ROTTEN PEAS - ongoing movie thread by 2Peas Critics

I heard such mixed reviews on it at first so I didn't bother regretting it now.

I love Queen but after seeing A star is born I was a bit bummed that BR was getting more recognition at award ceremonies as I had just been blown away by the music and performances from not only LG and BC but the secondary characters.

I heard RM is awesome as FM but he didn't sing without aides and mixing and dubbing in the movie.

Hopefully I can catch it at a cheap theatre but I think it's coming out on DVD this month.

Have seen a few movies lately

took grandson (11 years) to see How to Tame a Dianosaur he thoroughly enjoyed it.
Took other grandson (9 years) to see Bumblebee which he thought was fantastic. 

Went with DH to see Cold Pursuit which we both thought was really good. 

Saw Bohemian Raphosody which I had mixed opinions about but the music made it worth watching. Did enjoy the movie but thought some of it a bit so-so. 

Will go with DH next week to see The Mule so am looking forward to that. 

We saw On the Basis of Sex recently, it was magnificent! Cool cameo by RBG herself, blew me away. I had no idea this woman did so much for gender equality.

Last weekend we saw Glass, which was better than I expected. Apparently it's the third installment of a trilogy that began in 2000. Bruce Willis was so good I could hardly believe it, flol.

So like anyway, I guess I recommend both movies.

I finally got to watch Kodachrome tonight!!! I have been dying to see it and stumbled upon it on Netflix. It is exactly what I hoped it would be. A lovely story that entertained photography and a complicated father/son relationship. Ed Harris and Jason Sudeikis were stellar. This movie will yank hard on those heartstrings, so if you watch it you need to have some tissues handy. I seriously loved it.

Hubs turned on Sicario 2 last night. That movie was terrifying. Great storyline, good acting. Scary sense of reality. I liked 2 more than I liked the 1st one. A little bit less complex of a storyline. I’m curious to see how this plays out in Sicario 3, assuming they make one.

The kids rented The Grinch this evening. Adorable animation, fabulous Christmas song soundtrack, but it didn’t wow me or make me have all the feels like I thought it would. I’m glad we held off on buying this one.

Kudos to Spike Lee and the excellent actors !!!

We watched this, and....wow! The HATRED from the KKK (and hearing the "N word" and other ethnic slurs for Jews ( "k---e" ), etc. was reallly hard to hear.


If you don't want to read the long description I added below, it's the true story of a black police officer who
infiltrates the KKK.


We didn't realize the lead actor is Denzel Washington's son until we saw the
credits.....wow, he got his Dad's talent !


Also, I realllllyyy like Adam Driver!  We saw him in another very good movie, but I can't think of the title now.  (Not talking about "Star Wars"--- I don't watch those-- but DH does, and he said Adam Driver was great in that, too).

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(I got this from economist. com)  
SPIKE LEE’S “BlacKkKlansman” is set in the 1970s, but it is also the first major Hollywood film to comment explicitly on Donald Trump’s presidency. In an opening segment, Alec Baldwin—a regular Trump impersonator on “Saturday Night Live”—cameos as a pompous white supremacist. Later, a young David Duke (Topher Grace), the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, explains that the Klan will make headway not by wearing hoods and burning crosses, but by wearing suits and seeming respectable—and by “getting the embodiment of that in the White House”. And the film finishes with clips of the far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Mr Trump’s defence of the “very fine people” in attendance. Whatever audiences think of “BlacKkKlansman”, no one could accuse it of being too subtle.


The film, declares an opening caption, “is based on some fo’ real fo’ real shit”, which is another way of saying that Mr Lee and his three co-writers adapted it from a memoir by Ron Stallworth, a black police detective who infiltrated the Klan. Mr Stallworth himself is played with swaggering self-assurance and a sizeable Afro by John David Washington, whose father, Denzel Washington*** , starred in Mr Lee’s “Malcolm X” biopic.


The first African-American policeman in Colorado Springs, Stallworth is desperate to get out of the records department and into action, so when he spots a Klan recruiting ad in the local newspaper, he decides on a whim to dial the number at the bottom. He is soon friendly enough with the town’s Klansmen to be invited to meet them. Stallworth keeps the ruse going by persuading his sardonic Jewish partner, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), to take his place for face-to-face dealings with “the organisaton”.

Another “ Boy Erased” note——With alllll my marveling over 3 of the main Australian stars imitating Arkansas accents very well, there was also a
verrrrry sweet-faced, curly blonde haired boy who befriended the main character at the camp. When we
watched the extras and found out he was ALSO Australian, we were amazed yet again !



Joel Edgerton, Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, and this other actor’s accents were so
authentic- sounding, I’m curious how much work it was for them, whether they required dialect
coaches, etc. I’ve always loved accents, so this subject is very interesting to me!

I posted about “Roma”, “Blackklansman”, and “Boy Erased” a while back, and I’m so curious what others thought! 😀

I saw Sophie and the Rising Sun on Netflix today. It was very good. I didn't even pick up my iPad while I was watching it. Margo Martindale is it and I love her.

In 1941, the residents of a small South Carolina town view the arrival of an educated Japanese-American man with more than a little suspicion. When he catches the eye of one of their own -- winsome spinster Sophie Willis -- racial tensions mount.

I saw Captain Marvel last night. It was fucking amazing! And seriously awesome how it tied some other parts of the Marvel Universe together! Since it takes place in the 90s it showed some other beginnings as well. And the Stan Lee cameo was brilliant, I see why Kevin Smith got so teary eyed over it. Oh and the soundtrack was like straight out of my high school years. Loved it!
Awesome female lead!