Cameron H.

Is this movie available anywhere?

Um...I guess hold off on Once? Instead of a mini-ep HDTGM released a full ep. I’m not sure if this is a fuck up they will be fixing or letting ride. If they are skipping a mini-ep this week, then we’ll just continue with the rotation as normal.

Sorry, we mentioned it briefly in Cinco’s announcement thread. Since HDTGM dropped the Reindeer Games episode instead of a mini we needed to stretch Cinco’s pick out for two weeks to stay on track. Rather than just talk about The Commitments for two solid weeks (which is totally fine to do), we decided to combine it with Once since the main character in Once is the guitar player in The Commitments.

Just a reminder, for anyone interested, we’re doing Once as a follow-up next week to get us back on track schedule-wise. It’s really good. I’m looking forward to watching it again

Oh, I have zero desire. The only reason I am is I feel like it would be disingenuous to rank it on my list without watching it again first.

(I specifically haven’t rewatched it yet because I don’t want to. I’ll get to it...soon.)

Just finished Us. I would probably put it just above Midsommar.

It is. I’m only like...15 minutes into it though.

I liked Glass. But then again, I don't hate M. Night as much as other people seem to. He just does his own thing and I can respect that. I liked Midsommar, but I see I put it above Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and I would probably reverse that. It wasn't my favorite movie of the year or anything, but I thought it was pretty good. That being said, it is all the things that you accuse it of being.

I'm sorry, that's all the 2019 movie I saw *in total*. I just went to Wikipedia's list of 2019 releases, and when I came across one I had seen, I slotted it in terms of preference. So, no, I wasn't a huge fan of Pet Semetary

You’re right. I thought we were talking about Joey.

I felt like it was less that he felt recording/financial success was inevitable, but that nothing can happen until you actually start something. Once you get on that path, whatever happens, good or bad, is out of your hands. Beginnings hold the promise of something good even if they don’t necessarily guarantee it. Starting something is the only part we have control over.

I’m still hoping to get through Us and High Live today, but this is my list. They are ranked on my personal enjoyment and not necessarily by quality. Booksmart Last Black Man in San Francisco Shazam Spider-Man Avengers Endgame Captain Marvel John Wick 3 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Midsommar Long Shot Always Be My Maybe LEGO Movie 2 Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase The Kid Who Would Be Kid Klaus Detective Pikachu The Dirt Glass Hobbs and Shaw Child’s Play Brightburn Dumbo How to Train Your Dragon 3 Pet Semetary Hellboy Serenity

I wanted to say the same thing. I’m picking on it, but I did enjoy it.

Another nice thing about this movie is that it introduced me to “Dark End of the Street” which I love.

I loved a lot of the onstage drama. It reminded me of my old band and how we would yell and glare at each other onstage whenever we would fuck up or do something stupid. Moments like that made you believe that this was a real band.

Another thing I had a bit of an issue with is that when the band ultimately implodes, I’m not entirely sure why. I get there was animosity simmering in the background, but I wasn’t clear as to why *this* time was the straw that broke the camel’s back. (I mean, beyond the movie needing to end... )

That’s what I think to, but like I said above, I think it might have behooved them to combine some of the characters/stories. Like you said, reduce one of the back up singers, or like I said, combine the two drummers.

I think everyone could play, or at least fake it well enough. I’m not sure how “live” it was though. I definitely caught the bass player out of sync a couple of times.

Very true! He even says, “How can you ask me that after what I just said in there!” and I was like, “Have you two even been alone together in a scene?”

I’ve been in the process of watching Us over the past few days, but my Internet HATES it - lol. I can only go a few minutes at a time before it drops. Keep in mind, everything else works. The only thing having trouble is Us.

While I enjoyed the movie, I do kind of feel like it has a few too many characters. Like, the bass player and the guitar player are set up as main characters (it’s their band after all that starts the whole thing), but I could not tell you their names without looking them up. I think the problem with so many characters is that rather than getting deep on any particular storyline, conflicts get introduced but are almost immediately resolved. For example, the original drummer leaves so they get their psychotic bud to replace him. There’s one scene of him rehearsing where it’s set up that he’s going to be a disaster and then it cuts to their gig and he’s absolutely fine. Maybe the book gets deeper into these things, but I feel like if you have a character who is “a violent drummer who hates the lead singer” and replace him with “a violent drummer who hates the lead singer” then I have no problem combining those two characters and writing somebody out.

I really enjoyed the movie, but I really didn’t understand exactly how an Irish band that exclusively performs covers of Sixties souls music was ever supposed to become world famous. Like, I get how the type of music was supposed to reflect and be relatable to early 90’s Dublin, but I didn’t understand how that was supposed translate to international stardom. At best, I felt like they’d be a really well-liked local band. Maybe if the movie was set in the Sixties, but early 90’s? I don’t know...

Oh, gotcha! No, everything will remain the same. I just figure this gives us two movies to discuss to stretch out the time.

I don’t think anyone needs to lose a turn. I just figured it would be a way of keeping us on track.