it was 7 degrees this morning. car barely started. if the nor'easter turns inward thursday getting hit hard of snow. if not, 1-4 inches.
it was 7 degrees this morning. car barely started. if the nor'easter turns inward thursday getting hit hard of snow. if not, 1-4 inches.
10 degrees this morning when I left the house, and Saturday is supposed to have a HIGH of 10, getting down to 1.
ugh-another remake coming of a movie classic. somehow ben affleck is remaking witness for the prosecution in 2019. you can't top charles laughton in that movie.
THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US. Same old mountain crash on a survivor story until the end. Not a big shocker, but not terrible movie. More of a chick flick. DETROIT- I love at the end it says "not all witnesses or evidence was found or used to make this movie." so it's half bullshit then? these cops were either the dumbest 3 guys on the planet or really that racist. either way - wow. crazy story and end results. I can't believe they weren't in jail for what they did.
DEN OF THIEVES. Solid movie with no real big movie stars in it. I liked it a lot. Could've been shorter in some areas, but the shootout scenes and cat and mouse reminded me of HEAT. Spoiler the big twist at the end wasn't that big of a twist. cool, but not shocking. a very solid movie overall.
3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - the Oscar front runner for Best Picture, Actress and Supporting Actor - wow not what I expected at all. Crazy, sad, funny and wacky of a movie. Really sad overall, but had many redeeming qualities. Awesome cast. I dislike Francis McDormand a lot and she will probably win her second Oscar for this. I'm dreading her speech of Me Too already. Sam Rockwell was excellent as well and looks to win his first Oscar for Best Supporting. He's always the second fiddle in many movies, but he's great in a lot of movies. He's the real child killer in the Green Mile too. GET OUT - wow. Oscar noms for Best Picture, Director and Actor. Why? Why was this cheesy attempt at a horror flick nominated at all? Best Picture? Holy shit are they getting desperate to find good films. Best Actor? Are you kidding me ? 5 men get nominated and you pick this unknown actor for this lame film. Best Director? Oh, I get it-more diversity in the nominations. Holy shit this is awful. John Singleton for Boyz in the Hood - he deserved a nomination. Spike Lee - he deserved his nomination. Jordan Peele for this ? I'm baffled to why anyone besides MTV kids would vote for this movie for anything let alone a Golden Globe or SAG award. THis movie is not even a good horror movie. It's fluff. It's stupid and it just plain sucks. Best Picture? Best Actor? So this guy is the same quality performance as 3x winner Daniel Day-Lewis? Wow. This may go down as thee worst Best Picture nomination of all time ! The only part of the movie I like is his buddy Rodney. That's it. If it wasn't for him, this movie would be one of the worst I have ever seen in my life and I've seen a lot of bad movies.
MOLLY'S GAME - Not as good as everyone is saying and I know why it wasn't up for Best Picture. It's not that good. It's solid, but not Best Picture solid. It's better than GET OUT but so is everything else. Chastain was good, but not top 5 for Best Actress. Needed to show more poker. Some of it was hokey and very unbelievable. The COmmuter-terribly stupid. 0 plot. 0 characters. 0 suspense. Neeson's plane movie was much better.
the Darkest Hour - ugh. Long, slow, boring and no action. the entire movie is Gary Oldman talking as Churchill. Oldman is excellent and will win his first Oscar in 3 weeks, but the movie is just too damn boring and slow. I got dragged by an ex-girlfriend to see Fifty Shades Freed-omg. it's so bad, it's bad. so cheesy. so ridiculous I cannot believe these books were best sellers. wow. 90 min of my life I'd kill to have back.
I Tonya - the white trash movie about the poor white trash life of Tonya Harding. Wow. Alison Janney will win her first Oscar for the role. She was pure evil and that's how the real Mom was. I would say no one could be that mean, if the Mother wasn't real. She's right out of the SK Simmons role in Whiplash. A person so over the top mean, they couldn't possibly exist. The movie was cheesy and the way it was made was even worse. It was like a film student movie. Bad editing and going in and out of scenes. I still don't believe the late Sean Eckhardt was the mastermind behind it. the guy was a moron. and wow was the ex-husband one mean, abusive and rotten SOB. He even changed his name legally to Jeff Stone instead of Jeff Gulloiley. good move ace.
Spent yesterday just watching movies from bed - a gloriously lazy Sunday! Richard III - brilliant take on the Shakespeare play, set in a dystopian 1930's fascist England. Ian McKellen is nothing short of sensational. Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation - More ridiculous fluff featuring the savior of the galaxy, but I will admit to at least being entertained. Mulholland Falls - maybe the stupidest movie I've seen in a long time. Fedoras, cigarettes, a silly plot and awful acting.
I think the cops in Mulholland Falls were based on real cops Axe. Something like that. An equally bad movie that is really baffling and confusing to me is Mulholland Drive with Naomi Watts. It's a David Lynch film. No idea what's going on in the movie as it keeps changing and people change names and identities left and right. I don't mind Tom Cruise. I wish he would go back to real drama movies like he did when he was younger or even some comedy. His movie last year about the drug smuggler wasn't too bad.
They were...just seemed the movie was TOO conscious of the fedoras and cigarettes. I mean, it felt like if they got up in the middle of the night they'd put on a hat to take a dump. Mulholland DRIVE was very confusing, but I liked it. Didn't hurt that there were some fantastic sex scenes. I gave up on Cruise loooooooooooooooong ago. Dude's always saving the world. He should just put on a Superman cape.
sadly he's an action star like Stallone or Arnold. Again, I wish he would go back to non-action films. he was a really solid actor in his hunger days. RAINMAN, Born on the 4th of July, A Few Good Men, The Color of Money, Jerry McGuire, Minority Report, Vanilla Sky and Collateral was all good movies.
I have an 8 year old...I've seen Peter Rabbit and The Emoji Movie lately. The former was better than I expected it to be. The latter was forgettable except for the brilliant casting of Patrick Stewart as the poop emoji and Steven Wright as a 'meh'. James Corden was in both and is far more tolerable when you only have to hear his voice and can stop wondering how that talentless fat fuck got famous in the first place.
