Are we ready for a cultural reappraisal of Death Becomes Her yet? Because I rewatched it recently and DAMN that is a great movie! God bless Meryl Streep for bringing 32-time-Oscar-winner energy to every joke. It's also a very interesting outlier for Bruce Willis- a little glimpse at this other career he could have had.
I'm ready to google spoilers for Barbarian. The trailer has been in heavy rotation at the Alamo Drafthouse for the past few months, and even though I normally like horror and suspense, even the trailer is a bit too much for me.
It can be a bit too inside joke-y: Hollywood folks satirizing Hollywood folks, that extremely well trodden path. But it's bitingly funny, the central three characters/relationships are really well drawn, and the effects hold up pretty well for 1992. That whole opening sequence, with Meryl in her terrible 1978 Broadway play where a musical number suddenly breaks into The Hustle while the audience slowly trickles out! What wonderful economic storytelling!
Also, it is unbelievably quotable/memeable. Isabella Rosselini's "the sordid topic of coin" is one of my go-to movie references. I think of it every time I'm negotiating quotes with electricians/plumbers, splitting a dinner check with friends, or during raise/bonus talks at work.
Lately I've been wishing it weren't verboten to walk into an Alamo movie late. I never want to sit through the trailers for Barbarian, Don't Worry Darling, or The Menu ever again. The movies themselves, sure. The trailers, no.
So Hanks doubling down on doing terrible accents in movies now?
He'll probably be playing *you* in a Sesame backstage drama soon, Cookie! With a terrible accent, of course.
Are we ready for a cultural reappraisal of Death Becomes Her yet? Because I rewatched it recently and DAMN that is a great movie! God bless Meryl Streep for bringing 32-time-Oscar-winner energy to every joke. It's also a very interesting outlier for Bruce Willis- a little glimpse at this other career he could have had.
I'm ready to google spoilers for Barbarian. The trailer has been in heavy rotation at the Alamo Drafthouse for the past few months, and even though I normally like horror and suspense, even the trailer is a bit too much for me.
I really hated DEATH at the time but found myself warming to it a lot when I watched it again a couple of years ago.
It can be a bit too inside joke-y: Hollywood folks satirizing Hollywood folks, that extremely well trodden path. But it's bitingly funny, the central three characters/relationships are really well drawn, and the effects hold up pretty well for 1992. That whole opening sequence, with Meryl in her terrible 1978 Broadway play where a musical number suddenly breaks into The Hustle while the audience slowly trickles out! What wonderful economic storytelling!
Also, it is unbelievably quotable/memeable. Isabella Rosselini's "the sordid topic of coin" is one of my go-to movie references. I think of it every time I'm negotiating quotes with electricians/plumbers, splitting a dinner check with friends, or during raise/bonus talks at work.
Lately I've been wishing it weren't verboten to walk into an Alamo movie late. I never want to sit through the trailers for Barbarian, Don't Worry Darling, or The Menu ever again. The movies themselves, sure. The trailers, no.