Be Excellent To Each Other

Last night I watched 'THE POST' which stars Tom Hanks as Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep as Oscar Contender. Saul Goodman is in it too but he's now a newspaper reporter and not a lawyer. The film is directed by Steven Spielberg who made Shaving Ryan's Privates and Jaws.

THE POST has been described as 'timely' which means that its runtime is less than two hours including the credits. Also it has parallels to the Trump presidency and his attitude towards the press, which we learned when Trump said you can 'grab woman by the pressy and they love it'.

In the film Tom and Oscar live in a world called the 1970s when people were very excited about newspapers and a bad President called Dick Nixon who was sending Apple Pie Americans to die in Vietnam, which is full of jungles and Communists.

One newspaper prints government secrets, and Nixon stops them, so the newspaper that Tom and Oscar work for have to decide to print more secrets or not, but if they do they might go to jail. Tom is very keen but Oscar is more reluctant because she is a woman in a man's world. Then by the end of the film she is all steely and gives the men what for and this is inspirational, and reminded me of Margaret Thatcher who also starred in a film with Oscar in it.

There are some good bits where you see how newspapers used to be made with massive whirly machines before computers were invented and we all started watching cat videos on the internet.

Overall I enjoyed this film and think it is probably as good as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but it would have benefited from having Richard Dreyfuss in in it.

PRESS/1000

I read that in Philomena Cunk’s voice.

Odd, as I started reading it in Grim...’s voice and then decided it went decidedly Malicool.

Cloverfield Paradox - how they effy jeffy have I managed to sit through half of this shit? I guess it's one of those "good money after bad" viewing experiences.

Yeah it's bad.

Next Cloverfield movie is supposed to be a WW2 movie.

When The Fellowship of the Ring first came out, I went to the cinema to see it and ended up sitting right on the front row in the very corner, and as such had to crane my neck up and to the right for nearly 3 hours. I did not enjoy it, and was in terrible pain by the time I came out of it. I didn't bother watching The Two Towers or Return Of The King, because I couldn't really remember much about the first one and didn't really like being reminded of the literal pain that it put me in.

But, I decided to give it another chance and watched Fellowship again recently (and Two Towers yesterday) and I have to admit that I'm engrossed by it. Apart from some seriously shonky CGI in The Two Towers, which I can excuse given its age and the budget presumably being stretched ultra-thin to make a 4 hour movie, they've both been pretty good. I know this will not be news to anyone, of course.

I hope Return Of The King is a satisfying conclusion - and that I can find 4 hours and 23 minutes to watch it some time...

You don't *have* to watch the extended editions, dude.

The third one ended about eight times in the standard cut, so I hate to think how long they drag the extended one out.

Allows for the incredibly sad ending, the incredibly happy ending, and the Scooby-Doo ending.

I reckon the credits are at least 20 minutes of that total

A film so unpopular, Tesco won't stock it.

Took me a minute.

Cor, did it ever.

Malia's jokes are like cryptic crossword puzzles

Hint me up

2 words. Verdant illumination

Ryan Reynolds

That took me a good couple of minutes to get, fucking hell

Fuck me

About to watch ready player one, the only person in the cinema, bliss.

Pity you're not watching a decent film.

I answered a phone call, it still felt wrong.

Two people have just come in! Cheeky bastards.

A new challenger approaches!

Remember Robert Patinson of moody Twilight fame? What a one hit wonder he was, aye? Well, turns out he can actually act. I watched him in “Good Time” and he was fantastic.

It’s about two brothers who commit a bank robbery and it goes awry and one brother gets locked up. The story is then just Pattinson trying to get enough bail money together to get his brother out of jail. The performances from everyone are terrific but Pattinson is the stand out.

Well worth a watch.

Thank fuck Pan Face is nowhere in sight out of 10

Yes I posted about GOOD TIME before, and then markg posted that he'd already posted about it before. (I tried to search for 'Good Time' before I posted, but it kind of brought back everything.)

This consolidated topic scenario for EVERY FILM EVER is such a tip-top idea with no drawbacks whatsoever when it comes to having coherent chats about films we've watched.

https://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/ ... 36#p982036

It's worth it because of how much you love it.

ISDGI

Then again, I am not fond of crossword puzzles, they usually make me say a cross word.

Then they could have sped them up and had time to include the bit about Tom Bombadill, the miserable bastards.

Mrs W and I watched Sliding Doors last night, as there was fook-all else on while we waited for The Lady in White. John Lynch must be a really good actor, because I really did want to rip his whining head off and shove it up his shit hole.

I'm ambivalent.

Tick VG.

I could think of a variety of excuses as to why IDGI, but I'm not going to.

Ready Player One was distinctly average, wasn't it. Glad I used a free ticket.

I have seen a few things. Cinemas in Singapore are cheap, and I had to qualify for, then use, a freebie in Australia.

I Feel Pretty: Gossamer thin premise, just about carried by Schumer's charm and ability, though she's not so good at the few serious bits. Ends with an attempted crescendo it hasn't really earned, but made me laugh on the journey. Only bloke in the screening.

The Hurricane Heist: Big and dumb, and lots of fun. Characters a little lacking, and Finch from the Office can hold a scowl but not really pull off an American accent. He's probably not going to have a big US bad guy career, and was better as a loser cameo in RPO. Effects also overplayed, as the hurricane rolls and crushes houses. I really enjoyed it, though.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie: fluffy and pleasant. The first hour is better than the second. I just rolled with the whimsy and the great cast for the first hour, then there was one too many lingering shot and over-literary bit of dialogue, presumably lifted straight from the book, and they just couldn't see a way to tone it down. By the time they get to dealing with a love interest at a party, they are left with a totally ludicrous scene. The cast kept a straight face, but I didn't. Perfectly watchable, but by the end I was figuring that this proves that great books (if this is one, I haven't read it) make only good/serviceable movies.

The full trailer for Tom Hardy's Venom film which comes out in a couple of weeks:

Yeah, that is going to be terrible.

Eh, they're doing something different from the usual super-hero stuff and Hardy's never not watchable; I'll happily reserve judgement on it.

Written by the same person who wrote the screenplay for 50 Shades of Grey.

I stand by my assessment.

I quite like the look of that

Fuck your cynicism! It looks ace!

I'll watch it.

I'm disappointed, like Trooper, that it wont be showing actual penetration though.

In fairness she called that film "too painful to watch", probably because:

Review embargo for the new Avengers film apparently expires at 11 o'clock tonight. I can't help thinking it'll be a total mess, albeit one that's pretty fun to sit through.

Twitter reports from people who've seen it were all very positive.

I'm really looking forward to it. Anything containing the Guardians of the Galaxy has to be brilliant.

I'm quite optimistic about it, and think it's going to be great, but early Twitter reports are usually positive, even for mediocre movies.

Five stars from Empire

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/ave ... ar/review/

Excellent.

Tickets booked for my wedding anniversary (yay!), which is next friday (boo!)

Somehow have to squeeze black panther in before then...