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Man Trouble 1992
RIP (a couple weeks ago) to Bob Rafelson, who made one legit masterpiece (FIVE EASY PIECES), a couple unwatchable misfires, and a lot of other stuff over a thirty-plus-year career, yet still somehow manages to remain perpetually underrated.
MAN TROUBLE seems like his attempt at an old-school, zany screwball comedy. Barkin (freshly divorced) is an opera singer. Nicholson (married, unhappily, to a Japanese-American woman he calls “Iwo Jima” (yikes)) trains guard dogs for a living. Barkin hires Nicholson because there’s…
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Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher 2022
It’s as generic and uninteresting as a movie can be while also being kinda moderately watchable. Perfect for one of those rainy lethargic Sunday afternoons when there are no good games on TV and you’re half-assedly doing housework and reading the paper and not really motivated and don’t really want to commit to anything.
Also I’ve gotten told a couple times (SEVERAL years ago) that I look a little like Marton Csokas so I’d like to start a petition for somebody to make a movie where Marton Csokas plays a jolly laidback regular fun-loving dude who’s not creepy or evil at all.
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Hatching 2022
Had a crap sleep last night. Tossed and turned, had disturbing dreams, kept hearing noises that weren’t there. At around 4:30 I jumped outta bed because I thought I was late for work. This morning my wife was like “you know what the problem was, don’t you? it was that HATCHING movie you watched last night.” I was like whoa I think you may be onto something.
This movie’s straight-up WILD. Miraculously, I managed to come into it pretty cold—I…
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In Time 2011
I’m the oldest person in my department at work which means that I’ll occasionally get hit with Old Guy Questions. just the other day one of the whippersnappers I work with said to me “jeez you’ve been married for almost twennnnnty yeeeeeears! that’s almost as long as I’ve been aliiiiiiive! what’s your secret?”
I always play the aw-shucks card when I get asked questions like that but as we all know the secret to a good, healthy marriage is knowing…
