In a weird sort of way, THE NICE GUYS is one of the best TTRPG movies I’ve ever seen. Sure, there’s nothing supernatural, no superpowers or ultratech: but the comedy is pure tabletop, with a body count to match. This is a GUMSHOE game where the GM and players aren’t that invested in right and wrong, but just want to explore one of our more tiring cultural eras. Lots of fun, it’s a shame it didn’t make enough bank for a sequel.
Not entirely sure why: that version of WAR OF THE WORLDS has been coming across my screen a few times over the last week or so. It’s actually not a bad film, although it grapples with the usual problem of How do you make an almost entirely reactive protagonist heroic? that WotW movies have. I also remember being amused at the time at how Spielberg did everything to favorably portray American soldiers except put actual halos around their head. Given the absolute crap that passed for war movies in the Oughts, this was no small act of defiance.
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I REALLY wanted to see SATURDAY NIGHT in theaters when it came out, but the timing didn’t work, dammit. It comes out on DVD next week, though. That’ll just have to do.
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PS: I was *just* old enough to be allowed to catch some of the shows because of Mr. Bill. There’s a reason I turned out the way I did.
Which is only on Netflix. Apparently, KLAUS is one of the great Christmas movies, and would have blazed across the sky like a second animated sun if it weren’t for the minor detail that it came out in November of 2019. Instead, people watched it… and then promptly forgot about it, because 2019-2021 pretty much turned into this creative black hole that sucked up all the positive cinematic buzz in the room.
Still, it’s supposed to be great.
GODZILLA MINUS ONE seemed to have taken forever to make it over here in physical form – I can only conclude that the studio really wasn’t expecting it to take off as hard in the United States as it did – but we have it now. No digital copy included, but that’s all right. I’ve already watched it on one of the streaming services. No Minus Color version, either, which is less all right. Ach, well.
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I’m picking DANGEROUS LIAISONS because some genius at Amazon has decided to remake CRUEL INTENTIONS as a series. Since We all know that movie was only a “little copy, a child’s model or a slave’s flattery” of the Glenn Close / John Malkovich / Michelle Pfeiffer masterpiece, it’s safe enough to assume that the series is going to somehow be even worse. Hell, the new series may not even be particularly lust-inducing. We don’t really do those anymore, after all.
Truly, this is an appallingly drab age.
Moe Lane
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Solely so that I could put this clip up. When men aren’t thinking of the Roman Empire…
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
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Moe Lane
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PS: According to the Internet, RED DAWN is forty years old today. …God help us all.
I don’t know how I got sucked into rewatching TANGLED. All I know is, that movie has absolutely no business being as good as it is. Seriously, if you’ve never watched it then you’re missing out. Also note that the cover image actually accurately promises you some of the stuff that happens in the movie itself. I know Disney’s quality has slipped, but this is firmly from a time period where that had not yet happened.
KUNG FU PANDA has no business being this good a movie. Seriously, everybody thought it was going to suck: it had all the warning signs. I think I watched this on my flight back from Hawaii, and I was mesmerized at how easily it all worked. Just goes to show, huh?
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