Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-02 (Monday)

On 6/3/2025 7:02 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Fringe S4E01 'Neither Here Nor There'
 

I only have the first three seasons on disc.  If I do revisit I won't make it this far.  :-(

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  What Did You Watch?
 

I scrolled through my DVR looking for something, anything, to watch until I settled on:
Problemista (HBO) 2023 comedy written, produced, directed by and Julio Toerres, as a young immigrant from El Salvador who wants to work at Hasbro as a toy designer.  But until Hasbro accepts his application, he works at a shady cryogenic suspension company.  How shady is this place?   The cryotubes with the frozen remains are literally plugged into a wall outlet to keep refrigerated.  Julio gets fired after accidentally unplugging one of the corpses.  RZA played the unplugged dead guy when he was alive.  And Tilda Swinton plays RZA's beyond eccentric widow, who hires Julio to do odd jobs for her after he's fired.  The cryogenic suspension company was Julio's sponsor.  And in order to remain in the country Julio has to have a job.  But the way the immigration system works, Julio can't actually be paid any money at a job until the immigration status is cleared up, and clearing up the immigration status costs several thousand dollars, which he doesn't have, and can't earn since he's not allowed to legally work.  I should mention this is an "A24" movie and it is one of the most "A24", "A24" movies ever made.  If you didn't know it was an "A24" movie, you'd guess it had to be, just by how weird and surreal it is.  There's a whole lot more A24 weirdness in this movie that I didn't even touch on!!!  If you like weird A24 movies, then this is definitely one for you.  I'll give it this, it held my interest.
Johnny Dangersly (Cinemax) - I scoured my DVR and found this one that's been sitting there since 2023.  This is 1984 comedy directed by Amy Heckerling, and starring Michael Keaton as "Johnny Dangerously," a 1930s mobster who gets into wacky criminal adventures.  Peter Boyle also stars as Johnny's crime boss. Marilu Henner plays Johnny's girlfriend. Danny DeVito plays a corrupt DA.  Joe Piscopo plays another crook (if you saw the movie you know his catchphrase!), and Griffin Dunne plays Johnny's younger brother, who Johnny put through law school only for the brother to become a DA who then goes after Johnny.  There are several more celebrity cameos.  This is one of those movies I watched all the time when I was a kid, but I haven't seen this since the mid 80s.  After all of these years I still remembered a couple of the gags, but the overall movie was just OK.  It was a lot funnier when I was 8 years old seeing Mr. Mom play a gangster.