Peter Boyle with the blind man is worth the price of admission alone.

Wtf?? Who the hell doesn't love Young Frankenstein??

Young Frankenstein is awesome imo. One of the best movies period.

It's Baltimore Jones who hates it.

Watched Lo and Behold, Werner Herzog's latest, the other night. It's a documentary that serves that an existential examination of the Internet, artificial intelligence, human nature, and the past, present, and future of human connectedness, among other things. It felt like the movie was never 100% sure what it was trying to be, but that didn't bother me much. Very thought-provoking, albeit profoundly disturbing at parts. It might be difficult to find as the film appears to be in pretty limited release atm, but I highly recommend it.

Finally caught up with blogging about all the movies I've seen recently.

Finding Dory - 8/10

The Big Short - 6/10

The Lobster - 5.5/10

Zootopia - 8/10

Spectre - 3.5/10

Suicide Squad - 5.5/10

Ghostbusters - 6/10

Steve Jobs - 5/10

+1. Played by Gene Hackman, of course.

I love the scene when Madeline Kahn shows up. I heard somewhere that Marty Feldman improvised that whole scene, which I believe. It seems like everyone else is just on the edge of cracking up.

Speaking of which, he either did a great Groucho Marx, or maybe they had Groucho do a voice-over:

Frankenstein: "Igor, get the bags"
Igor: "You get the blonde, and I'll get the one with the turban"

So much greatness.

Saw Cruising which I didn't expect to like that much (another Al Pacino undercover cop story) but liked it a lot. It's a bit unfortunate that there's sort of this implication that hanging around gay people and BDSM is turning him "dark" though.

Loved the ambiguous ending, never expected that.

I saw this last night. There were things wrong with it, but none of them bothered me. I enjoyed it. Sometimes intentionally funny, sometimes unintentionally. And yes, sometimes disturbing.

I love you Robot 8.

I think it's more the, being completely separated from his girlfriend/anyone else he knew well, living a completely different life than the one he knows, having to be someone who he is not at all, and oh yeah... having to spot, identify and get the jump on a psycho killer before that psycho killer gets the jump on him.

Pretty sure that's enough to turn any reasonable man a bit dark.

Not saying there are no signs of homophobia in the film, just that the assignment turning him a bit dark isn't one of them.

Someone suggested that sado-masochism is dark?

Took in "A Dark Wind",an adaptation of a book by Tony Hillerman about murder and mystery on Hopi and Navaho land.
Lou Diamond Phillips is a Navaho police officer trying to solve four cases at once and finds out they are all interconnected.
The story and actors are good enough to carry the movie,but the direction and camerawork isn't that great.
But supposedly the director was fired during the project,so that could be it.
But overall,it's not bad,it's better than your average Lifetime murder-mystery.
If you like Tony Hillerman I think you will like it.
The Indians in here are realistic,but if you aren't too familiar with their customs,you may get confused about certain plot points and devices.
And it shows a different brand of humor to it,which I always called Indian humor,if you don't get it,it can be offensive or seen as insulting.
Maybe even racist,but I don't wanna go there.

Oh yeah, there is that bit too.

Enrique - The Fountain is one I love as well. Works on so many different levels for so many different reasons.

Green Room Disaffected punk band, heroin fueled neo-nazis, Captain Picard. Throw in some attack dogs, box cutters, machetes and random guns and you got yourself one heckuva movie.

Suck it!

FINALLY after all these years we get remaster blurays from the brothers this October... ordered!

I can personally vouch that set will be worth it if you like the Marx Brothers. It has censored scenes restored in Animal Crackers that I think haven't been seen in the U.S. since the 1950s.

oh man im so excited.

i freaking loved the marx bros so much growing up.

This is very good news, but what about A Day At The Races and A Night At The Opera?

i remember marveling at how well the marx brothers humor held up over time watching duck soup and i think one other in a high school history of film class. I should give them a rewatch.

Saw this the other night and liked it.

This collection is their 5 Paramount movies (2 done in New York, 3 in L.A.).

They were miles and miles ahead of their time humor wise. If we think any of it plays funny today, I can't even imagine what audiences of the time thought. The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers were pretty much fairly faithfully adapted from stage plays (minus some musical numbers in Animal Crackers). The Cocoanuts is the one you supposedly want to see if you're trying to see what they would have actually looked like on stage at the time.

They have a lot of pop culture references in their humor that don't play today, but the jokes and delivery are often timeless (it's impossible not to laugh at at least one joke or gag in one of these early Marx Brothers movies). The timing is amazing, and they were just pure absurdity when they wanted to be (just the loudness of their feet when they'd enter a scene was funny to me). The craziest Looney Tunes cartoons were clearly influenced by them, among many other things in comedy history, including the best comedy on TV right now, Veep.

For me, the main problem with their movies is when they're not on screen, or when they're taking time off from the comedy when they wanted to showcase musical talent. The only other issue is that they incessantly repeated certain gags from movie to movie (Harpo leg hold being a big one). In the latter three movies, this is much less of a problem than the two earliest.

The Boy and the Beast








This was awesome. One of the top fighters from the beast world is told that he needs to successfully train an apprentice if he is going to have a chance at becoming a lord. Instead of training another beast he chooses to take on a human child.

Really a great movie, the interaction between the two main characters is absolutely stellar. All of the secondary characters have great personalities and interact with the main characters in very meaningful ways. Really a fun ride from start to finish.

Looper 8/10

In a future society, time-travel exists, but it's only available to those with the means to pay for it on the black market. When the mob wants to eliminate someone, it sends the target into the past, where a hit man known as a looper lies in wait to finish the job. Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is one such hired gun, and he does his job well -- until the day his bosses decide to "close the loop" and send Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) back in time to be killed

JGL, Emily Blunt, Bruce Willis, Paul Dano and Jeff Daniels I've must have seen this film 4 or 5 times and i love it.

I would also love to see a sequel showing the rise of 'The Rainmaker'.

hell or high water was a fantastic time at the movies. not the most original premise or plot but the acting was top notch and i was enthralled the whole time