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shadowkatSaw two movies yesterday, one on Netflix, and one on Peacock, neither all that entertaining. Both were meant to be comedies, I cringed for the most part, rarely laughed.
1. The Fall Guy - the highly anticipated and poorly received action/comedy adventure starring Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling (and Rebecca from Ted Lasso with brunette hair), which was loosely adapted from the Lee Majors 1980s television series of the same name.
The best part of the movie is the end credits, and a final scene after the end credits with Lee Majors and the female lead (Heather Thomas - who has had a bit too much botox). That's kind of says everything.
The movie is meant as a kind of homage to stunt men? And is kind of a movie within a movie set up, with a heavy focus on meta.
Unfortunately, the dialogue is repetitive, rambling, and long-winded, and the stunts are repetitive. I saw a car flip five to six times. Multiple falls from a tall building. And a lot of fight scenes. (I've seen better stunts in well, Buffy.)
In short? I was bored through most of it, and annoyed. I can see why this did abysmal in theaters. It's a bad movie.
Most of the dialogue is Colt Severs rambling long winded monologues at Jody, the director of the film he's working on, and Jody rambling long winded dialogues at Colt, about their on-again off-again romance. This is supposed to be banter. It's not. It would be one thing if they just did it once, but no, the action is interrupted for about three or four of these monologues. And most of the monologue is "I..know..I thought...uhm...what I'm trying to say is...yes, I feel terrible about all of this, I should have said something sooner...but I did have feelings for you...and I still do...and I just regret so much-"
Me: yes, yes, we know all this already, you said the same thing twenty minutes ago in the first part of the film, can we move on to the part where you tell her that you are being framed for murder please?
Colt: I just want you to know that I always loved you...bye.
ME: ARRRRGH! (considers throwing something at the television set)
Jody always looks mildly confused. I felt sorry for the poor actors - the dialogue truly was atrocious. Where do they find these horrible screen writers and how is it they get jobs? Apparently the UK - this one is Drew Pierce who wrote No Heroics, Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation (not a good movie either), Iron Man 3 - also a bad movie, and Hobbs & Shaw - another bad movie.
Note to self - avoid movies written by Drew Pierce in the future. And check the writer credits prior to seeing a movie.
Actors cannot save a poorly written movie or television series. Good writing and direction not to mention editing can save bad acting, but good acting can't save anything in a film or television series. It can try. But there's only so much you can do.
The set up? Colt Severs breaks his back in a stunt gone wrong. Takes off for a while without any word. Gets drug back into a film, doing stunts, thinking his ex-girlfriend who is directing the film asked for him. She didn't. Instead of the star's agent and producer of the film asked for him and manipulated him into doing the stunts. The star goes missing along with his phone. The agent tasks Colt with finding him. Much chaos ensues. The plot is kind of secondary to the half-baked romance and the stunts.
2. Wicked Little Letters is a British Black Comedy starring Olivia Coleman and Jessica Buckley.
It didn't work for me at all. I spent most the film wanting to strangle people in it. I found it to be more aggravating than funny. Humor truly is in the eye of the beholder.
It's a bit too broad and over the top for my taste, and many of the characters feel like caricatures.
I know there are good movies out there - just not finding them.
1. The Fall Guy - the highly anticipated and poorly received action/comedy adventure starring Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling (and Rebecca from Ted Lasso with brunette hair), which was loosely adapted from the Lee Majors 1980s television series of the same name.
The best part of the movie is the end credits, and a final scene after the end credits with Lee Majors and the female lead (Heather Thomas - who has had a bit too much botox). That's kind of says everything.
The movie is meant as a kind of homage to stunt men? And is kind of a movie within a movie set up, with a heavy focus on meta.
Unfortunately, the dialogue is repetitive, rambling, and long-winded, and the stunts are repetitive. I saw a car flip five to six times. Multiple falls from a tall building. And a lot of fight scenes. (I've seen better stunts in well, Buffy.)
In short? I was bored through most of it, and annoyed. I can see why this did abysmal in theaters. It's a bad movie.
Most of the dialogue is Colt Severs rambling long winded monologues at Jody, the director of the film he's working on, and Jody rambling long winded dialogues at Colt, about their on-again off-again romance. This is supposed to be banter. It's not. It would be one thing if they just did it once, but no, the action is interrupted for about three or four of these monologues. And most of the monologue is "I..know..I thought...uhm...what I'm trying to say is...yes, I feel terrible about all of this, I should have said something sooner...but I did have feelings for you...and I still do...and I just regret so much-"
Me: yes, yes, we know all this already, you said the same thing twenty minutes ago in the first part of the film, can we move on to the part where you tell her that you are being framed for murder please?
Colt: I just want you to know that I always loved you...bye.
ME: ARRRRGH! (considers throwing something at the television set)
Jody always looks mildly confused. I felt sorry for the poor actors - the dialogue truly was atrocious. Where do they find these horrible screen writers and how is it they get jobs? Apparently the UK - this one is Drew Pierce who wrote No Heroics, Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation (not a good movie either), Iron Man 3 - also a bad movie, and Hobbs & Shaw - another bad movie.
Note to self - avoid movies written by Drew Pierce in the future. And check the writer credits prior to seeing a movie.
Actors cannot save a poorly written movie or television series. Good writing and direction not to mention editing can save bad acting, but good acting can't save anything in a film or television series. It can try. But there's only so much you can do.
The set up? Colt Severs breaks his back in a stunt gone wrong. Takes off for a while without any word. Gets drug back into a film, doing stunts, thinking his ex-girlfriend who is directing the film asked for him. She didn't. Instead of the star's agent and producer of the film asked for him and manipulated him into doing the stunts. The star goes missing along with his phone. The agent tasks Colt with finding him. Much chaos ensues. The plot is kind of secondary to the half-baked romance and the stunts.
2. Wicked Little Letters is a British Black Comedy starring Olivia Coleman and Jessica Buckley.
It didn't work for me at all. I spent most the film wanting to strangle people in it. I found it to be more aggravating than funny. Humor truly is in the eye of the beholder.
It's a bit too broad and over the top for my taste, and many of the characters feel like caricatures.
I know there are good movies out there - just not finding them.
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Date: 2024-09-02 10:17 pm (UTC)It's not my sense of humor. I'd say crazy - but I know how insanely prudish the Brits are, they infected the US with it. Honestly, you can't curse, but you can shoot someone on television?
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Date: 2024-10-06 10:05 am (UTC)However I'd say that the US is a lot more prudish than the UK? Swearing is certainly more acceptable (to the delight of American celebrities on British TV) (after the watershed of course).
Generally the US is a lot more religious which is where the prudishness comes from? An aspect which has been lost in the UK due to how secular it now is. Of course the British can be snobs, but that's a whole other issue. *g* Posh people are certainly fond of swearing.
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Date: 2024-10-06 02:47 pm (UTC)I'm going by this definition: "having or revealing a tendency to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity; excessively concerned with sexual propriety."
Example? US showed S6 Buffy sexual situations, and Farscape BDSM sexual situations without any cuts or censorship, while the UK cut out those scenes, and even informed Farscape to change them or wouldn't show certain episodes. This famously happened with Farscape. It may have changed now. That was a while ago. But I know certain US shows haven't been shown in UK do to this issue. I remember Brits in the Buffy fandom complaining that Dead Things in Buffy S6 was cut to ribbons by the British Television because. of the sex scenes.
And per Counsel of Geeks - the UK has different rules regarding kinky sex and what is legal than the US.
Issues with swearing? That's not prudishness. That's being polite and not wanting to hurt people with your words. Fuck is a word used in anger, frustration and often as a weapon. It is seldom used in relation to sex.
Some people may dislike swearing because of social norms and the idea that language is a way to project oneself or Some people may be concerned about the potential harm of swearing, such as in cases of discrimination or sexual harassment.
swearing leads to "hate speech" and is often discriminatory.
So no, swearing doesn't make you more prudish, just rude and often mean-spirited? And angry? LOL!
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