40 minutes in right now (Amazon Prime), pretty good. Surprised I’ve never seen it. What a cast!
Better than the book at least…probably Grisham’s worst.
That is a good one. I should rewatch it sometime.
Ranking his ouevre is like making classifications using the Bristol Stool Chart.
The Bubble
“ an unfunny waste of time and talent” hahaha
Not getting good reviews. Waiting for someone here to blaahhh.
I’ve saved it to my list, haven’t got around to it…
I liked this a lot - it’s on Disney Plus in Taiwan. Unusually for me with Pixar, I thought it started somewhat weaker, and got stronger through the middle and end - the over-the-top action ending meshed really well with the story, unlike in - for example - Up and Wall-E (I love them both! I just don’t think the endings are the strong points.)
Plus it was fun to see the “Wait, wasn’t that yesterday?” 2002 of Tamagotchi and boy bands now being mined for nostalgia.
I wonder how long it’d take me to be able to type texts on those old alpha-numeric phone keypads again. I suspect a distressingly large chunk of my brain is going unused because it’s clinging to those motor skills.
UP had a weak ending? I didn’t think so.
Wife is making me watch Bruce Willis movies now. She’s sad about his condition. Armegeddon last night and Did Hard later tonight.
Tell her it’s time to move on to the Shyamalan oeuvre.
Haven’t I told you before?
Happy wife, happy life.
If you’re happy watching the Die Hard franchise, well, more power…er, condolences? 
Yippee Ki-yay mother fucker…
Immense fun, but, like with Wall-E, I felt the action climax was somewhat … incongruous? … compared to what had come before. Just didn’t quite wrap the movie up as perfectly as The Incredibles or Ratatouille or Turning Red.
Haven’t watched Turning Red yet, but agree that Ratatouille was another level.
Wall-E is easily the best Pixar movie.
The first thirty minutes are some of the best cinema ever. But I think there’s a significant tailing off in quality in the last thirty minutes. Still very good - but no longer great. Not because action is dumb - in The Incredibles or Ratatouille it is very much not dumb - but because I feel in Wall-E the action is mostly for fun action beats, rather than for fun action beats that also develop and come from the characters and story.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s still a fantastic movie. Just not quite as unified as some of the other Pixar films.
EDIT: I just realized I may be overselling Turning Red. I really enjoyed it, but I wouldn’t put it as top-tier Pixar - while the writing is tighter than in Wall-E or Up, I still think those two are more enjoyable movies overall. To rank it with the too-obvious comparisons, I’d say it’s not quite as good as Inside Out, and a heck of a lot better than Brave.
Save it for Christmas. That, along with Scrooged and Gremlins, are my 3 favourites for the holidays.
The first and third are rewatchable, the last one or two were pretty dire.
I’m 5 gin and tonics in now. I’m ready for the wife to get back and watch it now.
I’m waiting for Motherless Brooklyn. Willis dies at the beginning. Jokes
on you, wifey!
Have to apologise to the producers of Armageddon. I first saw it in Taiwan when it came out in 1998. There’s a scene where the spaceship is about to blow up and they have to transfer some data from a Russian computer to an Amerian one. The American astronaut wonders if they’ll be compatible, and the crazy Russian cosmonaut says “American, Russian, bah- all made in Taiwan.”
I remember it because the audience read the subtitles and started laughing before the actor spoke the lines.In later years when I saw it on TV I never saw these lines and always assumed the Chicoms made them remove it. Then I recently caught the ending and realised the line was from the climax of the movie= I assumed it was from the middle, and the movie was so bad I always switched it off halfway through (I like the beginning).
So apologies to Hollywood- in this case, anyway.
I liked the more realistic setting- a normal thirteen-year-old in junior high school.
Well, normal aside from turning into a giant red panda- but even then, like Tremors the first think you think of when you come across a weird monster? How to make a buck.