Yogi Berra It Aint Over on Netflix

Wow! This is awesome whether you like baseball or not. This is American history. Extremely well done. Yogi was one of a kind from a bygone era that I really wish we could return to.

I’d probably go with Bottoms as the funniest I’ve seen in quite some time but this was really really good! Glad he wrote and directed it and did such a good job. Hopefully he’ll make more!

Hilarious. Thanks for the recommendation

Old Dads looks ****ing awful from the poster alone.



Then again, I’m positive I’m not the target demographic.

Napoleon (2023)
2h 38m

Tuesday, November, 21, 2023
06:45PM
Refund/Exchange

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I thought it was really bad and dated - it follows the formula of a movie that would have been released in 2005. I watched the first two-thirds night and doubt I'll get back to it. I do mostly like Burr - I've seen him live twice - but this features some of worst aspects of his schtick... the old angry guy shaking his fist at the clouds.

The main problem is, for a comedy, it isn't funny at all. Everything is so on the nose. Burr has some really inventive bits in his stand up but none of it can be found here. I'm sure he worked hard on his film but it still feels lazy and hacky.

agree with all of this and burr is my fav comic absolutely adore him but this was bad.

I am ridiculously excited for Napoleon.

Bottoms - decent high school comedy satire. Funny, but not as funny or as bitingly relevant as it thinks it is.

Tangential to the movies...

Taking a trip in January, was recently notified that the first hotel, in Manaus, Brazil, had to be changed. Looking at the new place online, I saw the bistro inside was named FitzCarraldo.

Hope they don't ask me to help them move their boat.

Saw an inventive actioner called CopShop, directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, Alexis Louder, and a deranged Toby Huff. Butler is a contract killer who gets himself arrested so he can be in the same desert police station as Grillo, who needs a killin.'

Lots of shooting. Fun was had by all.

surprised Dad didn't get any reaction, i recall it being quite the zeitgeist film at the time and this is a thread of oldz

Old Dads was mildly amusing, but yeah, it's not good. Wasting Bobby Cannavale and Bokeem Woodbine in throwaway roles was my biggest problem.

I liked it!

I've hated him in everything. He singlehandedly ruined Vinyl for me - and everything else he's been in with a large role.

He's been great in the overly Italian character roles he's been given because he falls into that trope spectacularly well, but the second he's given a major role I just can't stand anything about him.

I watched the whole movie thinking Bokeem Woodbine was Dave Chapelle.

A Haunting in Venice is a lot of nonsense that doesn't go on for too long. A lot of close-ups in unusual angles is modern cinema?

short depth of field used to be a unique visual style... thanks a lot digital processing.

Takamine played a stripper Westernized slut in another iconic Kinoshita film, Carmen Comes Home. That was also Japan's first color film.

Twenty-Four Eyes is the better movie and probably her most remembered role. It beat Seven Samurai and Sansho the Bailiff to win the Kinema Junpo and Golden Globe awards for 1954.

I can't wait for The Holdovers this coming weekend...
I watched Paris, Texas last night and it reminded me of another favorite of mine... Nebraska.
Let's hope Payne can strike gold once again.

Nebraska, anchored by Bruce Dern's performance, is so good.

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agreed, nebraska was a great movie

Just watched Sam Fuller's Forty Guns on Criterion. Fuller undoes many of the familiar western tropes, beginning with Barbara Stanwych as the boss of the forty guns. She controls everything, except for the federal marshall who comes to town, along with his two brothers, to serve a warrant.

I particularly loved the funeral scene that features only the bride of one of the brothers, a hearse, and a lone singer. It departs from the usual funeral scene in which the entire community usually attends. Shot in Cinemascope in black and white, the film is beautiful to look at.

And Forty Guns is rife with all sorts of sexual innuendo centered on guns as the phallus.

Fuller is a great director, so if you can see Pickup on South Street, Shock Corridor, The Naked Kids, and The Big Red One, do so, or catch him in Godard's Pierrot Le Fou. The French knew a great director when they saw one.

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In western lore, a strong female protagonist is Normal.
for every damsel in distress, I can name more strong female figures.
it's the real shinning light of that genre.

Forty Guns in great by the way... I am about to embark on a Western Genre watch party that might last a month... Ive been planning it for a couple weeks.

What pains me is that there aren't many newer films that I can include with the hundred that I have already viewed Many times over. I found that The Old Way was reasonably rewarding and prior to that I have to go all the way back to Sisters Brothers to find any satisfaction.

I am expecting a new release of Bone Tomahawk to arrive in a week or so... as the kick off to my event, even though it is a stretch to say that that is a western. I might even include Cowboys vs Aliens.

I am starting to hear some less < than good things about Napoleon...