Category: Movies (Page 5 of 9)
A few weeks ago, I started watching the Popcorn In Bed Youtube channel. It’s a reaction channel featuring two cute blondes watching movies. The movies are chosen by member surveys and are generally very good. The channel is an easy way to watch a familiar movie in a half-hour rather than a couple of hours.
The two women are charming, and started the channel with virtually no knowledge of movies. Initially, they weren’t familiar with actors such as Sigourney Weaver and Bruce Willis. They don’t know much about history or other topics that might be considered “common knowledge”. It’s usually cute, but occasionally astounding.
My brother has been watching a Youtube channel called, Popcorn in Bed, so I tried it. A cute, mid-30’s woman reacts to a movie she is watching for the first time. Cassie is chatty, sweet and naïve.
The best in the sense that Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home gives fans what they want. Media critics and fancy people sneer at fan service because it is catering to the audience without giving proper deference to “the art”. Whatever, I just want to be entertained, and Star Trek IV does that very well.
Oh boy, this is going to sound bad.
Rain Man is a movie that doesn’t often get mentioned, but it should because it’s relevant to what’s happening with children today. While watching it tonight, it struck how looking after an autistic person is like having a dog. Yeah, that doesn’t sound good at all, but hear me out.
We just watched Lord of the Rings, and Sparky thought Gollum made a good case for eating raw fish and rabbits. Sparky wanted to post a picture as Sh-beagle.
Sparky and I watched another Christmas movie. Die Hard is so good, that we also watched the corresponding episode of The Movies That Made Us. It was a leap of faith to take Bruce Willis from Moonlighting and turn him into John McClane, but not such a big leap since everyone else turned down the role. Frank Sinatra had right of first refusal, but he was too old and rich to do it. Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clint Eastwood, and a bunch of other actors wouldn’t go for it.
For the science deniers who can’t accept that Die Hard is a Christmas movie, here is definitive proof.
IMDB has a useful advanced search page. The search was for movies rated over 8.0, in English and with more than 100,000 votes. IMDB started in 1990, so that may explain the lower rankings before 1990.
Since I may be two-thirds of the way through a Christmas miracle, I decided to watch Miracle on 34th Street.
Sparky and I are watching Isle of Dogs from 2018. We are enjoying it, but it may not be for everyone. Being directed by Wes Anderson would be quirky enough, but it’s filmed in stop motion animation. It looks like an indie film, but has loads of voice talent. The dogs are voiced by Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray , Yoko Ono, and others.