Going to the Movies

I've been slowly going back to actual movie theaters to see movies, but I'm still not back to my pre-Covid days of theater movie viewing. I still remember the last movie I saw at a theater before Covid shut everything down: the remake of The Invisible Man. Who knew that would be the last movie I'd see in a theater for years? (Not a bad movie, but not that great either.) The last movie I saw in a theater recently was Late Night with the Devil (that I drifted off to sleep on). I love a good scary movie and the good ones are few and far between these days, unfortunately. When I saw Late Night, I saw a trailer for a movie called Cuckoo that looked interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing that one. 

Last weekend, I read a lot of media reports about how the new Ryan Gosling movie The Fall Guy didn't meet expectations at the box office. I couldn't figure out who the audience was for this movie. Female Barbie fans who liked Gosling in that movie? Young guys who like action movies? Fans of Emily Blunt? Older people (like myself) who remembered the TV series by the same name? (I, honestly, barely recall that TV show. It wasn't something I watched religiously was a kid like The A Team or Fantasy Island.) Whoever the fan base was for The Fall Guy remake, those folks didn't turn out in huge numbers to see the film. I think part of the reason so many movies are tanking these days is that they cost way too much to make. I also think movies come to TV via streaming so fast these days that it's not worth it to trek to a theather and see it unless it's something you feel like you really need to see on the big screen. 

This weekend, the new Planet of the Apes movie is hitting theaters. I'll pass on that one although I saw one of the Apes movies years ago with Mark Wahlberg and it wasn't bad. I saw a trailer for the one coming out today the last time I went to the movies and it didn't look terrible, but it looked like something I could wait to see via streaming, not at the theater. I wonder if people will turn out for this movie this weekend. 

Jump, Jump, Jump to It!

The list of people I actually like or don't actively dislike at my day job is getting smaller with each passing month. At times, I find myself asking, "Am I the asshole?" Sometimes I am, but sometimes I'm not! I'm just getting more and more annoyed with the constant emails that expect you to drop everything else you're doing and, as Aretha would say, "Jump, jump, jump to it!" I had to tell someone I work with recently to pump the brakes after he came at me about a project that had only been sent about a week before. Jeez! It's a good thing I'm taking some time off soon. I could use some days away from the constant emails, stupid questions, and unrealistic expectations. 

RIP, Paul Auster.