What Movie Are You Watching?

[Huntn]

Anora (2024)- Best Picture 2024. I saw it described as a comedy, and while there are some comedic elements, I would not describe it as a feel good comedy. Anora is a sex worker in a night club, who falls in with the son of a Russian oligarch. She agrees to be his girlfriend for a week. They fly to Vegas, he proposes to her, they marry, and once his family finds out, the rest is a mostly a dose of reality as the family, works to reverse the marriage. A slog to get through.

Not a fun, or feel good story. Mikey Madison deserves best actress, but the last half is not an enjoyable sequence of events, a movie I’m glad I did not see in the theater.

 

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The Electric State (2025 Netflix)- This is alt-reality, but I did not like the premise for that reason, just the premise of these robots and of the story involving transference of consciousness. Did not finish. It got bad reviews and I hated most of the robots. Budget $320M.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7766378/

Yes, that is Chris Pratt and apparantly he likes playing the same character as Guardians…

 

[Alli]

The Electric State (2025 Netflix)- This is alt-reality, but I did not like the premise for that reason, just the premise of these robots and of the story involving transference of consciousness. Did not finish. It got bad reviews and I hated most of the robots. Budget $320M.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7766378/

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Yes, that is Chris Pratt and apparantly he likes playing the same character as Guardians…

Funny. We watched that last night and quite enjoyed it. Trying to put the robots' voices to the actors voicing them was impossible. Woody Harrelson? Anthony Mackie??? And how can you not love something with Giancarlo Esposito?!

Yes, Chris Pratt was Chris Pratt. Did anyone ever say he could act? He's only marginally better than the other Chris, Hemsworth.

 

[Huntn]

Wicked (2024)- Excellent story, musical, turning upside down the original movie, I thought I was going to see a repeat of Starwars Episode 3, but not really. My critique, talky talky songs and nothing iconic, say like Happy, Let It Go, under the Sea or Kiss The Girl. This seems way to DEI for Trump’s Kennedy center. Looking forward to Part 2.

 

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s (Philosopher’s) Stone (2001)- Read the ‘kids’ book in 1998ish, faithful, magical version, pulled me right in.

 

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Wedding Crashers (2005)- Great comedy, 2 guys who research and crash wedding parties pretending to be distant members of the family, with the intent of picking up women. Great all star cast, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Bradly Cooper, Isla Fisher, and Jane Seymour (Kitty Kat), “I’m not leaving this room until you feel my breasts.” Yes, R rated. Brady Cooper plays a great macho ahole.

 

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The Sound of Music (1965)- This is a gold standard of musicals, a meaningful story, and every song has a clear unambiguous, impactful, musically emotional message delivered in human voices. Great accomplishes in cinema give me shivers of emotion, when I realize I’m seeing something special. The songs are all nothing short of genius. I also realize that I have a connection to mid 20th century ideas of entertainment.

 

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Red Notice (2021)- Action, comedy, heist flick. If you like Dwane Johnson and Ryan Reynolds, and looking for a light action film with some decent action, humorous dialogue, a little too much Ryan Reynolds, but with a level of over the top slickness that removes any tension or concern for the characters and continuous violent action resulting in no deaths, with a bonus over the top Indiana Jones Crystal Skull style car chase, and maybe one real surprise, this is for you.

 

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The Train (1964)- Great movie, based on a true story, but if I understand it, the movie aggrandized the actual history a bit. Nevertheless, an excellent story as is. Burt Lancaster and supporting cast are great in this, but he lacks a French accent.

 

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Island of Terror (1966)- We were thinking of movies that scared us as kids. This qualified, terrifying vacuum cleaners that suck your bones out. Watched in Tubi with commercials.

 

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The Saint (1997)- I love this movie, a super performances by Val Kilmer and Elizabeth Shue. Some critic called his saint disguises “outlandish”. Obviously I disagree. I’m perplexed why this good story with a great atmosphere, complimented by outstanding atmospheric music was reviewed so poorly.