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Oh nice!! These are 2 of my favorite movies so far this year. Just started listening so I'm not sure how you two felt, but Hustlers blew me away. So good. So surprising.
ReplyDeleteAmerican Hustle was definitely the most Scorsese wanna be thing I've ever seen. It was like punk rock Scorsese. Only interested in playing two chords, and even doing that messy. But I liked it.
ReplyDeleteI forgot American Hustle. That's some major Scorsese fan fiction. Good call.
DeleteI remember LOVING that trailer and then... accepting the movie.
Deleteexactly. It still has my favorite scene Jeremy Renner has ever been a part of however (the "Delilah" singing scene)
Deletelol And Joker is straight up advertising itself as Scorsese fan-fiction. So weird.
DeleteObviously haven't seen Joker yet, but I agree. It looks like King of Comedy in an alternate universe.
Deletei thought the same thing when i saw the trailer. it has since been confirmed that KoC was an inspiration for the movie
Deleteshow Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
ReplyDeleteFOR SURE! Thank you!
DeleteHey Erika! You may not agree with all of these choices, and some of them are on the older side, but here are PG-13 or PG movies that come to mind that could be fun to show at a movie club:
ReplyDeleteSpider-Man 2
Groundhog Day
School of Rock
Jurassic Park
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Empire Strikes Back
Edge of Tomorrow
The Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Apollo 13
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Goonies
Back to the Future
E.T.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Inception
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Men in Black
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Jaws
Dumb and Dumber
Zoolander
Psycho/The Birds (both seem pretty tame by today's standards)
This list is FANTASTIC! A few of the titles are films I use in my cinema class! Thank you!
DeleteErika,
ReplyDeleteI wonder if your kids would be responsive to some teen-focused stuff.
I'd recommend:
Perks of Being A Wallflower
Clueless
10 Things I Hate About You
Dead Poets Society
Say Anything
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Napolean Dynamite
Never Been Kissed
Juno
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
(man it's hard to find non-rated R stuff!)
Right? At least at FIRST thought. These are awesome, and I had a few on my list already. Thank you so much. :)
DeleteI want to address Erika's comments on the Sid Haig issue (which were pretty much spot on). I saw this on night 2 (Tuesday) and there was a 30 minute making of featurette after the movie which covered many interesting things about the production including the Sid Haig situation. Rob initially wrote the movie with Sid as the 3rd character, but started to scale back the role after Sid informed him there were a lot of things in the script that his health would not allow him to do. So Rob changed some scenes and moved things around to make the role less physical, but it turned out Sid couldn't do those things either. In the featurette Rob said, "It quickly became evident that we were at a major crossroad: Either pull the plug and not make the movie or recast the role in a way that would require minimal rewrting." So that's what happened according to Rob Zombie himself. I would like to note that Rob was extremely classy and thoughtful in his comments and wouldn't go into detail about Sid's health or mention any specific actions that Sid couldn't do out of concern for Sid's privacy. I really respected him for having such tact.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing. I agree - very respectful in respecting his privacy. I'm sure it's so difficult for Haig right now - recovering from an accident and knowing that a movie partly written for him had to go on without him. I hope he is doing ok.
DeleteHow cool that your theater had that featurette. Our screening didn't have much surrounding the film!
Erika: "They were all gorgeous."
ReplyDeletePatrick: "You can say that."
"You can say that." was said more than once. Man, that was sad. I'm not being snide, but I think it's thoroughly ridiculous that Patrick felt the need to place such PC strictures on himself. J-Lo was pretty. Now may I please apologize for my disgusting male gaze which sometimes clocks that women aren't men.
Thank you for this episode.
ReplyDeleteI was very underwhelmed by Hustlers the first time I saw it, but I'm now excited to give it another viewing because it would not be the first time I've been WAY off upon first viewing.