Gladiator II

Not ashamed to admit the first thing I had to google afterwards was if they ever filled the Colosseum with water and man-eating sharks.

Finally got around to watching "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice", and when it was over I thought it was OK.. then I started to think about it.. there's too many superfluous characters/side plots--which doesn't bother me nearly as much as the movie utterly failing to follow the internal logic established by its predecessor, which drives me completely crazy. So now I think it kinda sucked.

Widows by Steve McQueen. Pretty good.

'American Fiction' - I've enjoyed it, but it felt like the family drama stuff dragged it down and kinda went nowhere, while the satirical stuff was always interesting ,even if predictable. I guess the point of the family drama was to prove Monk's point but we kind of know all about after first 10 minutes. Still, genuinely funny.

emmanuelle cunt wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2024 2:32 am 'American Fiction' - I've enjoyed it, but it felt like the family drama stuff dragged it down and kinda went nowhere, while the satirical stuff was always interesting ,even if predictable. I guess the point of the family drama was to prove Monk's point but we kind of know all about after first 10 minutes. Still, genuinely funny.

Apparently in the book the family stuff dealt more with class and had some teeth - the mother was an asshole and treated the "servant" woman like crap, for example.
I would have liked to have seen it included, but I guess that would've been less "heartwarming"...

Sterling K. Brown stole the show.

andyman wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2024 3:10 am

emmanuelle cunt wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2024 2:32 am 'American Fiction' - I've enjoyed it, but it felt like the family drama stuff dragged it down and kinda went nowhere, while the satirical stuff was always interesting ,even if predictable. I guess the point of the family drama was to prove Monk's point but we kind of know all about after first 10 minutes. Still, genuinely funny.

Apparently in the book the family stuff dealt more with class and had some teeth - the mother was an asshole and treated the "servant" woman like crap, for example.
I would have liked to have seen it included, but I guess that would've been less "heartwarming"...

Sterling K. Brown stole the show.

Oh, I didn't even know it was based on a book, sort of makes sense, it did feel like there was more there, I thought scenes were cut, the biggest fault for me was the disconnect between the family drama and writing parts - other than his girlfriend reading his book those felt like two different films stitched together, and each time I felt like something interesting might be happening (brother's addiction and relationship, how verbally aggressive and condescending he was towards his girlfriend - is he having mental problems like his father?) it was a dead end.

Watched The nights of Cabiria last night. It's pretty great.

Kniferide wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2024 10:08 am Watched The nights of Cabiria last night. It's pretty great.

Love that movie.

The musical version that Bob Fosse made in the 1960s, Sweet Charity, isn’t too bad either.

Fellini is probably underappreciated today as a humanist and thinker, because all anybody remembers is the circus midgets and the sexy stuff. That's definitely a good one.

We watched Anora over the weekend. I enjoyed it. I wasn't expecting the story to end like it did, but when I think back on Sean Baker's other movies, it fits.

We also watched Love Actually. I had never seen it. Was a decent flick that didn't overdo it on the schmaltz.