JCC new best friends club thread

Accepted, Coyote Ugly, Earth to Echo, End of Days

And last night was The First Wives Club.

Besties, applying to other jobs is stressful.

 

That is quite a disastrous roster all right.

 

Hi besties, I saw Green Room last night. I kept reading all these reviews about how Patrick Stewart's performance was so amazing and so powerful, but I didn't really feel like there was anything extremely outstanding about it, other than it being a departure from how we're used to seeing Patrick Stewart. It was a solid performance, though, and the movie was really really good. Super violent and very scary and there were about four moments where the whole theater gasped or went "ohhhh" all in unison. Definitely recommend if you have a tolerance for thrills and gore.

 

Besties, Last Night I Watched The H8ful Eight......

Still computaiting.

 

empty-headed violence in the service of absolutely nothing was my take on Hateful Eight. But the screen was wide, so it's ok.

 

Hi Besties!

I'm glad to be done with my travels. It was somewhat tiresome to be traveling 3 of the last four weeks. I did get to see York in England. It's a very beautiful city with all the old school English charm you'd find in movies.

 

My friend Linda's funeral is this morning. I'm going to be reading Proverbs 31:20-31, "A woman of valor/ is the most precious treasure a man can find." Which is much better than what I was originally told: Proverbs 29, "Those stiff-necked in the face of reproof/ in an instant will be shattered beyond cure." I thought that was an odd choice for a funeral.

Maybe at my funeral I'll have someone pick a Bible verse out of a hat. If I'm lucky, it could be the one about how a bear eats the children who were making fun of the bald prophet.

 

OH MY GOD I'm so jealous. I cannot wait for that movie. It's opening here sometime next month, I think. If you liked Green Room, I'd highly recommend you check out Blue Ruin, the director's previous movie, which I loved. This director is a guy to watch, I think, and I'm super glad to see Green Room actually getting a big release. Blue Ruin was a tiny little movie, but hopefully his career is on an upswing.

 

Sorry for your loss, Ophi.

 

ya Blue Ruin is an interesting movie. I'm looking forward to renting Green Room in a few months.

 

Have you seen Alexander Payne's Election? I watched it last night, and now I feel dead inside. What a smug, smarmy little movie.

 

I liked Election!

 

So did I. I'm surprised that MTV put out that film.

 

I didn't hate it. I just found it bleak and somewhat depressing, and after watching so many crappy movies in a row, I wanted something that was good and happy.

 

Me, too. But when my wife and I started trying to have kids, that "Fill me up" scene freaked me out, big time.

 

I actually really, really hate that movie. Witherspoon's performance is good, but smug and smarmy are good words. It's a very condescending movie. Payne's really interested in dehumanizing his characters, I think, and I felt insulted as an audience member when I watched it. I mean, I can understand when a filmmaker wants to explore flawed characters, or even really negative characters, but I had never felt such loathing for characters as I did in this movie. It felt like Payne hated them all and I wasn't sure why I was supposed to care about the characters at all if he hated them that much himself. Again, you get movies and TV shows with characters with hateful or frustrating tendencies, but the movie or show has to be interested in exploring them or think that they're worth our attention for some reason. I don't think Payne himself could have told me why any of the characters in Election were worth exploring.

I actually never watched Sideways based purely on the fact that I had such a distaste for Payne after seeing Election. But I saw Nebraska when it came out and I thought Payne had eased up on the dehumanizing. There was still the feeling with some of the side characters that Payne just loathed them, but I thought there was a surprising amount of empathy allowed for the father and son at the heart of the film. I'll probably check out Sideways soon, actually.

 

Is Red Dawn the same guy or?

 

I think the second word has to always start with "R," but good guess.

 

Red Road?

 

I wonder if the second word has to always be just one syllable. Because Red Revolver would be a great title.

The funny thing about it is that Blue Ruin means nothing at all, near as I can tell. It's not explained in the movie at all. At least a green room is a real thing.

 

Redrum!
Purple Rain!

 

As Ruin is two syllables, I don't think the second word has to be one syllable.

 

You are, of course, correct.

 

i'm through both the sixties and seventies now. both were great.