That hat isn’t ideal for his head shape.

Anyway, I’m watching this because somebody said that it was unexpectedly hilarious… and it is indeed pretty funny. It’s quite old fashioned — you could almost see Schwarzenegger do this movie in 1992.

But it does constantly skirt eww territories which those movies steered clear of.

And now they’re doing a training montage. This is where you can go all overboard with funny stuff, but instead it’s like… amusing, but they could have turned it up a few notches?

Ah yeah, the director started off doing a Naked Gun sequel, and has continued doing silly movies. And this movie is exactly what you’d expect — but it’s good. I laughed out loud several times, especially during the last 20 minutes.

But this is not a future cult classic, I think. It’s kinda uneven tonally? And there’s so many scenes that could easily have been hilarious instead of just amusing. But still. It’s fun.

My Spy. Peter Segal. 2020. ⚄

I haven’t seen any of Godard’s post-60s movies…

So it looks like this is going to be a bunch of short bits from movies and news reports with extremely high contrast and offbeat chroma?

Which I’m on board for.

Eh… the subtitles in this movie are kinda random.

Murder?!

There’s a sentence you don’t see every day.

The English subtitles on this one are weird. But I quite liked the movie? Especially towards the end? I kinda wanna go with a ⚄, but let’s be realistic.

The Image Book. Jean-Luc Godard. 2018. ⚃

That’s a lot of grain, dude.

Oh, that sounds familiar…

Anyway, is this the movie that ends with the guy telling people to scream out the window? Or… is that something else?

It’s a satire? I.e., not actually funny?

Oh, I think I was thinking of Network (which was from the 70s). This is from 1987! I was thinking “wow, William Hurt looks old to be like 27”.

Oh, right.

Oh, that’s her!

I’m having some problems getting into this, and I’m not sure at all why. The base mood is basically… Hill Street Blues? But with a plot line that’s all satirical and critical of the news business and how fake (*gasp*) it is and stuff.

It’s refreshing to see actors without fillers and botox again. We used to think of the 80s as being so over-the-top glamorous, but then the trend just continued and now nobody protests at the otherworldly faces on the screens.

Button down shirts! I’ve been reading the menswear guy lately… I didn’t know what that expression referred to before.

I’m not sure whether we have those in Europe? A Brooks Brothers invention, I think he said.

See those buttons?

Oh oh I’ve seen this before! Probably at the time? I remember this sweaty scene!

Yes, it’s him.

I really liked the ending. (SPOILERS!) The movie kind of sets up Holly Hunter to choose between Hurt (who’s very nice, but fake) and Brooks (who’s a bit of a dick, but serious), and goes for the unusual solution of: How about none of them?

Which is the only right solution.

But it’s not that the movie aged badly, but more like it’s… I dunno. For large stretches of this movie, I just didn’t really connect. Is it just that it’s too long for the material? (It’s 2h10m.)

Broadcast News. James L. Brooks. 1987. ⚃