What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?

Watched Inu-Oh on Hulu last night. Definitely gave me vibes of American Pop! by Ralph Bakshi. Movie covers themes about tradition vs. pushing boundaries both political and musically. There's also an overarching theme of greed with regards to one of the major characters, and what he does to quench it.

I really liked American Pop and this one felt like its cousin on many levels.

n815e wrote: I remember parts of that movie made me feel uncomfortable as a child. My dad watched it often and we always saw it with him.

We should discuss movies our dads took us to.

Cranberries wrote:

n815e wrote: I remember parts of that movie made me feel uncomfortable as a child. My dad watched it often and we always saw it with him.

We should discuss movies our dads took us to.

Never Say Never Again, pretty sure the first film I saw with just my dad and probably one of the first theatrical experiences I had. That off-shoot Bond film has an eternal place in my heart for this.

My dad took me to see National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982), in hopes that it would be a sequel to Animal House. It was not a sequel and it was also not very funny. But first we had dinner at a Mexican restaurant with great-tasting food, where I got food poisoning, which made itself known during the second half of the movie. That Mexican place eventually got shut down a couple of times for health code violations and finally went out of business.

It's very cold this weekend, and after a stressful week at work, I decided to disregard most of my list of things to do, and instead watched some tv and movies.

I have already seen so many memes derived from Mean Girls (2004) that I never felt a strong need to see the actual movie, but I'm glad that I finally did. So many good lines, and such a talented cast. Lindsay Lohan was at the top of her game back then, though she is supposedly finally making a comeback now. Anyway, I have always enjoyed movies that combine dark humor with high school, like Heathers, Jennifer's Body, and the criminally underrated Three O'Clock High. By contrast, John Hughes movies always struck me as slightly bogus, weighted down with cliches, stereotypes, and forced moments.

Chasing Amy (1997) is a refreshing and mildly amusing alternative to all the generic rom coms and had the boldness to address gay sexuality at a time when our society still flinched from the topic. However, it also fumbles those same themes because director/writer Kevin Smith leads with his own misconceptions instead of trying to learn more. Ben Affleck does a decent job in the lead role, and I say that as someone who is not a fan of him. Jason Lee looks exactly like a Matt Wagner character even before he shows up in a Mage t-shirt, but his overbearing delivery of some of his lines becomes intolerable. Joey Lauren Adams is the real star, transcending her modest visual appeal with considerable charm. The sweet spot of the movie is the developing relationship between Adams' and Affleck's characters, but it leads to an insufferable clunker of a denouement where Affleck's character destroys the two most important relationships in his life. Still worth watching, at least once.

Cranberries wrote:

n815e wrote: I remember parts of that movie made me feel uncomfortable as a child. My dad watched it often and we always saw it with him.

We should discuss movies our dads took us to.

My dad was a cinephile, and he took me to see loads of great movies from the late 70s to the early 90s. At home, he had a projector and bought movies on film. He took us to screenings of old flicks and as a kid I was watching everything from silent movies to the newest releases.

It’s his influence that lead me to appreciate them and collect them, too. My own son loves Abbott and Costello, as well as the Marx Brothers. Although they never met, I think this is a part of my dad living on in my child.

I love the Marx Brothers from having seen them on one of the old, local UHF stations when I was a kid. I only later learned that my dad was a big Groucho fan from his work on game shows in the 50s (we did not and do not have much of a relationship, so the idea of "movies that I saw with my dad" is basically a non-factor here.) I remember the first joke that I laughed at until my sides hurt was when Margaret Dumont in A Day at the Races said: "I've never been so insulted in all my life!" And Groucho looks at his watch and says: "Eh. It's early yet."

Shellhead wrote: I have already seen so many memes derived from Mean Girls (2004) that I never felt a strong need to see the actual movie, but I'm glad that I finally did.

That movie is so fetch.

I live with my wife and my daughter and Friday nights are movie night. Usually it's something old, but good. They've finally tired of watching Adam Sandler films thank God. Once each is plenty. But Mean Girls came up a few weeks back and I came away with the same impression as you -- so much of its dialogue has entered into the culture. You don't appreciate that it's the source.

Captain Marvel 2 The Marvels - I don't keep up with the greater MCU stuff anymore, but as one of the half-dozen people who didn't hate Captain Marvel, I wanted to give this a shot. It's a short, silly movie with Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel, and Monica Rambeau. Due to some reversed polarity, they're quantum entangled - it's not a brain movie - so they constantly switch places, which does make some fun fight scenes. Very self-contained other than more Young Avengers setup.

Our only adult friends invited us to see Poor Things.

I saw the 8.4 rating on IMDB and was on board.



It’s also sort of a riff on Frankenstein. I think they had to work to bring this down from NC-17.

That spoiler block might be the worst thing I've read on this site. JFC.

I don't think it can be simplified quite that much (which does make it sound really bad), but I've been sitting on a review of it for two weeks that I can't seem to get motivated on because I just wasn't that impressed, other than with Stone.

Read the spoiler, thought wtf, then looked up the movie.

"directed by Yorgos Lanthimos"

That explains everything.

Cranberries wrote: Our only adult friends invited us to see Poor Things.

I saw the 8.4 rating on IMDB and was on board.

Warning: Spoiler!

What followed felt very much like an art film with some pedo vibes as Emma Stone plays an autistic child trapped in a woman’s body who develops sexual urges. Think Peter Seller’s Being There with Emma Stone banging ugly dudes in a brothel for a third of the movie.

It’s also sort of a riff on Frankenstein. I think they had to work to bring this down from NC-17.

Huh, kinda like a reverse of Kirsten Dunst's character in Interview with a Vampire then?

I dig stuff that really tries to explore the relationship our mind has with our physical bodies. Few films even try to grok that without a physical body to hyperventilate, sweat, and be tachycardic the brain in isolation would probably not feel fear in nearly the same way. Or the role hormones and physical response has on lust, etc.

Emma Stone said:

“One of the things that we had talked about from very early on and I thought was extremely important was that Bella is completely free and without shame about her body,” Stone said. “She doesn’t know to be embarrassed by these things or to cover things up or not dive into the full experience when it comes to anything.” Stone further noted that for the “camera to sort of shy away from that, or to say, ‘OK, well, we’ll just cut all of this out because our society functions in a particular way’…felt like a lack of being honest about who Bella is.”

I just wasn’t planning on an NC-17 movie that evening. Like going to the hot springs and getting ambushed by naked old dudes with their dangly bits.