So, in my continuing project of watching high school movies with Emmett this summer we recently watched
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
and
Dazed and Confused.
A few notes on casting.
I forget every time I watch Fast Times that it not only has Sean Penn, Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Jason Leigh, but also Forest Whitaker, Nicholas Cage, Eric Stoltz and Anthony Edwards.
While watching
Dazed and Confused
I was wondering what happened to the other two of the "smart kids" who hang out with Adam Goldberg's character. Looking them up, I found out the blond dude is Anthony Rapp (very famous for his role in Rent) and the red-headed girl (Marissa Ribisi, Giovanni's twin sister) is married to Beck! They have two kids. Wacky.
Good casting!
It's up there with The Outsiders and Dazed and Confused for superabundance of future stars.
Conan kinda falls apart in the third act, but JASON MOMOA.
DAT ASS.
SRSLY.
I like this better than the original movies, although a bit of Grace Jones would have been neat. It strikes me that Rachel Nichols has a pretty cool resume. She gets kick ass roles, for someone no one has heard of.
BTW, Cinemablend says not to see Conan in 3D, but to see Fright Night that way.
I'm watching the
Friday the 13th
re-whatever, and I'm so out of practice watching slasher flicks. I forget most everyone's going to buy it, whether I like them or not.
The one with Paddywhack? I saw that. Slasher films are not my beautiful cake, never have been.
They're not my thing. I find myself thinking "You're nice. I hope you live. Oops." "You're irritating. I hope you die. Oh, at least that worked out." And a lot of "Eww, that's how you killed him???"
But JPad was looking nice and fluffy there. And Righetti at his sister was a great match.
Finally saw Harry Potter. It was good and I liked it. But I don't think I've seen a few of the movies and it's been awhile since I read the book. However, it still held up with watching Deathly Hallows 1 a few weeks ago.
I saw the trailer for the new Mission Impossible movie again. I don't want to see it because I only liked the first one and right now I really don't like Tom Cruise. But it has Jeremy Renner (I had to look him up, but when I was watching the trailer it was - oh that guy! I like him) and Simon Pegg. Maybe I'll wait until it's on dvd and then just skip over the scenes that are mostly Tom Cruise.
Also I pretty much forgot about the Mission Impossible remakes. I started watching MI on Netflix and I thought to myself "why hasn't anyone remade this! It would be ...oh. yeah they did."
Other trailers -Batman (looks awesome) and Twilight. The last time we went there was one for Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots....Real Steel? I want to see that more than the new Mission Impossible.
Maybe I'll wait until it's on dvd and then just skip over the scenes that are mostly Tom Cruise.
I wish I could get that, but in the theater.