Went to AMC and saw 3 movies today
The Housemaid - from the title and the preview, it looks like it could be one of those incredibly cheesy suspense flicks they always show on Lifetime. The acting here was really solid though. And I was wrong thinking I already knew the plot. I was surprised at the direction it went and was unsuccessful in predicting pretty much any of the twists. I did sort of see the ending coming, but after the main event occurred, a few more twists emerged that caught me off guard. It was a super fun movie for sure. And JESUS CHRIST Sidney Sweeney has some large, magnificent breasts. I see why they had 3 sex scenes with her naked. I've never seen her in anything else, but after seeing her naked here. I gotta image every director tries to incorporate her being topless in a movie. Her topless would add a solid .5 to any rating IMHO. I shamelessly Googled it when I got home, and she's said they're 32DD/DDD depending on her weight. This was like a Lifetime movie if they made a movie with solid acting and a plot you can't predict coming 100 miles away.
Anaconda - The premise is a group of friends decide to go to the Amazon river and make a reboot of their all time favorite movie, Anaconda. After watching it I looked it up on RT, 51% critics. 1 reviewer said they didn't like it and hated how they didn't explain why the friends loved the movie Anaconda so much. This is a parody movie it's not an extremely well written thought provoking work of art. And on the silly factor holy shit this was fucking dynamite. I don't usually laugh out loud, but there were a bunch of scenes that were damn hilarious. This is a completely ridiculous movie, the cast is all great, especially Jack Black & Paul Rudd. This is one that the critics are shitting all over but I bet the audience score on RT will be pretty high. I legit haven't laughed this hard at a movie in years. I love the absolute absurdity and randomness of them picking Anaconda of all moves to reboot. There's even a few solid jump scares with the snake. I will 100% watch this again when it's on streaming, this was about a perfect purely stupid movie.
Marty Supreme - I knew nothing about this movie except it's a dude that plays table tennis. How good can a flick about ping pong be? Well this was freakin great. Marty's an asshole who'll do anything it takes to pursue his dream of being a world champ in ping pong. One of my favorite characters was an asshole of a businessman played by Mr. Wonderful (Kevin O'Leary) from Shark Tank. He pretty much was just himself, but his character was perfect. There's also a small part by Ted Williams, the homeless guy who can sing that was huge on the internet like 15 years ago. Penn Gillette also turns in a tiny but surprisingly great role. I don't even know who the hell Timothee Chalamet is, but he can act. He's both very likable and very despisable at the same. The way he uses everybody around him to get what he wants is pretty shitty, and his utter arrogance was a bit grating. But I found myself still sorta rooting for him. He's really not a great protagonist because of all the unlikable shit he does. But he puts so much charisma into the character so you almost overlook the bad. I saw a lot of movies this year, this along with Caught Stealing, were the 2 surprise sleepers.
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