I am watching Jackson Bolt (2018), a true so bad it's good job. Just fucking awful. Hilarious.

Saw Barbarian and it is crap. Crap, I tell you. Kinda funny tho. Justin Long made me laugh in a good way despite the inherent vileness of his character. Not scary.

Long flights are once again allowing me to catch up on films that I missed. I really need to start making it out to the theater again.

Belfast - excellent movie. Could alternately be titled: Shitty Times for Grandma

Top Gun: Maverick - mostly fan-serving mindless entertainment. I loved it.

Watched waiting for guffman. Incredible start to finish

bikefvcker wrote: Sat Sep 24, 2022 8:29 pm Watched waiting for guffman. Incredible start to finish

One of the best moviegoing experiences I've had was when our local independent cinema showed Waiting For Guffman for its first anniversary (of the cinema getting its own space). The room was packed, lots of laughs and energy, it really felt like a celebration of getting this indie theater off the ground. And it's still going today! (albeit in a new space)

Just watched Napoleon Dynamite again. Gosh, it's almost 20 years old.

Don't care about the meme staus it has, it's just the funniest thing.

I can watch uncle Rico's steak throwing land on Napoleon's face one million times and I'd still laughing my ass off.

Vibracobra wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2022 1:10 pm I can watch uncle Rico's steak throwing land on Napoleon's face one million times and I'd still laughing my ass off.

True.

Also, one of the cleverest bits of performance direction. Such a simple trick when you see it, but essential to the entire performance.

I just watched The Gentlemen, and Hugh Grant as Roger Daltrey was fucking amazing.

jfv wrote: Sat Sep 24, 2022 8:14 pm Top Gun: Maverick - mostly fan-serving mindless entertainment. I loved it.

This movie was far better than it had any right to be. Some it was dumb or perfunctory (the romance), and some of it could’ve been explored in more depth (the experience of coming across a version of your younger self), but I enjoyed it completely. It’s like the most recent Mad Max movie: there’s something about seeing real machinery with real weight being filmed in real action. I don’t need 100 movies like this, but it’s nice relief from CGI.

As unrealistic as it was, the least realistic part was the soundtrack. No redneck bar still plays Hank Williams Sr. No Navy bar plays Foghat. And no young hotshot military kid—let alone dozens of them—knows “Great Balls of Fire.”

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2022 1:22 pm

Vibracobra wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2022 1:10 pm I can watch uncle Rico's steak throwing land on Napoleon's face one million times and I'd still laughing my ass off.

True.

Also, one of the cleverest bits of performance direction. Such a simple trick when you see it, but essential to the entire performance.

Wow, so I'm not the only PRFer who likes this film.

A few years ago my wife and I went to a screening of it with the actors who played Napoleon, Pedro and Uncle Rico doing Q+A afterwards. One person thanked them for making a movie that the whole family could watch, I had never thought of it like that before.

The scene where Napoleon asks for a campaign button, and then forcefully throws it down the hall always gets me laughing.