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[Eddie Teach]

Johnny Be Good (1988)

In spite of the name, the title character(a miscast Anthony Michael Hall) plays football, not guitar. He plays a high school quarterback who wins the state championship and has recruiters all over him. The movie is pretty blah. It's not funny enough to be a good comedy or insightful enough to be a good drama. I'll be generous and give it 5/10.

One tidbit from the film that I think some folks here will get a kick out of. At a party in Texas, there is a hispanic midget serving nachos out of his sombrero. 

[Malthus]

Johnny Be Good (1988)

In spite of the name, the title character(a miscast Anthony Michael Hall) plays football, not guitar. He plays a high school quarterback who wins the state championship and has recruiters all over him. The movie is pretty blah. It's not funny enough to be a good comedy or insightful enough to be a good drama. I'll be generous and give it 5/10.

One tidbit from the film that I think some folks here will get a kick out of. At a party in Texas, there is a hispanic midget serving nachos out of his sombrero. 

[FunkMonk]

I just watched Transformers 2. Essentially, the most expensive piece of US military recruiting propaganda I've ever seen.

 

[Neil]

I just watched Transformers 2. Essentially, the most expensive piece of US military recruiting propaganda I've ever seen.

 

I've been catching up on my abominable summer blockbusters over the last two weeks.  Wolverine, Transformers 2, and next week GI Joe.  All laughably bad.

[The Larch]

I've been catching up on my abominable summer blockbusters over the last two weeks.  Wolverine, Transformers 2, and next week GI Joe.  All laughably bad.

Dear hod, now I'm having traumatic flashbacks about Wolverine. What a steaming turd it was. One of the few movies I've considered walking away from.

[FunkMonk]

I just watched Transformers 2. Essentially, the most expensive piece of US military recruiting propaganda I've ever seen.

 

I've been catching up on my abominable summer blockbusters over the last two weeks.  Wolverine, Transformers 2, and next week GI Joe.  All laughably bad.

It was terrible. I felt like I was watching a Three Doors Down music video.
Anyway, I watched Moon shortly after so I regained my hope in humanity.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Watched "The Exorcist" by Friedkin, on Hallowe'en. good choice. hadn't seen it in 10 or more years did not watch the new improved spider girl version. I hate those updates in general. I bought the edition where Friedkin (sweater vest wearing Friedkin at that) intros the film. I love the odd pace and gorgeous eerie imagery. I fogot all about the crucifucking scene. sheesh. Ya don't see that everyday. Keenan Wynne is great as the film buff Police  Captain.

9.6 doctors (and everyone else) lighting up in the hospital hallways outta 10

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also
watched "The Day Of The Locust", by John Schselinger. Wow. How had I not seen this. Most unsentimental, (yet full of joyous nostalgia and the headiness of the age.) cynical Hollywood on Hollywood movie ever made. A molasses avalanche of spectacle ( a few makings of Epics glimpsed here and there) and the inherent seediness of the nobodies, and somebodies trying to make it in Hollywood at the tail end of the Depression. Based on the Nathaniel west novel of the same name, the movie shares it's literaryness, unblinkingly... You want the great American Mise en Scene? It's all here, drama, melodrama, comedy, and loads of tragedy, and it ends in Horror. The monster is Hollywood.

9.68 dead horses at the bottom of the pool outta 10

great turns from Billy Barty, Burgess Meredith, and Karen Black is a Diva in this. Everyone is cast bang on, like a Coen Brothers movie.

[CountDeMoney]

did not watch the new improved spider girl version. I hate those updates in general.

It wasn't an update as much as it was missing footage.  And it added the "oh fuck this shit" creep factor by a power of 2 to the film.

Still scares the piss out of me.  Then again, it came out when I was a wee child, and the commercials used to scare the living shit out of me, so I'm permanently scarred.

[Josquius]

Public Enemies- , a bunch of crappy characters I don't give a damn about mumbling about stuff I don't really care about.

[MadImmortalMan]

Just turning on Khartoum with Chucky Heston and Laurence Olivier. 1966

[CountDeMoney]

Just turning on Khartoum with Chucky Heston and Laurence Olivier. 1966

Chinese Gordon.  Now that was a man's way out.

[Admiral Yi]

Just turning on Khartoum with Chucky Heston and Laurence Olivier. 1966

Chuck looked great in his uniform.  Otherwise I thought the movie was weak.

[Savonarola]

Mayerling (1936)

Archduke Rudolph of Austria feels bored with the strictures of palace life; and his authoritarian father, Emperor Franz Joseph.  When things look bleakest he finds the love of his life in Marie Vetsera and, despite their families objections, they share a sweet and poetic love. 

Oh, the ending is kind of a downer...

[MadImmortalMan]

Just turning on Khartoum with Chucky Heston and Laurence Olivier. 1966

Chuck looked great in his uniform.  Otherwise I thought the movie was weak.

It could have been worse. I could have spent two hours watching Transformers 2.

Anyway, decent flick. I like those old-school overture and intermission breaks. 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Home for the HOlidays.  Apparently watching it is a family tradition now.

I find it depressing.