The Last Movie You Watched

[Silver]

The Electric State

An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.

[Angrboda]

The Craft.

[Fake Messiah]

Fascinating new documentary about a successful guy in London who one day becomes the victim of a con that destroys his life, leaving you with the unsettling feeling that it could happen to anyone at anytime.

[arewethereyet]

I made it through about 1/2 of A Complete Unknown today.  I really tried to stick with it but couldn't.  The acting was fine but it was as boring as watching paint dry.  I had hoped for more music or something but finally just turned it off.  If I get really bored, I can always watch the other half at a later date.

[Fake Messiah]

Yeah, Complete Unknown looks like a boring movie. I have no interest in seeing it.

And I also watched a biopic: "Surviving Picasso". Watching it from today's perspective is a bit like reading someone's #metoo tweets. And it's like all those biopics: it starts and goes on, and although you feel like it could end at any moment, it goes for two hours and then it abruptly stops as it started. You don't have characters who are trying to get over an obstacle or that they have some motivation or let alone a plot because it's someone's stupid life. Elon Musk's biopic will look eerily similar to this, as Picasso exploited women and wanted to impregnate as many as he could (strange he didn't have more kids) while being preoccupied with his fantasyland.

Another problem is the English assembly of actors who are playing French and Spanish people. At moments you think you are watching "Howard's End".

[arewethereyet]

Watched Tombstone. It's been a long time since I have seen it. It's kind of fun since I spent a lot of weekends back in the 80s there. I have been in the Bird Cage and The Crystal Palace. Quite a party place in spite of the history.

[Angrboda]

[Rev. Rye]

This latest fit of  the Deep Hurting Project starts with Surf's Up II: WaveMania. I did not care for the original movie when I watched it a few weeks ago, and yet, somehow, the WWE (of all groups) decided it would be a good fit for their stable of stars. Even though it barely made its budget back when you factor in the worldwide gross. 

• Nice to see them recap the original movie with a TV segment called "Are They Still Cool?" 
  
• Okay, as a livelong Chicagoan, I have to fucking ask: are regular surf classes like Cobra Kai?
  
• So, it's the Hang 5 that inspired Cody as a kid. Presumably Big Z stopped existing at some point. 
  
• Seriously? Mr. McMahon? The UNdertaker? So, they're playing themselves? As surfing penguins and not wrestlers? 
  
• In fairness, unlike a lot of these horrible sequels, they at least did have some voice actors return. Granted, it's just Diedrich Baker's Tank and Jon Heder's Chicken Joe. But it's still two more than a lot of these sequels do. 
  
• They're really dwelling on the image of drinking the milk from a fish.
  
  
  
• Also, how the fuck did this make it into a kid's movie?
  
• I will give it this, I thought the Hang Five want Chicken Joe and not Cody, but they actually wanted Lani.
  
• Okay, so I just fall asleep in the middle of the movie and everybody's randomly fighting for the chance to join the Hang Five and one of them is just pitching Fightin Round the World?
  
• Ideas to go around the big fucking pit of magma? I dunno, just find another way around it? 
  
• So, Cody needs to re-learn the lesson about the power of Friendship? Even though he learned the same lesson in the previous movie?
  
• How was Chicken Joe's Cody's board the only casualty of this fucking hang glide through a lake of fucking magma? 
  
• Trying to surf during a major thunderstorm?  It's not like they're surrounded by something that conducts electricity. 
  
• WAit? Lifeguards do the Hippocratic Oath in this universe? 
  
• Chicken Joe, those are fucking Jellyfish, go get some electric eels if you need a Cartoon-friendly marine life defibrilator.
  
• They're going to surf a tsunami? That's fucking impossible.
  

The two choices for next week: Star Trek: Section 31 and Steven Segal abomination Ticker.

[Angrboda]

Part of it, anyway.

[Goosebump]

Just watched Memoir of a Snail. Highly recommend. Stop motion nudity at its finest.

Joking aside, I don't think I've seen that much nudity in a film that wasn't pornographic in a very long time. Yet it didn't detract from what was an emotional bender of a story.

You'd think a 90+ minute stop motion film would be tedious at times but the pacing of the story with the understated narration keeps you glued. It's a triumph for a new director/film maker/writer.