And Trailer # 3
4/20 Edition - Friday (1995)
One of the good things about growing older is seeing movies that you might have missed the first time around. On this 20th anniversary of Friday, starring Ice Cube and Chris Tucker, I took that opportunity. Puff, Puff, Pass.
Styled as a stoner movie cult classic, we have 2 guys sitting on a porch all day one Friday. "It's Friday, you got no job, and you got nothin' to do". Thanks to Seinfeld, another day about nothing. But with a Boyz N The Hood twist (Ice Cube also starred in that).
Set in the South Central 'hood, we have a colorful cast of characters, all shapes and sizes and personalities just passing in front of Craig and Smokey sitting out front. Ice Cube the writer said he was inspired by people he knew from his old neighborhood. None more colorful that Craig's dad, the local dog catcher.
* * of 5. Probably needed to be high.
Styled as a stoner movie cult classic, we have 2 guys sitting on a porch all day one Friday. "It's Friday, you got no job, and you got nothin' to do". Thanks to Seinfeld, another day about nothing. But with a Boyz N The Hood twist (Ice Cube also starred in that).
Set in the South Central 'hood, we have a colorful cast of characters, all shapes and sizes and personalities just passing in front of Craig and Smokey sitting out front. Ice Cube the writer said he was inspired by people he knew from his old neighborhood. None more colorful that Craig's dad, the local dog catcher.
* * of 5. Probably needed to be high.
True Story
A journalist goes into prison to meet a mysterious person accused of a horrific crime (is there any other type in the movies?) Jonah Hill plays Mike Finkel who has been fired from the Gray Lady herself. He finds out that Christian Longo the criminal had used the alias Mike Finkel in Mexico before he was caught.
* * * of 5
Mike visits Christian (James Franco) multiple times in order to get a new story that will salvage his career. After all, it's a perfect meet cute. But who is using who? Some interesting elements of some good movies: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Silence of the Lambs. In the end, it's a someone tame psycho thriller that never quite psycho thrills enough.
* * * of 5
Coming Soon - May and June
Here are a few on my list:
Hot Pursuit - May 8 - Mother's Day weekend
Reese Witherspoon is turning into a serious actress - but my RomCom wife will still go - win/win!
Poltergest - Memorial Day weekend
A remake of the 1982 classic - I'm getting old
Entourage - June 5
Sex and the City movie for men
Jurrasic World - June 12
Nothing more needs to be said #winning
Hot Pursuit - May 8 - Mother's Day weekend
Reese Witherspoon is turning into a serious actress - but my RomCom wife will still go - win/win!
Poltergest - Memorial Day weekend
A remake of the 1982 classic - I'm getting old
Entourage - June 5
Sex and the City movie for men
Jurrasic World - June 12
Nothing more needs to be said #winning
Fifty Shades of Grey
It took me 2 months and $2.65 to finally see this $400M movie. Yes, that's its worldwide box office gross to date. Success? How could anyone say otherwise?
The Dollar Theater now costs $2.65 on Saturday night. And Cinemark Movies 6 was really as nice as any theater I've been to recently. New seats, not too crowded for these non-family friendly movies. I think that if you wait to see a movie there, you really want to see it before it goes down the video/PPV hole.
Disclosure - I read the book, liked the book. There was not that much shocking in it. And the film version follows. Christian Grey is a rich, successful, good-looking young man. He finds a young, inexperienced college student Ana (Dakota Johnson) and a glamorous courtship ensues. But when he discloses his secret desires, she tells him of a situation which he sets about to remedy.
Modern day courtship ensues by way of contract negotiation. The boardroom scene is a good one. And that dress! - a Pretty Woman moment.
Some of the sexual spanking is a bit over the top. But the regular sex? Very welcome in a time when sex is scrubbed out of mainstream movies (women wearing tops in bed, butt shots of men). The nudity is a welcome change. Everything old is new again.
* * * * of 5
The Dollar Theater now costs $2.65 on Saturday night. And Cinemark Movies 6 was really as nice as any theater I've been to recently. New seats, not too crowded for these non-family friendly movies. I think that if you wait to see a movie there, you really want to see it before it goes down the video/PPV hole.
Disclosure - I read the book, liked the book. There was not that much shocking in it. And the film version follows. Christian Grey is a rich, successful, good-looking young man. He finds a young, inexperienced college student Ana (Dakota Johnson) and a glamorous courtship ensues. But when he discloses his secret desires, she tells him of a situation which he sets about to remedy.
Modern day courtship ensues by way of contract negotiation. The boardroom scene is a good one. And that dress! - a Pretty Woman moment.
Some of the sexual spanking is a bit over the top. But the regular sex? Very welcome in a time when sex is scrubbed out of mainstream movies (women wearing tops in bed, butt shots of men). The nudity is a welcome change. Everything old is new again.
* * * * of 5
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