the dirt - the netflix bio on motley crue. my college roommate loved MC. i heard of them in the early 1990's but me and my friends never listened to them. he would blare their music so loud freshman year when we weren't roommates, people would bang on his door to turn it down. the movie was okay. mixed in a lot of the early LA music scene and some key people back then. to me the movie doesn't go deep enough. hell the movie rock star with mark wahlberg, goes deeper in the drugs, sex and rock and roll than this movie. it's not raunchy or debauchery enough to be MC. still a solid bio. good music as well.
understood but my music taste didn't. you wouldn't be caught dead in my grammar school or high school listening to anything like that. same for the other big hair bands like Ratt, Poison, etc. no one wore jean jackets with patches on them either. the few in high school that did were in their own little clique tucked away from everyone else in the school. with MTV, i saw their videos in the late 80's and only 1 song i like was their ballad of "Home Sweet Home." The rest seemed cheesy like "Smokin' in the Boys Room," and "Girls, Girls, Girls."
The only Motley Crue I listened to for the longest time was their first album Shout at the devil. They sounded too pop after that.
California Split. George Segal and Elliott Gould are two inveterate gamblers, and this real-feel movie follows them as they win some, lose some, get mugged a few times, and look for the classic "big score" at the end.
The HIGHWAY MEN -on Netflix about the real 2 former Texas Rangers who killed Bonnie and Clyde. They even filmed on the real road B&C were killed on. B&C were barely in the movie and it's not about them. It's really about these 2 former lawmen and Rangers, who reported killed over 50 people. Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson were great in their roles. The one shocking thing - there was 20,000 people attended Bonnie's funeral and 15,000 people attended Clyde's and when the bullet ridden car was brought to town, as shown in real photographs, people were trying to touch it, the car and i guess them. they were were sobbing and crying and trying to touch 2 dead people inside. creepy.
haven't seen a new movie in weeks until last night. saw a bootleg version of Avengers: Endgame. All i can say is "thank God it's over!" Spoiler thanks to LeSean McCoy, i knew the ending bc that dope tweeted the ended opening night. it was better than i thought, but some of it didn't make sense. then they changed their own rules of time travel. kind of lame. i always thought snapping your fingers to destroy half of Earth's population from the other movie was just silly. need more than that. overall it wasn't a bad film at all and better than most of them. way too much CGI and just too many damn comic book movies overall. i know it makes billions of dollars and the other ones rake in the money, but some of the movies and new ones coming out are just God awful. Awful ideas and plots and very bad acting. everyone is getting their own movie now. comic book characters i never heard of are getting their own movie. kind of like the end of A-Endgame when everyone in the Marvel universe shows up to fight Thanos. it's so silly. So many lame characters. Im happy i saw it and very happy i saw it for free. Overall. A-.
ARCTIC - ugh. a survival movie of a guy in a plane crash. they don't say where he is or how or why he crashed. they don't say much at all. no need to go into the rest. movie had high hopes but was boring and no info lead to me being disinterested. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile -- movie about Ted Bundy with former teen actor Zac Efron as Bundy. I've seen better 1, 2, or 3 hr mini documentaries on Bundy on the Crime Channel on tv. Bundy is a extremely complex man who has many layers most people didn't know or couldn't or wouldn't understand. This movie doesn't peel back the layers at all on Bundy. I could tell that the first 15 min into the film. Efron is get as Bundy and looks a lot like him. Sadly, he's not been given the material to make the movie really work. To have a movie about Bundy, they needed to get inside the motive or head of Bundy. They didn't and the movie suffered from this lack of research and storytelling.
not many 3 hr movies can make me watch it again. this isn't one of them. i didn't hate it, but there's no need to watch it again for me. im a batman and superman fan. i never even heard of the Avengers growing up and Ironman wasn't even a comic book anyone read or collected when i was a kid. im good.
The Shining came out 39 years ago, I'm standing in a big lineup right now waiting to get in to watch it again.
Finally got around to watching "The Mule". The movie had its moments but, overall, I was somewhat disappointed in it.
Rocky, after outright winning the greatest sports movie title of all time, I had to go watch it again. Yo Adrien , I did it.
yeah Lyman, agreed. seemed way too easy. very little action and just him driving back and forth etc. can't believe it was a true story.
Couple oldies but...well, "goodies" sells it a bit short: Monday Night - "The Deer Hunter." Hard to believe it's been 40 years since its release. Hasn't lost any of its impact. Tuesday Night - "Searching for Bobby Fisher." If a movie about chess sounds boring and uninspiring...do yourself a favor and watch this gem.
The Deer Hunter scared me to death. That scene when they're in that crate in the water? God, I had nightmares for weeks after seeing it. I watched it again after a few years and I had the same visceral reaction. Great film!
