I started to read the review, and when I got to this point I recognized your illimitable style. 
Hey, just gotta draw from what I know.
Up Next: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Not… what I was expecting. Only really DVR’ed it cause Ewen (a motorcycle guy) was in it. Was hoping for a rich story of engineering triumph, but it was really all a smoke-screen for a sappy love story.
Again, Lame.
I wish the heat-wave would end, so I can get off the couch.
Agree completely. I can’t say I enjoyed it exactly. I can’t say I liked it. But it was entertaining in its way.
A movie I’ve seen recently was on DVD, and it was The Count of Monte Cristo, starring Richard Chamberlain.
Dogtooth
Yeah, so weird, but not as weird as a lot of people claim it to be. A Father and Mother have concealed their three children(all about 25 years old) from the entire outside world. They tell them that they can go out into the world once they lose their “Dogtooth”. The children have no names and no perception of the real world outside their home.
It was captivating and importantly, only ran just over 90 minutes. It did not wear out its premise.
I liked it quite a bit. It’s from the director of The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. The Lobster remains the best movie I have seen from him, though.
I finally saw Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) last night. I was a little jaded going in because I didn’t think I’d like the multiverse plot with the Andrew Garfield and Toby Maguire Spidey’s showing up, but I have to say that - despite my severe hatred of everything Toby Maguire does - I really loved it. I can’t believe the number of big names they got from past films to show up. Fantastic, multi-verse story that I could actually follow and crazy action. Garfield stole every scene he was in.
I also caught The Cable Guy (1996) for the first time ever. It’s one of those always meant to see it, just never did jobbies. Loved it. Cracked me up all the way through. I kind of wish they would have gone with the original, Chip gets impaled on the satellite dish, ending but it’s still good.
I initially gave up on, but then forced myself to finish, a low budget 2021 British comic crime caper The Toll (known in the USA as Tollbooth I believe) and was underwhelmed. Since some reviewers liked it I will mention it here.
An English criminal has been hiding in rural Wales operating the worlds least busy Tollbooth building a tiny criminal empire. When his past catches up with him…
It is well filmed (one too many drone shots for me) for the budget and the acting including a few vaguely familiar faces is adequate. The range of zany criminal lowlifes is straight out of Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) and the confusing flashback structure pure Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) but for me it just seemed contrived and confusing.
But quite a few reviewers liked it so maybe if you fancy a Ritchie / Tarantino mash up set in Wales… Give it a spin.
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I recently watched, on DVD, The Count of Monte Cristo, starring Richard Chamberlain, Louis Jourdan, Donald Pleasence and Trevor Howard.
I loved that when I first saw it, 50 years ago. How does it hold up?
The movie holds up pretty well. It’s sure a good revenge movie. I like the way Richard Chamberlain’s character offers the coastal signalman FIVE YEARS PAY to send his fake message, to get revenge on the banker.
Yeah, that’s what I love about the story: the things you can do if you have unlimited resources.
Swordsman with Umbrella. An old kung-fu movie. The only audio option is very mediocre Australian/ (or perhaps British?)voice actors which….contrasts somewhat with the actors and plot. Worth seeing just for the audio, but not to buy. Honestly a lot of it sounds parodic.
“Please tell me all about you!”
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) - Paul Rudd and some Stranger Thing kids with cameos from the OGs. It ties the original story back up in a bow but lordy, this movie is god-awful.
Child 44. It was about a Russian child molester and killer in WWII era. Its an older movie but oh so poignantly illustrates the still current Russian denial and misinformation dysfunction. It also covered Russia’s abuse of Ukraine back then too.
I really hated it. I think the return of the original gang of ghostbusters at the end is the lamest example I’ve seen of a crowd pleasing moment. So many questions. How did they get there? When did they get their old uniforms? What is going on?
It is literally just Peter Venkman saying, “Hey!” and the camera cuts to all of them. They are there. With no explanation.
Being 100 fucking degrees outside, I plopped on the couch and watched East of Eden. Seen it before…
What a bunch of crap. Does not hold up. James Dean being all pouty and whiney. That was some shit ‘acting’. And who wrote the fucking dialog? BeckyWreck? It’s all “I’m bad”, “Your bad”, “She’s bad”. It was Bad Bad Bad!
Good thing I have The Great Escape on DVR. Might just have to watch that every night.
It reminded me with post-season 8 Simpsons guest star.
“Hey, we’re the Rolling stones”
I’ve never seen this clip? Did the Rolling Stones show up for one second in a Simpsons episode?
Perhaps. I’m not sure. Pretty much everyone famous appeared post season 8. It seemed to be the only “funny” part of the episode.
It seems that Keith Richards and Michael Jagger have both appeared in an episode where a summer camp is “Run by the Rolling stones”, but you can probably just show a picture of the others and not need them to “appear”.
This shows the huge amount more guest stars in later seasons.
I may also be confusing it with one of my favourite Monty Burns quotes Have the Rolling Stones killed
Ah here it is. Just the two of them. And not funny.
I thought it was pretty enjoyable until the utterly cringeworthy bit at the end with the original GBs just turning up at exactly the right moment. It was like a parody of Hollywood cliché at that point, except it was taking itself seriously (I think).