Here is an interesting article from http://www.debbieschlussel.com/ reviewing some of the movies that came out over the past weekend. This follows this post about some of the movies from last week and THIS POST about some movies that have been released over the past few years that you might have missed! This all follows this post about guidelines to choosing good movies to watch yourself!

Wknd Box Office: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Sisters, The Danish Girl

by Debbie Schlussel

There’s only one new movie worth seeing, this weekend, and you know what it is:
* “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” – Rated PG-13: Read my complete review of this new installment of the “Star Wars” saga, which was posted early Wednesday. This is the one and only new movie to see this weekend. I really enjoyed this new tribute to the old with a reinvigoration and nod to the new. It’s got all the bells and whistles–including the plot points in which good vanquishes evil–that you’ve come to expect from the original Star Wars trilogy. Again, read my complete review.
THREE REAGANS

* “Sisters” – Rated R: I went to this movie wanting–and expecting–to laugh. But I barely did. Most of the “jokes” in this are groanworthy. The story is stupid, as is the movie. This is supposed to be a comedy, but I laughed only about five or six times, and even that was kind of forced.
If your idea of humor is a ballet dancer musical box up a guy’s rectum, then this is your movie. For everyone else–especially those with even a modicum of class, decency, or just plain common sense–this sucks absolutely. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, looking extremely haggard, play sisters in this female “bromance.” They are in their late 40s, look like they are in their 50s, and their characters act like 20-year-old frat boy losers. Middle-aged White chicks acting like Black rap stars–not funny, krackaz.
The sisters’ parents call them and tell them they’ve moved to a condo and are selling the house where the sisters grew up. It’s time for the sisters to go to the house and pack up whatever they want from their bedroom. But instead of packing up, the loser sisters spend their time planning for a party and trashing the house because they don’t want the new buyers to have it. The grown-ups in the movie–their parents and the one former friend of theirs who acts like an adult and is successful (Maya Rudolph)–are the bad guys.
Instead of actual humor, it’s just gross, juvenile stuff. You don’t have to be a prude to know this is crap. For most of the movie, Amy Poehler is trying to have sex with a younger guy she just met. When they finally get to her bedroom, and he takes his pants off, he slips on the floor and gets the aforementioned music box decoration up his rear end. Then the camera pans to the base of the music box turning and playing music from his behind. This is funny?
This is stolen from “Seinfeld,” in which George’s father fell on “Fusilli Jerry,” which went up his rectum. And on that show, it was actually funny. Another stolen “Seinfeld” scene: mocking Korean chicks who work at a nail salon. Again, better–much better!–on “Seinfeld.” And today, this scene would be un-PC and unacceptable in everyone else’s movie, but liberals love Amy and Tina, so they can get away with whatever they want. That’s how it works: mock Sarah Palin on SNL and support the Obama Reich, and you can get away with anything.
Another moronic “gag”: actor Bobby Moynihan plays a loser friend the sisters purposely didn’t invite to their party. But he shows up anyway and snorts a whole bag of cocaine. Then, he removes his pants, dips his penis in paint, and proceeds to paint with it on the walls of the house. I swear that, one day, this will become a new form of lauded “art” in America (if it isn’t already). Just watch. Oh, and what does Moynihan paint with his penis? A penis. Wow, that’s hilarious . . . if you’re a 15-year-old boy.
This is what passes for movie comedy, these days. Not only is it not funny, it’s painful and boring to watch. For the hundred or so “not terrorist” Islamic terrorists left at Guantanamo Bay, this is perfect high-quality torture material. For everyone else, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are stealing two hours of your life you’ll never get back. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya.
THREE MARXES PLUS THREE ISIS BEHEADINGS PLUS TWO OBAMAS PLUS TWO MICHELLE LAVAUGHN ROBINSON HUSSEIN OBAMA IDI AMIN DADAS

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* “The Danish Girl” – Rated R: Liberal movie critics are raving over this absolutely awful, extremely long and boring, and just utterly tired tranvestite movie. This movie reminds me a lot of Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Hussein Obama Idi Amin Dada: very high on style, but still looks like an ugly man dressed as a woman. Plus, it’s very pretentious and extremely low on anything even mildly interesting. Still, since this is “The Year of Caitlyn Jender!” you are forced to see yet more piling on and preachifying about how this is “normal,” when it is actually extreme mental disorder. By the way, I struggled to stay awake during this slow artsy-fartsy fest and lost the battle. Yet, I missed nothing.
The story: Eddie Redmayne is Einar Wegener, a Danish artist who is married to Gerda (Alicia Vikander), also an artist. Gerda is a painter, and one day–when her model can’t make it–she asks her husband to step in and don women’s shoes and a lacy skirt. Um, whatta way to cut a guy’s balls off! At first, he is repelled by the idea of wearing the skirt, but then takes to it and is turned on by the feminine clothing. That night, when his wife comes to bed, she pulls back the sheets on her husband, only to seem him wearing a lace negligee. While most real-life women would be disgusted by this development, she is turned on by this and, of course, Hollywood wants you to think this leads to the passionate sex that follows in this scene.
Soon, Gerda is dressing her husband in dresses, make-up, and a wig for parties they attend with all of their friends. But her husband turns on some of the men, and one of them makes out with transvestite Einer and chases him. They are soon in a gay relationship. At first, this troubles the wife–for like two seconds (and what did she expect after dressing her hubby as a tranny?)–but then she grows to accept and nurture this. It brings back feelings her husband apparently had when he was a kid and had gay relationships with his schoolmates. Soon, Gerda accompanies Einar, who now goes by the name “Lile Elbe,” to have radiation on his penis (so he can be less of a man) and two sex-change operations. Since they didn’t have much in the way of sex-change operations and plastic surgery back in 1920s Denmark, he was probably castrated and made into a eunuch.
But, hey, isn’t that “normal”? Don’t judge!, they keep telling us, as they do in this movie. Some “women” were just born into male bodies, and they need to “correct” this. If you think otherwise, you’re a backward, right-wing, Christian, male, White hick from the sticks, right? I’ve had enough of moralizing like this.
And, again, this was a total bore and a snoozer. Bruce Jender’s story is much more interesting (though equally abnormal and warped). Don’t worry–that’ll be on the tarnished silver screen soon enough, with the same hackneyed message that the dysfunctional and crazy is normal and we’re not. That’s why this’ll probably get a bunch of Oscar noms.
If we were really “torturing” Islamic terrorists in Gitmo, we’d force them to live like “Lili Elbe” . . . or, at the very least, make them watch this garbage over and over.
By the way, I’m not holding my breath for Hollywood to make “The ISIS Girl.” But that would be worth seeing.
THREE BRUCE JENDERS PLUS THREE OBAMAS PLUS TWO MICHELLE LAVAUGN ROBINSON HUSSEIN OBAMA IDI AMIN DADAS PLLUS ISIS BEHEADING

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Wknd Box Office: Inside Out, I’ll See You in My Dreams, Hunting Elephants, 40 Yrs Later, Jerk Richard Dreyfuss’ Leftist Kids Remember “Jaws” – VERY Funny

Here is an interesting article from http://www.debbieschlussel.com/ reviewing some of the movies that came out over the past weekend. This follows this post about some of the movies from last week and THIS POST about some movies that have been released over the past few years that you might have missed! This all follows this post about guidelines to choosing good movies to watch yourself!

Wknd Box Office: Inside Out, I’ll See You in My Dreams, Hunting Elephants

By Debbie Schlussel


It’s mediocrity city among the new movie releases in theaters today (I did not see “Dope”):
* “Inside Out“: This is the new animated Disney Pixar flick. It’s getting rave reviews from most mainstream media movie critics, but not me. I thought it was more than a little contrived and quite the bore. And it lacked the usual magic and charm that comes with Pixar movies. I thought the story was kind of blah (with the sub rosa agenda of trying to pimp us on girls hockey). And the movie was quite cloying in a very saccharine way. The animation is fine, but not that spectacular. In fact, it’s kinda dull compared with previous Disney Pixar animation. It’s supposed to be funny, and it did have a few funny lines that made me laugh. But it wasn’t non-stop comedy. In fact, some of it is kind of depressing.

I thought the plot line and devices were interesting and I was expecting to like this movie. But the idea was better than the execution (and the movie trailer). The movie is cheesy and filled with lulls and silliness than interesting.

The story: a young teen girl who is very good at hockey must move away from her native Minnesota with her parents. Once they are in their new location, her father has problems paying the bills. And the girl has problems in hockey and with friends, and is depressed and upset. She decides to run away. Meanwhile, the various feelings (sadness, joy, etc.) inside her head are debating, competing, and also working together to try to help her. They are embodied by different characters, voiced by Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling, etc. These characters work inside a giant storage facility that keeps the girl’s memories and has several islands or amusement parks that stand for the various aspects of her life: family, sports, goofiness, etc. When the girl gets depressed and contemplates running away, the islands begin collapsing and disappearing and her memories start turning blue (for sadness). The various feelings are trying to save her and the islands.

Like I said, it’s kind of silly and contrived. And, despite the hype and excessive praise, it’s a letdown given previous Pixar fare. Nothing truly offensive about it (though there is one scene in which bleeping happens, which seemed inappropriate for a kids’ film). I left this feeling underwhelmed.

Though the target for this is supposed to be kids, it is probably aimed at their parents, too. I’m sure the kids will like it and then forget about it very quickly.

HALF A REAGAN


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* “I’ll See You in My Dreams“: I have mixed feelings about this film, starring Blythe Danner a/k/a “Mom of Gwyneth (Paltrow)” as a senior citizen widow who enters the dating scene. At first it was a relaxing and slightly funny movie. I laughed a few times, but then it just gets depressing and never stops. And abruptly it ends. I felt it was manipulative at times and for no apparent reason or point. Also, we learn in the movie that Danner’s husband died 20 years ago. And, yet, there is no explanation for why she suddenly, just now, has decided to start dating men. The movie focuses on Danner’s relationships with three sets of people: other female seniors who are friends with her, Sam Elliott whom she meets and begins to date, and a much younger, aimless pool boy, who seems to enjoy her platonic company.

Not a feel good movie. Not even close. Not terribly bad or anything. Just pointless and not something I’d spend ten bucks or more to see.

HALF A MARX


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* “Hunting Elephants“: I hated this movie. It’s a bank robbery caper movie, which means it should be entertaining. It’s a comedy, which means it should be funny. But, with a few brief exceptions, it is neither of these. Instead, it is the typical drivel that comes out of Israel’s Hollywood, which is even more far left and hateful of its home country than America’s Hollywood. The movie is also unnecessarily funny, to the point of grossness, and it’s very juvenile. You don’t need to be a prude to be annoyed by this movie.

The story: an Israeli teen boy who has a stutter and no friends loses his father to a heart attack. The father was a security guard at a bank and died there one night. So, the boy’s mother, in need of money and someone to watch the boy, contacts her father-in-law (the boy’s grandfather), a man with whom she hasn’t spoken in well over a decade. She seeks the man’s help and, eventually, the two become close. The grandfather was a member of the Irgun, the Jewish “underground,” and is not only a filthy man, but a jerk. His wife, an English woman, is in a coma. Her brother, played by Patrick Stewart, is a failed English actor in need of a lot of money to buy the rights to a play he is producing. Stewart is very anti-Israel and hates Jews. His father headed British police in pre-Israel Palestine. Stewart is the stuttering teen’s great-uncle, whom he’s never met. Soon, the boy convinces his grandfather, British great-uncle, and some of the grandfather’s friends at a nursing home to rob the bank, where the boy’s father was the security guard. All of them need money, and they believe the robbery will solve their financial problems.

There were a few funny lines in this, but mostly it was stupid and slow moving, not to mention anti-Israel, needlessly dirty, and a complete waste of time. In Hebrew and English, with English subtitles.

TWO MARXES PLUS AN ARAFAT


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40 Yrs Later, Jerk Richard Dreyfuss’ Leftist Kids Remember “Jaws” – VERY Funny

By Debbie Schlussel

Tomorrow (Saturday) is the 40th anniversary of the movie, “Jaws.” On June 20, 1975, the scary shark movie debuted in theaters. Normally, I laugh at the silly marking the anniversaries of movies and other pop culture (unless it’s an exceptional, important movie, like “Death Wish”). Pop culture isn’t history and shouldn’t be elevated to it. That said, last year, I heard this very funny (and non-political) interview, below, with star Richard Dreyfuss’ (of whom I’m NOT a fan) uber-lefty kids, Ben and Emily Dreyfuss, regarding the movie and what people say to them.

Even though it was on tax-funded NPR (National Palestinian Radio), it’s worth a listen . . .

Yes, I am aware that Dreyfuss is a loathsome figure, and I can’t stand the guy. He is a far-left, self-hating, anti-Israel Jew (and a strong candidate for lunch in Tul Karem). Just like Leonard Nimoy, he was a strong supporter of the anti-Israel group, American Friends of Peace Now, which supports the anti-Semitic boycott of Israel. And he’s openly said he’s proud of voicing his baseless criticism of Israel (and of playing anti-Semitic caricatures of Jews). His kids’ politics are similar. His son, for example, works for Marxist “Mother Jones.” Still, the interview isn’t political, and I found it funny.
By the way, the much cooler guy in “Jaws” is the late Roy Scheider.

“We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat.”