Phat Mack Eyeballs The Flicks

 6-1-2017 Wonder Woman Lectures: Nope, none. No more or less silly than any other superhero movie. Nothing to be afraid of here. Wonder Woman:           Spoiler: Gets laid. Sammy Davis, Jr.: Wears a fez. Cliff Clavin: Wears a kilt. "Chief" Bromden: Tours Bleeding Belgium. Trigger Warning : They could have found a role for Scarlett Johansson in a cat suit, but didn't. Action up to Hong Kong standards? No, but CGI buffs will like it. Trigger Warning : Laws of physics --           Spoiler:  Take a beating. Check it out, but unless you're a real buff, OK to wait for TV.

 4-9-2017 Your Name Is (Kimi no Na wa) Trigger Warning : Some visuals emulate psychedelica from late-60s/early-70s. Trigger Warning : Includes realistic depictions of time unstuck-ed-ness. Trigger Warning : S.M.O'D. makes guest appearance. Trigger Warning : May contain content from Star Trek and Goodfellas. Trigger Warning : Ending may not be as advertised. Trigger Warning : Film transcends genre. Comet Fu: Check. I'm a girl: Check. I'm a boy: Check. Boobs: Always getting action. Time: Unstuck. Searching: Always. Radwimps: Easy to listen to. This one surprised me. Innovative, original, weird. I expected to like it, but was surprised by how much. By all means, Check it out .

 2-11-2017  Neruda Groovy 1940s Leftist Chilean parties: Check. Cool 1940s Chilean Whorehouses: Check. Not-quite Rumpole: Now a Chilean poet. Not-quite Clouseau: Maintaining a certain gumshoe-esque dignity. Cool old cars: Check. Planes, Trains & Automobiles? -- Cars, Motorcycles, Boats & Horses. Pinochet: Cameo As with most foreign flicks, sometimes baffling but very entertaining. Check it out .

 2-21-17 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind I thought I had seen this animation before. It's considered the first Ghibli. Turns out I had never seen it -- but might have read some of the comic books. Anyway, it was really fantastic. I had a great time and can't recommend it enough. Post-Apocalypse: Check. Princess Heroine: Check. Cute pet: Check. Fanciful Flying Machines: Check. Warring Tribes; Warring Species; Warring Ecologies: Check. Sword Fights: Check. Kinda Like? -- Dune. Sand Worms? -- No, Doodle Bugs. Really, really, really good. Check it out.

 9-19-2017 Napping Princess Every single person has to follow the rules: check. Two worlds: magic and industrial. Motorcycle with sidecar: cool. Motorcycle with sidecar: Transformer. Motorcycle with sidecar: Tesla on auto. Furries, tablets and smartphones: of course. Bento boxes on bullet trains: check. Tokyo Olympics 2020: always showing up in anime. Macy's Parade: saves the day. Purely: Shoujo .  Great story; great flick. Channel your inner high school girl and... check it out.

 1-15-2017 A Monster Calls *Special treat preview: there's going to be a Lego Batman movie. Looks great! I don't go to enough kid's flicks, so I seldom get treated to the kid's previews. Really cool monster: Check. Scariness at Midnight: Check, but it's actually 12:07. 1930's monster movie music: Nice touch. Sigourney Weaver's perfect accent: English; Australian; Canadian -- one of those places. Animated Tales: Mushi-Puro-esque. Casio 3-Button Classic: A168W Mother promises to become a zombie: I'm really not sure I understood this correctly. I was distracted by a really cute waitress. Excellent Life Coaching for young and old alike: Check. Excellent flick. Check it out.

10-22-2016 Miss Hokusai Japanese feature length cartoon about the painter Hokusai and his family. Nutty Old Man; check. Pre-modern Tokugawa-era soft porn; check. Blind little girl in snowball fight: check. Hookers (sometimes referred to as 'foxy ladies'); check. Dragons; check. Astral projection; check. The movie is much too modest to mention it, but apparently Hokusai may have founded the Slacker Movement. Warning: Japanese films about historical people can be presented as a series of vignettes, without a traditional story arch. In other words, without a beginning, a middle, and an end. If you sat through all three films of the Samurai Trilogy, you know what I mean. There're flicks that I like and everyone else hates. I liked this one, and you'll hate it. Go see it anyway. Relax and enjoy it. It is really very pretty, so you can just ignore the subtitles if the story annoys you. Check it out.

Manchester by the Sea 12-10-16 {While: Boston: check. Crappy weather: check. Drinking: check. Depression: check. Bar fight: check. count = count + 1} Casey Affleck is great. I like all the Afflecks. All the actors did well. If you romanticize Boston, you can see this. If you tend to view Boston as the Alabama of the Northeast, you can skip it.

Logan Lucky 8-19-17 Grit Rififi: check. Trigger Warning: John Denver. William Carlos Williams: check. 007: check. James Bond: we see his true self. Joe Dirt: check. Prison tats: everywhere. "Cauliflower:" wtf. Country Star Spangled Banner: Sit this one out. Gummy bears: check. Grits are not a protected minority: enjoy the ridicule. Trigger Warning: more John Denver. I'm a sucker for caper flicks, so: Check it out.

Lego Batman 2-9-17 What happens after opening credits? -- Dunno, laughing too hard. Lego Batman: Issues. Joker: *******earted.           Spoiler:  Tough breakup. Weather? -- It's raining dads. Biggest Villain? -- HDMI3. Steals the show? --           Spoiler: Tom Cruise.                Spoiler:   The crowd went wild! All 2017 Oscars? -- Locked up. Rest of 2017 flicks? -- Pointless. Check it out. "Welcome to the Phantom Zone, Bad Guy!!!111"

20 Feet from Stardom 7-8-13 Solid documentary chronicling (mainly) girl backup singers from the girl groups of the early 60s to the present. Backup vocals portrayed as both a path to stardom and as an art unto itself. Great footage. Great music. Crystals-enablers the Blossoms. Stones. Rayettes. Ikettes. Luther Vandross. And on and on. I've decided to assign this film as mandatory viewing for anyone who has participated in a Lounge music thread. Submit a report of your favorite backup singers here after completing the assignment.