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Black Mirror: Joan Is Awful (2023)
Not Awful on Awful
Joan is Awful is excellent from concept to execution. It deserves a WAY higher rating than 7.5 and so I rated it a perfect score of ten out of then and if I could've I would have given it an 11.
The cast alone is worth watching. Salma Hayek and Michael Cera are of course excellent (Cera in a brilliant cameo role as a nerdy and weak - both physically and mentally computer programmer) Hayek of course in a starring role. Add to it fantastic roles by the rest of the cast especially Annie Murphy, Wunmi Mosaku, Homish Patel and Kayla Lorette who plays source Joan with such expertise in a unique role.
So creative was the writing the direction was perfect, all of it the music, set design, casting and costumes! Really I could go on!
Look, this is one of Black Mirror's BEST EPISODES! There, I said it and I'm sticking to it.
Great job! 10 of 10!
Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019)
Next time, lead with the blood
Stick with me and I think you'll see my point...
Q is the greatest, I love (in no particular order) Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Death Proof, Reservoir Dogs, KB 1&2 and even Hateful Eight. And, I think his best screenplay was True Romance, I love the guy! I couldn't wait to see "Hollywood" on opening night. The problem was, then I saw it. And, it just isn't funny, which is odd. Here is what I think happened.
It's odd because in most of his other movies I usually laugh way more, so it isn't like Q can't write funny. But I do think that he can't write only funny. Here is my 2 cents.
Q has indicated in interviews (paraphrasing here) that he likes to play with the audience and make them laugh in the middle of the most horrifying scenes. Examples that come to mind are, "I shot Marvin in the face" and when M. Blonde talks to the sliced off ear. But when these jokes happen in his films they aren't just joke/story/joke/story. Instead QT sprinkles those laughs throughout his gory awesome flics and it always works because the weight of the well executed bloody violence is given relief by the joke. And the relief makes the joke way more funny because it isn't expected.
In "Hollywood" however, the jokes aren't mostly centered around blood but rather they are for the most part just jokes and frankly, Q isn't the best at writing just comedy.
He is, however, the best at writing QT type movies and in those movies the jokes get great laughs. So, while watching "Hollywood", nobody laughed much at all until the final 15 minutes and then I thought...next time, lead with the blood.
The Godfather of Green Bay (2005)
Hilarious - What an Incredible surprise!
I'll never forget the day my wife and I took our nephew to see "The Godfather of Green Bay." How can we ever repay the webmaster at IMDb? More on that later.
Rarely have I been so excited to see a movie - here is the back-story
While surfing IMDb for local movies & times this past Saturday, my wife stumbled upon a link to "The Godfather" which was apparently showing at a theater some 40 miles from our home. "Hey look!" my wife said to me, " 'The Godfather' is playing!" Although we found it a bit strange that this 1970's classic was showing locally, my wife clicked on the IMDb link to make sure it was the movie we have both come to adore as one of the greatest movies ever made. Wow! The IMDb link brought up the 1972 Coppola classic - we reasoned that perhaps a re-release was in conjunction with the new Godfather video game. Whatever the reason, we soon changed our dinner plans for the evening and called our nephew who attends a local college to inform him to drop everything
"The Godfather" is playing.
After driving to our nephew's dorm then to the theater, an hour trip one way, my actual quote to my 18 year old movie loving nephew was, "I envy the pleasure you will have seeing this movie for the first time." So, let's see
how can I accurately portray our surprise when "The Godfather of Green Bay" began. I guess it was like the surprise Sonny Corleone felt when he was stuck at the toll booth. For, like Sonny, our evening had been killed. During a cavalcade of under our breath cursing, we realized the mistake - the IMDb web-crew had mistakenly linked the local showing of "The Godfather of Green Bay" to "The Godfather".
Funny thing - for all we know, "The Godfather of Green Bay" may be the greatest comedy of all-time. But since we were so extremely mad at the IMDb web-geeks and their error, and because we were earlier so jazzed to see "The Godfather" there was no way we could sit through even the first few minutes to find out. So, being disappointed beyond words, and with our popcorn tub barely dented, we left. Anyhow, as indicated, we have the IMDb web-master to thank for our botched evening. Which brings me back to my original question
How can we ever repay him? I'll make him an offer he
well
you know.