Last Night I Watched: Trainwreck

Trainwreck is the first Judd Apatow movie he's directed but not written the script. Probably not coincidentally, it's his best movie since 2007. Schumer's voice combined with Apatow's direction aren't perfect, but when one of the first lines of the main character is about a penis being so big that it's murdered people, you can be pretty sure a movie is going to be fantastic.

The official studio poster

This Week I've Watched: Evil Dead, Back To The Future & Ghostbusters

I haven't written in awhile, since I've been busy playing a lot of Civ 5 before getting frustrated after four hours that I'm awful at it, but I've slowly been watching movies again and, unlike last time I wrote, I actually picked ones I liked. Oh boy!

This Week I've Watched: Raging Bull & Best In Show

So these were two movies I expected to love and didn't. I had a good run of picking movies so far, aside from The Guest, but I guess all good things must come to an end.

Last Weekend I Watched: United 93 and the USWNT

I didn't have anything to do on July 4th because Columbus generally celebrates Independence Day on July 3rd with Red, White and Boom, a giant mass of people apparently standing around and doing nothing. So on the 4th, I decided I'd be patriotic and watch a movie involving Americans taking down the terrorists: United 93.

                                       I didn't make this myself, it's the actual poster, studios

Last Night I Watched: Magic Mike

I think I must have heard some random people talking about Magic Mike XXL or something yesterday, but for whatever reason I decided to watch Magic Mike last night. I'd tried to watch it a couple of years ago but didn't get past the part where Olivia Munn was just standing around naked for some reason. But it turned out to be pretty good! Not fantastic or anything, but it was funny and charming and the first coming of age male stripper movie I've ever seen. So that's something.

Screenshot from the movie. Didn't steal this I promise

This Week I've Watched: Gone Girl, John Wick & A History of Violence

Keep in mind here that I'm just picking movies I should've watched in the past but haven't seen for any reason so that's how you end up with two recent movies and one from 10 years ago. Anyways, they were all really good! I just had nitpicks with all three, that were pretty much my only complaints so they seem worse than they are to me.

Last Night I Watched: Snowpiercer

Snowpiercer was a movie I got a copy of awhile ago, like before I started business school, and was originally supposed to be a part of last summer's bar exam film festival. But it got kept out for some reason and I kind of forgot about it. But for whatever reason, I pulled it out last night and decided to watch it and MY GOD what have I been missing.

Screenshot from the film. This is not mine, studios

Last Night I Watched: The Guest

After listening to Real Good Show, @boring_as_heck's podcast, based on their recommendation, I decided to make the second movie of my personal summer film festival The Guest. It was certainly an interesting if conventional movie but ultimately, it just left me wondering when we get to the fireworks factory for the first three quarters of it.

Last Night I Watched: Frank

Last summer, one of the first movies I watched was The Spectacular Now, which left me a wreck halfway through to the degree I couldn't finish it in one night. If Frank's 2nd half had been its first, the same thing probably would've happened, albeit for different reasons. But Frank's 1st half was one of the top funniest things in a movie I've ever seen.

 This is way less creepy when you watch (screenshot from the film)

Introducing T-Bang's Summer 2015 Film Festival

So last summer while I was killing myself voluntarily studying for the NY bar, I was too poor to afford new video games or anything like that, so I decided I'd watch a new movie every night or every other night to at least have some kind of highlight at the end of my day. I think I ended up doing it pretty much every night for a month and dug up my final top 5 rankings from less than a week before the bar:

1) Spectacular Now 2) No Country for Old Men 3) Silver Linings Playbook 4) Rise of the Planet of the Apes 5)21 Jump St Lego Movie falls off

— Matt Torino (@mtorino75) July 23, 2014

I figured since I have exactly a month to go before I head to Chicago on July 28 to start my 3 week plus sojourn through the western United States, I'd try to do that again more since I'm bored as hell than because I need a highlight. Thursdays it probably won't happen but hey most nights is good enough. Or maybe during the day on those days who knows.

I'm still deciding on what I'm going to watch tonight. Probably something off HBO Go but who knows. I'll probably write a 500 word review of it on here tomorrow and if anyone randomly comes across this with any suggestions, holla at ya boy.