After her performance in I, Tonya, I have no doubt she’ll be getting big roles in the future.
Watched Overboard
Cute chick flick
Ok to kill a couple of hours
I was surprised by how good she was in it as well.
I went to see Deadpool 2 over the weekend. It was pretty good, very much on par with the first one. I wouldn’t say it was better, but it was definitely more.
Here’s what I’ll say. The funniest stuff was in the second half of the movie. The very beginning was well done, while most of the first half was “enjoyable” but not really laugh-out-loud funny. I think because the quips and jokes come so fast from Deadpool, you sit there with a smile on your face but it takes a stand out joke to really make you laugh.
This is what I loved:
- Domino is just great. Really perfectly done.
- All of the X-Force stuff is amazing. From the recruitment (most of which is in the trailer) to their first mission, all of it was just brilliant.
- There are some surprise characters that weren’t mentioned in the trailers. So that’s fun.
- The mid-credits stuff was good. A little predictable but you’re glad they went there.
A few things I didn’t like.
- Some shoddy CGI. One of my favorite scenes in particular had some pretty third rate CGI. It’s whatever, but I wish they’d done better.
- Needed more laughs. When everything is funny, nothing is really funny. The stand out jokes are few and far between. I really wanted to laugh all the way through this movie.
Can’t wait for the X-Force movie.
I fear I may be a failure as a watcher of movies.
Just finished “Lady Bird.” I was bored. I shouldn’t have been: great dialogue, great acting. But … it didn’t do much for me. I resisted my phone for 45 minutes but then gave up and spent the second half of the film browsing reviews to try to figure out what I was missing. Maybe I’ll get a lot more out of the podcast reviews I’ll listen to later.
Watched “The Florida Project” a couple of weeks ago. It’s stuck with me - beautifully filmed. But I didn’t really enjoy watching it. Thinking about it later was great, actually watching it not so good. Which I think is where I’ll be with “Lady Bird” as well.
And watched “Dunkirk” last night. Eh. So glad I used subtitles - it would have been even more confusing without them. But that sure didn’t help me keep track of who was who. Goddamn, all we white folks look alike. The three time lines didn’t work for me in that I still had only a vague sense of the time passing on the beach, and I think Nolan utterly failed to capture just how massive the operation must have been - saying they got 300,000 off, when there only seemed to be a few hundred on the beach at any one time, was jarring. Spoilers for final scene, which is sticking with me, in a bad way:
In the final Spitfire scene, the plane is out of fuel and gliding low over the beach. He somehow manages to shoot down a divebomber coming in from a high altitude, and then circles around to continue gliding over the beach at roughly the same altitude he was at earlier. Am I being too nit picky that that took me totally out of the film? I kept thinking to myself, “No, that can’t be what’s happening, I’m missing something with the timelines, and he shot down the Stuka way earlier in his timeline” … but no, I think I got it right.
I fear that smartphones and Marvel movies have spoiled my ability to enjoy anything beyond the blockbuster.
Not a fan of those three either. Lady Bird as a protagonist is annoying af, The Florida Project is 2 hr+ poverty porn, and Dunkirk is visually pretty and nothing more.
And fuck Marvel.
I feel ya. I made it through about 40 minutes of “The Florida Project” a few weeks ago, but found it terminally depressing. Hauled out the phone and went to the plot summary in the Wikipedia entry to see if I could suss out whether it got better without learning too much. Learned that in fact it did NOT get better, hit pause, and have never finished it.
Not sure that I’m a good watcher of movies, either. Not new ones, anyway. (I did like “The Big Sick,” though.) 
Dunkirk was a waste of time even if you are bored.
I didn’t even find it depressing. I just found it annoying.
I found the russell kid annoying.
Enjoyed the movie a lot as a whole.
Cable>Thanos
More Domino next time.
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I really liked the Florida Project. Underrated.
Thats a detriment for watching movies at home. Too many distractions.
In those scenarios more often than not I get distracted super easily too.
Then I instantly feel guilty because if someone picked up their phones to wiki it while watching one of my movies, it’d be a real gut punch.
Movie theaters are a saving grace because it’s generally a faux pas to pull out your phone mid-film, which forces me to finish the damn thing first, and generally questions I had previously will resolve themselves by the time credits roll. If not, right to googling.
Most of the films from last year’s awards season ended up disappointing imo. The only one I really loved was Phantom Thread. Everything else didn’t really live up to the hype imo.
This is a dead giveaway that you aren’t in Taiwan.
@Rockefeller Ditto the cow.
Guy sitting next to me pulled out his phone during Infinity War. I almost wanted to dump my drink on him, but I was 1000% sure I would’ve missed more of the movie that way so I refrained.
I’ve had good luck in theaters lately. I go to a cheaper, lesser-known theater where there aren’t many people - and they’re almost always there to enjoy the movie.
I used to go to the Miramars and the VieShows and it was either the phone, someone talking, or some fucker kicking my seat… it would drive me insane. I stopped going to the movies for years because it felt like I was getting pissed off every time I went. But now I pay $190 for an almost empty, somewhat decent theater. Couldn’t be happier. I still brave the IMAX from time to time but it’s rare.
Stopped going to movie theaters years ago because of this. Last movie I saw in IMAX was (if memory serves) Avatar, and it was a disaster (in the US). I mean the experience, not the movie (although).
Not just young people, either. If hubby is at a chick flic and gets bored, out comes the phone. Vice versa for the wife.
Video killed the radio stars, and now Facebook has killed the movie stars.
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See that’s how I felt about phantom thread. I mean, I walked in there expecting the final opus between the two giants who did there will be blood.
It was not there will be blood.
That said, gorgeous piece of filmmaking.
You mean netflix