I never watched Baywatch as a kid, but it was literally always on all the time. If you just left your TV on and went to do something, it would inevitably be on. And it was on for a long time too. I don’t know how those lifeguards got into so many adventures but they sure did.
And now, like everything else from my youth, it is being parodied. That’s ok. It was pretty much a parody at the time.
Hey 3.5 readers.
Have you checked out the trailer for The Mummy reboot?
I gotta be honest, The Mummy and it’s first sequel were two of my favorite films from, sigh, “the turn of the century,” if we have to get technical. They were full of fun and whimsy and Brendan Fraser was an atypical nerdy hero.
Thus, I’m kind of surprised that Tom Cruise was picked as the young buck to replace Fraser, given that, as far as I know, Cruise is older than Fraser.
And in theory, a new movie about The Mummy doesn’t necessarily have to be considered reboot. Hollywood was making movies about mummies long before the Brendan Fraser outing, after all.
Anyway, it looks hella legit and if it is half as good as the trailer then it will be considered shelf-worthy.
What say you, 3.5 readers?
Please just listen to this clip, where a very talented man does a movie trailer guy voice impression to describe my podcast. Try not to pee your pants laughing. I feel bad because my own voice is nowhere near this awesome.
Hey 3.5 readers.
Ryan Reynolds has released a teaser trailer for Deadpool 2 and it’s every bit as funny as you’d hoped:
Humans and Transformers are at war and Mark Wahlberg and Anthony Hopkins are involved.
Also, Optimus Prime may have become a douche-bot.
What say you, 3.5 readers?
Jump in your ride and crank up the rap music, 3.5 readers.
It’s time to check out the new Fate of the Furious trailer.
I have literally lost track of how many of these films have been made now.
They began in the early 2000s but were ahead of their time. They needed CGI to catch up with them, not to mention a little sprinkling of The Rock’s film franchise resurrection powers.
Fast Five, where they took the show down to Rio, will always be my favorite, mainly because it was the one where it was like, “Hey after four movies I think we figured out a winning formula!”
Anyway, you’ve got the fast cars, the non-stop rap songs, the fight scenes, the gratuitous booty…it’s all a young man’s wet dream or, if you’re like me and refuse to grow old in spirit (because my body’s agreed to get old) then you love them too.
It looks like Dom betrays his team of early 2000s rappers and works with Charlize Theron, who is hotter than ever. I assume we’ll get some sort of explanation.
I dunno. These films are fun to bust on but you know you’ll all be there front row with popcorn in hand. I know I will.
Hey 3.5 Scruffy Looking Nerf Herders.
Your old pal BQB Solo here.
Just an informal poll, who is looking forward to the new Star Wars movie this Friday?
As nerds, what needs to be in the film to make you happy?
Hey 3.5.
BQB here, still posting behind the Yeti’s back. Shh! Don’t tell him.
The trailer for Spiderman: Homecoming is out and it looks like the best Spiderman movie in awhile.
The first two Tobey Maguire movies in the early 2000s were great then they hit a wall with the third one. Emo Spiderman. Blah.
The most recent two were fine but didn’t really knock my socks off.
Here, it looks like they’ve come up with a great idea, setting Spiderman in the world of the Avengers and making Tony Stark his mentor. It makes sense. Tony is a scientist. Peter is a wannabe scientist.
We don’t need need to see yet another origin story where Peter is bitten by the radioactive spider and he doesn’t stop the robber and the robber shoots Uncle Ben so from then on Spiderman pledges to never let anyone down again and so on.
We’ve got it.
Yet, while we don’t need an origin story, we do need an explanation as to what this current incarnation of a character is all about. That’s why the latest DC movies have been struggling.
No, we don’t need another movie about young Bruce Wayne seeing his parents getting shot (shot parents/guardians create so many super heroes).
But yes, we could have used a movie to explain what this version of Batman is all about.
If you missed, SPOILER ALERT – in the latest Captain America film, we were given an introduction to Spider Man. It was good. It was all we needed. Now we know what makes this current version of Spidey tick. Now he can hit the ground running in his own movie without any need for devoting half the film to the spider bite and the Uncle Ben sadness.
What say you, 3.5 readers?
You must remember this, a yeti I did kiss…but it was against my will!
But I won’t bore you with the behind the scenes hullabaloo of being a Yeti hostage.
France! Morocco! Ooo la la! BQB here with a review of Hollywood’s first Oscar bait movie of the season, Allied.
OBLIGATORY SPOILER WARNING.
In early 1940s French Morocco, Canadian spy Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) meets French lady spy Marianne Beauséjour (Marion Cotillard). The duo become immersed in a whirlwind romance as they hunt Nazis together and bone in a gratuitous manner.
Alas, when they marry and head off to England, Max’s superiors begin to suspect Marianne of pulling double-duty as a spy for the Nazis. Thus, Max is charged with the unenviable task of sniffing out the truth.
Fans of the Golden Age of Hollywood will be very impressed with this film. With the French Morocco scenes, its almost as if we are treated to a visit to the Casablanca of Bogart’s time, except in this go-around we get to see it in full color, high definition and with more special effects, flying bullets and assorted war mayhem.
Yes, there is room for an argument that Casablanca was all the better off for not having all the bells and whistles of a modern film as such trivialities might have spoiled that classic. And certainly this movie does not surpass the Bogie/Bergman picture that most movie critics agree is one of (if not the best) films ever produced, but it did make me yearn for a time when a man would wear a suit and a fedora just to get a cup of coffee.
Brad Pitt is every bit a classic style movie star in a time when thought provoking films are being more and more replaced with flicks revolving around costumed super heroes (not that I’m complaining as I love those films as well but I wonder why there isn’t room for both.)
Moreover, Pitt is truly one of the best preserved fifty-something year olds I have ever seen.
Meanwhile if Pitt is Bogie, then the Bergman of this film is Cotillard. After years of being the go-to French actress in films that call for a French character, she has been rewarded handsomely with this role.
Overall, the film is visually pleasing with a plot that keeps you munching popcorn. It will face some stiff competition come Oscar time, but gold statues (or at least nominations) for Pitt, Cotillard and Director Robert Zemeckis would not surprise me.
STATUS: Play it again, Sam. Shelf-worthy and worth a trip to the theater. Good date film. Dudes, take your lady because it is so emotional that you might get a little smooch-a-roo-ski out of this.
Hey 3.5
I have nothing for you today other than I am excited for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Critics are saying it doesn’t quite have that Harry Potter magic but hey, what does?
Are you going to check it out, 3.5?
Bookshelf Battle 