Tuesday, May 23, 2023

The Best Bad Movie


Recently, I sighed up for Netflix. I decided I could not stand another,
murder, rape, AK 47 firing, war with bombs falling, and last but not least car chase scenes.

We have in all our years of Prime Movies seen the good ones that left the bad ones.
TV shows leave us cold, except for 3 or 4.
Friday night we watched the Book of Henry.
After about 30 minutes, I said do we want to watch this? Bob said let's see where it goes...
We stayed and I said to Bob at the end.
This was the best BAD movie we have ever watched. I liked it. A Lot!
 


Saturday night was The Starling with Sunday St Vincent.
We both agreed we liked both movies, but they were 2nd and 3rd Best Bad Movies.
We found two actors we have not seen before and liked both of them.
Jaden Martell, Christ O'Dowd and were impressed with them.
Melissa McCarthy , is a great actress, but some of her movies are a bit to much in the slapstick comedy for me.  

At least these 3 movies had a STORY. Most of the new movies are just people doing stuff with no story line or with a story line that leaps from year to year and back again and we don't know what the story is.


I did learn from the Starling movie that the birds are called starlings because they look like they have stars on their chest, and that they are considered invasive. OH MY!


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We loved the bird and he was a fine actor tooooo





21 comments:

Linda said...

I'M LOOKING FOR GOOD MOVIES, TOO!
Not an easy task! I am thinking of getting Britt Box as I love the accents and they seem less gory but with a good story line.

CheerfulMonk said...

I tend to like cooking competitions, especially the Great British Baking Show. And I love movies with foreign accents.

easyweimaraner said...

we came to the same result... to watch tv is wasting lifetime.. to watch what we want is quality time...

Yamini MacLean said...

Hari OM
In the end, there are only really three storylines; romance, family and murder/mayhem. How they get retold over and over is what determines which we watch and which we don't. YAM xx

Ann said...

It seems like every time I decide to try and watch a movie I can only get about 15 minutes in and then I can't stand it anymore. It's been a long time since I've seen a good movie. The last two I wanted to watch weren't available on the streaming apps that I have access to.

eileeninmd said...

Hello,
It seems to be hard to find good shows to watch. I have Britbox now and watch all the detective shows. I have not heard of any of these movies, I do not stay up to date with new movies. Take care, enjoy your day!

Brian's Home Blog said...

I enjoy most movies because I fall asleep about 10 minutes in.

Mevely317 said...

Thanks for these suggestions! You're doing great discovering new ways to mix it up.
We tend to watch the same old, same old network shows, then complain about the 'woke' or 'dumbed down' content. Don't get me started on the commercials (LOL); remember when advertisements used to be entertaining?

My Mind's Eye said...

LOVE you title...
Starlings are almost as aggravating and loud as BlueJays
but I didn't know about their name's origin so that was good
Hugs Cecilia

Chatty Crone said...

I didn't know the birds had stars on their chest.
The only one to me that looks kind of good is St. Vincent. lol

DawnTreader said...

I don't think I've heard of any of these. As I have Netflix, I might check them out. - I rather like Bill Murray... Groundhog Day is one of my old comedy favourites, and another is What About Bob (I have both of those on DVD)...

photowannabe said...

Dave and I aren't really into movies and haven't even watched one in ages. Most are just too smutty or plain dumb to waste my time.
Glad you found some entertaining ones.
We have quite a few Starlings that like our back lawn. they really are pretty with their iridescent feathers. They do think they are the Boss of the yard!
Sue

Ginny Hartzler said...

I am a birdwatcher, and did not know about the stars!! I also never heard of any of these movies. I HAVE heard of Melissa McCarthy. I agree about the slapstick! We subscribe to BritBox and adore it. NO ONE does mysteries better than the English. I have a pad with a list of so much stuff that I want to watch on BritBox that it is several pages long.

Ginny Hartzler said...

Plus it is only five dollars a month.

Ginny Hartzler said...

Our kids have Hulu, and I keep getting that and Netflix confused!! I think Hulu was one of the first streaming channels.

The Adventures of the LLB Gang said...

Netflix has some good spy/thriller shows. We are watching The Recruit right now....and like it(but we're not sure how much yet LOL).

Rose said...

I will have to remember these but I swear I don't get to sit still long enough to watch a movie. I will try to think of some I liked and tell you but right now my mind is not functioning.

Tigger's Mum said...

It is hard to know what to watch when faced with the selection on a streaming service. So often it is a complete lottery what you end up with. It's the szme on aeroplanes these days. I watched one called Women Talking that I enjoyed, but it would not be for everyone. F

Breathtaking said...

I fancy seeing these movies, and couldn't agree more about the films with no real story line or no dialogue, just action, car chases etc.

Beatrice P. Boyd said...

I have seen only 1 of these 3 films, The Starling. We watched part of St Vincent and it wasn't to our liking so didn't finish. I saw The Book of Henry and may give that one a try as you said you eventually enjoyed it. We watch much more on AcornTV and BritBox streaming because we enjoy many English murder mysteries and the accents too. There are also quite a few Australian series. Every time I've tried to watch something on Amazon Prime there is an additional cost over the Prime membership, so I never even try there.

Debby@Just Breathe said...

I haven't seen the first movie. I do like the other two movies and Melissa is one of my favorites. Now I am going to go watch St. Vincent. I own it on VUDU. Glad you have some new things to watch.