Best Movies 2018? I'll Tell You!

I have that ill fated Movie Pass so I was seeing a lot of stuff last year until the inevitable happened and it blew up in our faces. So I got the AMC pass and used it a lot. Now I pay for both and hardly ever use them because we are fucking buried in 2 feet of snow in this hell on earth. Wheres yer global warming now ??? JK.

My Top 10 of 2018.

10) Searching

This was the most creative film I saw all year. John Cho of Harold and Kumar fame has his teenaged daughter go missing and he has to find her almost exclusively thru social media. Its fun, its creative and believe it or not I learned how to use stuff on that there internet I never knew existed.

9) 8th Grade

I resisted seeing this. I am not exactly the demo for a movie about a 14 year old girl. But I watched it finally and seeing it from the perspective of her Dad trying to do his best to help his daughter grow up was really captivating. Elsie Fisher is a godsend as the awkward kid trying to fit in and Josh Hamilton as her struggling Dad both are why this movie succeeds. No recognition of course.

8) First Reformed

I really wanted to love this movie with it being Paul Schrader and all. I didnt LOVE it but I did like it a lot. Its basically a Taxi Driver for 2018. Ethan Hawke as a troubled minister dealing with a lot. His pessimism about the climate and his own loneliness. It works. Ethan Hawke for awards? Nothing.

7) Lean On Pete

A boy and his horse. A walk across the West. And perhaps the most shocking moment of 2018 movies about halfway through. I gasped. The women behind us cried. Yeah its good. Charlie Plummer of last years Getty film is another great young actor and hey it has Steve Buscemi too.

6) Annihilation

I didnt expect much. I got a lot. Its a women oriented horror picture. Giant gators. Weird premises. A dead Oscar Isaac. And great performances from Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh (welcome back) Tessa Thompson and Gina Rodriguez. I liked it a lot and I generally hate horror pictures.

5) Love Simon/Boy Erased

These movies got ignored and shouldn't have been. Young gay kids. Parents who struggle with reality. Dads who cant believe it. Moms who love their sons no matter what. I really liked both of these movies. One is more serious than the other and I hate lumping them together bit theres only 10 spots. Its the gay movie slot I guess. Make more.

4) Leave No Trace

Debra Granik has directed two really good movies. Winters Bone introduced us to Jennifer Lawrence. Leave No Trace introduces us to Thomasin McKenzie. Who? Watch this movies about a father with deep seeded PTSD problems and his daughter who drop off the grid and you wont need to ask. Ben Foster is the Dad and anything he is in works. But this kid from New Zealand, Thomasin McKenzie, is a wonder. It doesnt end like you may wish but hey thats reality.

3) Wont You Be My Neighbor

I swear this documentary about Fred Rogers could be argued as best movie of the year, period. The Academy didnt even nominate it for best documentary instead going for another goddamned skate boarding movie. This documentary will give you hope for the world and at the same time make you cry that we have become such assholes to each other. This film moved me more than any other this year and again, thats all it takes for me to proclaim THAT is a great film.

2) If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin was the greatest writer of the 20th century. Thats just me and my knowledge isnt that great cuz I dont read novels. Bit this adaptation of his novel is moving and true. 1970's New York, racism, racism within the black community, police brutality, MeToo, and a heartbreaking performance by Regina King. This film and its jazzy background music which may annoy some really made me sit up and go wow. Things havent changed at all in 50 years.

1) BlacKkKlansman

This Spike Lee joint is the best movie I saw all year. The fact that Spike Lee has NEVER been nominated for an Oscar is an outrage. Buthey, he is this year so goddamit give it to him. This film stars John David Washington and Adam Driver as two cops in Colorado Springs in the 1970's who infiltrate David Dukes very fine people organization the KKK. It covers all the Spike Lee narratives and it does it so well it keeps you captivated throughout. The ending? OMG . It pissed me off. Yep, things havent changed in 50 years again. Realize it folks, we are backpedaling.

Now about a couple of other movies.

Bohemian Rhapsody

I really liked it. I know it was biopic 101. I know there was nothing new in it. I know it has an inside joke involving Mike Myers. I know I know I know. But like last years The Greatest Showman, it made me happy. Rami Malek and everybody else in that cast is fantastic. Yep it was directed partly by a creep, but the guy who took over finished it up well.

You Were Never Really Here

Joaquin Phoenix as a troubled veteran who tracks down missing girls. Its another Taxi Driver inspired revenge movie about a guy who has a hard time distinguishing reality from fantasy. So will you. This movie got ignored also. It shouldnt have been.


Now about movies everybody liked except me

Sorry to Bother You

Ugh! Horse dicks? A valid premise that just goes horribly off the track. Make your point and then sci fi bullshit? Sorry it bothered me.

The Sisters Brothers

I hated this film. Even though John C Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix were in it and it was a Western whoaaaaa doggie, this didnt work for me at all. Overly mean and violent, Nope a hard pass.

Other movies I liked a lot

Tully
3 Identical Strangers
Green Book
Pope Francis
Widows
Isle of Dogs
First Man
Mission Impossible Fallout
Vice
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

One movie that everybody loved I only liked

A Star is Born

Ehhhhh. I liked it. Didnt love it. Seen it before. Lady Gaga can act already knew it. Sam Elliott is the best part. Bradley Cooper not a lightweight any longer in my mind.

Onward to Oscar night!

Prepare To Be Going Ahhhh!

Wake Up Democrats!

This whole Virginia shitstorm is very important. Governor Blackface, Lieutenant Governor Grab Ass and Attorney General Brownface should all be apologetic about whatever it is they were thinking, but the Democrats piling on top of each other to demand resignations and self flagellating the party into being everything Donald Junior says it is need to step back and open their fucking eyes.

Back during the days of Dick Nixon, a sleazy crook with a deep mental illness, there was a man named Donald Segretti. Segretti ran the dirty tricks department of CREEP. The Committee to re-elect the President. Ya know, the paranoid CREEP himself, Tricky Dick. Sefretti and his band of ratfuckers were busy making shit up like the Canuck letter to destroy any Democrat deemed dangerous to the re-election chances of the most corrupt man to ever hold the highest office, Wait, what????

Ratfucking is to Republicans as "going high" is to Democrats and quite frankly I am sick of it. I love Michelle Obama but that "When they go low w go high" may have been the dumbest thing she's ever said. Do you understand what you are dealing with? Thus far, conservative ratfuckers, always with shit in their backpockets have wrecked Northam (sorry folks, yes he destroyed himself and thats exactly what ratfuckers want you to think), are working on wrecking Fairfax, and are trying to wreck the AG, though he's gotten out front.

Ratfuckers are trying to ruin Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and dont need to bother with Tulsi Gabbard since she ratfucks herself. These creeps have lived in the Republican Party for 50 years, they started an entire news network, they run the government and they will never stop. If they cant find dirt they will make it up. Jesus Christ hangs with hookers, Mother Theresa steals money, The Dalai Lama wears dresses, ratfuckers will stop at nothing.

The Democrats had better wake the fuck up . Until they point out,as Sherrod Brown did to the despicable kiss ass Chuck Todd, the Republican Party is the home to every racist thug alive today and has been for 55 years. Once Democrats stop trying to please people who will never ever vote for them, and start fighting back, this shit may end. But Democrats have been going high for so long and ignored the ratfucking Republicans they now have a second player to deal with, the fuckin Russians.

Virginia is a test. Im not saying Northam should stay, as the Democrats have already neutered him, and if Fairfax is guilty of assault, he needs to go, but the Virginia AG, Mark Herring, is the last line of defense against a Republican Speaker ready to step up and start gerrymandering and cheating. Good thing he got out front of what is apparently a grand Southern tradition of being a fucking racist prick when you are young. God knows to some masochistic Democrats, there is no forgiveness for past indiscretions. Meanwhile the Republicans not only ignore racist pasts, they thrive on it. Not that Democrats should thrive on bigotry, but forgiveness is a trait they can certainly use to their advantage.

All I am Saying Is Give Fighting Back A Chance.

Friday Is For Winning!

President Shit Fer Brains has folded after putting 800,000 federal employees thru hell. Kicked in the nuts by yet another woman,President Nutless can now perhaps give his goddamned SOTU speech and put the attention back on himself as he's always wanted.

Meanwhile, Roger Stone is under arrest, and the United States is beginning to look like the United States again. Criminals are being arrested, ironically by FBI agents working for free, and President Asshole is made to look the fool again.

This Friday is the best Friday that has occurred in a long fucking time. Thank you to the Speaker of the House. Thank you to the FBI. Thank you to Robert Mueller. Thank you to all that is right.

Lastly, what kind of idiot thinks Nancy Pelosi is over the hill? Huh, Berners?

Make America America Again!

The boys will be boys crap has started. The 'fake news" crap has started. The defense of privileged white boys is in full force now. They were "provoked". They were the victims. That 64 year old Native American Vietnam Veteran was the instigator. Do not criticize our White boys. After all, they were there to stand up for fetuses on the annual March For White Life Life event. Hey, Mike Pence was there. Ben Shapiro stood up for Baby Hitler. It was quite the stand up for certain life event.

Then the Indian dude got in the MAGA hat wearing Catholic boys faces and beat on a drum. How dare he? What was the mob of testosterone supposed to do besides do tomahawk chants, poo poo stolen land, laugh, dance like loons and stare down a 64 year old man?

This may have been even sadder than the 1960s. We are supposed to have evolved. The dumping of flour on lunch counter sit in protesters was 55 years ago. That was done by ignorant rednecks scared of their own shadow. This taunting of an American Indian elder, a member of the Omaha tribe, drumming for peace is disgraceful. Its bullying at its finest. Its Brett Kavanaugh bullshit. Its the privileged bullying behavior I saw all through high school. You different? You get mobbed on. You black? Must be an athlete. You Hispanic? Must be illegal. You gay? You're a fag. You a Democrat? You are a commie. You creative? You're weird and probably a fag. The mob mentality of teen aged boys used to getting their way and being taught that they are of the one true religion is toxic. These same pricks will never learn because the powers that be will defend them. They will be excused at best and defended as victims at worst.

Watching the tape of this disgraceful incident is so utterly disturbing that any American should be ashamed. The taunting of this man is no different than if I walk into a Sunday Catholic Mass and begin taunting them for their kneeling and standing and chanting and thinking a piece of bread is actually a body. That would be offensive and would never be tolerated. And it shouldn't be. Just as this nonsense in DC should never have been tolerated.

But it was. And now the right is defending it. Well some are. The usual suspects. Our racist President, who openly calls a woman "Pocahontas" and dismisses Wounded Knee as a non event, has said nothing. He wont. A man who has no beliefs other than in himself and is heralded by so called religious people as God appointed will defend them just like he did American Nazis.

The fact is these punks deserve no slack. How can anyone defend a high school that is so deficient in its educational curriculum that its privileged boys actually chant "Build The Wall" at a guy whose ancestors were here way before their white trash ancestors got here?

Its amazing. This country is fucked up. Torngarsak help us.

Impeach The White Supremacist Motherfucker???

Impeach the motherfucker!....When did the term white supremacist become offensive?

Now clearly one of those statements is worse than the other and depending on your sanity level its apparent which is worse.

Republicans and their state run TV fell onto their all white fainting couches and had to be fanned back to consciousness after freshman Congresswoman Rashid Tlaib of Michigan was caught on a phone hollering about impeaching that motherfucker who I assume was the old Pussy grabber in Chief, the guy who wants to tax the motherfuckin Chinese and the Russian Asset in Chief, Donald Trump. The coverage by the Enemy of the People as you can see was totally justified because what kind of woman says such a thing? Especially one with one of them funny names. Trump is no motherfucker for sure, oh wait, Stormy Daniels has a kid so I guess he is a motherfucker.

Meanwhile Iowa's favorite Congressman, Steve King (Klansman-Ia), a guy who Iowans re-elected just last November, stated in the Failing New York Times that yes indeed he is a white supremacist, nationalist and general bigoted motherfucker himself.

Yet the coverage of a Iowa white supremacist voted into office by Iowans stating he actually was a white supremacist was nothing compared to a Democrat saying "motherfucker". Now why is this?

The only thing I can think is that Democrats going off the rails is very rare. Thus when one does, especially a Muslim woman, its big ass news and scares all Republicans and so called moderate Democrats, which consists of most of them. While the Democrats poo poo Rep Tlaib and wag their fingers at her hoping she doesnt resort to such treasonous activity again, Republicans and state run TV go batshit crazy to divert attention from the fact that the Useless Idiot in Chief is quite frankly a fucking Russian spy.

And also the fact most Republicans are complete white nationalists, white supremacists and dummies and having one say out loud what they all have the sense to keep under wraps (icks nay on the acism ray) is no big deal. They hear it at every fundraiser they have.

So get used to it. The Enemy of the People will continue to do the Asset in Chiefs bidding in that endless attempt to seem fair. It is really amazing to watch.

A Dogs Way Home!

I needed a couple hours of escape. What better than to go see a movie about a dog?

A Dog's Way Home is cookie cutter cute dog gets lost and has to find her way home movie. It has a paint by numbers script, a terrible CGI mountain lion, terrible CGI wolves, and villains right out of central casting.

All that said. I was taken in by all of it.

Bella is a homeless pit bull (she doesnt look like one but whatever) living under a house with a bunch of cats when she gets taken in by the neighborhood softie medical student. The local dog catcher has hard on for Bella and cannot wait to take her in as Denver has a no pit bull ordinance (hey thats like racism against dogs says one character). Yeah it sort of is. And that is where this movie begins to take on subjects you would not expect in a movie about a lost dog.

Bella is taken to New Mexico while his owners find new quarters outside dog-ist Denver city limits. But Bella must go home and she escapes and begins a 400 mile journey back to Denver.

Along the journey we encounter the addressing of subjects like homophobia, homelessness, veterans issues, police brutality and death. I assume the film makers expected these subjects to go over the head of the kids this movie appeals to, but I dont see how. I mean my goodness, Edward James Olmos pops in as a homeless vet living a dangerous life. Bella almost doesnt survive this particular situation. Its really quite harrowing to a child to see this dog in deep danger not to mention Olmos'scary look.

Wolves stalk Bella the entire journey, a mountain lion is her only friend, and she is taken in by two men who put a rainbow collar on her and save her from a terrible person.

The movie ends happily of course, but this journey is very adult. Like I said, there is nothing here that will surprise you, its not a good movie, but dammit it had me dabbing tears at various points.

You love dogs. It'll work for you.