Sam's Thread of Chattin' w/ Jake & Other Robust Subjects

[Y 2 Jake]

It's on my Netflix watch list. It'll be removed from Netflix and read dedicated again before I get round to it.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

To be honest I started watching JFK last week and I'm only half way through so I'm never getting round to Sing Street.

 

[Uncle Sam]

La La Land ★★

Film: Hollywood is so great.
Hollywood (licking the end of a pencil): How many awards can I put you down for?

 

[Uncle Sam]

Sing Street is the far superior musical, to state the obvious.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Jackie ★★★

Oh, to have a president who you'd be sad to see shot in the head.

I liked it. I liked how it was a snapshot rather than a monotonous, dreary record of her entire life. That's how you do a biopic.

18-30 year old male as I am, I probably would have enjoyed Split more, but you know what they say - five times bitten, six times shy. Not this time, M Night.

 

[JGlass]

I finally got around to seeing Green Room last weekend. Kind of feel like I'm in another End of Watch situation, because while I did like the movie, I don't see why you guys thought it was such hot shit.

 

[Uncle Sam]

I guess I'm just a sucker for siege movies, and movies in which nazis die gruesomely, and movies in which Patrick Stewart plays an erudite villain. Plus it was one of the better movies in a relatively weak year.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

Manchester by the Sea - incredibly disappointing. Casey was good, Williams was under-used and it felt so much longer than its run time.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

But how funny was Manchester By the Sea, right? Three hearty laughter and two tears from me.

 

[Jeff Deliverer of Mail]

What did you guys think of Arrival? It's one of the best movies I've seen in awhile.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Enjoyed it but the more I think about it the more I question why people thought it was so great. I need to rewatch it but that won't happen so I ammend my star rating from 4 to 3.

 

[Uncle Sam]

A very clever sci-fi, though it's unclear exactly why people thought it was so monumental.

Will I ever watch Manchester by the Sea? Probably not, no. I'm becoming more and more tired of Oscar bait season.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Take in XXX 3 and you'll hold awards season to your bosom while you can.

 

[Uncle Sam]

I know I've - deservedly - got a reputation as a Fast & Furious fan, and I'll tell you to your face that Fast Five is an action masterpiece, but even I'm not desperate enough to watch that shit. The next film I'm desperate enough to see is probably... Trainspotting 2? It's that or Sing. I think Sing'll be shit but I heard the director on the Empire podcast and he seems bloody lovely.

 

[Uncle Sam]

I liked John Hurt. I'll miss him. He did an accent in Jackie. A man of that age, giving a shit enough to do an accent. Commitment.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

He made me like a Lynch film.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

2017, the year I started the male menopause and openly weeped to, and awarded five stars to: Manchester By The Sea, Lion, La La Land, Lion and Trainspotting 2

Also three stars for XXX 3 and Split and two for that Affleck gangster thing and Assassin's Creed.

 

[Uncle Sam]

I just can't be arsed going to the cinema anymore. I think maybe I'm a teenager?

 

[Y 2 Jake]

You probably have bigger priorities than going to see Matthew McWotsit in Gold, but for me that'll be the highlight of my Thursday.

 

[Uncle Sam]

I had pizza with a friend instead of seeing Trainspotting 2. I think it was a good choice.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

I'm convinced that T2 will be viewed almost fondly as the original in 15 years time. Y'know, when youngsters reach my age and then they're like "fuuuck"

 

[Uncle Sam]

Toni Erdmann ★★★

I'm not saying Germans don't understand comedy, I'm just saying they have a very different understanding of it to me. Yes, I suppose three hours of unbearable emotional turmoil is a rather good joke. Three stars doesn't really tell the story; it really deserves either one or five but I can't bring myself to give it either.

 

[Uncle Sam]

1. Toni Erdmann ★★★
2. Jackie ★★★
3. La La Land ★★
4. T2 Trainspotting ★★

Oof. Well, that wasn't particularly good.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Wait until you're 32 and you still go to an 80s bar every weekend, then you'll get it.

 

[Uncle Sam]

If they released the original Trainspotting today, I'd be the same age as the characters. As it is, I'm twenty years younger.

I guess we'll just have to wait for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World 2 in fifteen years. Middle aged Michael Cera - there's a thought.