Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-04 (Saturday)

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

On 1/5/2025 9:44 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

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Do you own the Chris Rock movie?

It took me a minute to figure out which movie you were talking about,
"Osmosis Jones."  Unfortunately, I don't have that.  I only saw it once
in the theater and really liked it. But it was never released on
blu-ray.  And if I recall correctly, when it was on TV it was in the
wrong aspect ratio.  I just checked, it's on Amazon Prime, in the wrong
aspect ratio.  It's filmed in 2.39 : 1, so I have *no* interest in
watching it pan and scanned!  But thanks for reminding me, I forgot it
even existed.  I just took a look at the box office and it flopped
harder that Titan A.E. and that movie killed an entire studio division.
Warners probably isn't in any hurry to release it, but maybe some
boutique studio will take an interest in it.  Why do all the good
animated movies flop so hard?  LOL

This is half of a good movie. The gags in the animated portion of the
movie work great and I like the buddy formula with Chris Rock and David
Hyde Pierce. But I don't care for the gross-out Farrelley brothers humor
in the live action portion, and Bill Murray is wasted.