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Saw whatever the most recent Jurassic movie. It was fine. I went mostly to spend time with one of my kids who wanted to see it, so that is better than the movie.

Action scenes were decent. The parts that were supposed to be funny did not land. The bonus family was underutilized. But the theater was packed so I am sure the studio will be happy.

I'm an old man though. It was 32 years since the original was released and I recall going to see that on a date.
 
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DubCoffman62 said:
Have you ever been to a theater in the barrio? Besides being filthy people are talking and on their phones for the whole movie. You can't even fathom how bad it is. I recommend yo go once just for the life experience.
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Brings back memories. North side of Chicago in the late 80s. Packed dollar theater full of the unwashed poor like my friends and me, three separate clots of gangbangers tryna act like they own the place, plus the Carter Family Reunion rolling in 30 minutes after the movie starts with gallon jugs of purple drank and party trays. You might catch 20% of the dialogue.
 
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charlohiottean said:
Brings back memories. North side of Chicago in the late 80s. Packed dollar theater full of the unwashed poor like my friends and me, three separate clots of gangbangers tryna act like they own the place, plus the Carter Family Reunion rolling in 30 minutes after the movie starts with gallon jugs of purple drank and party trays. You might catch 20% of the dialogue.
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Reminds me of Howard Stern talking about going to the movies as a kid.
 
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I watched "Superman" twice since it opened Thursday (because "I party like a rockstar").

Young daughter keeps asking:

Why does Superman need to eat breakfast (in reference to Clark eating breakfast on the Kent farm)?

I thought I read the adoption inquiries into "Terrier/Schnauzer Mixes" went up like 500 percent since the movie opened.
 
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Mickey 17. If you like high-concept comedic science fiction with some overly blunt social commentary and over-the-top scenery-chewing (mainly by Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette), it's worth a watch. It feels like a movie designed to get an Oscar nod for Robert Pattinson, but while he was decent I suspect another actor could have done more with it. By the director of Parasite, but it's nowhere near that level.
 
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The Spirit of '76

A Reiner-Coppola production sounds like the ultimate Hollywood tag-team, right? Well, not when it's director Lucas Reiner (son of Carl, brother of Rob) and screenwriter Roman Coppola (son of Francis Ford, brother of Sofia). In this forgotten (and largely forgettable) movie, David Cassidy (Partridge Family), Olivia d'Abo (Wonder Years), and some clown named Geoff Hoyle (yes, he really is a professional clown) are sent back in time from 2176 to 1776 in order to find the original Constitution, the contents of which have been lost over the centuries, so that democracy can be saved. There's only two problems: (1) the Constitution wasn't drafted until 1787 (ratified in 1789); and (2) the time machine doesn't work properly so the three intrepid adventurers are sent back to 1976. Upon "landing" somewhere in Southern California, our time travelers meet a pair of dimwit teenagers (brothers Jeffrey and Steven McDonald of the punk-pop band Redd Kross) who guide them on a nostalgia trip through mid-Seventies kitsch culture and protect them from nemesis Eddie Trojan (Leif Garrett, Cassidy's real-life teen idol rival). Many cameos and bit parts including Tommy Chong, Moon Unit Zappa, the members of DEVO, the Kipper Kids, Iron Eyes Cody, Julie Brown (West Coast not Downtown), Don Novello (aka Father Guido Sarducci), and (predictably) Carl and Rob Reiner (Rob steals the show as an est-like self-help guru). It's all good stupid fun, but the best thing about the movie is probably the theme song, 1976 (by Redd Kross, of course). Rating: 7.5 if you want to re-live the 1970s for an hour-and-a-half, 5.0 otherwise.

So how did a pair of relatively unknown rockers land leading roles in this movie? Well, the McDonald brothers were photogenic, they were afficionados of Seventies trash, and they had some previous acting experience (albeit in the "homemade" movies Desperate Teenage Lovedolls and Lovedolls Superstar). It probably also helped that Steven was dating set director Sofia Coppola (she appears "naked" on RK's Third Eye album). But don't feel sorry for Jeffrey – he had a long-term relationship with Bangle Vickie Peterson (they appear together in a 1986 MTV Rock Against Drugs PSA) before marrying Go-Go Charlotte Caffey.

 
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LordJeffBuck said:
The Spirit of '76

A Reiner-Coppola production sounds like the ultimate Hollywood tag-team, right? Well, not when it's director Lucas Reiner (son of Carl, brother of Rob) and screenwriter Roman Coppola (son of Francis Ford, brother of Sofia). In this forgotten (and largely forgettable) movie, David Cassidy (Partridge Family), Olivia d'Abo (Wonder Years), and some clown named Geoff Hoyle (yes, he really is a professional clown) are sent back in time from 2176 to 1776 in order to find the original Constitution, the contents of which have been lost over the centuries, so that democracy can be saved. There's only two problems: (1) the Constitution wasn't drafted until 1787 (ratified in 1789); and (2) the time machine doesn't work properly so the three intrepid adventurers are sent back to 1976. Upon "landing" somewhere in Southern California, our time travelers meet a pair of dimwit teenagers (brothers Jeffrey and Steven McDonald of the punk-pop band Redd Kross) who guide them on a nostalgia trip through mid-Seventies kitsch culture and protect them from nemesis Eddie Trojan (Leif Garrett, Cassidy's real-life teen idol rival). Many cameos and bit parts including Tommy Chong, Moon Unit Zappa, the members of DEVO, the Kipper Kids, Iron Eyes Cody, Julie Brown (West Coast not Downtown), Don Novello (aka Father Guido Sarducci), and (predictably) Carl and Rob Reiner (Rob steals the show as an est-like self-help guru). It's all good stupid fun, but the best thing about the movie is probably the theme song, 1976 (by Redd Kross, of course). Rating: 7.5 if you want to re-live the 1970s for an hour-and-a-half, 5.0 otherwise.

So how did a pair of relatively unknown rockers land leading roles in this movie? Well, the McDonald brothers were photogenic, they were afficionados of Seventies trash, and they had some previous acting experience (albeit in the "homemade" movies Desperate Teenage Lovedolls and Lovedolls Superstar). It probably also helped that Steven was dating set director Sofia Coppola (she appears "naked" on RK's Third Eye album). But don't feel sorry for Jeffrey – he had a long-term relationship with Bangle Vickie Peterson (they appear together in a 1986 MTV Rock Against Drugs PSA) before marrying Go-Go Charlotte Caffey.

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I'll have to check that out.
 
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