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I’ve seen two movies that I’d previously never seen since we last convened for MOVIE MONDAY.
Tomorrow on the Cigars & Cinema Podcast we’re discussing Out of Sight - https://www.youtube.com/@ogtcigars-oakglentobacconi8932/streams
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Fifth Dimension - I think I wanted to like this movie more than I did, because it does have kind of an earnest energy to it and a quirky premise. However, despite its attempts to make Buckaroo and his entourage seem super-cool and like the ultimate heroes, I never quite bought it. It’s just too thin, and as much as I like Peter Weller, his performance never feels charismatic enough for me to buy what they’re selling. But, the movie does wholeheartedly embrace its nature as a parody and isn’t afraid of being absolutely silly, which provides some amusing ideas and I did chuckle throughout the film. Empty calories, but kinda tasty.
Libeled Lady - This is a screwball comedy from 1936 starring Myrna Loy, William Powell, Spencer Tracy, and Jean Harlow. It’s about a newspaper man whose newspaper prints a libelous story about a wealthy socialite, so they hire a libel expert to try and manufacture a situation with the socialite that will clear the newspaper. 30’s/40’s screwball comedies has to be one of my favorite genres and this one delivers. The dialog is well-written and everything moves along at a brisk pace, and the movie is full of so many double-crosses and changes of fortune that it’ll make your head spin. Good fun.
And, the usual MOVIE MONDAY thing:
1. Name a movie. Any movie. If I've seen it, I'll briefly tell you what I think about it. I'm sure you're dying to know.
2. If you want, we can then dig deeper into our agreement/disagreement about said movie.
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MY WIFE and I got a rare date night out to go see this. It was definitely her top choice, as she is a Ryan Gosling super-fan. And she most definitely swooned audibly several times throughout the film, lol. Gosling got himself built for this role...he looked more jacked here than he did as Ken!
As for the film itself...it was OK! At the end credits they did a Jackie Chan style "behind the scenes" look at all the cool stunts while the credits rolled, and I was literally shocked. Because the stunts looked way cooler in this footage than they did in the movie! I feel like the director fell into the Hollywood trap of just post-processing and editing the hell out of all this great footage, and it resulted in final scenes that are just too "clean"...like so much to the point that a ton of it felt fake and CGI-like. And it wasn't! Wish they had just kept some of that low-budget gritty look instead :(
The story and dialogue were also nothing particularly special. I mean, I was entertained! But it's the kind of movie you just completely forget about by the time you get home.
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