Movies

Had to watch a little of Coming To America again the other night. My fav part is the church assembly with Randy Watson and Sexual Chocolate. “Sexual Chocolate - aren’t they beautiful?” “SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!!!” (Mic drop).

Arsenio as the preacher is hysterical. “I want you to RIIIISE up wit me!”

And the barber shop trio - “This boy is good”. “If you mean good and awful, then yeah”. “You must be out of your mind!”.

Kills me every time.

I understand the sequel is going to have Hakim coming back to meet his illegitimate son. I just have to wonder when that happened and who it happened with? Maybe one of the “bar chicks”? Damn - I hope it wasn’t the one Arsenio played!

GO DODGERS!!!

I forgot about these.



Alec Baldwin really is good.

Andy Griffith is so positive. Don Rickles came off looking good.

Undercover Brother was just on. Suppose those movies will become dreaded collector's items soon. Like Marge Schott's Nazi memorabilia. All the stereotypes & cliches. Hilarious.

Undercover Brother : You know what they say, behind every great black man...
Conspiracy Brother : Is the police?
Undercover Brother : No.
Smart Brother : A bunch of slow white athletes?
Undercover Brother : No!
White She-Devil : A cute butt?
Undercover Brother : NO!
Lance : Probable cause?

Denise Richards was at her delectable best.

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Okay - here’s one I caught last night on FX Movies. Mostly in tact - I’m sure there were a few cuts of the extra dirty word and gratuitous nudity.

Suburbicon, starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore (in a dual role) and a bunch of others I’ve never seen in anything else. Directed by Damon’s bud George Clooney with screenplay and production by the Coen brothers.

A VERY odd picture with two stories that you can either believe are connected (which I believe was their sarcastic point) or not.

It starts with one of those old “promo” ads, showing this new neighborhood where people from all over the country are moving.

They show its homes, industry, shopping and even police and fire departments. From the automobiles shown, I’m guessing it’s supposed to be the early 50’s.

The one thing BLATANTLY missing? No persons of colour. So naturally, a young black couple and their son move into the development and the locals go insane.

They hold meetings and make declarations of what they can and will do to return their Eden “back to normal”.

In the meantime in the home directly behind the new neighbors, Damon lives with his wife, who is disabled from a car accident, her sister (Moore playing both parts) and their young son.

The mom has no issues or problems with the new neighbors behind them and encourages her son to introduce himself to the neighbors same age son by inviting him to play baseball. The sons quickly become friends.

The sister is there to “help” the family following the accident, but we soon find she and Matt are doing the nasty and are planning to rid themselves of the wife. He’s also in debt to the mob for a good chunk of change. Life is not as perfect as it seems in Suburbia.

He hires a couple of thugs to “break in” to their home and they then tie everyone up, including the son. They then use ether to knock everyone out and kill the mom.

Dad’s plan is to take the insurance money, pay off the thugs and then disappear to Aruba with the sister.

The police call them in for a lineup and they have no choice but to bring the son along. While instructed to sit outside and wait, he sneaks into the viewing room and is horrified to see both of the thugs as his father and aunt refuse to identify either.

Someone accidentally turns the light on and the two way mirror becomes ineffective and allows the thugs to see the kid.

They then show up at Damon’s business and threaten him as well as his son and sister-in-law, who by now has dyed her hair blonde to replicate the dead wife.

Damon decides the best thing for him, his “new” wife and son is to send him to military school.

The thugs then decide the kid & aunt have to go and one is sent to the house to take care of them.

But before any of this takes place, an insurance investigator shows up and grills the sister-in-law to the point that he knows the entire scam.

After he leaves, new mama decides the kid has to go, so she fixes him a PBJ & glass of milk both tainted with enough ground up drugs to kill an elephant.

The klans-like townfolks excel their efforts in terrorizing the black family by gathering at their home, destroying their car, setting fires via Molotov cocktails, breaking windows and the usual placement of a rebel flag.

That’s about as far as I can go without spoiling the ending but the final scene shows the two boys tossing a ball back and forth.

It’s billed as a horror comedy, but I didn’t really find it even slightly amusingly enough to illicit even a smile.

I took it as a sarcastic satire as “here comes segregation and there goes the neighborhood”. Whether that was their intent or not is in the eye of the viewer.

Two and a half stars for a very strange two hours.

GO DODGERS!!!

Dolittle is the most recent version of the doctor who can talk to animals starring Robert Downey, Jr., Antonio Bandaras and dozens of famous voices for the animals.

The story begins in animation with our doctor and his famous explorer wife living happily on a huge estate and sanctuary funded by Great Britain.

His wife sets out for an island that supposedly has a magical fruit tree that can heal all ails. Unfortunately, she is lost at sea and the doctor goes into deep depression and seclusion.

At that point the story switches to live action with Dolittle living in squalor with a number of misfit animals on the same estate.

He is thrust back into service by a young boy who has accidentally shot a squirrel and a young lady representing the Queen who is very ill and advises that if the Queen dies, he will lose his land and the estate.

The doctor agrees to meet with the Queen and finds that she is slowly being poisoned by her own staff and another doctor (the brilliantly evil Michael Sheen) who was a rival of Dolittle’s while they were in school.

As fate would have it, the only cure for the Queen is the fruit from that same tree his wife was in search of.

Unfortunately, there is only one map to the island where this tree is supposedly located and it is in the possession of Dolittle’s ex-father-in-law (Bandaras).

Needless to say, he never approved of their marriage and the loss of his daughter did not improve their relationship.

He is none-too-happy to discover Dolittle and his misfits in his castle trying to acquire that map.

There’s more, but I’ll end my review here with there is a LOT to like about this very family friendly movie and I give it a SOLID four baseballs (no more “stars” on a Dodgers baseball forum!).

GO DODGERS!!!

Bite the Bullet is a really good movie that was on again the other night. Gene Hackman & James Coburn play cowboys with a conscience about their horses.