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chuckroEnola Holmes is a nextflix original starring Millie Bobbi Brown (the girl from Stranger Things) and Henry Cavill (Superman and the Witcher). Brown is given a wonderful script and a delightful bouncing mystery adventure as Sherlock Holmes’ brilliant younger sister. Cavill is given terrible hair that distracts from his oddly chiseled face and allows him to look attractive. This is nothing brilliant, but it’s delightful fun. (Also, ignore the part where their mother was apparently going to enact the Gunpowder Treason if not for the events of the movie.) Side note: Henry Cavill is also now nicknamed SuperWitchLock (…by me).
The Hustle - Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as dueling con artists! …and it was okay? Not particularly great, which was honestly an utter waste of both of them. It wasn’t particularly witty, it wasn’t the craziness Rebel Wilson is generally best at, and it was only predictably clever, which is insufficient. Also, I’m irritated by Hollywood, making someone who’s still as insanely hot as Anne Hathaway as “the older, out-of-touch one.” She’s 37!
Total Recall - Ahnold in his prime. I probably saw an “edited for TV” version back in the day, because while I vaguely remember reading about the three-boob hooker, I didn’t remember seeing her, the f-bombs, or quite so much gore. The science is a goddamn mess, occasionally hilariously so. The interpretation that this was all a dream in the chair at Rekall is pretty reasonable, though I give them credit for leaving that open.
Addams Family and Addams Family Values - These mostly hold up; and the cultural commentary of Wednesday at summer camp is just as relevant now as 25 years ago. (Also, there are more black people singing in the end credits than speak or are named in the movie. Ah, Hollywood.) Fester’s character does change considerably between the two movies (blame the brain damage?), and I think part of that is downplaying the “evil” aspects of a bunch of things the Addams do and making the second movie more cartoony. The first movie focuses much more on the “magic” aspects of the Addams’ home (the books, the bear rug, the gate, etc.) while the second downplays that in favor of the Addams’ strange ability to survive things that should kill them. The tragedy of Debbie is her selfishness: Everything else the Addams Family would welcome and appreciate. Hell, she could still try to murder Fester every week and he’d love her for it. But family is everything to them and she’s only about herself; she could have found a loving and accepting family, but missed out. (Wednesday’s boyfriend, on the other hand, either gets scared to death or, if he shares the Addams strange aversion to death, likely marries her.)
Clue - Man, this movie really holds up. Physical comedy and clever wordplay; Tim Curry being amazing and a cast with no straight man. And can you imagine how insane the word of mouth must have been when they released different ending reels to different theaters?
The Hustle - Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as dueling con artists! …and it was okay? Not particularly great, which was honestly an utter waste of both of them. It wasn’t particularly witty, it wasn’t the craziness Rebel Wilson is generally best at, and it was only predictably clever, which is insufficient. Also, I’m irritated by Hollywood, making someone who’s still as insanely hot as Anne Hathaway as “the older, out-of-touch one.” She’s 37!
Total Recall - Ahnold in his prime. I probably saw an “edited for TV” version back in the day, because while I vaguely remember reading about the three-boob hooker, I didn’t remember seeing her, the f-bombs, or quite so much gore. The science is a goddamn mess, occasionally hilariously so. The interpretation that this was all a dream in the chair at Rekall is pretty reasonable, though I give them credit for leaving that open.
Addams Family and Addams Family Values - These mostly hold up; and the cultural commentary of Wednesday at summer camp is just as relevant now as 25 years ago. (Also, there are more black people singing in the end credits than speak or are named in the movie. Ah, Hollywood.) Fester’s character does change considerably between the two movies (blame the brain damage?), and I think part of that is downplaying the “evil” aspects of a bunch of things the Addams do and making the second movie more cartoony. The first movie focuses much more on the “magic” aspects of the Addams’ home (the books, the bear rug, the gate, etc.) while the second downplays that in favor of the Addams’ strange ability to survive things that should kill them. The tragedy of Debbie is her selfishness: Everything else the Addams Family would welcome and appreciate. Hell, she could still try to murder Fester every week and he’d love her for it. But family is everything to them and she’s only about herself; she could have found a loving and accepting family, but missed out. (Wednesday’s boyfriend, on the other hand, either gets scared to death or, if he shares the Addams strange aversion to death, likely marries her.)
Clue - Man, this movie really holds up. Physical comedy and clever wordplay; Tim Curry being amazing and a cast with no straight man. And can you imagine how insane the word of mouth must have been when they released different ending reels to different theaters?
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Date: 2020-11-20 03:01 am (UTC)and even with that, I still think it holds up well from an objective standpoint, watching it years later with an adult's knowledge and critical evaluation. And I too have wondered about the word of mouth that would have gone with the different endings... I'd only ever watched the VHS with all three played in sequence (which is clever all on its own, actually).
I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)