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I think this was funded by Greenland’s tourism board.

Is that the one where his girlfriend is a hermaphrodite? Don’t remember everything about that episode, but give the show props for even going there (I remember that was one of many things that NBC did not like).

I’m watching the second half and am now convinced it was created to give children a contact high. Or lick the movie screen to get an LSD hit. it feels like David Lynch took the reigns! Where’s Eraserhead? i found the scenes where the lion was licking himself to be really disturbing. Especially when he’s sitting on Diana Ross’ lap. love that Richard Pryor is a failed politician! I feel like Joel Schumacher took the art design as the jumping off point for his Batman films. It’s an excellent HDTGM-adjacent choice! Sidenote: Quincy Jones was a graduate from Garfield High School in Seattle (where my brother and I went to school). There’s a good documentary about him on Netflix but my brother and I were bummed it didn’t talk about his life in Seattle. There’s a historic auditiorium there named after him. From Wikipedia, just FYI: “The music program at Garfield High School has won numerous awards. Several notable musicians attended the school, including Jimi Hendrix, Lil Tracy, Quincy Jones, Macklemore, and Ernestine Anderson.” Also Ishmael Butler—from Digable Planets (whose music takes samples from The Wiz, which I didn’t realize until now).

Also, I know The Boyfriend School was last week but I watched it after the episode thread had been done. I enjoyed it, but I almost turned it off because Steve Guttenberg’s chemo makeup was so disturbing and—like June—the dinner scene made me want to puke. I actually fast-forwarded some of it.

I love (or at least like) most of the Judd Apatow comedies. Still think Freaks and Geeks is a masterpiece. But films like Knocked up, Superbad, etc. have a SHITLOAD of gay panic jokes. I still enjoy This Is the End, but that has jokes about rape that are super uncomfortable. Really, I don’t think comedies got less problematic (if you’re viewing it through that lens) until 2015 or maybe even later. A lot of the time it doesn’t mean—if I liked the films/shows—that I won’t watch them again, it just makes me remember “oof, this is a record of when that humor was OK.” It’s just the pitfalls of making “edgy” comedy.

I don’t remember which episode it was, but an audience member called himself The Jason of Their Group and Jason was not impressed, to say the least. It was an arrogant claim, but I almost (ALMOST) admire the guy for making it. But he couldn’t back it up in the slightest.

Ok, I’m at the halfway point an am taking a break. It’s weird enough and interesting enough to keep watching, but Sidney Lumet WAS NOT the right director to make this. His documentary-style of filmmaking works well in gritty stuff like Dog Day Afternoon and it played against the absurdity of Network (both of which are films that I love), but it makes the musical numbers weirdly stagy and airless. The music is great, but he makes it feel flat. I like the production design (which is bonkers), sequences like when the subway station comes alive are cool, Nipsey Russell is fucking great and I like Diana Ross....it’s just a weird mix of things that do and don’t work. i also am missing the wicked witch. i would be interested in watching the live version of this—I know it got stronger reviews. But I’m glad I’m watching it.

I’m writing these as I watch. I like everyone else in this movie, which is why I’m watching it, but I have to say, Michael Jackson creeps me the fuck out. Sorry if there are any due-hard fans but ugh. Only way my stomach would turn more would be if Bill Cosby was here. And I used to like both of them a lot. In fact, I’m fast forwarding Michael’s first number now.

Holy shit, there’s even an escalator! Are we sure this wasn’t an Us prequel?

Ok, just into the first 20 minutes of this, but it appears that Dorothy has been zapped into the land of the Tethered. The graffiti coming to life feels very much like Us! Before they start speaking, that is.

Holy shit, The Village!!! How have they not done The Village yet?

I was originally going to add Lady in the Water as my pick for a bad M. Night film and—while searching the site to see if it had been talked about—found The Happening being discussed on a mini-episode thread. Apparently, back in 2012, fans really pushed for them to do The Happening but it apparently wasn’t going to happen because June was on The New Girl with Zooey Deschanel. So who knows if they’ll ever do The Happening—although in a just world, they should. I still submit Lady in the Water. I also thought The Visit was bad. Any movie that features a rapping white child—not once, but twice!!!—is bad.

HOLY SHIT YOU HAVE TO HEAR THIS!!!

I’ll watch this soon...I’ve returned to the Rona (my nickname for COVID)—induced loss of any sense of time or perhaps reality itself. What week is it? What year? Wait, we elected that guy? Truly, since the school year has ended, time has lost all meaning. I have to check my phone to remember what the day/date is. Speaking of which, I’ll do that now!

I was a Python fan as a kid and I did not like this movie. Haven’t watched it in at least thirty years though, so who knows?

While we’re waiting, this is pretty funny: https://news.avclub.com/josh-radnor-turns-trumps-tulsa-ramp-speech-into-plainti-1844119080

There’s a tracking shot over blowing grass that’s meant to imply that the air is chasing them. Mark sees it and yells RUN!!! They would be dead. It is hilarious!

I saw this movie in the theater and have tried to watch it since because I am such a Donnie Darko fan. The sheer length of it is brutal (closing in on three hours) for a sometimes fascinatingly incoherent film (there are parts of Donnie Darko that also flirt with similar weird-for-weird’s sake stuff, but somehow that film’s Blending of the surreal and it’s portrait of mental illness was really effective for me. This film, it’s just a fucking mess) Still, I’ll take it over The Box. Oh, and the same guy—whose name I’m blanking on and am too lazy to look up—also wrote Domini, whicc was a hot flaming mess.

Hot Rod!

Stripes! Ghostbusters 1984 version (I think the reboot was OK—it simply felt too much like an overblown SNL sketch at points. I wanted to like it and thought the people trolling on it for it being all women were assholes, but truthfully it could have been funnier)! when Harry Met Sally This Is The End Any of the last three Mission:Impossible movies The Lost Boys Us Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

I’m going to hold off on posting my opinion. Just curious what this group thinks.

Not that critical consensus on RT or any other site is perfect, but most of her movies (I have seen What's Up Doc and remember liking it, but that was a LONG time ago) get a rating of 70% or less. Funny girl actually got 93%. Funny Lady got 33% (most of her films rank in this area, including A Star is Born). What's Up Doc was the only other film that got a score in the 90s. It's pretty funny--Roger Ebert gave Funny Girl four stars, but he had all the same complaints that we did. It's one of the weirder reviews I've read because it boils down to, "Barbra Streisand is great! The rest of the movie, not so much! Four Stars!"

I came up with this game in my head that I can’t get rid of. Since this film doesn’t work as biopic and as a whole—it’s more like two parts jammed together—how could it combine with another movie to be more interesting? The movies do not have to be in any related, era/genre/otherwise. The second half still focuses on the Streisand/Sharif characters jammed into other movies. I call it The Funny Girl Snyder Cut. Just for shits and giggles. It can still be a musical. For example, the first half would still be Ziegfeld Follies, the second half would morph into: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolfe? Tranformers: Revenge of the Fallen The Shining (Barbra would have Jack’s part, Omar would be Shelley Duvall) Mommy Dearest Cujo Misery Children of the Corn The Dead Zone Reservoir Dogs. i didn’t get enough sleep last night and this is the result. Who’s next?

It also didn’t work as a biopic.

It started off with the first half being better than I expected, but then once it left the Follies behind, the more bored I became. I was pretty much on my phone for most of the second half of the movie. I can definitely see why Streisand won an Oscar—it’s a show-stopping performance. Unfortunately, everyone else is pretty one-dimensional. It’s actually fairly.amazing that the first half works as well as it does, then the second half is completely flat. I agree, every time she was self-conscious about her looks, I could not tell WTF she was talking about. She was made to look as stunning as can be in every shot. I thought the film might be trying to make some commentary on beauty and fame, but I also thought (based on the rest of the movie) that I might be giving the movie too much credit. It was weird. i actually like War of the Roses and think the second half of this film would have been much more entertaining if they were trying to murder each other/serving mystery-meat pate. At least then we wouldn’t spend an hour and change on Omar Sharif’s gambling problem.