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So did I. Alex Garland is a talented writer/director.

The Lady Vanishes (1938) on Rifftrax
A great movie riffed by Matthew J. Elliot and Ian Potter, British comics.
It's always strange to see a good movie being riffed, and sometimes wanting to tell the wise guys talking over the movie to "shhhh" because I cannot hear the dialog.
Elliot and Ian were very funny.

Beetlejuice

Uglies (2024) on Netflix

In a world where people are born just not good enough for the socially accepted aesthetics, a procedure has been created to remake make the way people look into the beauty they have been raised to believe is perfection when they come of age. But unknown to them, there is a cost. However, this high tech society is at threat by a group of free thinking outsiders who believe in social cooperation and inner growth, and beauty.

I enjoyed the story. At first I thought its audience was the was as those for The Hunger Games, but that's a bit unfair. That was premature. For people with a similar mindset, the story is a bit simple, but that does not mean it is bad. I enjoyed it.

For me, the irony is all one needs to do is look at the pictures of the actors in this movie on IMDB, male or female, to see these same actors projecting a form of beauty the movie presents as superficial. However, they do this because it is expected of them by some in society.



When looking for a trailer for this movie, I noticed lots of YouTube reviews, and their clip titles were not positive. I have not watched them. I would not say this is a movie that presents deep probing questions, but it is not stupid. I cannot address the reviews until I watch them, but I'm not going to. It's their opinion. That's fine. Not everyone has the same subjective opinion for their experiences.

Statham and more Statham.

Last night we watched:

Arsenic and Old Lace [1944]
<=>"She Passed Out On Cary !
<=+=>No Wonder . . .
<=+=+=>She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend !"



Fun comedy!<=>\o/R E C O M M E N D E D\o/

I watched the play live on stage a number of years ago, which was also hilarious.

A PLAY! Wow! Sounds wonderful and FUN.

I Saw The TV Glow.

The movie follows Owen (who I suspect is autistic), an awkward, racially mixed individual, starting from when he was in the 7th grade, and begins a friendship with a 9th grade girl named Maddy, who both become obsessed with a late night teen oriented horror show called Pink Opaque. After his friend vanishes, he goes through life like a sleepwalker as he gets older, but always thinking about the show. Then Maddy reappears, she is convinced the show had been real, while their everyday lives was the fiction. As insane as it seemed, he found himself drawn into the same delusion.
Probably not for everyone, but I found the movie engaging.

There was a time when Boris Karloff played part of Jonathan Brewster in the original Broadway play. He was played by Raymond Massey in the film.

This sounds brilliant.
And I see it is on Max. Perfect. Adding it to my watch list.

Apparently they tried very hard to get Karloff for the movie but there was some contractual obligation preventing it.
And now for something completely different BEEP And now for something completely different BEEP And now for something completely different BEEP P.S. pcgoblin, I'm glad you changed your avatar back to a self-portrait!

I've mentioned several times on WP that prior to my 64th birthday I knew virtually nothing about Autism besides having seen commercials for Rain Man. Since then I've learned more but last night we did something to fill another gap in my education.

Last night we watched:

Rain Man [1988]
<=>"Charlie and Raymond. They are strangers. They are brothers. They have just met."



We both thought it was a good movie.

But, if I had seen the full movie longer ago I would've felt more strongly that I was not Autistic.

I think the movie barely reflects Autism at my spot on the Autism Spectrum.

My bride and I both saw traces of traits that Raymond Babbitt (the Autistic character) and I have in common but those traits were much, much stronger in him than they are in me. From the commercials for the movie I felt "I am nothing like him" and now, having seen the movie, I feel "I am almost nothing like him."

Now that I know more about Autism I can see that I am Autistic. The movie would not've done that for me, though.

But since I see traces of traits that I have in common with Raymond Babbitt I have to wonder what would've happened to me I had been institutionalized when I was very young? It looks as if I would not have had a bedroom of my own where I could retreat to. It looks as if the lights would always be too bright and too ever-present. And so forth.

I wonder if the treatment I would've received for my Autism would've made me more profoundly Autistic! Would being in that institution have shaped me into a Raymond Babbitt, a less-functional Autistic created by the Autism treatment!

Oh, the movie won the 1989 Oscar for Best Picture and it got Dustin Hoffman a very much deserved Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role. (It also got Oscars for Best Director and for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.)

And Tom Cruise, who also did an excellent job of acting, seemed so young!

Batman89
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
The Flash

Happy Batman Day!

It's Batman Day??? HUZZAHS!! !

Two movies that are very clever, and that I recommend most highly:

Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041546

and

Kiss Me, Stupid, 1964 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058265/

Add these to your "must watch" list.

Last night we watched:

30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [2013]
<=>"Based On True Events... That May Not Have Happened"



Good dumb fun.

If you think it should be judged like a normal film then stay away from people selling bridges!

I thought to watch this movie now because of its character "Ronald Crump" who sort of looks like a (then) future president of the U.S. Of course, the movie was released in 2013 so the movie doesn't present the character as a future U.S. president but rather just as a self-centered, greedy, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, unreliable businessman.