“The Ryan Reynolds Adam Project” on Netflix is a lot of fun if you like Ryan Reynolds movies.
Have there been any recent movies that didn’t include Ryan Reynolds?
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Finally got around to watching Spider-Man: No Way Home. Of all the dozens of movies in the various superhero franchises, I don’t think there is a three-movie arc with the consistently superb quality of the Holland Spider-Mans.
Talk about cleaning up the timeline!
The only wrinkle I think they missed
After everyone forgot him, they should’ve had a shot of Parker walking alone and the sad TV Hulk piano theme playing.
Caught a few movies on spring break:
The Adam Project: not bad. Good soundtrack. Typical Ryan Reynolds smart assery well delivered as usual.
Shang Chi: very enjoyable but long. Had to watch the last 40 minutes on a second night. Excellent visuals. The dad’s character was too obtuse for someone who was supposed to have had a much life experience as he had.
Black Widow: liked it, esp the Red Guardian character. Good performance by Natasha and her sister. I was exhausted when I watched it so I can’t comment on any nuances in plot etc. But nuance isn’t Marvel’s thing I guess.
No Time to Die : started this on the plane and got maybe an hour into it. So based on that my one word summary is MEH. Daniel Craig looks old. Not so bad except that every woman he ogles is 20. The pre-credits scene was pretty good I guess. Otherwise the bad guys were cartoonish, the dialog trite (“it was an eye opening experience”), and action sequences were nothing special. We landed as he was flying out of Cuba so this was all pre-Rami Malek so maybe it improves. But I ain’t gonna pay to find out.
(incredibly stupid: hey I’m James Bond walking around in a room chock full of SPECTRE agents. No worries, I’ll just continue walking around like everything’s cool)
Looking forward to this one:
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Oh my goodness. I can’t wait for that. I’ve always loved The Man Who Never Was. Great to see they put together such a good cast for an updated version.
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I noticed in the trailer that one of the naval intelligence officers is referred to as “Fleming”. A nod to Ian Fleming, perhaps, who was [checks notes] a naval intelligence officer.
Apparently, Operation Mincemeat was based on one idea in a list of counter-intelligence ploys circulated by Fleming’s boss in 1939.
I’d rather have Tom Brady’s “last” touchdown pass ball. At least you can put that on the coffee table.
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That guy did get his $518K back
I don’t know if I’m just growing old but I don’t get NFT at all.
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Ok, Boomer.
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They’re electronic baseball cards. You’re welcome.
Can you put them in the rims of your Tesla?
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Nah, that just means you’re sane.
(FWIW, I’ve read that a lot of these big NFT disasters are probably scams to incur a large investment “loss” for tax purposes, but I have very little knowledge about how those things work.)
They’re not even baseball cards! They’re digital receipts saying you hypothetically own a baseball card, without giving you any actual rights to the baseball card—just to the receipt itself.
Like Brewster Millions? Where he bought the most expensive stamp in the world, then mailed it to himself destroying its value?
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At least baseball cards had a feature.
Exactly. The fact that they’re digital doesn’t mean they can’t have value but, just like baseball cards, or art, or beanie babies, or any other collectible, they’re only worth what someone else is willing to pay for them.
Point of order…he mailed it to the slimy weasels trying to cheat him.
On a side note, Brewster’s Millions May be the single worst baseball movie ever.
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