Sean’s movie thoughts

If there is a big budget movie with King Arthur fighting Robin Hood in the next few years, I had that idea in December 2018.  https://seansmoviethoughts.blogspot.com/2018/12/movie-thoughts-12-9-2018.html  I am just saying. I am not sure why they’d be fighting though. Maybe there won’t be another big budget King Arthur or Robin Hood movie in the next 7 years. Maybe the characters just don’t connect with movie going audiences anymore. Superheroes seemingly have replaced King Arthur and Robin Hood in the movie goers’ hearts and imaginations. There could be a modestly budgeted back to basics Robin Hood or King Arthur movie in the next 7 years that finds an audience. Maybe the problem with the last few movies with King Arthur or Robin Hood is the movies have tried too hard to reinvent the story or modernize it. Reviews of the Hustle suggest it is bad but not terrible. A couple of critics said Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson seemed to be acting in different movies. (I wonder who ...

Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway star as con artists in this new movie. It is a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the movie where Michael Caine and Steve Martin played con artists (which was a remake of another movie). I don’t feel interested in this movie but I guess if I see some good reviews maybe that will change. Hathaway is doing a bad British accent but not a terrible one. (Maybe it plays better in the movie. Maybe it will seem less jarring the more a person hears it.) Wilson seems to be doing her same material from her other movies. I am not really tired of either actress (not like I was tired of Seth Rogen a few years back) but I don’t feel interested in it. The film’s gimmick, from I’ve seen in trailers, is Hathaway’s character is convinced that no man will ever believe that a woman is smarter than he is. That is not a bad idea and maybe the movie is better than the trailers looked. Trailers are unreliable.  (See the Trailer truths below) The Trailer truths Good mo...

Get Smart was a TV series in the 1960s that spoofed James Bond. It was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. It stared Don Adams and Barbara Felton. It used to be on Nick at Night and it might still play on some cable channel. Steve Carell stars as Maxwell Smart, agent of Control. He starts off the film as an analyst but it is promoted to agent after the rest of agents’ identities are exposed. He is a bit of a bumbler. He is teamed with Anne Hathaway’s agent 99. They have a nice chemistry. Dwayne Johnson has a costarring role. Terence Stamp is one of the villains. His organization is called KAOS. He is fun. He treats the people who work for him very poorly and some of the thing he says to them are kind of funny. There is a hulking henchman in the vien of Jaws on hand. This is a fun movie. There are a lot of good jokes and some of the jokes are unexpected. There is a fun dance sequence with Max and a woman at a party. The movie has a cameo from a member of the original show’s cast...