn’t seem inherently nostalgic. When I was a little kid, like early 60's, Gary Moore had a variety show on tv. It was in black and white of course, everything was then. I don't know if this was first run, or some old program from the 50's they were rerunning for the summer. Anyway, they used to do a nostalgia segment called "That Wonderful Year". They would have a magic street sign, or calendar or something that would flip numbers and stop on the year they were highlighting. It would be something like "1906" or "1898" or something. They would talk about news events from that year and sing a song that was popular then. Even though I was little enough that there was to s of stuff I just never noticed or paid attention to, I remember being shocked that people from back then were still alive, much less could remember anything. I remember that there was a huge 1930's nostalgia craze in the 70's including the first tv series titled "Happy Days". This was years before Fonzie and Richie, and featured Bob and Ray, and Louie Ney, who would start each show bully turning on an old radio and saying "I am 30's, and welcome to those Happy Days." They never talked much about the dust bowl or people starving to death on the streets, so I guess nostalgia has always been selective.
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Post by repulsionist on Nov 22, 2020 22:56:36 GMT -5
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
My kids started this one about 1 month ago. They haven't finished it yet. I decided to do so late Saturday evening. After the harpies are caught, it's slam-bang action time. I really enjoyed the skeleton fight, as much as I did when I first saw this film as an 8-year-old. And 'Oh my schlock!', Triton parting the Clashing Rocks left me in tears of laughter for how long it goes on.
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Post by ganews on Nov 22, 2020 23:34:40 GMT -5
Underwater Kristen Stewart fights Cthulu and her own inner demons (as I felt with Gravity, doesn't anyone go through psychological screening before taking these jobs?) to rescue people from an exploding Sealab Marianas Trench mining operation. It owes pretty much everything to Alien. Can't believe we're still killing the black guy first. The soundtrack feature Avril Lavigne covering the Spongebob Squarepants theme, a more perfect match I cannot imagine. Often difficult to see, but still not a terrible way to spend 90 minutes.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Nov 23, 2020 10:08:14 GMT -5
Floyd D Barber The Sting would be the epitome of that, wouldn’t it? Via that movie, I think, 1930s Americana went international—you see Sting-inspired stuff, complete with all sorts of signs of 1930s settings, even in Japan in the later seventies. I think maybe Bonnie and Clyde started it off in popular culture, and The Sting really made it omnipresent. It showed up in a lot of clothing styles, and on tv in things like the gangster planet episode of Star Trek tos, and the movies were everywhere, from "They Shoot Horses, Don't They" to "Dr Phibes" and "Big Bad Momma". Oddly enough, it was followed almost immediately by a large wave of 50's nostalgia popularized by "American Graffiti" (although that was officially set in 1962) "Grease", the better known "Happy Days" series, and "Laverne and Shirley".
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Post by nowimnothing on Nov 23, 2020 10:47:53 GMT -5
Greenland (2020)
Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin and a moppet try to survive in an apocalyptic paint by numbers movie. Really nothing to say about the story, they add some artificial tension via infidelity and a diabetic kid, but everything plays out pretty much as you would expect. Butler gets to whale on some people, Baccarin screams a lot and the effects are decent. Maybe not unique to this genre, but something that stands out to me in retrospect is how singularly focused they are in their own survival while ignoring everyone around them, even when those people helped them. Butler does maybe randomly save one person and looks sadly at another that dies. Baccarin even pulls a Karen on an Army commander, demanding exceptions for her family where there were none given to the black female Army commander. Maybe not quite as tone-deaf as The Impossible (2012), but in that wheelhouse.
If you just want to see shit blow up while another affluent white family survives against all odds and lots of brown people die then I guess you could do worse.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Nov 23, 2020 13:53:51 GMT -5
Collective
One of the best documentaries I've ever seen. And I watch a lot of documentaries. Extremely terrifying and upsetting though.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Nov 23, 2020 15:06:18 GMT -5
The Strawberry Blonde (1941). It also takes place in the 1890s, so in modern terms that’s like a film that took place in 1975, and while it makes perfect sense that people in the audience would have remembered this time period—it was described at the time as “nostalgic,” and I’m sure it kind of was to them—there’s even a sing-along to one of the hits 1890s at the end. Obviously it makes sense mathematically, but since the pop culture from then has disappeared in a way the pop culture from the forties hasn’t (for one thing people still watch forties movies) it still is intuitively mind-blowing even if it mathematically isn’t. That’s especially true since society moved by so much more quickly— music from the seventies is used in movies all the time today and it just doesn’t seem inherently nostalgic. When I was a little kid, like early 60's, Gary Moore had a variety show on tv. It was in black and white of course, everything was then. I don't know if this was first run, or some old program from the 50's they were rerunning for the summer. Anyway, they used to do a nostalgia segment called "That Wonderful Year". They would have a magic street sign, or calendar or something that would flip numbers and stop on the year they were highlighting. It would be something like "1906" or "1898" or something. They would talk about news events from that year and sing a song that was popular then. Even though I was little enough that there was to s of stuff I just never noticed or paid attention to, I remember being shocked that people from back then were still alive, much less could remember anything. I remember that there was a huge 1930's nostalgia craze in the 70's including the first tv series titled "Happy Days". This was years before Fonzie and Richie, and featured Bob and Ray, and Louie Ney, who would start each show bully turning on an old radio and saying "I am 30's, and welcome to those Happy Days." They never talked much about the dust bowl or people starving to death on the streets, so I guess nostalgia has always been selective. Hosted on YouTube (a 21st century invention) is a recording of a television (20th century invention) game show from the mid-1950s that featured a guest who was then 95 years old. He had witnessed Abraham Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theater - in the 19th century - when he was a child.
I've seen that clip about ten times and it's still amazing to me how history is never as far away as we think.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 23, 2020 19:09:16 GMT -5
Barbie: Princess Adventure (2020) - A Prince & the Pauper send up with 9,000,000% more references to vlogging. Some of the songs were fine pop songs and there were twerking goats but otherwise this was pretty shitty. My daughter liked it well enough I guess.
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Post by Hachiman on Nov 23, 2020 20:48:41 GMT -5
Ratatouille (2007)
Despite owning this movie, I seldom watch it because my oldest kid has always hated it. I think this is probably the first time watching it since I went to Paris, which was two years ago. She loved it this time so maybe she just needed to grow up a little more to enjoy it. She had a lot more issues with a Rat being in a kitchen this time and how not-cool that was. It definitely is the Pixar movie with the highest level of grown-up appeal. I mean, take away the rat (or find a less fantastical stand-in) and this could have been a live action movie aimed at grown-ups. One thing that really hit me this time watching it was Remy's breakthrough where he talks about being sick of pretending. I think at this particular moment in my life it was something I could relate to more than ever and really needed to hear.
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Post by haysoos on Nov 24, 2020 13:10:49 GMT -5
Ratatouille (2007)Despite owning this movie, I seldom watch it because my oldest kid has always hated it. I think this is probably the first time watching it since I went to Paris, which was two years ago. She loved it this time so maybe she just needed to grow up a little more to enjoy it. She had a lot more issues with a Rat being in a kitchen this time and how not-cool that was. It definitely is the Pixar movie with the highest level of grown-up appeal. I mean, take away the rat (or find a less fantastical stand-in) and this could have been a live action movie aimed at grown-ups. One thing that really hit me this time watching it was Remy's breakthrough where he talks about being sick of pretending. I think at this particular moment in my life it was something I could relate to more than ever and really needed to hear. If you're looking for other animated movies featuring lovable vermin living in Paris, have you seen A Monster in Paris (2011)? It narrowly missed my list of top ten animated movies of the 2010s, and would have made the list if that decade hadn't been so strong in awesome animated movies.
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Post by oppy all along on Nov 27, 2020 22:46:52 GMT -5
Happiest Season (2020): It begins, middles, and nearly finishes like Kristen Stewart is in the lesbian version of Get Out, but otherwise it's real cute and nice. Kristen Stewart is always a win, it's occasionally funny and always heartfelt, and everyone gets over their problems just a little too quickly. But then it wouldn't be a holiday romcom, so sure everyone gets over how much Mackenzie Davis sucked almost instantly sure why not.
I got kind of heated at Mackenzie Davis during this movie. And I know they show how she's having a difficult time, and coming out is complicated, and this movie is showing the worst few days of a year long relationship, but you're on thin ice Harper.
Most importantly, Burl Moseley (the 'Don't Be A Lawyer' guy from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) is in this movie as someone who retired from being a lawyer.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Nov 28, 2020 9:13:29 GMT -5
National Treasure (2004): Nicolas Cage stars as Nicolas Cage, conspiracy theorist, historian, and somehow expert spy and physical trainer or something. Along with his sidekick Comic Relief Computer Guy and his eventual love interest Dr. Somehow I've Heard Of Your Weird Conspiracy Theory Family, they steal the Declaration Of Independence and continue to handle it without gloves and expose it to the air and use clues that were passed down by the Masons Who Control The Government, including a specific detail on the reverse of the US$100 note that was added to the bill in 1996 and why did they add the clue and not look for the treasure, it's been 200 years. The movie is mostly aware of its own ridiculousness, but I guess nobody told Jon Voight that it was fake because he still believes in shadowy conspiracies and deep states or whatever. Also I don't understand how whatever chemical the Masons used to make the treasure room light up was still potent after 200+ years but the cobwebs they decorated with one crazy Halloween were not also flammable, and also why a historian would wave torches around a dusty, dry, cobwebbed room full of thousand-year-old scrolls ("from the Library of Alexandria!", declares Dr. Love Interest, noticing how they were all stamped "PROPERTY OF LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA, DUE BACK OCTOBER 8, 104 B.C.") The movie is at least aware of most of its own ridiculousness and revels in it, and Nicolas Cage makes Nicolas Cage Face, and also Sean Bean is the bad guy and doesn't die. It's dopey but fun.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Nov 28, 2020 16:25:20 GMT -5
Happiest Season (2020): It begins, middles, and nearly finishes like Kristen Stewart is in the lesbian version of Get Out, but otherwise it's real cute and nice. Kristen Stewart is always a win, it's occasionally funny and always heartfelt, and everyone gets over their problems just a little too quickly. But then it wouldn't be a holiday romcom, so sure everyone gets over how much Mackenzie Davis sucked almost instantly sure why not. I got kind of heated at Mackenzie Davis during this movie. And I know they show how she's having a difficult time, and coming out is complicated, and this movie is showing the worst few days of a year long relationship, but you're on thin ice Harper. Most importantly, Burl Moseley (the 'Don't Be A Lawyer' guy from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) is in this movie as someone who retired from being a lawyer. I also very much enjoyed this movie. It should have been marketed more as a romantic drama than a rom-com, and Harper really should have been written to be a smidge more sympathetic, but I had a good time watching it. I'm sure the storyline is inherently triggering to some, but like...it's also not a secret going in as to what the main conflict is, so nobody ought to be blindsided. (Which is the way some extremely melodramatic people on social media are behaving about it, go figure.) It was nice to get a movie where the main same-sex couple gets to be petty and weird and loving and irrational and have a happy ending set to upbeat Christmas music.
Mary Steenburgen as the aspiring politician's wife who exclusively takes overly staged photos on her iPad like every single white suburban mom ever was just the cherry on top.
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Post by oppy all along on Nov 28, 2020 16:55:11 GMT -5
I also very much enjoyed this movie. It should have been marketed more as a romantic drama than a rom-com, and Harper really should have been written to be a smidge more sympathetic, but I had a good time watching it. I'm sure the storyline is inherently triggering to some, but like...it's also not a secret going in as to what the main conflict is, so nobody ought to be blindsided. (Which is the way some extremely melodramatic people on social media are behaving about it, go figure.) It was nice to get a movie where the main same-sex couple gets to be petty and weird and loving and irrational and have a happy ending set to upbeat Christmas music. Mary Steenburgen as the aspiring politician's wife who exclusively takes overly staged photos on her iPad like every single white suburban mom ever was just the cherry on top.
It is nice that lesbians get to be funny and shitty and in love in a Hallmark movie, but I swear the moment Harper comes out with that "I think we need some space" shit I would be walking back to Pittsburgh. There's only so much you can blame on an emotionally withholding father Harper! And I'm getting heated again. I don't agree that Abby and Riley should have gotten together (if only because Riley deserves better than being the rebound chick). Abby and Jane should have gotten together and then Riley should be the lead in a spinoff.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Nov 28, 2020 19:56:21 GMT -5
Happiest Season (2020): It begins, middles, and nearly finishes like Kristen Stewart is in the lesbian version of Get Out, but otherwise it's real cute and nice. Kristen Stewart is always a win, it's occasionally funny and always heartfelt, and everyone gets over their problems just a little too quickly. But then it wouldn't be a holiday romcom, so sure everyone gets over how much Mackenzie Davis sucked almost instantly sure why not. I got kind of heated at Mackenzie Davis during this movie. And I know they show how she's having a difficult time, and coming out is complicated, and this movie is showing the worst few days of a year long relationship, but you're on thin ice Harper. Most importantly, Burl Moseley (the 'Don't Be A Lawyer' guy from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) is in this movie as someone who retired from being a lawyer. I also very much enjoyed this movie. It should have been marketed more as a romantic drama than a rom-com, and Harper really should have been written to be a smidge more sympathetic, but I had a good time watching it. I'm sure the storyline is inherently triggering to some, but like...it's also not a secret going in as to what the main conflict is, so nobody ought to be blindsided. (Which is the way some extremely melodramatic people on social media are behaving about it, go figure.) It was nice to get a movie where the main same-sex couple gets to be petty and weird and loving and irrational and have a happy ending set to upbeat Christmas music.
Mary Steenburgen as the aspiring politician's wife who exclusively takes overly staged photos on her iPad like every single white suburban mom ever was just the cherry on top.
I’m watching this right now, and Harper’s family is too horrible for me to find amusing. I see what they were going for, but it needs to be a little more over the top for it to be funny. As is, the family is just a little too realistic to do anything other than piss me off.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Nov 28, 2020 20:36:50 GMT -5
I also very much enjoyed this movie. It should have been marketed more as a romantic drama than a rom-com, and Harper really should have been written to be a smidge more sympathetic, but I had a good time watching it. I'm sure the storyline is inherently triggering to some, but like...it's also not a secret going in as to what the main conflict is, so nobody ought to be blindsided. (Which is the way some extremely melodramatic people on social media are behaving about it, go figure.) It was nice to get a movie where the main same-sex couple gets to be petty and weird and loving and irrational and have a happy ending set to upbeat Christmas music.
Mary Steenburgen as the aspiring politician's wife who exclusively takes overly staged photos on her iPad like every single white suburban mom ever was just the cherry on top.
I’m watching this right now, and Harper’s family is too horrible for me to find amusing. I see what they were going for, but it needs to be a little more over the top for it to be funny. As is, the family is just a little too realistic to do anything other than piss me off. Well, I didn't say it was good, I said I enjoyed it.
I thought the sisters were ridiculously over the top, and I definitely got the most laughs out of the dippy artist one, but I was also pretty high when I watched this.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Nov 28, 2020 20:37:54 GMT -5
I don't agree that Abby and Riley should have gotten together (if only because Riley deserves better than being the rebound chick). Abby and Jane should have gotten together and then Riley should be the lead in a spinoff. I would watch the shit out of a Riley spinoff. It was refreshing to watch Aubrey Plaza play a human being and not a 3D Daria Morgendorffer knock-off.
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