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adamwatchesmovies · 4 years ago

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The War with Grandpa (2020)

You’ll laugh at The War with Grandpa rather than with it but at least you’ll laugh. This somewhat redeems a movie perfectly suited to the word "dumb".

Recently widowed Ed Marino (Robert De Niro) is asked by his daughter Sally (Uma Thurman) to move in with her family. To make space for grandpa, Peter (Oakes Fegley) must give up his room and moves to the attic. Angry at this injustice, the boy makes it his mission to chase grandpa away, but the old man is prepared to retaliate.

Little kids probably won’t see the many many flaws adults will spot right away. In an attempt to make Peter not seem like a spoiled brat who hates his lonely grandfather, the attic is made unliveable. It's infested with bats and rats. The roof leaks. It’s inexplicably accessible by a door rather than a trap in the floor but you’re not supposed to think about that. Thinking is your enemy when you watch this movie. When Peter glues a glass jar to his grandfather’s dresser, the old man rips the container in half like it's a paper bag. Ed is also tricked into spraying foam sealant - instead of shaving cream - all over his face (impossible). He's woken in the middle of the night by music no one else in the house can hear. He retaliates by rigging Peter’s backpack with explosive spaghetti sauce, which gets him in trouble with the school bully. It’s extra bad because he goes to one of these institutions where big kids do whatever they want and adult supervision is nonexistent. Peter’s younger sister Jenny (Poppy Gagnon) is obsessed with Christmas so her birthday party is the elaborate kind of celebration only a rich family could afford but mom and dad (Rob Riggle) can't afford a home big enough for their family. Peter’s friend (Juliocesar Chavez) lends him a snake for prank purposes. The reptile eventually goes on its own adventure, terrorizing Sally while she’s driving. We never see it afterwards, so who knows where it went. The little details the movie gets wrong come frequently enough to ensure perpetual bamboozlement.

You can tell this movie was shelved until only the barren landscape of the pandemic made it viable as entertainment. The extended scenes set in the now-defunct Fry’s Electronics are a hint. This movie has wall-to-wall big names in major roles. What were they thinking? Someone who loves bad children's movies must have some dirt on Cheech Marin, Christopher Walken, Rob Riggle, Jane Seymour, and De Niro.

I never thought I'd witness two scenes where De Niro exposes himself to his son-in-law for comedy in a single movie. What’s even crazier is that the sequel the final shot hints at… is apparently happening. Down to the music video and bloopers that play during the end credits, The War with Grandpa is a bewildering experience that’s kind of fun but never in the way that’s intended. (February 28, 2021)

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page58-blog1 · 7 years ago

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Dakota Fanning Can't Blend In When She Was Born to Stand Out in Comedy-Drama 'Please Stand By' (Trailer) with Toni Collette

Dakota Fanning Can’t Blend In When She Was Born to Stand Out in Comedy-Drama ‘Please Stand By’ (Trailer) with Toni Collette

“Can we go over your everyday schedule? Wake up, go to work.” “I just wrote a story where Spock travels to deep space nine. Captain’s log final entry, Spock and I are the sole survivors. Enterprise are you there? There’s a Star Trek script writing contest.” In ‘Please Stand By’ a young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her manuscript to a writing competition.

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9oodshots · 4 years ago

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‘𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪��𝗥 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗣𝗔’: 𝟴💪🏻/𝟭𝟬⁣ 🎬 𝗦𝗬𝗡𝗢𝗣𝗦𝗜𝗦 & 😎 𝗡𝗢𝗡-𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗥 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪⁣ ⁣ 🎬: Ed [Robert De Niro], a fiercely-independent retired builder, is convinced to move in with his daughter, Sally [Uma Thurman], & her family after an incident at a supermarket.⁣ ⁣ Living with other people takes some getting used to for the widower, especially since his grandson, Peter [Oakes Fegley], has moved into the dark & dingy attic after being forced to give up his room for his grandad.⁣ ⁣ Peter declares war on Ed to regain his room. In an all-out old school vs new cool prank war, who will win?⁣ ⁣ 😎: Robert De Niro plays the grumpy old grandad role well, but he advises Peter that there are never any real winners when it comes to war. Ed doesn’t have much in common with his older granddaughter, Mia [Laura Marano], who is interested in boys & social media but his youngest, Jennifer [Poppy Gagnon], is super-sweet & lots of fun.⁣ ⁣ Ed’s friends are hilarious, particularly Jerry [Christopher Walken] who steals every scene, while Diane [Jane Seymour], Ed’s potential love-interest, has no problem berating Ed & his male friends when she thinks they are being too soft.⁣ ⁣ Sally & her husband, Arthur [Rob Riggle], are oblivious to the battle going on between Ed & Peter, especially since Sally is distracted by Mia’s obsession with her new boyfriend.⁣ ⁣ The dodgeball challenge where Peter & his friends take on Ed & his senior posse is the highlight of the film.⁣ ⁣ 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗛𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗳𝘂𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀; 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 ‘𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲’-𝘀𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀, 𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 ‘𝗳𝗼𝗲,’ 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 & 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.⁣ ⁣ Thanks to @universalpicsau; ‘The War with Grandpa,' rated 𝗣𝗚 [mild themes & coarse language], opens in 🇦🇺 on Dec 3rd, 2020. ©�� #warwithgrandpa (at The War with Grandpa 2020 - Dailymotion) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIViNczlKO7/?igshid=1jyvsuegf3hnn

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lynchgirl90 · 7 years ago

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#TWINPEAKS: THE RETURN And The Miracle Of Kyle MacLachlan

Let's raise a glass to the man who gave us Dale Cooper, Dougie, and Mr. C all in eighteen thrilling hours.

By JACOB KNIGHT Aug. 29, 2017

Kyle MacLachlan has always possessed a wonderful screen presence. His face is a wonder of God’s creation – perfect bone structure, framed by that mane of flowing, dark hair, with warm, soft eyes that always convey a sense of compassion. His earliest roles came courtesy of David Lynch, who cast the then complete unknown in his Dune (’84) adaptation as Paul Atreides, son of a slain Baron and leader of desert warriors against a tyrannical emperor. Then came Jeffrey Beaumont in Lynch’s Blue Velvet (’86), a veritable lone Hardy Boy investigating the cruel life of lounge singer Dorothy Valens (Isabella Rossellini) and her vicious keeper, Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper). Blue Velvet was the perfect utilization of MacLachlan’s boyish charm, as it gave way to a sexual curiosity that lead him down the darkest alleys of his seemingly idyllic hometown.

MacLachlan’s stiff, affected delivery was perfect for Lynch’s preferred performance style. Just as the auteur is intoxicated by the poppy artifice of Americana, he molds many of his characters so that they almost seem unreal and exaggerated until the sun goes down. Then their true faces and motivations are revealed. The best example of this in MacLachlan’s work with Lynch is Jeffrey, who presents himself as a Boy Scout to his parents, grandparents, and community leaders, but then hides in Dorothy’s closet after breaking into her home, and proceeds to watch her undress. The affectation acts as a guard, and once its let down, Lynch’s performers allow their vulnerability to consume them.

The creative partnership between Lynch and MacLachlan peaked with Agent Dale Cooper on the ABC murder mystery soap, Twin Peaks (‘90 – ‘91). Over the course of two seasons, MacLachlan became the perfect avatar for the FBI, his slicked hair and simple black suit announcing Dale’s dignity whenever he entered a room. Cooper arrived in Twin Peaks to investigate the death of prom queen Laura Palmer, and was willing to let the strange forces of this sleepy Washington municipality suck him in, as the agent discovers that many of the area’s mysteries may be completely unsolvable. When Lynch left the series after ABC forced he and Mark Frost to reveal the identity of Laura’s killer midway through the Second Season, MacLachlan was devastated, to the point that he essentially relegated Cooper’s role to a cameo in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (’92). The two wouldn’t work together again for twenty-five years.

When The Return was announced and MacLachlan’s involvement confirmed, it was fascinating to watch the duo’s reunion. Like a power couple who split and then decide to show up at a party together, all eyes were on Dale Cooper and Gordon Cole (Lynch’s FBI Director alter ego). But beyond that collaborative flame being reignited, there were still grand questions that’d been left unanswered at the close of Season Two. Was Dale Cooper still in the Black Lodge after all these years? And if so, was BOB (Frank Silva) now in the world, wreaking havoc and destroying the very fabric of Twin Peaks’ goodness?

The answers, as we probably should’ve guessed, weren’t going to be so simple. Yet what we definitely couldn’t have known was that Kyle MacLachlan’s essentially playing three separate roles throughout the eighteen-part magnum opus David Lynch and Mark Frost designed. In the First Part of The Return, Cooper is still in the Lodge, and a nefarious doppelganger (known as Mr. C) has been setting himself up as a master criminal across the United States for the past two and a half decades. To go along with that dark enterprising spirit, its revealed throughout the course of The Return that Mr. C has also been emotionally destroying and creating doubles for characters like Diane (other consummate Lynch/MacLachlan collaborator, Laura Dern), who discloses the true extent of Mr. C’s diabolical evil in Part 16.

Then there’s Dougie Jones, who’s been a point of contention for many of the show’s fans. After Cooper is briefly released from the Black Lodge, he becomes trapped inside the schlubby form of a New Mexico insurance agent, whose appetites for hookers and gambling are legendary amongst his peers. By all accounts, Dougie is a shitty husband to his beautiful wife, Janey-E (Naomi Watts), and absentee father to his cute kid, Sonny Jim (Pierce Gagnon). But once Cooper invades his body, it shrinks down to the FBI man’s fit form (his ugly lime sport coat and Size 44 pants hanging on Cooper like a rack) and completely robs Dougie of his consciousness (as the actual Mr. Jones is transported to the Black Lodge). Now the husband, father and insurance employee is a drooling half-wit, having to be shuffled around by everyone surrounding him, as he becomes strangely attracted to pieces of Coop’s previous existence (coffee is everything now to Dougie). For a while there, it seemed like we’d never see the old Cooper again, even as his cognizance started to peek out from behind the doof’s orbs.

Many viewers began to get frustrated with Dougie, complaining that they wanted their Coop back, but what they were missing was some of the best comedic acting of the last decade. MacLachlan is hilarious, allowing his young son to improperly dress him, before chugging hot joe and spitting it out when the black liquid burns the roof of his mouth. MacLachlan is clearly having a ball with his own personal Mr. Hulot, discovering the world around him like a child, and reacting to it with bizarre wonder. He even gets to experience sex with Janey-E, as she can’t help but get turned on by her husband’s new body (which somehow shrank and toned out of nowhere). Dougie even becomes an unknowing hero at work – exposing a fraudulent colleague (Tom Sizemore), and makes friends with casino gangsters, the Mitchum Brothers (Jim Belushi and Robert Knepper), who operate as the invalid insurance man’s patron saints after he wins them back millions of dollars in claims money by scribbling haphazardly on a form. The whole thing is utterly ridiculous, but totally works because MacLachlan treats Dougie as his own character – full of complex, beautiful emotions that slip out when no one is looking.

At the same time, MacLachlan’s turn as Mr. C is equally impressive, mostly in how it’s a complete 180 from the jokey goofiness he’s putting in as Dougie. Sporting a long black mane of hair and a bronzed tan (this writer almost thought he was doing some sort of problematic Native American brownface at first), Mr. C speaks in monosyllabic bursts and challenges thugs to arm wrestling matches. He commands a duo of hick assassins (Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Roth) with an iron fist, and destroys nearly everything that comes in his path. As diverting as MacLachlan is as Dougie, he’s doubly ferocious as Mr. C, surviving car crashes and leading his evil “son” Richard out into the middle of nowhere to disintegrate him. MacLachlan is having a different sort of fun here, digging into the villain and delivering this new Twin Peaks a big bad worthy of its sprawling nature.

But then Part 16 delivered the greatest dream of all: the return of Agent Cooper. Awakening from his coma and discussing his next moves with Mike, the Eagle Scout cadence and tenor were right back in MacLachlan’s voice, as if they’d never left over the last twenty-five years. Seeing him diligently chart his course back to Twin Peaks (with the help of the Mitchum Brothers, who are totally impressed with Dougie’s new sense of diction) was a delight for viewers who’ve been eagerly awaiting this moment. And when Dougie’s boss asks Cooper, just as he’s exiting the hospital room, “what about the FBI?”MacLachlan turns and delivers a line that will forever live in the hearts of everyone who’ve cherished this gift Lynch and Frost have delivered: “I am the FBI.”

Kyle MacLachlan has always been a wonderful screen talent, but with The Return, he’s become a genuine miracle worker, picking this seemingly impossible endeavor up and placing it on his broad, handsome shoulders. To juggle these three characters and keep them separate while still soulfully connected is quite the task, and to see him pull it off over the last sixteen hours has been remarkable and thrilling. There will probably be no rewards in it for MacLachlan, no golden statutes to place on his mantle. But we should recognize that his acting is one of the most enchanting elements in a piece that’ll go down as one of the greatest events in filmed history. Thumbs up, Mr. MacLachlan. You are our hero.

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