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Anyone who reaches for the highest rung and achieves there dreams
I can’t be anything but happy for all of them!!!

Will you be happy then for Big Ben if he lights it up this season hahaha.


Mangia! Mangia! Both my grandmothers always seemed to think a full stomach and feeding everybody was the key to happiness/family harmony. One of them died when I was pretty young but I remember her being like that. One of the reasons this scene always makes me laugh

 
Grand Budapest Hotel is one of my favourite movies. A truly wonderful movie that took me on an adventure I had not anticipated. That is one of the examples where, because I don't watch trailers and come in to movies often with zero pre-conception now vs when I used to 'follow the scene' religiously and watch all previews and trailers I could... well that movie was just fucking wonderful. Wes Anderson is another one of my favourite filmmakers.
 
Watched Jay and Silent Bob: Reboot.


It was okay. It had some good laughs, but it had many more parts that I was thinking could have probably done without but the movie is only 100m... dunno what he could have cut but probably not much. Anyway it had about the number of callback jokes you could expect from a Kevin Smith movie (aka: all of them lmao and they were fine). They kind of overdid it with the metahumor, but the first movie had it so I cut it some slack in this regard. I felt like the horse wasn't just dead and beaten but bludgeoned to a bloody mass. Kevin Smith's daughter Harley was good as Jay's kid. It was "fun" but I probably never would have watched it if not for coming across it on Prime Video.


About 4.5/10 or ** not recommended unless you're a Kevin Smith die-hard. If you have never seen the original Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back I'd say just watch that. Clerks 2 was really funny but this was just a husk and that kind of disappointed me tbh. I haven't watched any of his newer non-comedies but I just feel like he's bored of the comedy genre, doesn't bode well for a Mallrats sequel IMO but we will see.
 
I liked both Clerks movies and loved Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob I tried to watch but my
daughter was in the house and after about
five minutes I turned it off because of language
never got back to them.. might have to stream
a movie or two?
 
I guess this is a movie scene frustrated Browns fans can relate to. Wanting to take a gun out and blowing away your radio if you're listening to another loss on the radio. Umm the scene below isn't safe for work or with the kids around lol. I have to admit the use of the police siren makes it hilarious. Along with his uuummmm at the end of that profanity based rant with god knows what drugs he was on lol



The movie was Bad Lieutenant. It involved following the life of a corrupt police office as he racks up sex, booze, drugs, and gambling debts. I thought another funny or yet real aspect was when he dropped his kids off at Catholic school in the first scene.
 
Some trivia Dan the last scene with Harvey in the car was right in front of the Trump Plaza lol. Or a sign for it. The snorting coke off his kid's communion pics while placing wages during it was a nice touch as well lol.

The one scene in the Church where he repents for his life was powerful

I remember years back hearing Nick Cage was gonna be in a remake. I never bothered with it.
 
Some trivia Dan the last scene with Harvey in the car was right in front of the Trump Plaza lol. Or a sign for it. The snorting coke off his kid's communion pics while placing wages during it was a nice touch as well lol.

The one scene in the Church where he repents for his life was powerful

I remember years back hearing Nick Cage was gonna be in a remake. I never bothered with it.




Trump Plaza,
I won money there!
Here’s a trivia quiz for you
what was the name of the AC casino across from Harrah’s?
no cheating!
 
Watched Uncut Gems tonight. It wasn't bad, dragged on a bit but the final 30-40 minutes was as good as any movie. ** 1/2 stars or about 6.5-7 / 10.
Think it's a movie that rewards multiple watches (of the non-bootleg Rolex variety). There's so much crosstalk that ya can't appreciate everything the first time around.

Sandler is good, but Eric Bogosian is truly amazing in it. Also,
I wouldn't be surprised if cultural historians landmark it as the movie of our current moment: perhaps nothing more fitting, sadly, than a film about NYC hucksters trying to win in precariously close quarters.
 
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I haven’t been to AC in years but before every city in the country
has opened casino’s it was Vegas or AC plus I don’t gamble that
much, although I did win six hundred dollars playing Caribbean
poker in Aruba!
I’ll take Trump Castle for a thousand!
Eventually when Trump went bankrupt Steve Wynn bought it and
rebuilt on the site for the Borgota, nice place atleast it was the
last time I was there in 2005...
 
Alo you make me feel like I low-balled it, but I feel like I did in lieu of recent watches. It's at least a *** film for the sake of consistency hahaha but I agree it definitely would benefit from, and deserves, at least another viewing. However, I don't think Wifey liked it enough to watch it again... so we will see.

The Bad Lieutenant remake was awful compared to the OG but it's probably one of the more "watchable" Nicholas Cage movies for what it's worth lmao.
 
When Inception came out I saw it in the theatre in IMAX.
I was so blown away my wife and I went back the next
day because it was so visually stunning I got lost in that
and couldn’t keep up with the story!
Just as good after second and subsequent 5 or six viewings.
 
However, I don't think Wifey liked it enough to watch it again... so we will see.
A very fair consideration, lol. I think we're pretty close on Gems, actually — just wanted to give it a plug cuz it's now on Netflix US.

Hustlers was the buzzy NYC movie from last year that I was kinda meh on. But it's very possible I'd like it a whole lot more on a second viewing.

Pacino as well as Deniro are a couple of our finest actors in our era,
Both have sold out over the past fifteen years and I don’t blame them
at all.
In there prime, actors could make a great living, but not billion dollar
big movie type money deal and wtf?, in there later years wanted to be
recognized financially as much as being known for great acting.
Also wonder if it's less about them, more the shifting economics of the industry. Akin to how folks once criticized Meg Ryan for betraying her audience when, in reality, the rom-coms she made her name in were disappearing.

Similarly, a lot of the high budget dramas the dudes used to kill in have been crowded out by pure action/comic book stuff that performs better internationally. De Niro & Scorsese had a tough time getting The Irishman off the ground, ultimately had to partner with a streaming service to do it.

Seems that'll continue to be the trend:

Apple To Team With Paramount On Scorsese-DiCaprio-De Niro Drama ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’
 
Yeah I saw in the news today that everyone is trying
to cash in on what Netflix started
HBOMAX is another new streaming channel at $14.99
a month but free to subscribers.
at this point I’d rather just assume Five channels is
enough...
 
I was hoping streaming would be the death-knell of Cable but they just "Cable-ized" Streaming services. Prime Video is such bullshit, meager selection then you gotta pay EXTRA for packages with additional shows? Fuck off.
 
Also wonder if it's less about them, more the shifting economics of the industry. Akin to how folks once criticized Meg Ryan for betraying her audience when, in reality, the rom-coms she made her name in were disappearing.

Similarly, a lot of the high budget dramas the dudes used to kill in have been crowded out by pure action/comic book stuff that performs better internationally. De Niro & Scorsese had a tough time getting The Irishman off the ground, ultimately had to partner with a streaming service to do it.


Seems that'll continue to be the trend:

Apple To Team With Paramount On Scorsese-DiCaprio-De Niro Drama ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’


Well a lot of DeNiro's time these days I imagine is spent running his Tribeca investments. Film festival, restaurants, hotels I think as well. He I think started it in the 90's and some would argue that's when his film quality leveled off a little.

it's funny though how back in the 70's/80's that Soho/ Tribeca area was mainly working class but has become very trendy. NYC for my tastes is a bit too gentrified these days. Besides the Bad Lieutenant movie these are some other movies I like where the old NYC plays a good role as the background character pre-gentrification.



 
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