What Movie Are You Watching Or Watched Today?

[Frances]

[leadshoes]

Finally watched The Bride of Frankenstein.



It's very possible that no one's ever looked better in a movie than Elsa Lanchester as the title character. It's just too bad that she's barely in it. Sorry for the spoilers, but I figure most people who'd be interested in seeing it have already seen it by now.

[Frances]

Fell asleep watching Gotti.
I don’t care what that tomato site says.
Might turn it back on to see the last half.
Production value was shit.
Support cast isn't very good.
Kelly Preston.
One of the Entourage guys directed.

There is a Twin Peaks actor in it and it was freaking me out, trying to figure out who the guy was.
Cool.

[Low D]

FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (2019, Netflix)

The trainwreck from which you can't look away. Given the feeling that grew in the pit of *my* stomach watching the festival date draw nearer, i can only imagine what it was like for the staff involved. But actually, i don't have to imagine - they tell us quite clearly & unreservedly. I'm a bit unclear how Ja Rule got off so easy, though.

[Frances]

Amazon Prime


Drew Carey comes off as a real prick in this, calling the central character Rain Man for having the ability and inclination to memorize (and add) prices of janky ass prizes.
What a creep.

[Mike from Boston]

FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (2019, Netflix)

The trainwreck from which you can't look away. Given the feeling that grew in the pit of *my* stomach watching the festival date draw nearer, i can only imagine what it was like for the staff involved. But actually, i don't have to imagine - they tell us quite clearly & unreservedly. I'm a bit unclear how Ja Rule got off so easy, though.[/quote]

Great watch. The most amazing thing about the scumbag who did this, is he began scamming people even after the Fyre disaster.

[Low D]

FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (2019, Netflix)

The trainwreck from which you can't look away. Given the feeling that grew in the pit of *my* stomach watching the festival date draw nearer, i can only imagine what it was like for the staff involved. But actually, i don't have to imagine - they tell us quite clearly & unreservedly. I'm a bit unclear how Ja Rule got off so easy, though.

Great watch. The most amazing thing about the scumbag who did this, is he began scamming people even after the Fyre disaster.

While out on bail he did it! And he invited somebody to come film?!

[Frances]

McQueen

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
In which George Clooney’s big ass head brings suspension of disbelief to a screeching halt every time it shows up on screen.

I have the movie about the street cat named Bob sitting around, but dunno about that one. Interesting that they used the real Bob.

[Mike from Boston]

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)

This documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. For every obvious one here, like Buffy Sainte Marie or Jesse Ed Davis, there is a surprising one, like Link Wray or Jazz Singer Mildred Bailey. And if the American Indian contribution to Mardis Gras tradition is obvious, it was fascinating to learn that the whole Delta blues style could arguably be thought of as traditional first nations singing, with the drum replaced with guitar (since owning a drum was illegal for both slaves & First Nations). No less a source than Howlin' Wolf, himself of Cherokee descent, has contributed to this argument, revealing that his mentor Charley Patton, one of the "founders" of the style, was as much Choctaw as he was Black. In the telling of this tale, the documentary explores how mixed race children "became" black, a colonial tool to remove Indian status from the population. It's this historical sociological content mixed with the ethnomusicology that takes this doc next level from a standard music documentary.


Also: Ozzy drummer Randy fuckin' Castillo, best metal drummer *ever*, yes!

Buffy Saint-Marie was adopted and went to High School in my hometown of Wakefield, MA. Long way from Canada.

[Frances]

The Public (directed by Emilio Estevez) sounds interesting.
It covers homelessness, America’s lacking mental health services and the libraries that split the difference.
Specifically a Cincinnati one on a freezing Winter night.

[DzM]

The Public (directed by Emilio Estevez) sounds interesting.
It covers homelessness, America’s lacking mental health services and the libraries that split the difference.
Specifically a Cincinnati one on a freezing Winter night.

Well now my "I watched Deadpool 2 over the weekend" seem pretty facile. I mean, it IS pretty facile, but now it's extra obvious. I feel shallow.

[Frances]

Well now my "I watched Deadpool 2 over the weekend" seem pretty facile. I mean, it IS pretty facile, but now it's extra obvious. I feel shallow.

I vaguely know what that is. It’s got Ryan Reynolds (in a full over the head onesie) and he’s jokey? Right?

[leadshoes]

I watched a duo of pun-titled documentaries, Cowspiracy and What The Health by the same people. They were enough to get me to finally decide to eat only plants after we finish the last yogurt and tuna on hand.



And for good measure, another pun-titled short documentary Corntamination I watched recently about creepy GMO plant vaccines. This one has the most versatile pun of all, since so much of everything is corntaminated (mostly with puns!)

[Frances]

Shapeshifters!

[Frances]

So... The Banana Splits Movie is gonna be horror?
It already was.