The Sandlot -- 10/10
Revisited a childhood favorite after finding the bluray for $5. Exactly what a Saturday afternoon movie should be. Bonus points for nostalgia.
Mad Max: Fury Road -- 10/10
Definitely deserving of all the awards - it's a really great film. The visual effects are awesome, and finding out via the special features that most of the stunts and things were actually real and not CGI just makes it all that more impressive. Only watched the first special feature, going to probably watch the rest of them sometime this week. I never do that.
Finding Vivian Maier -- 7/10
Documentary on Netflix about a street photographer that never made her work public. Only after she died did someone discover it and make it public. I found out about her several years ago and remember going to the exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center (though definitely not on the night this documentary was shot, there were nowhere near that many people...). It was cool to watch this and see more of her work, but I feel they kinda spent a lot of time talking about her quirkiness and hoarding of newspapers and how much stuff she always kept. Call me old fashioned, but when someone's dead, if you claim to really care for that person, don't broadcast to the world how mean she was or talk about how rude she could be to the people in her photographs. I'm not saying you needed to lie, but at least omit parts of the truth.
Rome -- 6/10
Season 1 only. A bit of a letdown after all the good things I'd heard. Not sure I really feel the need to watch S2. so I probably won't. At least for now. Couldn't figure out where I'd seen the main dude's wife before, turns out she's Ellaria Sand in Game of Thrones. :thumbsup:
Creed -- Agreed. It's solid, and a great reboot I think
Sandlot -- Classic of classics. My son has watched it 11ty billion times
Mad Max -- Agreed -- best of the year.
Rome -- When aired, there was nothing better. It's over 10 years old now, and as with most things of the nature, it doesn't age well. When it first aired, it was 10/10 all day.
Ok, I have this weird love for Pee Wee's Big Adventure. While not a great movie, it came out when I was in college, and for some reason I've always thought it is a hilarious mix of strange, funny, and awesome.
This Holiday ain't no Adventure.
It's kind of nice to see Pee Wee back on the big screen, even though he's obviously a little older. Also, I have no real complaints about the plot of Holiday - the story is about as solid and ultimately irrelevant as Adventure. The problem is the direction... this movie is almost good. It's almost funny. It's almost enjoyable. Unfortunately, it fails in all three categories. What this movie needed was a Tim Burton, or some other director who has a penchant for weird.
Rome -- When aired, there was nothing better. It's over 10 years old now, and as with most things of the nature, it doesn't age well. When it first aired, it was 10/10 all day.
I wonder if part of the problem is that we've had Spartacus come after it? To be fair, Spartacus isn't the same, but it's in a similar time period and has a far more striking aesthetic. Oh, and it has boobs and silly dialog! ("Remove Jupiter's cock from ass!")
Ok, I have this weird love for Pee Wee's Big Adventure. While not a great movie, it came out when I was in college, and for some reason I've always thought it is a hilarious mix of strange, funny, and awesome.
This Holiday ain't no Adventure.
It's kind of nice to see Pee Wee back on the big screen, even though he's obviously a little older. Also, I have no real complaints about the plot of Holiday - the story is about as solid and ultimately irrelevant as Adventure. The problem is the direction... this movie is almost good. It's almost funny. It's almost enjoyable. Unfortunately, it fails in all three categories. What this movie needed was a Tim Burton, or some other director who has a penchant for weird.
Ok, I have this weird love for Pee Wee's Big Adventure. While not a great movie, it came out when I was in college, and for some reason I've always thought it is a hilarious mix of strange, funny, and awesome.
This Holiday ain't no Adventure.
It's kind of nice to see Pee Wee back on the big screen, even though he's obviously a little older. Also, I have no real complaints about the plot of Holiday - the story is about as solid and ultimately irrelevant as Adventure. The problem is the direction... this movie is almost good. It's almost funny. It's almost enjoyable. Unfortunately, it fails in all three categories. What this movie needed was a Tim Burton, or some other director who has a penchant for weird.
Ok, I have this weird love for Pee Wee's Big Adventure. While not a great movie, it came out when I was in college, and for some reason I've always thought it is a hilarious mix of strange, funny, and awesome.
This Holiday ain't no Adventure.
It's kind of nice to see Pee Wee back on the big screen, even though he's obviously a little older. Also, I have no real complaints about the plot of Holiday - the story is about as solid and ultimately irrelevant as Adventure. The problem is the direction... this movie is almost good. It's almost funny. It's almost enjoyable. Unfortunately, it fails in all three categories. What this movie needed was a Tim Burton, or some other director who has a penchant for weird.
Ok, I have this weird love for Pee Wee's Big Adventure. While not a great movie, it came out when I was in college, and for some reason I've always thought it is a hilarious mix of strange, funny, and awesome.
This Holiday ain't no Adventure.
It's kind of nice to see Pee Wee back on the big screen, even though he's obviously a little older. Also, I have no real complaints about the plot of Holiday - the story is about as solid and ultimately irrelevant as Adventure. The problem is the direction... this movie is almost good. It's almost funny. It's almost enjoyable. Unfortunately, it fails in all three categories. What this movie needed was a Tim Burton, or some other director who has a penchant for weird.
Rome -- When aired, there was nothing better. It's over 10 years old now, and as with most things of the nature, it doesn't age well. When it first aired, it was 10/10 all day.
I don't know that it aging well is really a problem -- I mean, sure the big "battle" in S1 was just a hodge-podge of blurred still frames to the sounds of swords clashing, but overall I don't think that was the problem. I just never felt connected to any of the characters, except for Titus Pullo ... and I'm 70% certain that was out of pity.
I wonder if part of the problem is that we've had Spartacus come after it? To be fair, Spartacus isn't the same, but it's in a similar time period and has a far more striking aesthetic. Oh, and it has boobs and silly dialog! ("Remove Jupiter's cock from ass!")
I've never seen Spartacus, but I couldn't help but feel like Rome would have been better before having seen GoT -- it has all the political manipulation and such, right down to the incest ... but I've seen GoT. None of this was new or shocking. I don't know if seeing it before GoT would have changed my opinion on it or not.
LOL. Some crappy movie that got horrid reviews with test audiences. Then the company decided to call it point break 2 in hopes that people would come see it?
Ok, I have this weird love for Pee Wee's Big Adventure. While not a great movie, it came out when I was in college, and for some reason I've always thought it is a hilarious mix of strange, funny, and awesome.
This Holiday ain't no Adventure.
It's kind of nice to see Pee Wee back on the big screen, even though he's obviously a little older. Also, I have no real complaints about the plot of Holiday - the story is about as solid and ultimately irrelevant as Adventure. The problem is the direction... this movie is almost good. It's almost funny. It's almost enjoyable. Unfortunately, it fails in all three categories. What this movie needed was a Tim Burton, or some other director who has a penchant for weird.
Interesting. I've been wondering about that because PW BA is awesome...and it's not strange that you like it. It's a true classic and a formidable piece of work in it's own right. Sucks that this one seems to...suck.
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