Ah, a new Lewis Black show?Lewis (Inspector Lewis) series - 8/10
The Fletch reboot is gonna star Jon Hamm.
Lewis (Inspector Lewis) series - 8/10
No. Sorry, i guess i should have given more info about it.Ah, a new Lewis Black show?
Rookie Blue
I tried watching it but it stinks. I have to agree with this reviewer:
Review: Rookie Blue: Season One
www.slantmagazine.com
Weak writing, lousy acting, people who look like they belong on magazine covers and ONLY magazine covers. Loaded with cliches. Overuse of soft focus. Does not have any depth or realism but also isn't a well-made drama either. Amazingly it got 6 seasons. I can only assume Canadians are just desperate for Canadian cop shows.
1/10 for the hot chicks.
I didn't quite finish Greyhound but only had maybe 15 minutes left.watching Greyhound - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6048922/
essentially, it's a movie version of playing World Of Warships. 90 minutes of relentless fighting, which, while well made, it's not really a film with a lot of depth. The weapons porn is pretty stronk, and Tom Hanks does a decent job with what he's given, and yeah, it's entertaining, but also long winded. Think your B&W era war film, but remove all meaningful dialogue and all plot elements, and you got Grayhound.
I do not know how historically accurate this film is; it may well be, and possibly means a lot more to some people who are serving in the navy, but, to me, as a casual viewer, my opinion is that it's good stuff, but too much of the same.
I previously gave a really high rating to La Horde, which is what you want if you love zombies. If you love naval action, this film is your La Horde. If you like a film to be made up of a nuanced combination of diverse elements, you would rate this film:
6.5/10 - 10 slices of ham and 2 slices of white bread.
Just like Inglorious Basterds which ends with them torching Hitler with a flame thrower, it's supposed to be a fantasy... hence beat up Bruce Lee andOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) 1/10
Ha! I was living in L.A./Hollywood in 1969, OK? Yeah, I know what it was like, and it wasn't like that. Yeah, even for movie industry insiders. So, it's a fantasy, Tarantino's fantasy, and you are supposed to be his voyeur. But you're seeing his fantasy, not Hollywood, not history.
I started watching it last night. I put a hold on the BR many months ago at my local library, finally got ahold of it when the library reopened a few weeks ago. I'm 57 minutes in, will finish today. I expected to like it a lot more, I'm not liking it so far. I can see some stuff that's OK. His sets, some of them, are OK, not a lot so far. Some of it is just insulting. The guy who channels Bruce Lee and fights Brad Pitt. Give me a break. Lee had real character, I have to wonder if Tarantino really has any. Oh, and Polanski, characterizing him as a jerk. Please! The pool party scene. Such a fucking cliche, just shit. Also, I'm sensing that Tarantino is pretty damn racist. I may come back the tweak this mini-review when I'm done watching this marathon. Did you like it? WTF did you like it?
Yeah, goofy stuff there. Spielberg kind of did that with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Rewrite history in your imagination to get vengeance. Please, we're grown up here... well, some of us. Yeah, I heard somewhere that the Manson Family are in it, so no surprise (I clicked the SPOILER), but it won't spoil it for me, I'll just take it in stride. But why beat up Bruce Lee? Must be a closet racist. I heard a wonderful woman say on TV the other day, it's not enough to say you aren't a racist. You have to be anti-racist! I agree with that 500%!Just like Inglorious Basterds which ends with them torching Hitler with a flame thrower, it's supposed to be a fantasy... hence beat up Bruce Lee and.the Manson family
Tarantino is a huge fan of Bruce Lee... and kung fu movies in general. It really comes out the characters he wrote for True Romance.Yeah, goofy stuff there. Spielberg kind of did that with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Rewrite history in your imagination to get vengeance. Please, we're grown up here... well, some of us. Yeah, I heard somewhere that the Manson Family are in it, so no surprise (I clicked the SPOILER), but it won't spoil it for me, I'll just take it in stride. But why beat up Bruce Lee? Must be a closet racist. I heard a wonderful woman say on TV the other day, it's not enough to say you aren't a racist. You have to be anti-racist! I agree with that 500%!
I enjoyed it a lot.Palm Springs (Hulu)7.5/10 - It's a time loop romantic comedy. Besides the inevitable overall mushy ending, it's quite entertaining. Saw a good review for it on Ars Technica so went for it.
But why beat up Bruce Lee?
OK, thanks for the demystification. Gonna watch the last 70% of it tonight. I'm sure your last sentence there gives me the hint I need to get to what QT was up to.I think it was supposed to give the character bad ass chops, while at the same time poking some holes in the Hollywood mythos. Bruce Lee is held up as an Ultimate Baddass in the Hollywood mythos, so of course the stunt man can kick his ass. It is feeding the mythos they want to create; the movies are fake, but our main character is the real deal.
OK, finished it next day (yesterday), after watching the first 57 minutes and having a bad reaction. I'm now willing to give it a 6.5 instead of a 1.Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) 1/10
Ha! I was living in L.A./Hollywood in 1969, OK? Yeah, I know what it was like, and it wasn't like that. Yeah, even for movie industry insiders. So, it's a fantasy, Tarantino's fantasy, and you are supposed to be his voyeur. But you're seeing his fantasy, not Hollywood, not history.
I started watching it last night. I put a hold on the BR many months ago at my local library, finally got ahold of it when the library reopened a few weeks ago. I'm 57 minutes in, will finish today. I expected to like it a lot more, I'm not liking it so far. I can see some stuff that's OK. His sets, some of them, are OK, not a lot so far. Some of it is just insulting. The guy who channels Bruce Lee and fights Brad Pitt. Give me a break. Lee had real character, I have to wonder if Tarantino really has any. Oh, and Polanski, characterizing him as a jerk. Please! The pool party scene. Such a fucking cliche, just shit. Also, I'm sensing that Tarantino is pretty damn racist. I may come back the tweak this mini-review when I'm done watching this marathon. Did you like it? WTF did you like it?
Burn After Reading was basically Hollywood A-listers all trying to jump on the Coen train after their big win for No Country for Old Men. It suffered for it.Burn After Reading - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887883/
Coen Bros film.
This was my first viewing and i wasn't terribly impressed. As i thought about writing this mini-review it came to me that it's not a terrible film, but it lacks substance.
Here is why;
1. most of the many notable actors are cast against type. Tilda swinton is a horrible antagonising woman with no empathy, brad pitt is a moron, john malkovic .. uh .. isn't john malkovic ..even clooney isn't his usual self, not as confident or resourceful. Only JK Simmons seems to play his usual part.
2. the dialogue is of a very high standard, as usual. however, there aren't any notable moments of confrontation.
3. the story is nice, but not really .. uh .. satisying.
Malkovic is an analyst with the CIA. He's taken out of his job for some office-politics issue and he decides to quit instead and "go find himself". He is not really the kind of person who can find himself, as wife tild swinton points out.
Meanwhile wife swinton has been cheating with clooney. She also goes to see a divorce attorney, because she doesn't value her husband at all, and now that he lost his job he's useless to her.
Absent-minded malkovic loses a CD with some "sensitive data" on it. This is found by meatheads Pitt and McDormand - McDormand in particular is driven by her obsession to get plastic surgery. They try to make money off of this, first blackmailing malkovic, which fails horribly, and then by selling the secrets to the russians.
*there is an in-between part of the plot here, but it's irrelevant*
The russians obviously turn the evidence back to the US, given that it's both worthless and coming from two people with no credibility. Both clooney and malkovic get destroyed by their own incompetence, Pitt is killed, and eventually the plot goes back to the director of the operation, JK simmons, who is perplexed at the incompetence of everyone involved but, unsure if there is something bigger he does not know about, agrees to pay for McDormand's plastic surgery.
See, there is a big, well written plot here, but, there are really no memorable actor against actor moments that give this film any .. uh .. replay value?
Sure, it's amusing to see talented actors play against type, but a charmin' george clooney in Oh Brother just works better than a scared-of-committment clooney in Burn After Reading. Typecasting exists because it works.
my vote, 7/10 on the first watch, probably 6/10 after that.