Does this schtick work for a /second/ 90 minute film? Let's find out with —

#41, or #2411, 1999's "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

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I always count these, don't I.

#42, or #2412, the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony legally known as "Cerimonia di apertura dei Giochi Olimpici Invernali Milano Cortina 2026."

Leaving now to go see a movie we were gonna see earlier this week, but then I got frozen in and couldn't leave my house, so I guess it was me who had —

#43, or #2413, 2026 Park Chan-wook picture "No Other Choice."

This 1957 Best Picture nominee in which Marlon Brando learns the Japanese are people and experience racism sometimes is either a complete fucking disaster or, like, kinda progressive for its age and a little pointless today, no middle ground, either way it's two and a half hours long, it's —

#44, or #2414, 1957's "Sayonara."

My brother hasn't seen this, which is a thing that must of course be fixed, leaving now to go see a 45th anniversary screening of —

#45, or #2415, 1980's "The Shining."

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Finally finished watching, and so can now count in the thread —

#46, or #2416, 1915-1916 silent French film serial "Les Vampires."

Not seen so much as a trailer for this, but I dunno, I'll go see a zombie comedy (zombedy), leaving now to go see —

#47, or #2417, 2026's "Cold Storage."

This is the one of these I've never seen, it's —

#48, or #2418, 2002's "Austin Powers in Goldmember."

Ping pong movie let's go, leaving now to go see —

#49, or #2419, 2026's "Marty Supreme."

(Fully forgot to hit send. Pretend I tooted this 3 and a half hours ago.)

Know nothing about this 1990 Lawrence Kasdan picture my dedication to podcast completionism is making me watch, it's —

#50, or #2420, 1990's "I Love You to Death."

In a genuine Valentine's Day coincidence, my dedication to Blank Check completionism is forcing me to watch a movie with the word "love" in the title that I would otherwise never have put on, it's —

#51, or #2421, 2008's "The Love Guru."

It's another Best Picture nominee that seems like one of those that had a good point at the time but we wooshed past that point half a century ago, it's —

#52, or #2422, 1957's "Peyton Place."

With and after dinner, watched —

#53, or #2423, 2026 doc “Disneyland Handcrafted.”

Truly just wall-to-wall violations of even the most loosey-goosey of basic modern health and safety standards.

I've definitely seen at least one other adaptation of this that I fully do not remember, leaving now to go see —

#54, or #2424, 2026's ""Wuthering Heights"."

David has told me to watch this 1972 TV movie that dares to ask, "what if a Black man was President of the United States, wouldn't that be something," it's —

#55, or #2425, 1972's "The Man."

 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXdA0z5BUig

The Man (1972) | James Earl Jones is the First Black President | #JamesEarlJonesRIP

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It's the 1957 Best Picture nominee that dared to ask, what if there was a —

#56, or #2426, "Witness for the Prosecution."

The first of the 1958 Best Picture nominees, I know nothing about this one, it's —

#57, or #2427, 1958's "Gigi."

One of those "well if you can see it on the big screen, ya gotta" movies, leaving now to go see a 30th anniversary screening of —

#58, or #2428, 1996 Baz Luhrmann picture "Romeo + Juliet."

In this one Glen Powell kills the rich for fun and profit, leaving now to go see —

#59, or #2429, 2026's "How to Make a Killing."

Alex Daily not going to improv comedy class tonight, on account of it being a vacation week, and so Alex Daily can instead go to the Mystery Classic. (Like Sneak Preview but the movie is old.)

The hints are "The day after carnival," and "Iron ....," and we like @kurt 's suggestion of it being "The Hangover," but only one way to find out, leaving now.

#60, or #2430.

It's the third of four movies that have ask, what if a star was born, it's —

#61, or #2431, 1976's "A Star is Born."

Obviously accomodating my brother's schedule isn't an issue at all, but I do sometimes miss seeing movies at like 10:15am on a weekday.

But he doesn't care about these, so leaving now to go catch the 10:15am screening of —

#62, or #2432, 2026's "Scream 7."

I'm... pretty sure?, this is Jewish Mulan, it's —

#63, or #2433, 1983 Barbra Streisand picture "Yentl."

Remember how bad "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" was, well, what if there was a moderately better movie about Wolverine that was also a little weird about Japan, it's —

#64, or #2434, 2013's "The Wolverine."

More movie titles should have exclamation marks in them to signal that they're Exciting!, leaving now for a screening of —

#65, or #2435, 2001's "Moulin Rouge!"

It's the movie that dares to ask, what if there was a prince of tides, it's —

#66, or #2436, 1991 Barbra Streisand picture "The Prince of Tides."

Oh, whoops, forgot to start a new thread. After this one.

"I grew up slowly besides the tides and marshes of a Carolina sea island."

*leo-points* he's the prince of the tides

AND the prince of the marshes

Nick Nolte is an unhappily married marsh man living in a beach house. His mom is here to tell him his sister tried to commit not her first suicide attempt and is in a coma, and that somebody has to go to New York to... go talk to the sister's therapist?

Is that the usual order of operations? That couldn't be a phone call?

He doesn't like New York, but he likes his wife less, so to New York he goes.
The therapist is, of course, played by Barbra Streisand.

"In Savannah's poems, are you the shrimper or the coach?"
"The coach."

nobody wants to be the shrimper

The therapist has called Nolte here to fill in details about the sister to figure out the why etc. of the attempt. Nolte's response to it is to hate therapists because that's what this type of guy (Republican) always does, sigh.
hey it's george carlin as the sister's gay roommate
Hm.
This, I wanna say, sucks?
It's mostly in two things:
* Nolte plays a cartoon Southern man whose entire personality is he don't cotton much to dem hoity-toity big city folks.
* The life of the sister exclusively exists as fodder for Nolte and the therapist to bond over, she's barely a person herself, she's the mentally ill problem they're trying to solve together.
He's footballcoaching therapistson, which is even less interesting than the other things that are happening.
yeesh
the picture so far has been way too light for This to be the core of what happened to them
Whole picture fully collapses under this reveal.
I'm now almost expecting the footballcoaching therapistson subplot to end in him accidentally breaking his neck or something.
Therapisthusband is a famous violinist, so he doesn't want Therapistson to football but for him to violin instead, which makes sense and is totally reasonable, because Therapistson is a genuine virtuoso at the ol' chin-fiddle.

"Herbert never liked it, it made him sneeze, this place."

herbert should look into immunotherapy

Hm.

Well, I think this is well made for what it is, but in this, the Year of Luigi 2026, you’ll have to forgive me for not quite connecting with a movie about a mentally ill woman where she’s essentially just not a character because the picture is instead entirely about the romance between her therapist and her brother.

She’s a problem for them to solve, and even in the flashbacks, she’s an also-there.

And that movie, what that movie sounds like, is then generally speaking far too light to survive the reveal of the violent acts that happened to this family.

It all really just collapses under that weight, just becomes sad, and it's not balanced enough to figure out how to make that meaningful instead of just fucking miserable.

If there’s something positive to be said for this it’s that it deals with subjects like toxic masculinity, sexual assault against boys, shared family trauma, mental illness, and that it tries to do so quite sensitively for 1991. Unfortunately the attempt lands here in the aforementioned Year of the Green Plumber more like a brick to the head.
Babs largely innocent, but the picture is a rough time.
@Alexis I can't believe the Prince of Tides isn't about a surfer bro.
@kurt Could've swapped titles with "Point Break" from the same year.