Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-02 (Sunday)

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Bully (blu-ray) 2001 movie based on real events, directed by Larry
Clark, and starring Brad Renfro as a bullied teen who along with several
friends plot the murder of his best friend and bully (Nick Stahl).
These idiot teens openly plot the murder and once they pull it off, they
can't stop talking about it.  It's a good movie but would have benefited
from someone other than Larry Clark directing it.

I haven't seen this movie in years. Would it have benefited from
another director NOT sticking the camera where Clark had it? Otherwise
it's a very unpleasant story of very unpleasent children (and one young
adult).

Teenage Cavemen never shows up on anything I subscribe to any more.

Body Heat (TCM) 1981 - After going through and deleted a bunch of movies
on my DVR I finally settled on watching this one.  It's a 1981 crime
movie starring William Hurt as a lawyer who falls for Kathleen Turner in
her film debut.  Turner talks Hurt into murdering her husband but all
isn't as it seems.  I'm about 90% sure I've never watched this movie
before now.  I guess it was OK.  But Hurt should have had a better
motivation for agreeing to murder a guy beyond Turner sleeping with him.

It's body heat! It's film noir! There is no other motivation! I love
this movie.

 But I guess in the real world that sort of thing and motivation does
happen all the time.