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Oral History of the Making of Working Girl
Fun read with lots of fun juicy tidbits, anchored by collective affection of everyone involved for the great Mike Nichols. Gosh, this takes me back. I loved the film when it came out, but haven't thought about it in years and years. Annnnd now I have "Let the River Run" stuck in my head.
So, Aquaman was a lot of fun. I'm not sure it's good, but it fully commits to its premise, and for that I give it a lot of credit. The underwater scenes are BONKERS in the best way. Jason Momoa is well-cast.
I would recommend seeing it in 2-D IMAX if you can, because it's pretty spectacular visually, and the soundtrack is very loud and boomy with a lot of seat-vibrating bass.
There is a post-credits thing but it's not really worth sticking around for.
So MIB International looks like it'll be fun.
I'll be seeing Aquaman tonight. Looking forward to it! I hope we get a MIB International preview.
I watched "Desk Set" again today. I liked it a lot...always amazing when ideas connect across generations.
I watched "Desk Set" again today.
I love that movie so much.
So much more subtle(in a good way) than today's romcoms. Also, appreciate that nobody took a pratfall to show off their flaws.
Aquaman was about as cheesy as Clash of the Titans, but in the best possible way. It leaned WAY the hell in to the cheesiness, which was the best thing it could have done. Lots of fun.
It leaned WAY the hell in to the cheesiness, which was the best thing it could have done.
I loved that it didn't hold back. You think Aquaman is corny? HERE'S A FUCKING OCTOPUS PLAYING THE DRUMS.
Though as I said to a friend on the way out, on principle I'm against movies where the primary goal is to put Jason Momoa INTO a shirt.
Aquaman was indeed a cheesefest and half an hour too long, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Honestly it's probably worth the ticket price for Jason Momoa's introduction alone. And I kinda dug all the cheesy song choices (although She's A Mystery To Me seemed a step too far.) The main villain was a snoozefest, but I enjoyed the secondary baddie for his punk attitude and for his glee when he was Iron-Man'ing his suit. Apparently he's a well-known Aquaman villain?)
The BEST was when Aquaman emerged riding a... Crayfish Rock Godzilla monster?? I laughed long and hard at that, it was so preposterous. And apparently the scuttling sea monster guarding the Trident was voiced by none other than Julie fucking Andrews (!!)
I keep having mild freakouts over all the reverse age makeups they've been doing. They're getting pretty good at it, although this movie was not the OMG level they achieved with young Michelle Pfeiffer in the latest Ant-Man movie (like, Temuera Morrison was a stone-cold hottie back in the day, and I feel like they could have made Tom look waaaay hotter. Nicole Kidman looked flawless, but it's hard to do wrong with that face.)