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On 4/14/2024 11:59 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> This weekend I need to try to get through a pile of work, and yesterday
>> I was variously very successful, and not successful at all! at it.
>>
>> So, I managed to get through...:
>>
>>
>>
>> So, what did you watch?
> 
> Hey, thanks for asking!
> 
> CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE ❤️
> This is like the fifth thing they offered me free on Apple TV+.
> 
> The preview had Emma Stone who I like so I gave it a try. It stars Steve
> Carell, who I’m not a fan of and I was about to click it off when they said
> Marissa Tomei. OK, I’m in.
> 
> Carell plays an average guy who has a useless slut wife who is cheating on
> him so of course she gets the house and the kids and he gets the efficiency
> apartment. While he’s out complaining in a bar about his life, a womanizer
> Takes pity on him and decides to teach him how to get women. It turns out
> the secret is to wear a smaller size suit and not treat them very well.
> Works every time.
> 
> So there’s some funny stuff, especially Tomei.
> 
> But it gets weird as it turns out that everybody is connected unknowingly
> to everybody else about three different ways. many of which seem extremely
> unlikely for no one to know about. And there is reveal after reveal after
> reveal. So many reveals I can’t even keep track of them. Mr. Google says
> there’s a big reveal in the third act in about Correll’s youngest daughter
> and it’s the first time her face is shown, but I can’t figure out what that
> reveal is nor have I been able to track it down.
> 
> There’s just no way everybody could be connected in multiple ways like this
> in a town bigger than Mayberry.
> 
> So some good casting, especially in the lesser roles, some good
> performances, especially in the lesser roles, lots and lots and lots of hot
> girls, no nudity, and an especially happy ending for the youngest son.  The
> real life version of which can be seen. Thanks to Mr. Google, even though
> it’s not in the movie.
> 
> But the plot is completely implausible, and it helps that all the
> characters have unlimited funds, so they don’t have that to worry about.
> 
> It starts with Emma Stone, thinking Conan O’Brien is hot, which is
> disgusting, and Lisa Lapira mocking him for looking like a carrot, which
> was good. But then these characters disappear for the next 90 minutes!
> 
> Fred Bob is on the fence.
> 
> 
> 

I saw it when it first came out, and I liked it at the time, but I don't 
remember it.


I watched:


Psycho (4K disc) 1960 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcok and starring 
Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, everyone's favorite American Psycho. 
The movie holds up very well.


Psycho II (4K disc) 1983 sequel which finds Perkins getting released 
from a mental hospital and trying to move on with his life, but the 
family of his one of his victims is determined to drive him insane.  One 
small flaw in their plan is he's *already* insane!  I think this is 
probably the first Psycho movie I ever saw when I was a kid.


Psycho III (4K disc) 1986 sequel directed by Perkins which finds Perkins 
still trying to live his life but his urge to occasionally dress up like 
his mother and murder people keeps getting in the way.  I don't know 
what the popular opinion was at the time, but this is actually a very 
watchable background noise type of movie.  I especially like the scene 
when Perkins is in killer mode but takes the time to straighten a picture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Typvz53Ec&t=22s


Psycho IV: The Beginning (4K disc) 1990 made for TV sequel which has 
Anthony Perkins back once again as everyone's favorite American Psycho. 
But this is also a prequel which details Norman Bates backstory (young 
Norman played by Henry Thomas) and details his life with his abusive 
mother (Olivia Hussey from Romeo and Juliet).  Not bad.


Law & Order: Special Victims - "Children of Wolves" - Mariska Hargitay 
directs this episode which was all over the place.  I'm not even going 
to try and summarize it!


Law & Order: Organized Crime - "Semper Fi" - Stabler, who I think is 
supposed to be a New York City cop, goes undercover in what didn't 
appear to be New York City.  I get if you're undercover you're not 
confined to your city limits, but he didn't appear to be anywhere near 
New York city!  But I've never been to New York, maybe it's full of 
forests and farmland.