movies are cool. here is a place to talk about how cool they are. or maybe how much they suck, sometimes. like that fucking piece of shit 'mac and me'. worst fucking movie ever, a two-hour ad for fucking coca-cola.
Diabolical wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:36 am
I've been wanting to go through the Predator series again before the new live action one comes out.
I've seen Predator several times. Classic.
Predator 2 - it's been a while, but I liked it.
I've only seen Predators once and I don't remember much of it.
Still need to watch The Predator and Prey.
Man, those titles are a clusterfuck.
Fuck the AvP movies.
I rewatched Predator 2 for the first time in probably 20+ years. There were way too many scenes where he’s stepping in on the Feds turf and either yelling at his Capt or getting yelled at by his Capt. Like, it seems to be 25% of the movie. I forgot Gary Busey was in it. For some reason, I thought Bill Paxton was the federal agent, but he’s just part of Danny Glover’s team.
I also rewatched The Predator from 2018. You can tell Shane Black reveres the Predator franchise. Lots of in jokes. The ending on top of the spaceship is still stupid though. I read that they completely redid the third act, so that explains a lot. It also tanked huge at the box office, even though it was #1 the week it came out.
Finally, The Devil Wears Prada. Ugh. Was this supposed to be a comedy? It’s just a bunch of assholes being assholes to each other. Not a single redeeming person in the entire thing. I want my two hours back. And it certainly doesn’t need the sequel they’re making. Unless the sequel is everybody gets on a sub going down to view the Titanic…
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug." "Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?" ”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
Happy Gilmore 2. Well, if you're expecting a return to Sandler's heyday, when this movie came out and everything he did was gold and an instant comedy classic, prepare to be disappointed. I'll grant that it's better than anything he's starred in since Little Nicky. But that means I did chuckle a few times.
There's a line between silly and absolutely fucking absurd. Happy Gilmore got fucking nuts, but always stayed away from just completely unbelievably crazy. This movie crosses the line often. Chubbs has a son, see, and his son also lost a hand, and he has a completely useless wooden hand that the actor is obviously just holding because his arm's way too long. Oh, and Chubbs wasn't fat, but was called Chubbs, so his son is huge and named Slim. Which might work, except every fucking character from the original has a son that's just like them!
At two hours, it's way too long. But it could be trimmed by almost a full half hour by cutting out the reused HG footage. Seriously. You know how one of Cobra Kai's few flaws is how they really fucking overdid it with using Karate Kid footage. "Hey, I remember this car!" [Two minutes of Mr. Miyagi giving Daniel the car in 1984.] It's even worse here. Like absolutely fucking crazy overdone. There are a lot of callbacks, and every single fucking one of them leads into the bit from the original. Really. Anyone watching Happy Gilmore 2, whether they've suffered through (or even enjoyed, no accounting for taste) the last 25 years of Sandler shitting on a camera, or they gave up somewhere soon after Big Daddy like most of us, knows that fucking movie inside and out. You have an almost 8-foot tall dude who looks kinda like Richard Kiel saying, "You remember my dad?" and there's no fucking reason to show the old scene. I wonder if Sandler is paid by the minute. No shit.
The plot seems simple, but gets pretty convoluted. Apparently golf is going to cease to exist if the pro golfers don't defeat some EXTREEEEEEEM!!!1!! upstart league. Like, who the fuck cares? Young people don't watch golf anyway. And history shows these new leagues never last long.
I did laugh several times. But I wasn't in constant danger of pissing myself like I would've been watching a new Adam Sandler comedy thirty years ago. I doubt I'll want to ever watch it again, but it wasn't a complete waste of two hours. (Only a waste of about thirty minutes. Seriously with the re-used clips.)
Bad Bunny is funnier than Adam Sandler. So are all the real pro golfers. That's actually not an insult. They steal the show.
I do appreciate seeing Jon Lovitz and Kevin Nealon and knowing that they're not completely forgotten and are getting paid. It's pretty funny how he uses the same actors over and over again, and, after all these years, that results in Lovitz, who probably works at the Dairy Queen down the street from you, appearing in the same flick as Steve Buscemi, who's finally recognized as the god he is. But it does mean a cameo by Rob Schneider. Seriously, fuck that guy.
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
I generally agree with you, but the only movie he's done since Happy Gilmore that I've liked was the first Grown Ups.
Little Nicky was dog shit.
Movies like Big Daddy, The Wedding Singer, and 50 First Days were pretty overrated.
As for HG2, overall, i liked it, but I'll also probably never watch it again.
There were way too many forced callbacks. Why was everyone buried near near other in the same cemetery?
Why kill Viginia? It seemed pointless, other than to have a weak plot device to overcome. They could've been separated and Happy could be trying to win her back.
And it was completely unnecessary for him to have 5 kids. Two kids would've been better: one just like Happy was in his youth, and his daughter as she was would've been better. Both could've had more screen time and been developed as real characters instead of one-note jokes.
I wanted Slim's joke to be wanting emulate his dad, like having the fake hand, except he doesn't need it, explaining why it looked to long.
"As they say in China, 'Arrivederci'!"
*For the creation of the Golden Deuce Award.
Ok, just watched Happy Gilmore 2. I watched the original a couple weeks ago.
I heard part of an interview with the guy who co-wrote it with Adam Sandler. Carl Weathers died right as they were finishing the original script, so they obviously had to re-write the whole thing. I'm guessing they killed his wife to give him that conflict plus the need to support his daughter.
I liked it overall. The Extreme vs. normal golf plot is kind of taken from the LIV tour vs. PGA. Chubb's son was funny, but he was kind of unnecessary. The 4 sons were also probably unnecessary. John Daly and the rest of the golfers were hilarious. Can't argue with the use of Kevin Nealon or John Lovitz.
I think the absurdity of everyone he knew being buried in the same cemetery was the joke.
Funny side note. I was watching a few episodes of MASH. Dennis Dugan played Colonel Potter's son-in-law. He looked really familiar, but he was so young, I didn't recognize him until I googled him. Dennis Dugan was the Tour Director in both movies. He kind of looked like Seth Meyers.
F1. Brad Pitt and Damson Idris drive really fast. I mean rrrrrreally fast. The plot was something you’ve seen in a hundred other movies, but it was a fun thrilling ride nonetheless.
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug." "Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?" ”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
Weapons. I rarely bother to watch horror movies. And even less so to actually go see them in the theater. But the trailers for Weapons were so intriguing, my curiosity was piqued. ‘Twas a satisfying thriller with a handful of gory moments. I’m looking at you, scene where they’re repeatedly stabbing themselves in the face with their forks.It wasn’t gratuitous perse(I’ve seen worse in the Saw movies) but the idea of it gave me the heebie jeebies. That and the final kill were…ooomph.
I may try and find the director’s previous film, Barbarian, to watch. It took me seeing Nope, before I went back and watched Peele’s Get Out and Us. Same thing here.
Heads of State. John Cena and Idris Elba are the President and the UK Prime Minister in the dumbest looking action flick I’ve seen in a lonnng time. I didn’t even watch it. I just saw the trailer and laughed at the over the top ridiculousness.
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug." "Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?" ”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
I occasionally watch the 1960s run of the Twilight Zone on tv. Most of them are new to me. The random actors that show up are amazing. Last week, I saw one where Peter Falk led a revolution in some South American country. Tonight was "The Grave" (S3E7). Lee Marvin, James Best (Sherriff Roscoe P. Coltrane), Strother Martin (Slap Shot, Cool Hand Luke, True Grit), and Stafford Repp (Chief O'Hara from the 1966 Batman series). How awesome is that lineup? I've never seen Best or Repp in anything other than Dukes of Hazard and Batman respectively.
