I agree with this.
When I was unemployed in 2013 I accompanied my wife on a business trip, and needed to kill an afternoon while she was working, so I went to see The Lone Ranger.
She asked me how it was and I said, “It’s a hot mess of a movie, but there’s a train chase scene at the end that makes up for it all.”
FWIW, I looked across the patio table and asked my wife if Tom Hanks’ character in TTYD was a good guy. She said Yes, and seemed surprised I needed to ask.
He put up with Lenny and TBP with just a few eye rolls. He played matchmaker for Faye and Guy. He seemed to enjoy the music. He “took care” of Faye for the big TV appearance. He was generally straightforward and direct. He ribbed Guy in a good humored way when the band disintegrated: You’re in breach of contract…Don’t worry it’s nothing, happens all the time.
On the bad side, he didn’t explain that the contract required the Wonders to record the songs PlayTone chose.
It can’t quite make up for it all, but it is amazing. I should really say that there are a lot of great things throughout. It’s a solid 120 minute movie that was edited only down to 150 minutes, so we get a good 30 minutes of “talky talk” boring stuff.
Is there no crying in baseball?
Big???
I’m A Cyborg, But That’s OK
A very strange movie about people in a mental institution. Our lead girl thinks she is a cyborg, so she refuses to eat and only licks batteries and plugs herself into sockets. Yes, she’s dying from starvation.
She meets a man who steals emotions and asks him to steal her sympathy, since cyborg’s should not feel sympathy. He does, feels bad for her, and tries to help her eat.
It’s stranger than it sounds, but oddly enough it is not all that great a movie despite having a really good premise. It just finds a way to just kind of lie there despite being such an interesting setup.
From the director of Oldboy, which is a movie I definitely would recommend.
Not sure what you are replying to, but Big(with its ONE ending), was made before Joe Vs. the Volcano.
Watched The Haunted Castle 1963. Awful, campy Vincent Price vehicle. Could swear that the main musical theme is the SAME theme as in DUNE 1984
Also watched the The Wolf of Snow Hollow. The last film with Robert Forster.
I liked it better than I thought I would. Not as much of a werewolf movie as a character study of a recovering alcoholic Deputy Sheriff who is NOT working steps and is about to explode. He yells at everyone, slaps several people and is life is falling apart amid several gruesome murders.
But alas, neither is his casting (good, I mean—terrible casting decision).
Another example: in Cast Away, he plays an unrepentant capitalist.
This, I gotta hear.
Yes, Zemeckis definitely has some things to say about capitalism and consumerism in that film. In the sense that Noland is a vessel for that message, he is a little negative, but you can watch the whole movie and not care about any of that stuff. But his reunion with his ex girlfriend is also pretty gross.
Stoker
It was OK, but I think the movie thinks it is creeper and scarier than it is. We basically have a family of psychopaths and the movie think it is revealing shocking things to us…but it is really all rather obvious and kind of mundane. I found not one beat of this thriller to be intense or shocking or surprising.
No one is particularly bad, but this is a big “skip” from me.
Do you ever just bail on a movie? We watched about 30 minutes of “Lightyear” and then gave up on it. But I know some folks like to see a movie through.
The Three Musketeers (1993)
I loved this movie when I was 15 or so. Sometimes you see a movie you liked as a kid(Princess Bride, Star Wars, Back to the Future) and they are even more awesome or equally awesome as you remembered.
This one isn’t as good as a my childhood self remembered. We’ve got three main Musketeers. Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, and Oliver Platt. Only Oliver Platt has any fun or even does anything at all. Sheen and Sutherland just say lines. No acting, just lines.
It’s not a terrible movie, but just kind of an OK way to spend 100 minutes. Sutherland, by the way, is the worst of the bunch. He is, I think, given the most lines and storyline, but does the most generic acting you can do. Strangely, there are outdoor scenes that are poorly lit, as i they were filmed with only natural lighting. I’d blame the projection if I was in a theater…but this was just the stream on Disney +.
Tim Curry acts very evil. We’ve all seen it a hundred times, but like many great actors who appear in tons of films and shows, he comes through the whole movie unscathed because Curry is never bad in anything.
Fun fact: “All for One”, the song, is the first single I ever bought on tape.
My wife did the same; she went to finish up some laundry and never returned. An hour later, I wondered if I should turn off the TV and help her fold the clothes. Man, that was a long movie.
Bailing is rare, but that movie The Gray Man was awfully close. I don’t remember much about it. It was terrible, the low point of the year so far this year for me(movie-wise, obviously).
Black Telephone (NFLIX). A horror movie about child abduction. Not scary, unless you’re a child, but not the worst film of the genre. At least I got through it, which is more than I can say for the Netflix bomb “The Gray Man”.
I thought it was OK, but there was some hype behind that it did not live up to. It isn’t written by Stephen King, but his son Joe. I do think that it felt like a very simple Stephen King short story. Everything comes together at the end.
Do you mean “The Black Phone” which is currently in theaters? Because it’s not on Netflix so I don’t know if there’s another film with a similar title. The one that’s out now with Ethan Hawke I thought was really great. It definitely had a very Stephen King-ish atmosphere.
Perhaps in other countries it hit Netflix? It streams on Peacock in the USA.