Mayalaen

Movie Count: 28/215 (Lincoln Lawyer didn’t count)
I didn’t post last week, so I’m catching up 😜

Watching things like The Wolf of Wall Street always reminds me why I’m not filthy rich -- I don’t see the appeal in living like that. It would be nice to have money, but damn. The movie itself was good and everybody did a good job acting.

The Lincoln Lawyer wasn’t on the list, but we wanted to watch the series and thought it would be a good idea to see the movie first. Not my favorite genre, but it was strangely interesting, and now I’m looking forward to seeing the series!

Chinatown was filmed in the 70s, set in the 30s, and is described as “the greatest film in the noir genre.” I’m not a huge fan of that genre, and I felt dirty watching a Pola/nski film, but beyond that it was okay. I wouldn’t watch it again or recommend it to anyone.

Fargo was really fun to watch. The subject matter was probably upsetting for some people, but the acting, directing, and dialog were awesome! I’d watch it again 😁

Movies with the theme of racism usually get my mom talking about her experiences in the south before I was born, and In the Heat of the Night got her going good. Attitudes like this were what made my parents leave upstate NY and start traveling to find a new home. It took them a while because a lot of places down south were like this, so they kept going west. Anyway, Sidney Poitier was amazing, as always, and if the goal of the movie was to piss me off, they did a good job of it 👍

Chicago was painful because neither of us like musicals (which has always confused us because we’re SO into music), but it was on the list. Watching Catherine Zeta-Jones and her inability to keep time was really annoying and it’s like WHY cast someone who doesn’t have rhythm in a musical? When Queen Latifah showed up I was like YES at least she’s going to keep rhythm and she did ♥

I knew Zuck was an asshole, but after watching The Social Network and seeing how a lot of the things whispered about in geeky online forums were true, I dislike him even more. The dude is a misogynist douche -- and don’t blame it on Asperger’s or autism because there are plenty of people on the spectrum who are good people. This dude stole everybody’s ideas and screwed over everybody who got close. Even the parts of FB that were his ideas weren’t the reasons he’s rich now. In fact he didn’t want advertising because he wanted the site to be “cool” but his buddy pushed monetizing it. Yet another example of why no decent person can be a billionaire. The movie itself was really good! Acting, directing, etc. I liked it even as I was seething about asshole Zuck 😂

I’m trying to find the good in Taxi Driver. Looking beyond the in/cel-turns-terro/rist biography of it all, the acting in the movie was okay-ish. At the time, it was scandalous because of the content and some of the scenes, but I think maybe that was just PR on Scorsese’s part because even my mom was like “why did they make such a big deal about this? Even for the time, we had nastier, more scandalous stuff than this.”

Going through the list of movies, I’ve realized I don’t like Scorsese AT ALL. It’s like he’s trying to do art-house movies, but fails and instead it’s just annoying cuts, angles, awkward scene choices, and terrible music choices.

There are several more Scorsese films in our list, and neither of us are looking forward to them.