They are all terrible…except Spy. His only good and funny movie.
Ever seen Creepshow 3? I’ve heard it is disappointing as well.
I came in to say Ghostbusters 2016. I started out the movie with a smile in anticipation. I don’t think that the smile left my face until the end of the movie… but it turned into a wincing look.
story time?
Oh yeah. That’s one I thought I would be guaranteed to like. I didn’t hate it, it was just boring. Nothing bad, nothing offensive, just nothing interesting.
We have some tastes in common. I think I’ll have to check out Mascots, even if just for a few good moments.
When I was in university, before actual film school, I was really doing a deep dive to educate myself on good cinema. Faber books had these awesome biographies, really book-length interviews, of directors like Scorsese, Schrader and Wenders, and as I’d read them, I’d note all the movies that influenced my heroes, then rent those movies myself. I was almost always disappointed, or bored to tears. I guess it’s a generational thing. Were I to have become a big filmmaker myself (rueful laugh) I wonder if the young cinephiles who came after me would be bored stupid by Taxi Driver and Until the End of the World.
Most painful was Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom. Powell was cited as one of Scorsese’s biggest influences, and the movie itself was supposedly controversial and occasionally banned, and spoken about in the same terms as Psycho, which came out the same year. It’s really had to watch: acting like fingernails on a chalkboard, totally unrealistic portrayals of movie sets, thuddingly obvious psychology. That was maybe the biggest disappointment from that period of my life.
Lamb
Wow, what a disappointment this movie was this year. It sounded interesting and was from A24, a pretty interesting movie company.
It was not only slow; it went nowhere. The biggest letdown this year in movies, I think.
Currently it’s down due to COVID protocol, but the fresh foods bar at Whole Foods always had these beautiful vegetable and whole grain salad options (I’m not talking about a traditional salad bar), with healthy ingredients.
Every time I succumbed to purchase a pint of one I was disappointed in the taste, texture, or both. Very mediocre to worse in a couple of instances.
There’s a great butcher shop in my neighborhood. Pretty much everything I’ve gotten there in the past has been amazing – standard cuts like steaks and pork chops, house made sausages, bacon cured in house, etc.
Browsing their refrigerator case one day I noticed they had pastrami as well. I bought some, brought it home, made a sandwich. It was just fatty and tough and not up to the standards of the other stuff I bought there.
Truffles. The fungi, not the chocolates.
I like strong-tasting things, like espresso, stinky cheese, dry-aged beef, uni, etc. So I thought I’d like truffles.
I had some ramen with truffle oil drizzled in it. I rather liked the first mouthful or two of the broth. I could definitely taste the truffle - it was funky and animalistic. But by about the fourth mouthful it was getting to be too much. The funk got into my nose and stayed there for about two days, and it was way over the top.
I can still remember that taste, and I almost gag a bit at the memory.
Trying to remember if I read it somewhere, or what, that apparently the liquid is a really weak representation of the solid. Hopefully someone more knowledgable than I can confirm or refute this.
I had truffle fries (shoestring French fries, tossed in truffle oil) once, after several friends raved about them. I love French fries, but I found the truffle fries to be greasy (even by French fry standards) and excessively rich, and didn’t enjoy them.
It’s really, really easy to go overboard with truffle oil. A little goes a long way. If you were eating something with too much of a flavor then they should have been more conservative with it.
(I sometimes cook with truffle oil and usually only need a tiny splash.)
No, but hear me out.
2016 Republican primary. Donald Trump says something shitty to Jeb Bush about his dad, and instead of replying, the 6’3" Bush strides across the stage and lays Trump out with a right hook.
Tell me the country wouldn’t have been better off for the next four years.
Odd, it was Schitt’s Creek for me. We suffered through an episode and a half before snapping it off, never to return.
Admittedly, the first season of Schitt’s Creek was a little off-putting but it started to get really good in the second season.
Agreed. In fact I was going to list Schitt’s Creek as one of those shows I expected to not like, but ended up liking it. The first season, about the first 3/4 of it was really awkward. But from there they started to develop the characters and storylines more. And played down the more blatant exaggerations. I loved all the rest of the episodes.
Wine gums and jelly babies. I heard about them so many times in British media. Thought wine gums were gumdrops with a liquid center. Found out they are jujubes, not especially flavorful, and almost too stiff to chew. Jelly babies were okay, but not enough to make me renounce American jelly beans. Oh, and Kinder eggs. GMFAB. Mediocre chocolate and a poorly painted PVC figurine?
yes. the film creepshow 3 sucked.
However supposedly the film tales from the dark side was the original, unofficial creepshow 3. that film was good.