Hard to keep up with who owns what these days.

Kow wrote:

No love for A Serious Man? One of my favorites.

Completely forgot about it and aye. I'd replace one of my 3 with that.

Finished Raising Arizona. Really enjoyed watching this again. Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter are great together. Very funny, charming and with a beautiful ending that always gets me emotional. Two thumbs up.

Coincidentally with all this talk of the Coen's I watched The Ladykillers today. No, thankfully not the Coen's sub-par remake, but the original from 1955. Really enjoyed it.

First Coen Brothers film that I ever saw. Put me off them for years.

Spent yesterday watching dumb movies to get me through my vaccine reaction.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters: possibly the most incoherent plot for any movie I’ve ever seen. Pure nonsense.

Aquaman: actually weirdly entertaining in its stupidity. Partially, I think, thanks to Momoa who manages to at least remain engaging in the eye of the daftness storm. It was also amusing to see just how hard they worked to make Aquaman seem super-cool at the start and not just someone who is strong and can talk to fishes. It didn’t work, Aquaman remains fundamentally ridiculous. Also, how many times was there a scene going on which was suddenly interrupted by an explosion and a fight? I started to expect it in the end. I did quite like some of the designs and visuals, mind.

Commando: this is more like it, no less ridiculous than the films above, but at least dispatched with in a lean 90 minutes with minimal fuss. Although I did start to wonder at points if they had deliberately hired terrible actors for every role so as not to show up Arnie. The fact that his teenage daughter was probably the best actor in the whole film says it all really.

Going to be watching High Society with my mother in a little bit. Very entertaining musical with Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly. A musical remake of The Philadelphia Story!

I really should get round to watching the 1947 classic The Bishops Wife again.

My nan and i used to watch Cary Grant films while she babysat me, and this was by far my favourite. David Niven is also in it and the sparks that fly btween Grant and Niven is lovely to watch.

Also a really nice warm film.

Aye, both High Society and The Bishop’s Wife are top tier movies.

g.man wrote:

Aye, both High Society and The Bishop’s Wife are top tier movies.

Oh god yes high society. Must rewatch that too

Haha, no I don't think she would like that!

High Society is a superb musical, with brilliant music by Cole Porter, and extremely charismatic and memorable performances from Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly and the underappreciated Celeste Holm. It is an injection of happiness, with a wonderful ending that makes one hope for the future. Two thumbs way up.

High Society is the musical of the Philadelphia Story, another cracker starring Cary Grant. Should watch some of those again soon, watched many 50s/60s classics with my parents as a kid.

Scout wrote:

XOMuggins wrote:

Today is the anniversary of Jack Lemmon's death in 2001, which reminds me that I really must watch Billy Wilder's The Apartment again soon. I saw it some months back for the first time and it was one of the most entertaining and beautifully executed films I've seen in a long, long time. Very, very funny, but also kind of dark, and very romantic. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it B&B!

Lemmon's performance in Glengarry Glen Ross is a real favourite of mine.

He is brilliant in that film, and most others he starred in.

Matt_82 wrote:

The Ice Road thing with Liam Neeson is truly abysmal.  Some really poor delivery of lines, as well.  At least get the basics right, ffs.

Looking forward to it.

Does he kill anyone with a wheel brace?