Category: Entertaining

It’s getting to be summer movie season, isn’t it? I haven’t been doing movies in quite a while. Nothing is pulling me back into the movie theater, but I am craving buttered movie popcorn. I’ve got to get my fix of buttery oil so I went to watch Ryan Gosling in Fall Guy.

I went in hoping not knowing a thing about it just that it is the film version of the television show from the 80s. It’s a bit tongue in cheek in its retelling. At least by the end, I got that feeling.

Ryan Gosling is the fall guy, a stuntman who experiences an on the job injury. He’s out of commission for a few months, but it scares him that he removes himself from life disappearing from his work and the life with his girlfriend, an ambitious camera operator looking to become an action director. A year passed and Gosling is called back in to do stunt work for his ex on her for directing duty. Sparks rise again.

It seemed as that was where the film was going to spend its time trying to get these two back together. The first half was, but then the film makers lost the script. The back half of the film was solving a murder and avoiding being accused and sent to jail. It was like they didn’t know how to end the film Out of know where everyone became the villain.

Did the popcorn still taste good? Yes. It was fine for such a movie.

3 of 5 stars.

While I went to see Wicked Little Letters in the theater, I was just wanting to watch a movie. It was a movie to watch. That’s what I can say for it. I was the youngest person in the audience. I guess that was what happens when you pick a film that isn’t a superhero film or horror film, which seems to be only things coming out nowadays.

Hollywood is missing these type of smaller films. Something that has low stakes and a good story. Something that will make people come back to the theater to watch. I was just wanting to watch a movie and eat popcorn, so I ended up with this film.

It’s supposedly a true story from England at the turn of the last century. About some letters that riled up the countryside. Small stakes even though it was a national sensation at the time. I guess it satisfied that urge to just be in a darkened theater.

3 of 5 stars.

It makes no sense that it’s the 40th Anniversary of the Talking Head’s concert movie, Stop Making Sense. Where has the time gone?

I used to have the cassette tape of the album. It was much shorter than the 90 minutes of the film missing several cuts. I have never really seen the entire film so imagine my surprise they even had the Tom Tom Club’s “Genius of Love!” Did not know that was in the film. Now I know. Genius.

If you haven’t listened, then listen or watch this film. I wanted to dance. The audience was older than I was when I watched it. I would have to say they were maybe college students when this movie came out and Talking Heads were their jam. I can say it was also my jam. I played the cassette all the time in my VW Golf while going to school. Psycho Killer. Naive Melody. This must me the place.

I guess I did enjoy it.

4 of 5 stars.