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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
I watched Footlight Parade (1933) -- a precode musical. The set pieces are amazing and... well, the scale of it all is unreal. Its funny, heartwarming, and entertaining all around.
Its largely known for the waterfall scene, which is a neat piece of work.
I'm watching easy films because chemotherapy is pretty exhausting.
Weird - the Al Yankovic Story is fun. It's great to see Radcliffe doing films that he enjoys, and he seems to be a having a lot of fun in this. It's a great spoof of musical biopics.
Ticket to Paradise. Roberts and Clooney are fantastic in it. They have amazing chemistry. It's a little bit hokey, in the way that romcoms are, but not nearly as terrible as some romcoms can be. When Bridesmaids came out I thought it was going to mean a resurgence of romcoms, but good this time, and that doesn't seem to have happened.
Spirited. I don't like musicals, and this just confirmed it for me. I thought it was quite funny, and I don't know if it's just not as funny as I thought it was going to be or if it's very funny and I'm put off by the musical. It's not bad and I'm glad I watched it.
Not sure if this is a TV or a movie but the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special was pretty fun as far as one off Holiday Specials go, and I hope more stuff in the future comes to Marvel without having to commit to a feature length that should have been a series or a series that could have easily been a feature length. It was Christmas, there was characters I liked, and if it gets us a new Christmas song that has radio time, that's pretty swell.
Heh, funny you should say that since @cloud_loud mentioned GotG:HS in the weekly TV post too. :P
But I agree with you both about it being good. So much so that I was even considering posted this glowing Collider review of it a few days ago, but I didn't know where to post it, and didn't know if enough people here would even appreciate it since reviews don't seem to get much attention here.
I just gotta say: Glass Onion… brilliant. It’s funny to me that Johnson keeps denying the political satire of these films even though they are so clearly leftist critiques of rich people.