Okay. Doing a Godfather tribute in 2022 and being careful enough with the editing to avoid any spoilers is epic commitment.
Posts tagged “movies”
We Aren’t Just Watching the Decline of the Oscars. We’re Watching the End of the Movies.
Great New York Times Opinion article by Ross Douthat but it misses 2 biggest reasons:
- fear of always-armed, gun-toting public and
- tix + dinner + babysitter + $12 popcorn = car payment
I’m legit still annoyed by all the midi-chlorian nonsense.
For ages the only copy I had of the Kon Kan 1989 hit I Beg Your Pardon was a cassette recording I captured from local FM radio, so any time I hear it I am reminded of Casey Kasem explaining how cool it was that they sampled the theme song from The Magnificent Seven.
My superpower is not being able to stop thinking about an apostrophe error in one of the fake newspaper headlines in the 1994 Nicolas Cage/Bridget Fonda rom-com It Could Happen to You.
Good God. Don’t Look Up was excellent.
<bangs head on desk>
The Portuguese garbage scow captain from Overboard (1987, Goldie Hawn) went on to become the Beverly Hills hotel manager in Pretty Woman (1990, Julia Roberts).
Funny Farm (Chevy Chase, 1988) is the best Christmas-adjacent movie.
Go see Spider-Man: No Way Home ASAP because (a) it’s AMAZING and (b) the spoilers are going to be unavoidable by tomorrow.
A fun part of parenthood is routinely getting into 6 AM arguments over things like whether Tom Hanks was in Ghostbusters, why you must wear shoes to school, or which day of the week it is.