John Holmes Motherfucker - 2023-07-09
About 8 seconds in, and I'm giving this 5 enthusiastic stars for the dead-on perfect detail of a 3 hour running time, and also for the studio logo, which is too good to give away. This could turn out to be three hours of Ron De Santis eating pudding with his fingers, and I would would not change a star.
I love 21st century movies, okay? My favorite Star Wars is The Last Jedi, and my favorite Ghostbusters, in order are 2021, and 2016. Like Joe Bob once said, the 80s are less nostalgic if you lived through them, to which I would add if you were an adult at the time.
A market correction appears to be in the offing, and I suppose that was always inevitable. For 12 years, I've lived 1 block away from what may be, as far I know, the last true neighborhood theater anywhere. They were closed for a full year during Covid, they kept the April 2020 schedule scrolling on the electronic sign to April 2021 and beyond, just to let us know they were still alive. They're closing down at the end of the month.
It may be just the right time for them to leave the business. I've read that the FLASH is the biggest flop in the history of Warner Brothers, the studio that brought you THE JAZZ SINGER. That's bad enough, but it seems to be going on with the Indiana Jones Box office.
THE FLASH may be a special case. I might call It a watershed moment, if i knew what that means. People seem to use it for thus kind of milestone. (Do I know what a milestone is? Its probably what I think it is.)
I saw THE FLASH, and it's a hot chocolate mess, but it's going to be a cult classic, for sure. If you're a Boomer or an X, it's like the goddess approached you in the theater, and gave you a blow job in your seat. I actually cheered when a digital animation of Nic Cage as Superman appeared, even as I kept thinking: "What a mess!" James Gunn and Tom Cruise probably weren't lying about loving it. They're just suckers for this movie, the way I'm a sucker for MAMMA MIA. It's 180 minutes. I don't know why they made it so long, but I sure hope it wasnt to make ve been to make it less confusing!
I love the MCU, but there's no denying that it's lost focus since ENDGAME. They're really going back to that multiverse well, a lot, right? I can't help but notice that we've had two different movies in which two different Spider-Men
encounter alternate universe spider-men from different alternate universes. Is it on purpose?
So the bottom may be about to drop out of the movie business. We'll be okay.
Im reminded of a comment by Lady Gaga , who once said that the music business is broken, music isnt. Of course, it's easier,to make music on no budget.
The strikes may give everyone a moment for contemplation, and a space for fresh creation. Striking screenwriters are no doubt working on original ideas for a change. There are new distribution models in the offing, and we all have access to more than a century of cinema on our TVs, even as streaming gets more complicated and annoying. HBO Màx changed to "Max". Don't know why they changed it. Maybe it was to the thwart my Google assistant voice commands.
Okay, let's see what this is.
I'm typing this on my tablet. My eyes are tired, so I m only going to do a half assed proofreading.
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