I think you misspelled “Buttle”.
Mistake? We don’t make mistakes.
I was looking for another YouTube video that got cornfielded before I could watch it, and instead I stumbled across as 2015 movie called either Flight 1942 or Flight World War 2. It’s basically the plot of the OG Twilight Zone episode The Odyssey of Flight 33.
A commercial jet flying from Canada to England gets time warped into 1940 (yes, even the title is wrong, a portent of the quality of the film writing!) over Nazi occupied France. Hilarity and adventure ensues. They get disbelieved by the RAF, find out Dunkirk was a rout, and attacked by ME 262s! Yes Dorothy, we’re not even in our own past.
This that and the other thing happen, the jet gives radar tech to the British which helps them win the war, and they safely return to their own time and make a running on fumes landing in Berlin.
Now the Twilight Zone bit of the film comes up at the end, where it turns out the young RAF corporal they were talking to on radio for the duration of the film was actually on board the plane! as an old man.
Now the TZ ending I wanted was that, as the plane lands in peaceful Berlin that we think is our Berlin, when they get out all the Lufthansa planes and emergency vehicles have…wait for it…swastikas! Cue Rad Serling!
Interestingly, the camera work, and technical aspects, and most of the acting, were very good, but it was obviously low budget in that 95% of the scenes took place on the jet. Anybody with a good camera and clothing budget could have filmed this movie on the set they use to make those “undercover FBI agent pwns flight attendant” films. For all I know, they did.
Last word: the breathless film poster showed ME109s, American ground troops, and a 747, none of which were in the film! Isn’t it more work to do it wrong than just used shots from the movie?
Joe Bob says check it out, if you must!
Watched The Pickup on Netflix, starring Eddie Murphy. It’s an okay 90 minute diversion, with a couple of decent chase scenes. It tries to be an action comedy but usually fails at both. Not terrible, but not great either.
Bored this afternoon and spotted The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan on NFLX. Surprisingly entertaining compared to a few of his other later films. Furniture-fu, appliance-fu, vintage Chan mayhem as he hunts down the IRA people responsible for his daughter’s death.
Last night I watched the one move that Hayden Christensen is good in - Shattered Glass (2003), about Stephen Glass’s scandal of him making up all the stories he wrote about in The New Republic magazine. I really like all the subtle performances in this movie. Everyone is pretty milquetoast, until they can’t be anymore. And Christensen’s portrayal of Glass’s breakdown is pretty convincing.
He’s good in Awake as well.
Nobody 2. Exactly what you expect, but an enjoyable ride. Went to the 10 pm showing, we were the only people in the theater.
Watched the rest of Project Moonbase last night. In my earlier note I confused the columnist Polly with the President (who has a much more dignified role than I recall). The movie isn’t quite as bad as I recalled, except that it treats its women like children, has some amazingly embarrassing dialogue, and the problems are solved too easily (the captured spy/saboteur conveniently dies in an accident).
I also finally saw all of The Road to Bali, parts of which Id already seen through the years. Hope and Crosby are very talented singers, dancers, and jokesters, but the movie is dumb and dated. I’d I’d seen it at the time I would have thought it risky and risque and daring, but my standard of funny and dumb movies is The Naked Gun and other ZAZ productions (I haven’t seen the new one yet). It has the advantage of being in pretty impressive Technicolor.
Not a review, possibly a warning?
The Vietnam War, but with dinosaurs, based on the graphic novel.
The graphic novel does have good reviews I’ll put this one on my watch list. Comes out on the 21 Aug.
The Rainmaker 1997 Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Mary Kay Place
Large cast with stars like Jon Voight who are primarily known for a specific role like (Midnight Cowboy).and Roy Scheider (Jaws).
It’s one of my favorite adaptations of a John Grisham novel.
It does bug me that such an inexperienced lawyer would get offers to teach. He only had a license for a few months. But I understand the entire movie focuses on the sleeze involved in practicing law. Jon Voight’s character represented everything bad about civil law.
Damon’s character didn’t want to get dirty.
Saw Weapons again with my wife this time. She was super caught up in the story as well and the final 10 minutes or so got a huge reaction from her and everyone else there.
It sits atop my 2025 list so far.
I just saw the movie the new Spike Lee movie Highest 2 Lowest. I won’t spoil the plot of it, but that’s not what I want to talk about. It’s got the weirdest choice for a song played over the end credits that I’ve ever encountered. Yes, it’s even weirder than the fact that somehow the filmmakers of the 1971 Stanley Kubrick movie A Clockwork Orange got permission to use the Gene Kelly version of the song ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ over the end credits, given the way the song was used earlier in the film.
There’s a 1973 song called “Prisencolinensinainciusol” that’s sung by Adriano Celentano. He’s an Italian singer/songwriter/comedian who wrote this song. You can find it on YouTube. The joke in it is that the words are nonsense in any language. However, it sounds to many non-English speakers like it’s in English. Apparently, Celentano noticed that he and many other people listened to a lot of English-language rock music at the time without understanding the words at all. So he deliberately wrote a song that sounds to non-English speakers like a typical English-language rock song of that time despite being made of entirely nonsense words..
Highest 2 Lowest is a typical Spike Lee film in most ways. Over the end credits is a song called ‘Prisencolin Americano Joint’ sung by someone I’d never heard of named Aiyana-Lee. It has the tune of “Prisencolinensinainciusol”, although there are some non-nonsense words in it (although I have a hard time hearing them). The background sound a lot like the other music in the movie. It makes no sense why this song should be played over the end credits. This song is also on YouTube.
That Prisencolinensinwhatever video is very popular in my circle of Twitter. Usually, on Fridays will post it with a simple, “It’s that time again.” I, personally, can’t get enough of it.
Can’t I ever write a post without a mistake. Obviously this is messed up. I meant “I just saw the new Spike Lee movie Highest 2 Lowest.”
And this should be “The background sounds a lot like the other music in the movie.”
Sounds like the closing theme to WKRP…
If it’s the one with the ‘English teacher’ and a class, on some 70s Italian variety show, it’s very charming and it should be linked!
Adriano Celentano canta “Prisencolinensinainciusol” da “Formula due” del 1973
And this short film:
I was thinking of the black and white version with the multitude of dancers, but now I’m having a hard time finding it … or at least a version that’s complete and the video isn’t played backwards.
No, that theme song has real lyrics.