Me too. They were for changing the reels. And reloading on snacks. Or concessions as they were called.
While playing the “let’s all go to the lo-bby” song?
Not in my country. They just showed ads, which were all on glass slides.
Psycho Goreman is terrific. The director just released another movie “Frankie Freako”
It wasn’t as good, but is still funny.
I just finished watching Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) again and something kind of struck me - unless I’m missing something. I won’t go over the whole movie but a plot line is that they plan and drill for a bow shot to sink this ship their hunting. When things go south and they have to run for it, they figure out how they were spotted and that the enemy thinks they’re sunk, so they whip a shitty and go back for another shot at the evil horrible enemy ship.
When they find them they bait the ship they’re after into lining up for a bow shot by sinking the ship behind it with a broadside hit. Why didn’t they just sink the ship they were after (I can’t remember the Japanese name of the ship) with a couple of broadside shots?
Anyway, great movie. Clark Gable, Bert Lancaster, Jack Warden, Don Rickles - highly recommended, even if I just did spoil a sixty-seven year old movie.
I’ll have to rewatch the movie.
Pure spitballing: I believe the ship they are baiting is the destroyer escorting the other ships. Firing on the destroyer wouldn’t work (as well) as that ship is highly alert to incoming torpedoes and very capable of changing speed/direction unlike the following ship. The following ship I’m guessing is a merchant ship, troop transport, or tanker.
edit: reading the Wiki, I see I’m about right as the commander of the US sub has a vendetta against the Japanese warship. They’ve been practicing a bow-on torpedo attack for just that situation (risky and low probability).
And there’s another submarine in the action too.
Got around to watching Saturday Night last weekend. It was somewhat interesting, but way too manic. If the last 90 minutes before airtime really went down that way, the network should have pulled the plug.
But from what I understand, it’s several weeks worth of anecdotes compressed into that time frame. Didn’t really make for a coherent narrative.
Originally they were drilling for the bow shot because that was the only way they would be able to have a go at the enemy warship in the Bungo straits. But when the jig was up and they figured out that they had the advantage of the enemy thinking they were dead, they were able to perform a standard attack, so why do the bow shot if they didn’t have to?
Also, they didn’t know about the other sub until after they pulled off the bow shot.
Bad Times at the El Royale Utterly forgettable. The cast is top notch, looked like they had fun making it, but this by-the-numbers Tarantino-esque plot and dialogue is so old it could vote. It’s tired when he does it. Maybe this was a COVID era mess? I don’t know, but I have seen this film many times only better and certainly more memorable than this iteration.
So…mixed reviews?
Depends strongly on what you think of Quentin Tarantino and those that make films in his ‘style’.
All movie reviews are subjective opinions.
Except mine. Mine are objective and authoritative. 
Bad Times at the El Royale was enjoyable and in a genre I really enjoy, but didn’t really rise to “best in class”. On the plus side, it did introduce Cynthia Erivo to the movie going audience.
Bad Times at the El Royale
7.1 at IMDb, 75% at RT. From RT:
"Critics Consensus
Smart, stylish, and packed with solid performances, Bad Times at the El Royale delivers pure popcorn fun with the salty tang of social subtext."
I passed on it when it came out due to the “pure popcorn fun” type reviews I saw. IIRC, the debate here on the film when it was new covered this issue.
With a Metacritic of 60, “Mixed or average reviews.” Selecting a review scored right at 60, Rolling Stone: “Here’s the thing about Bad Times at the El Royale: When it’s good, it’s very, very good — and when it’s bad, this retro whatsit is a whole lot of awful.”
I completely don’t see this as the movie I remember, I don’t recall Tarantino having things like a hotel with the state line with Nevada running through it, or viewing mirrors into peoples rooms, do all movies which are told via some flashbacks Tarantinoesque because he did it in two of his movies? Is nobody else allowed to do this?
Nope, not a covid movie, a Drew Goddard movie, his second after Cabin in the woods, and I see far more of that in this movie than anything from Tarantino
The trailer for El Royale was very good, the movie was pretty decent.
During the past week, I watched two related yet very different movies:
The Nutty Professor (1963), which aired on TCM last fall and was on my record-and-watch-later list. It’s Jerry Lewis in his maximum Jerry Lewis mode. Based loosely on a certain Robert Louis Stevenson story, the namesake nutty professor is so goofy he’s hard to watch, and the suave yet greasy alter-ego Buddy Love is even harder to like. But strangely, it has heart when Love slips back into nutty mode after the medicine starts to wear off, and his love interest begins to figure out who she’s talking to, and there’s a moral message about accepting who you are. I wouldn’t say it’s a must-watch, but interesting to watch if only to see what was considered great music back then (although Les Brown is fine).
The other is The King of Comedy (1982), also with Jerry Lewis and Robert De Niro in the title role. Lewis plays it straight in his interpretation of a Johnny Carson character. I loved this movie when it first came out, and now even more so, since you get to see some vintage talk show regulars (Dr. Joyce Brothers, Tony Randall, Victor Borge, and Liza Minnelli in her most two-dimensional role ever). The movie is even more creepy now, and shows why celebrities have bodyguards.
This is on my list of movies that I thought were incredible, but I don’t know that I’ll put myself through them again. Really intense.
Hidden by WE? at TRC4941 request.
Has anyone watched Bookie (Max) with Sebastian Maniscalco? We’ve watched 3 episodes and now I think we will bow out. I love Maniscalco’s standup and the first episodes of this show were pretty good but the last episode we watched had too much of the betting lingo. I’m not familiar with any of it so it was kind of confusing.
Butt Boy on Tubi. This one came to my daughter’s attention, and how do you not check out a movie about a guy who can whoosh all kinds of stuff, including people, into his butt? (Thankfully, this isn’t shown in graphic detail, but you get a good enough sense of what’s happening.) Of course, the matter of a missing child comes to the attention of law enforcement. The detective assigned to the case is also a newcomer to Alcoholics Anonymous, and our butt guy is matched up with him as his sponsor.
Given the premise, this one turns out not to be nearly as stupid-in-a-fun-way as I expected. I’m not sure if I should consider it a failure on that account or admire the filmmakers for their restraint. (Or, you know, it might have been a matter of budgetary limitations for acceptable quality special effects.) In any case, it kept me reasonably engaged to the end, even if I ended up not knowing whether to recommend it.