What Did You Rent Last Night?

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Bill & Ted Face the Music, I really enjoyed it. It's very silly and funny. The girls playing their daughters were excellent, and they paid tribute to George Carlin in a very sweet way.

My only real complaints are that Keanu looks weird with long hair and no beard, and there wasn't enough Death (the character.)

[save lilo!]

Should both the top 2 topics here be combined until uhhh movies open up again everywhere 😩

Anyways I watched Mulan, and it was bad. I’m Asian and I’m mad about how Disney made it so bad.

[eclair]

IMDB link, The Sleepover

Found this on Netflix, and I really enjoyed it! It's made for children, I think, but pretty good for light entertainment. It's about a very nice family, but one of the parents has a big secret. The two kids and their friends have to save the parents, adventures ensue. My bar is pretty low these days, but I recommend this, especially to Greecies with kids. It was fun!

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Sept 6, 2020 23:25:03 GMT -4 eclair said:

IMDB link, The Sleepover

Found this on Netflix, and I really enjoyed it! It's made for children, I think, but pretty good for light entertainment. It's about a very nice family, but one of the parents has a big secret. The two kids and their friends have to save the parents, adventures ensue. My bar is pretty low these days, but I recommend this, especially to Greecies with kids. It was fun!

I'm basically readings kids' books and watching kids' cartoons these days, because I just can't concentrate on anything more complex. So, although I don't have kids, this is a good recommendation for me, lol. Adding it to my watch list.

[scarlet]

I watched Love, Guaranteed on Netflix and it was predictable and adorable in all the ways a rom-com should be. It's exactly what I needed yesterday.

[Ladybug]

We watched Dr. Strange tonight and I can easily say this is my least favorite MCU movie. I don’t understand the time - space - dimension twisting plot. Tilda Swinton looks like the kid from the Avatar cartoon. Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel McAdams have ZERO romantic chemistry. This movie just annoys me.

[lea1977]

The Ice Pirates. I thought this movie had been a figment of my imaginations from childhood but I indeed saw it on television as a child and seeing yesterday confirmed I didn’t conjure this movie in my head. Still very quirky and weirdly likeable.

[scarlet]

The Invisible Man. I know it got good reviews, but I was prepared to dislike it and was proven wrong! Really good movie, with a few great twists.

[newmanium]

Sept 19, 2020 23:12:23 GMT -4 Ladybug said:

We watched Dr. Strange tonight and I can easily say this is my least favorite MCU movie. I don’t understand the time - space - dimension twisting plot. Tilda Swinton looks like the kid from the Avatar cartoon. Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel McAdams have ZERO romantic chemistry. This movie just annoys me.

Yeah, I was underwhelmed by Dr. Strange, too. The plot was just a rehash of Iron Man I, with Tony, oops, another arrogant asshole genius with a goatee, gets taken down a peg, and ends up starting a new career as a superhero. The only difference was he turned to magic instead of science. Seriously, you could switch the characters with Strange engineering a prothesis for his mangled hands, and Tony finding a spellbook and becoming a wizard, and it wouldn't really make a difference to the plots.

Of course, I also think Thor: Ragnorok and The Black Panther are the same movie. Both movies involve a super high tech isolationist society which inexplicably has a political system from the middle ages, the King dies, a hitherto unknown evil relative shows up to usurp the throne, the crown prince has a spirit world visit to daddy, and defeats the usurer.

All I could think of during The Black Panther 'fight for the crown' scenes was that scene from Monty Python and The Holy Grail, where the peasant, after listening to King Arthur tell him about being given sword by the lady of the lake, commenting "That's no way of choosing a system of government!"

[newmanium]

I watched The Devil All The Time on Netflix and thought it was good. Brutal, but good.