Sign up, and CougarBoard will remember which categories you want to view. Sign up
Mar 17, 2020
8:00:20am
Santos L. Halper All-American
Something other than COVID - let's talk movies. I saw Once Upon a Time in HW and
Ford v Derrari this week. *MINOR SPOILER ALERT*

I know I'm behind - but I don't like the theater experience. I like watching at home.

Ford v Ferrari was good. Fun story based loosely on real people, the real story behind Miles is pretty sad. Bale was great, he usually is. Had a hard time buying into Damon, the whole time he sounded like he was doing his impression of Matthew McConaughey. Maybe that's what he was supposed to sound like. I'm not huge into car racing or hot rods (more of a truck guy) but even if you're not into cars it's a good movie. As an aside, my mechanic in Orem is a HUGE Ford/Shelby/Saleen guy and owns a Ford GT. I've not ridden in it but I have seen it and seen video of him racing it. It's an incredible machine.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was pretty weak. I'm a big Tarantino fan so I was excited to see this, but felt it was really anticlimactic. 2-3 stories all going on at once that you expect to culminate in to one big serendipitous ending but it led to a big "meh". It was long too, 2.5 hours of boring dialogue.... Maybe it's a movie you need to watch again and again to appreciate (like Waiting for Guffman).
Another reason I wanted to see it was because my uncle's movie is in the movie. The part where Pacino is talking about watching westerns with his wife in his screening room, it shows a movie that my uncle made being played (my uncle used to make movies, this one is called Against a Crooked Sky and has Stewart Petersen and Richard Boone in it). It's just a short snippet of it, but it was cool to see and my Uncle got a kickback from it.
During the end fight scene there's choas/yelling/screaming/stabbing going on in the house while while Leo is out in the pool listening to music, I kept expecting it to cut to Leo and show him obliviously singing and lounging while chaos reigns inside but it never did. I think they missed a chance at some dark humor there.

Watched Knives Out. I like Daniel Craig, he was good except for his accent. Good movie, predictable but fun to watch. Jamie Lee Curtis is great, she nailed the spiteful oldest sibling really well.

I also saw parts of Frozen II. My kids were watching it on Sunday and I was drifting in/out of sleep while I had kids piled on me (probably the best part of my week). It was one of the most ridiculous and non-nonsensical garbage movies I've ever seen. Big sleeping rock giants that are dangerous/scary for some reason, a magic water horse that's sometimes frozen and made of ice and sometimes not, some random lizard made out of fire, that stupid snowman..... Man it was terrible. Even for a kids cartoon it was bad.

I've yet to see 1917, heard it's great and am excited to see it. Also need to see Parasite. Any other suggestions for movies?
This message has been modified
Originally posted on Mar 17, 2020 at 8:00:20am
Message modified by Santos L. Halper on Mar 17, 2020 at 8:17:59am
Santos L. Halper
Previous username
BabyOx
New username
Penske Material
Bio page
Santos L. Halper
Joined
Sep 25, 2012
Last login
Aug 26, 2020
Total posts
0 (0 FO)
Messages
Author
Time

Posting on CougarBoard

In order to post, you will need to either sign up or log in.